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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (17 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I do not pretend to be objective in doing an analysis of the Government's first year but many people, even the most objective of them, would not say it has been a productive year either for this Dáil or the Government because of the nature of this Dáil. Bluntly, the Taoiseach knows and I am sure he would admit it privately that senior officials in Departments are not bringing...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (17 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It is a shocking idea in itself that the Dáil might amend it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (17 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That is right.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (17 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: There are also aircraft.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (17 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: He is opening Stepaside Garda station.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (17 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: No, it did not. The economy did that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (17 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: He has had bilateral discussions with his own Minister of State.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (17 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Meetings with his own Minister of State.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (17 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Not one Opposition Bill.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Never mind the quality, feel the width.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach can circulate it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (17 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the publication of the progress report on the programme for a partnership Government. [23049/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (17 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: There might be another one.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Níl teorann ar bith i gceist nuair atá Teachtaí ag labhairt as Gaeilge.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Do I get extra time if I speak as Gaeilge?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Déanfaidh mé mo dhícheall. I want to follow up on Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett's questions about the arts. Last week my colleague, Deputy Joan Burton, asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs about the row between Aosdána and the Arts Council about the cnuas stipend paid to members of Aosdána. It appears that a time and motion...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Arts Council has conducted a value for money study in conjunction with Mr. John O'Hagan, a professor of economics at Trinity College Dublin.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Successive Governments have been happy to embrace the arts when Ireland is being presented for branding purposes. That was certainly the case when the arts invariably formed the centrepiece of last year's commemorative events, but it now appears that supports for artists do not feature in the Government's plans. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett referred to the Creative Ireland document which was...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Will the number of words written, the number of square inches painted or the number of plays produced be counted? How can this be done in the arts?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Would it not be good to look at a practical support base for some of the people who are least paid in communities and who often produce enormous good?