Results 6,001-6,020 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (16 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Whatever the attitudes of Ireland to treaty change, and I will be interested to hear the Taoiseach's view on it, I presume he has not offered any proposals that would lead to the requirement for another EU referendum in this jurisdiction. It is clear the new French President has gone to Germany to reform a Franco-German axis to bring about fundamental change in the structure of the European...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I am sure it is a disappointment to the Taoiseach that he is likely, which word I underscore, to leave office with a political vacuum in Northern Ireland on foot of the post-election failure to form an Executive. Efforts to form an Executive are now in abeyance until after the UK general election and a new deadline of 29 June, the fourth such deadline, has now been set. The Taoiseach has...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Another election.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with the leaders of political parties in Northern Ireland on the formation of a new power sharing Executive. [22091/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: We touched on this issue during statements on Brexit last week and the week before. It is clear to all of us in this House that with Britain leaving the European Union we need to forge deeper and new alliances, particularly with the small member states that share our view of the European Union. I warmly welcome the Taoiseach's contacts with the Dutch, the Danes, the Croatians and others and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: What is the Taoiseach's view of the Macron doctrine?
- Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: First Stage (16 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to consolidate and reform the criminal law concerning harassment and harmful communications, to repeal certain provisions of the Post Office (Amendment) Act 1951 and the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997, and to provide for related matters. I will set out briefly what the Bill aims to do, but first I will reject the...
- Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: First Stage (16 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That goes to my point. It would only be half a Bill.
- Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: First Stage (16 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his summit meeting with the Dutch and Danish Prime Ministers; and the agreements and proposals made for future engagements. [21873/17]
- Order of Business (16 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: And related matters.
- Order of Business (16 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: We know the details.
- Order of Business (16 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Yesterday we heard that the Minister for Education and Skills intended to legislate to ban cheating services at third level. While legislation to strengthen Quality and Qualifications Ireland, QQI, is welcome, it is hardly the most pressing matter in the education system. A year after his appointment we still have not seen the Minister's response to the Labour Party's Equal Status...
- Order of Business (16 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: As I am only allowed to refer to one, I thought I would reference the other two.
- Order of Business (16 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: When will the Bill progress?
- Order of Business (16 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I have never heard of legislation being held up pending the outcome of a trade union ballot.
- Order of Business (16 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: He is very busy.
- Order of Business (16 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I share the Deputy's concerns about what is an allegation at this stage. The Taoiseach will recall I raised it with him last week in Leaders' Questions. It fits into wider concerns Members of the House have about An Garda Síochána, as Deputy Shortall has rightly laid out. I understood the Taoiseach agreed last week the Tánaiste would make herself available to answer...
- Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: He has tabled it as a Topical Issue for discussion later today.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (16 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 273. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when arrears will issue to a person (details supplied) under the disability allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23096/17]