Results 6,721-6,740 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2017)
Brendan Howlin: This is clarification in respect of what was announced this morning. It is not actually an increase of €1,000 but an increase of €1,000 annualised from April to August because the measure was provided for in the Estimates as commencing in September. The Taoiseach did not indicate from where the money was coming or whether the cost would be €128 million or €175...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2017)
Brendan Howlin: When will that happen?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It is less than one quarter of what gardaí got.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I wish the Taoiseach and all his colleagues a happy new year. For many months last year I argued in this House that the Taoiseach needed to get a handle on the issue of public sector pay and, more important, to set out his plan on public sector pay restoration to the House. I argued for earlier talks on a successor to the Lansdowne Road agreement, for the establishment of meaningful...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Funding (17 Jan 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 92. To ask the Minister for Finance if agreements have been reached on the European Fund for Strategic Investments. [1990/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Labour Employer Economic Forum (17 Jan 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 720. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the meeting of the Labour Employer Economic Forum which he chaired on 5 October 2016; and the details of further meetings which he anticipates chairing. [40017/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Bituminous Fuel Ban (17 Jan 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 1463. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the timeline for the introduction of an outright ban on the sale and distribution of smoky coal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41368/16]
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Brendan Howlin: This morning I was promised a note or briefing on the definition of rent reviews that I have not received. I would like to receive that before we make a decision.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I seek assurance. This morning, the Minister said that the definition was in the Act of 2004. I rechecked the 2004 Act and there is no definition in it. Where is the definition? The Minister might inform me of where it is.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Which was to define "rent review", in essence.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Brendan Howlin: We have not.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Brendan Howlin: What triggers a rent review?
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I want to get clarity on this issue because I certainly did not get clarity from the Minister's reply. In subsection (6) there are two criteria that would make exemptions from the new subsections (3) and (4), so the 4% does not apply. It is either where a notice has been issued under section 22(2), which is clear enough - we can understand that - or where a rent review concerned has...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Are the new amendments being distributed to Members?
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I am trying to get my head around the detail of amendment No. 55 on the new section 19 that the Minister intends to insert in the Bill. There is a drafting issue with the amendment. It is a technical one and has no great impact other than not being clear in plain English. I wish to query what is intended by subsection (6), which reads:Where immediately before the relevant date a notice...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Brendan Howlin: This is my first interjection.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Brendan Howlin: That is fine. How does a landlord commence a rent review and when is that process legally deemed to have started? If this subsection envisages that a landlord can commence a rent review on a different date from that on which he or she sends notice to the tenant, it presumably must be an earlier date. Is it the date on which the landlord begins the compilation of information needed to...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Brendan Howlin: It is now.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Brendan Howlin: It must go to the Seanad.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Annualised.