Results 5,841-5,860 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Are we banking the questions now?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That is what we did with the last grouping of questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy will get to start again from scratch.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It is better to do so.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: And everybody was accommodated.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy does not have a question in this grouping.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: And the injury time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I welcome the Taoiseach to his first Taoiseach's questions. The issue of Brexit will loom very large in our discussions in the coming weeks and months. Yesterday, the Taoiseach met Prime Minister May and we heard yet again the commitment to the maintenance of the common travel area and to a North-South Border that is as frictionless as possible. However, we also heard a reaffirmation that...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Some people call it the Vaseline Border, it is so frictionless.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: How is that to be achieved outside the customs union?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Keir Starmer put forward a very interesting position yesterday.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That will take years. We need to be doing it now.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach to outline the status of proposals to be published by his Department to address the economic and trade implications of Brexit. [27241/17]
- Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: On the same issue, the Taoiseach will be aware of the genuine consternation in the entire south east, not only in the Waterford constituency but also mine, that a man lost his life over the weekend in Waterford because of the lack of a cath lab facility. It was our understanding that, pending the conclusion of the second review, a second mobile lab would be in place by the first quarter of...
- Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I raised this issue last year. I know there was a different Minister for Justice and Equality at the time. There is a legal requirement on the Act because this is a fundamental constitutional shift. I know it is due to be taken today but I am saying it should not be taken today. We need some debate in this House. Under the Act, a report is to be presented but it is not a report. A...
- Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: One of the pieces of business scheduled for tonight is the renewal for another year of the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009. Under the legislation, it is required that the Government bring a report on the operation of that Act. I do not want to take up too much time on this. In essence, that report amounts to four pages, double spaced, which, in fact, tells us no case was sent forward...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Act is crystal clear. An allowance is payable to party Whips, but such an allowance is not payable - it is crystal clear in the Act - to someone who is a Minister or Minister of State. An allowance was payable to a Minister of State who may attend Cabinet separately, and two such allowances can be paid under separate legislation, but the Taoiseach has four Ministers of State attending...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Under the law.