Results 4,921-4,940 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): National Development Plan (14 Feb 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Has it been brought back to the House?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): National Development Plan (14 Feb 2018)
Brendan Howlin: As we now know, both the national planning framework and national development plan will be published on Friday. I have already asked the Taoiseach a number of questions on the legislative underpinning of the planning framework. I wish to ask him a few more specific questions. As part of the development of the framework, there was an economic and demographic steering group put in place....
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): National Development Plan (14 Feb 2018)
Brendan Howlin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the role of his Department in the forthcoming national development plan. [6884/18]
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Yesterday's daft.iereport showed rents at an all-time high. Apparently, a Minister believes there are plenty of places to rent at a fraction of the cost. Apparently, the advice the Government is now offering to renters facing record increases is to hunt for bargains in other parts of the city. This is of little benefit to those in the rental market who are losing tenancies as landlords...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Does the Minister have any idea when?
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Brendan Howlin: It provides a legislative framework for the proposed national planning framework. It passed the Dáil in January and is currently on Committee Stage in the Seanad but something has changed in the past three weeks. The initial focused approach has been abandoned and we now understand that what is about to be launched on Friday is neither the strategic, evidence-based plan for the...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Brendan Howlin: This is shocking.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Brendan Howlin: We are entitled to see it.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The Ceann Comhairle is right about this House being brought into disrepute, but it is not by disruptions. It is by the undermining of the basic principles of a functioning parliament.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I had discussions with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport last week about how resolutions of this House, which were once binding, are meaningless in this Dáil. If the Government is defeated, it is meaningless. The authority of this House is the same as that of a local debating society but it comes to a new low when not only are motions and resolutions meaningless, the laws...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Brendan Howlin: It has not been discussed in this House.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Let us try again. The national planning framework has been in development for over three years. There was a rigorous governance roadmap in place. There was a pre-draft national consultation in February and March of last year, which was much vaunted by the current Tánaiste. It was followed by further consultation on the draft framework in September and November. The entire plan was...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Brendan Howlin: We need a debate.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Will we have a debate?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Brendan Howlin: This is delusional.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I am sure they have not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Who was in government then?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I do not know about that. I thought it was the collapse that Fianna Fáil wiped out.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Brendan Howlin: We will be taking seven questions-----