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EU Services Directive: Motion (Resumed). (26 Jan 2006)

Brendan Howlin: I am very glad the Minister of State did. I would not doubt for a second that that is the case. I suspect that it contains very little from which he would resile, other than, perhaps, some of the tone. Despite the statement of Deputy Ardagh, it does not advocate that we would resile from the position that I supported at the point of the enlargement of the European Union that we would...

EU Services Directive: Motion (Resumed). (26 Jan 2006)

Brendan Howlin: Some employers now believe the minimum wage is a decent rate of pay and it is acceptable. I deal with individual cases in which migrant workers in particular are employed on the minimum wage, which is regarded as acceptable. I frequently hear the justification that people are being paid the minimum wage, that we have social protection even in terms of this services directive because employers...

EU Services Directive: Motion (Resumed). (26 Jan 2006)

Brendan Howlin: Yes.

EU Services Directive: Motion (Resumed). (26 Jan 2006)

Brendan Howlin: Should we laugh now?

EU Services Directive: Motion (Resumed). (26 Jan 2006)

Brendan Howlin: There are just 21 inspectors.

EU Services Directive: Motion (Resumed). (26 Jan 2006)

Brendan Howlin: Do we laugh now?

EU Services Directive: Motion (Resumed). (26 Jan 2006)

Brendan Howlin: There are 21 inspectors for 2 million workers.

EU Services Directive: Motion (Resumed). (26 Jan 2006)

Brendan Howlin: The Government should put such an inspectorate in place rather than attacking the Opposition.

EU Services Directive: Motion (Resumed). (26 Jan 2006)

Brendan Howlin: There was no such call.

EU Services Directive: Motion (Resumed). (26 Jan 2006)

Brendan Howlin: A lot done, more to do.

EU Services Directive: Motion (Resumed). (26 Jan 2006)

Brendan Howlin: It is like the Comedy Store in here.

EU Services Directive: Motion (Resumed). (26 Jan 2006)

Brendan Howlin: I thank Deputy O'Connor for that.

EU Services Directive: Motion (Resumed). (26 Jan 2006)

Brendan Howlin: European trade union federation.

EU Services Directive: Motion (Resumed). (26 Jan 2006)

Brendan Howlin: I am very pleased to have an opportunity to deal with this most important issue. I begin by genuinely and heartily commending the members of the Technical Group for placing the services directive on the agenda of this House. Too often, European directives in particular are not debated here in advance of their completion and the view of this national Parliament is not taken into account before...

EU Services Directive: Motion (Resumed). (26 Jan 2006)

Brendan Howlin: ——be different from that of the rest of the House. The services directive is one of the urgent issues raised by the Labour Party in recent weeks, whose focus was the simple one of protecting quality jobs in a prosperous economy. I have not the slightest doubt that most people who made adverse comments about the Labour Party document, including the Deputies today, I suspect, have never read it.

EU Services Directive: Motion. (25 Jan 2006)

Brendan Howlin: That was the first indication it would be changed.

School Transport. (25 Jan 2006)

Brendan Howlin: I am grateful to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this issue yet again on the adjournment of the Dáil. It is with deep regret and dismay that I must return to this issue, namely, the provision of school transport to a group of pupils in Blackwater, County Wexford, part of my constituency, to enable them to go to the school of their choice in Wexford. I outlined the case's...

School Transport. (25 Jan 2006)

Brendan Howlin: This speech is identical to that given on the Minister's behalf last November by the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Tim O'Malley.

School Transport. (25 Jan 2006)

Brendan Howlin: I have them and am familiar with them.

School Transport. (25 Jan 2006)

Brendan Howlin: This is simply repetition.