Results 3,321-3,340 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Feb 2019)
Brendan Howlin: I have already raised the issue of food supplements. I have raised it at least three times and, notwithstanding what he stated earlier, I ask the Taoiseach to reflect on this matter further. Fundamental tax policy should not be made by Revenue as if it was not the purview of the Government or this House. I ask the Taoiseach to reflect on that again. I wish to ask a specific question about...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Feb 2019)
Brendan Howlin: What about officials?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Feb 2019)
Brendan Howlin: There are no officials to interrogate ideas.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Feb 2019)
Brendan Howlin: It was an economic crisis. They were different times.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Feb 2019)
Brendan Howlin: It stopped us from learning about policy in The Sunday Business Post.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Websites (26 Feb 2019)
Brendan Howlin: Forever.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Websites (26 Feb 2019)
Brendan Howlin: It was announced before.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Websites (26 Feb 2019)
Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach said it was.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Websites (26 Feb 2019)
Brendan Howlin: There may be a county council on the same website-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Websites (26 Feb 2019)
Brendan Howlin: What about the cost?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Websites (26 Feb 2019)
Brendan Howlin: It is the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Feb 2019)
Brendan Howlin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach the number and type of Cabinet committee meetings held since January 2019. [9514/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Websites (26 Feb 2019)
Brendan Howlin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department’s new website; and the person or body responsible for updating it. [8222/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Websites (26 Feb 2019)
Brendan Howlin: It is abandoned.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Websites (26 Feb 2019)
Brendan Howlin: I am interested in the Taoiseach's assertion that the migration of all departmental websites to a single Government portal is international best practice. He might share with us the analysis that led him to that assertion in order that we can examine best practice internationally and see the models he is aiming to replicate here. I am aware there are difficulties in regard to finding...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Websites (26 Feb 2019)
Brendan Howlin: No, it is part of this next one.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Appointments to State Boards (26 Feb 2019)
Brendan Howlin: It is odd that my question, No. 6, on the NESC was included in the five questions relating to State boards, but there we are. Have all departmental officials on State boards been apprised of Circular 12/2010, in particular that a Minister must be notified without delay where there is a significant strategic or reputational risk to the State body that is not being addressed? Is there a clear...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Appointments to State Boards (26 Feb 2019)
Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the State boards and agencies that civil servants from his Department are appointed to. [7901/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Appointments to State Boards (26 Feb 2019)
Brendan Howlin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with the National Economic and Social Council. [9516/19]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Feb 2019)
Brendan Howlin: Today, I received from members of the public 60,000 signatures on petitions that I will hand over to the Minister for Finance. People around the country are frustrated and worried because of the Government's refusal to alter the Revenue Commissioners' decision to change the VAT rate on food supplements from 0% to 23% next Friday. There are 3,600 jobs directly and indirectly affected by this...