Results 41-60 of 19,343 for speaker:Brendan Howlin in 'Dáil debates'

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Minister of State for his comments on the Labour Party, but I should say that attacks on the Labour Party are not personal. They are attacks in defence of self interest and they only reinforce us in our determination to advance our policy platform. Since recovery from the financial crash which brought about the collapse of Ireland’s construction industry, the issue of...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Brendan Howlin: What?

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Same old tune.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I was here myself.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy does not own a house, I suppose.

Second Anniversary of War in Ukraine: Statements (20 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I too welcome to the Chamber the wonderful ambassador of Ukraine to hear this debate. Two years ago, the bloodiest conflict our continent has seen since the Second World War began. There is no end visible to the carnage and wanton destruction. The imperial ambitions of Vladimir Putin which caused him to invade his neighbour, Ukraine, and set out to remove that nation from existence,...

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Deirtear gurb é an rud is annamh is iontach. After numerous false dawns and Groundhog Days, finally, the institutions envisaged in the power-sharing arrangements of the Good Friday Agreement have been restored in Northern Ireland. Two years after the people of Northern Ireland elected the members of the Assembly, there is at last a working Assembly and a functioning Executive. The...

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I am deeply privileged to have the opportunity to say a few words in memory of a very distinguished Member of this House and a fine statesman, John Bruton. I was privileged to serve in the rainbow Government from 1994 to 1997 as Minister for the Environment under the leadership of John Bruton. That Government, as others will recall, had an unusual, if not unique, genesis. It was the only...

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: That's right.

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Getting all three re-elected is the thing.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Enlargement (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Georgia engaged a lot with us.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I would first make it crystal clear that while the litany of abuse against the Palestinian people is decades long, shocking and horrible, there is no excuse whatever for the wanton murder carried out by Hamas on 7 October. My question is directly in relation to the provisional measures that will hopefully be announced tomorrow. One of the calls relating to those measures relates to an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Is Question No. 75 not included in the grouping?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: It is on the same issue of the legal case against Israel by South Africa in the International Court of Justice.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Is it?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Thank you.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I begin by condemning utterly the threats that were made against Jeffrey Donaldson and that he spoke about in the House of Commons yesterday. There is no room on any part of this island or anywhere else for threats of physical violence against any political person. Does the Tánaiste agree with me that the Northern Ireland governance framework which was so hard-won over so many years...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: What will happen on 8 February?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Does the Tánaiste agree that the fundamental problem with the DUP and Sinn Féin in the build-up to a settlement is that neither will move on something fundamental and important if they feel that there is any segment of their own party who will not move with them? Others, particularly in Northern Ireland, took risks to move matters along, but those parties in particular seem...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I think most of us would agree that the objections of Hungary are contrived. The specifics regarding Ukraine are not real. It is a twofold attempt, first, to publicly manifest support for Russia and, second, to blackmail the rest of the EU Council into easing sanctions against Hungary over rule-of-law issues. I would be interested to hear the Tánaiste's view on that. I am also...