Results 6,221-6,240 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It has been discussed and a reform has been agreed.
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: We are constantly making announcements on the notion of having a business committee. We cannot have this discussion here. Either we are going to abandon the notion of having a business committee-----
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: -----making the decisions on behalf of all of us, because there is no point in having a parallel debate-----
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: There should be another meeting of the Business Committee if what has been presented by Deputy Mattie McGrath is not what was agreed at the Business Committee-----
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Then there should be another meeting of the Business Committee.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Implement it.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 95. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his audience with the Pope in Rome on 24 March 2017. [16730/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences Data (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 115. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drink driving tests carried out between 2012 and 2016, in addition to the previously reported figures for such testing, by year and Garda district, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16070/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (4 Apr 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 517. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the policy proposals for the Health (Transport Support) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16280/17]
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach was misleading us then when he said-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: When will we see the legislation?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: No date.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: He said last May that it would be ratified within six months.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I want to stay within the area of supports for people with disabilities, recognising that it is exactly ten years ago today that Ireland signed the aforementioned convention. We were among the first to sign it but are among the last to ratify it. In terms of other related legislation, the health (transport support) Bill has been promised for months on end. Most recently, at the beginning...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Specific proposals have not been made. Making a declaration that there will be no return to a hard Border is not a policy proposal. It is a meaningless declaration. At a minimum, we have said a new Irish protocol to the EU treaty will be required to recognise the common travel area, the Good Friday Agreement and the unique situation that will pertain on the island of Ireland. Is that a...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: My party and I would like to be associated with the votes of sympathy to the family of the late Captain Mark Duffy and wish well the recovery efforts still under way for the remaining two missing members of Rescue 116. I met in Brussels yesterday with colleagues from across Europe to develop proposals to amend the fiscal rules that are constraining investment, investment that is certainly...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I thank the Chairman for the opportunity. I thank members for being here. The initiative we are trying to achieve is a single focus issue but a very important one, that is, the extent to which rogue counsellors and rogue agencies are, to put it bluntly, lying to women with crisis pregnancies. Some of these agencies have been operating, on and off, for more than a decade. Undercover...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I thank the members for their supportive comments. I express my appreciation for the work done by journalist Ellen Coyle, Catherine Sands and by a colleague of mine, Sinead Ahern, who, in a difficult way, went undercover to hear exactly what "information" was being imparted. To pick up the point made by Deputy Durkan, can one imagine a vulnerable woman, not knowing what to do, being...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Those who hold themselves out to be counsellors can be regulated. The point I was trying to get at in regard to the very incisive point by my Fianna Fáil colleagues is there will be a lot of people who will give out advice. For example, one could get advice from one's local priest in the confessional. They do not purport to be professionals and there is no way of regulating that....