Results 3,001-3,020 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (21 May 2019)
Brendan Howlin: This is an important subject and it is not straightforward. I very much welcome the dialogue promised by the Taoiseach but I am not sure what the new covenant means. It sounds good but I do not know what will come out of it. It is an ambition worth exploring. Most of us who have been in the House a long time will recall the two previous referenda on divorce. If we contrast those with the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (21 May 2019)
Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for a new covenant between church and State. [21783/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (21 May 2019)
Brendan Howlin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach to set down the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department in 2018 and to date in 2019. [21784/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (21 May 2019)
Brendan Howlin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. He will recall that the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Act was one of a suite of transparency reform measures introduced, and it is very important. Other measures included the Freedom of Information Act, the Protected Disclosures Act, which was to protect whistleblowers, and the Regulation of Lobbying Act, so that we know who is lobbying the...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2019)
Brendan Howlin: Why not?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2019)
Brendan Howlin: When is the Government going to do it?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2019)
Brendan Howlin: I was listening to the Minister saying everything he is doing is to protect the tenant. He stated in Saturday's Irish Independentthat he would act to protect tenancies of indefinite duration later this year. He was quoted in theIrish Independentas saying, "Currently, a landlord can evict a tenant after six years without reason. That will change". He has been told that for a very long time....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)
Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach's reply is just mind-numbing in its lack of ambition. If we had gone into government in 2011 with that attitude to the economic crisis, we would still be in the morass. The Government has to be determined. The notion is that we cannot do enough because we do not have enough land. Is that what the Taoiseach is saying to us?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)
Brendan Howlin: We have enough public land to build 80,000 houses tomorrow if we had the will to do it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)
Brendan Howlin: We have the builders to do it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)
Brendan Howlin: Of course we can find the workers and of course we can train the workers.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)
Brendan Howlin: The Government must have the ambition to do it. The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government wants to demolish standards whereas many of us who worked in local government, where many in this House started, have spent our lives trying to get away from such a thing. We are now talking about people sharing bathrooms or having no bathrooms. Co-living-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)
Brendan Howlin: We are going backwards now. We are reducing standards so that people can live on top of one another. We are creating the social crises of the future instead of deciding that we are going to fix the problem with the same determination and absolute will used to address the economic crisis from 2011 onwards. I do not believe that the Taoiseach understands the issue and I am convinced that he...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)
Brendan Howlin: That is the very point I made. We went in with the will to solve it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)
Brendan Howlin: We had no money until 2015-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)
Brendan Howlin: -----when we put in €2.8 billion.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)
Brendan Howlin: The only houses the Minister is opening are the ones that we funded.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)
Brendan Howlin: The only ones being opened now are the ones we funded because Fine Gael abandoned-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)
Brendan Howlin: The Government abandoned-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)
Brendan Howlin: This is just unbelievable.