Results 5,281-5,300 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rugby World Cup 2023 (22 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 42. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on his role and work and that of his Department in Ireland's bid for the Rugby World Cup. [49111/17]
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Your job.
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It was the Tánaiste's job to hold the Commissioner to account.
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Today's speaking points for the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach have relied on refuting a straw man, namely, the allegation that the Tánaiste designed or influenced the legal strategy deployed against Maurice McCabe. None of us has suggested that. We have suggested that when the Tánaiste received an email making her aware of it, even in a general sense, she should have acted on...
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I did not hear anybody in this House say that.
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Garda Commissioner was represented at the O'Higgins commission by lawyers from the Chief State Solicitor's office and the Office of the Attorney General. The Tánaiste and the Taoiseach are both on record as stating that the Department was only aware of the legal strategy deployed against Maurice McCabe after the fact. Can the Tánaiste clarify whether there was a management...
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Last Thursday it came to light in the Department of Justice and Equality that an email had been sent to the Tánaiste to inform her of what had happened in the O'Higgins commission in May 2015. Was there a deep trawl in the Department to find materials requested via parliamentary questions and requested by the tribunal itself? Is the Tánaiste now satisfied that all documentation...
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister will circulate the email.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to the United States of America; and his meetings with personnel from companies. [47836/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the implementation of measures in the programme for Government. [48128/17]
- Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Of course it makes sense for the Business Committee to organise the logistics of doing what the majority of the House wants, that is, a set of statements and then a series of questions. I imagine the statements will be short and that the Tánaiste will have as long as she needs to make her presentation. We all know the demarcation lines between the work of a tribunal of inquiry that...
- Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: On this same issue, I support the call by colleagues. It would be extraordinary and undermine the public perception of democracy in this House if the Tánaiste made herself amenable to going on national programmes to be interviewed and answer questions posed by a journalist and refused to answer questions in the House. I am sure the Tánaiste will be more than willing to do so. I...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I will deal with the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement issue on another occasion because I have only one minute now. The Tánaiste said on radio, and the Taoiseach repeated, that she cannot recall the email. She says she does not remember it because the email said that no action was required of her. Surely the very fact that an official of a Department informed her of...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Three.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: They are not all of equal value either.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Tánaiste will answer "in due course"?
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Tánaiste will answer "in due course".
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Tánaiste quoted from it.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It is an unfortunate fact that over recent weeks, the Taoiseach has given inaccurate information to this House twice. Both occasions related to the Department of Justice and Equality and both now require explanations from the Taoiseach. The first occasion related to the staffing of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement. The Taoiseach told the House in September on the advice...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Reports (21 Nov 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance when the report of the working group on the tax and fiscal treatment of rental accommodation providers, expected to be submitted to him in July 2017, will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48924/17]