Results 28,081-28,100 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I thought the Minister of State had already spoken on Fifth Stage.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Is he?
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I invite the Minister of State to speak and I am delighted that he has the opportunity to do so.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: They are no less valid for that.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: That is unworthy of the Minister of State.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: That is like blaming the ambulance for the casualties.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: This does not need to be done now.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Nobody at all wanted it, then.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Who lobbied for it?
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Who wanted it?
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Who said what?
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: From whom?
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Who is that?
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister adds insult to injury.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Not on foot of it.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: What about amendment No. 3?
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: We debated it, but I understood that the amendment in Deputy Hogan's name was simply that the words proposed to be deleted stand. This is to insert a new section and does not alter the words that are to stand.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I believe the Leas-Cheann Comhairle is incorrect. The division on the previous amendment in Deputy Hogan's name decided that the words proposed to be deleted should stand. I am not altering that, but I seek in amendment No. 3 to insert a new subsection in addition to the words that should stand. I know there may not be a debate on it, since we have had that, but I wish to put the amendment...
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: No, the House decided that the words in the Bill should stand. I am not altering them.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: That makes no sense in common English. The section stands, but I wish to insert a new subsection. I simply wish the matter to be put.