Results 26,361-26,380 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin

Judicial Misconduct. (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Does the Tánaiste think that two years and four months is an excessive time to wait?

Judicial Misconduct. (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: I am asking for the Tánaiste's view.

Judicial Misconduct. (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Does the Tánaiste regard a waiting period of two years and four months as excessive? What does he propose to do about it?

Judicial Misconduct. (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Has the Tánaiste asked the Judiciary for a response since then?

Judicial Misconduct. (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: How many times and when?

Judicial Misconduct. (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: How many times has the Tánaiste gone back to the Judiciary in the two years and four months?

Garda Equipment. (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: I thought the Minister micromanaged everything.

Garda Deployment. (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister caught up with the Taoiseach. He must have run after him.

Garda Deployment. (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Late last year the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform described increasing gangland activity, particularly gangland murders, as analogous to attacks on the State by subversives in earlier decades. Does he agree that the increase in gangland activity is largely based on the drugs industry in the State? In that context, does he agree that to staff the national drugs...

Garda Deployment. (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Does the Minister have the numbers?

Garda Deployment. (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: There are 48 now.

Garda Deployment. (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: A variety of notes were tested and some contamination levels were very high. Some had a concentration greater than two nanograms per note and some had levels 100 times higher, so the traces were not tiny.

Garda Deployment. (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: I have no idea how big a nanogram is. A similar survey on dollar bills in the US showed 65% to be contaminated so it is worrying. The Minister said there were 12 vacancies, for two sergeants and ten gardaí, to bring the complement of the national drugs unit up to 60. There is agreement that their recruitment is a minimum requirement so when can we expect them to be in place?

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: I would not like to appear before a few of them.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: One is inured to it.

Order of Business (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: It is only the Tánaiste who is capable of such arrogance.

Order of Business (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: The Dáil will be in recess.

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: I seek clarification on what we are doing. Am I to understand that we will have a Committee Stage debate on all sections including the sections from section 12 onwards and that we will deal with all amendments including new Committee Stage amendments tabled since last Thursday? I understand we will be working from the Report Stage listing, even though we will be in committee and that normal...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Are we working on the Bill as amended?

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: All of them.