Results 5,881-5,900 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Competition (Amendment) Act 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It was introduced before we left the Government.
- Competition (Amendment) Act 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: We were too busy saving the country.
- Competition (Amendment) Act 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It is the first of anybody's Private Members' Bill to pass.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Have we moved off the Companies (Amendment) Bill?
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: On a different Bill.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I am a bit concerned about the strength Ireland will have at the end of this. Yesterday, and in responses earlier today, the Taoiseach spoke about every country having a veto but every country does not have a veto once we have accepted the negotiating mandate, which would have to be by unanimous decision of the Council. Once the negotiating mandate has been given and the negotiator, in this...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Perhaps I should repeat in the presence of the Minister for Social Protection my view that the Taoiseach will still have a valuable role to play in the future of this.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Personal relationships are hugely important.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: We do not have a veto.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Council has to vote by qualified majority voting, QMV, on the basis of a majority vote.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It could be a dead duck before we start.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I take it that all three questions are being followed up together. When we took the previous group of questions, the Taoiseach was allowed to respond separately to each Deputy's supplementary questions. I take a different view from that of my Sinn Féin colleague. I commend the Taoiseach on the work he has done on Brexit. We all have views on what could have been done differently....
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It is not there yet.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I will pursue those two points again and hopefully we will get a little more clarity from the Taoiseach on them. I have no difficulty with any member of the Government pursuing areas outside his or her own direct purview. The Cabinet acts as a collective and that is quite proper. I am more concerned about the reports in last week's Sunday Business Post that after a year of lecturing us all...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: His judgment and discernment, therefore, are of such a pure quality that the accusation of political interference could not possibly apply.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I would be interested to hear the Taoiseach's view on that. Regarding the Taoiseach's assertion that there is a mobile catheterisation laboratory in Waterford, I spoke on local radio this morning on this very subject. A bilateral arrangement was committed to, subsequent to the Herity report. That report, which was a sop to the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, had terms of reference...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That is what the Minister, Deputy Ross, said he did.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: He blocked them up until last week.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff in his Department dealing with Brexit. [25621/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (31 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the arrangements in place in his Department for supporting Independent Ministers. [25623/17]