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- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: We were living in different economic times, as the Taoiseach keeps saying. What happened to the decade that was lost?
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: That is because they had the money to do it.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: First, I wish to identify myself and the Labour Party with the words of condolence and solidarity expressed with the people of Toronto and Canada generally in the aftermath of yesterday's dreadful events. Following a survey of almost 2,000 parents last August, Barnardos published a report on back to school costs. This showed that the average cost of sending a senior infant to school was...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Of course, one is.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Investment Bank Loans (24 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: 131. To ask the Minister for Finance the average interest rate applying to EIB loans initiated in each of the years 2016 and 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17940/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (24 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: 414. To ask the Minister for Health if physiotherapy services will continue at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17857/18]
- Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Let us abolish them.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: It should be abolished.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Under the prudent maxim of "As we work for the best, we prepare for the worst" and given the public indication that contingency planning is under way across Departments in the event of a hard Brexit, we understand that upwards of 270 or 280 documents have been submitted. What interaction does the Tánaiste propose to have with Members of this House with regard to the preparations that...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: He should not have done it.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Let us start with the Tánaiste's own words, his statement on assessing the truth and the facts. The Minister, in a private call with a lobbyist, provided commercially confidential information as to his intended course of action on an important matter. That is a fact. That information did not-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Is it not a fact that the Minister told the lobbyist of his intended course of action when he had a statutory duty to make that decision? That information did not become public for a further two months. There was a statutory process in place that the Minister pre-empted. In his own words to the House yesterday, he expressed "a purely personal view that the likely course of action would be...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I said "likely course of action". That is what he told the House.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: He told the House yesterday.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: He should have ended it when told what it was about.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: He did not say that to the-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The Tánaiste is conflating two issues: the outcome of the passing on of the information and the actual fact of passing on the information. There is no doubt that the passing on of his likely course of action — these are his own words; that is what he told the House — compromised the statutory process. Whether it was acted upon is irrelevant to that fact. Bearing in...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Of course it did.
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Then how can we look at it?
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Brendan Howlin: What advice did the Minister's officials give him subsequent to the Minister having this telephone call? Presumably, the Minister advised his officials that this telephone call had taken place. What did the Minister's officials tell him in respect of the appropriateness of this? Did the Minister conceal the fact that he had had this conversation from his own officials? Is that why...