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- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (2 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It is a question of having the fiscal space to do it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (2 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his engagements on his trade visit to Germany and his meeting with Chancellor Merkel. [18287/17]
- Order of Business (2 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Will the Government seek the permission of the House-----
- Order of Business (2 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: ----- on the shareholding?
- Order of Business (2 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The AIB shares.
- Order of Business (2 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Will the Taoiseach bring the proposal on the AIB shares here?
- Order of Business (2 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It is proposed in the programme for Government to sell part of the State's shareholding in Allied Irish Banks. Since March I have been questioning the wisdom of that approach, unless we can use the proceeds of the sale for the purposes of capital investment. I noted in a report over the weekend that Fianna Fáil also believed the proceeds had to be invested in infrastructure. The same...
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Somebody briefed theIrish Independentwith specifics. Numbers were adduced in the article that the average public servant would lose €100,000 over the duration of his or her pension, and that was Government policy. Would the Taoiseach affirm or reject whether that is the case? Many public servants, in particular those who are approaching retirement in the coming years, are...
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That is-----
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That is nothing to do with the report.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Is the article true or untrue?
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Last Friday, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, when speaking on "Morning Ireland", indicated that he intends to seek to negotiate a further extension to the Lansdowne Road agreement. While noting that these negotiations would be challenging, he made it clear that he would not comment on possible negotiating positions until after the report of the Public...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (2 May 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 447. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 305 of 29 November 2016 and Parliamentary Question No. 53 of 8 February 2017, if the legal advice in this case has been fully analysed and a decision made in the matter of providing ex gratia payments to former employees of LCDP companies made redundant and whereby no moneys...
- Reform of An Garda Síochána: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 1:To insert the following after “challenges posed by policing in the 21st century;”: “declares its conviction that: — the systems, structures and processes of Garda management are not fit for purpose and no longer command or deserve the confidence of the public, or of public representatives; and — a transformative programme of...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Last June, the Government colluded with Fianna Fáil to kick the Labour Party's Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill down the road. Ten months after that Bill was introduced, nothing has changed. We will not have any statutory guidelines in place on how schools should deal with cases of over-subscription. We will not have any legislation in place to make it clear that all schools...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Will anything change on this by September?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That is very disappointing.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: We in the Labour Party were critical of last year's budget, particularly the determination of Government to use a huge chunk of money to give the equivalent of a cup of coffee back to some people rather than investing it in urgently needed public services. Inevitably, this meant that progress ground to a halt on things we were doing. There was no reduction in class sizes, there was...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Where is it?
- Leaders' Questions (13 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: When is that?