Results 7,181-7,200 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Social Partnership Meetings (5 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: 397. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline his plans to establish a process of dialogue with the social partners. [15847/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Social Partnership Meetings (5 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: 398. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline his plans to establish a process of dialogue with the social partners. [17134/16]
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I wish to associate myself and my party with the comments of several Deputies in respect of Ibrahim Halawa. I hope we can have a collective initiative on this in the next week or so, because what we have been doing today to date is not working. Will the Minister respond on what formal arrangements the Government is putting in place to involve the Opposition parties in the coming phase of...
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I asked a question on the Christmas bonus.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: There will be a public sector standards Bill before that.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I think so.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: It is clear that we need a longer time slot.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I wish to associate myself and the Labour Party with a vote of sympathy and solidarity for the people of Turkey and Istanbul in particular following the horrific attacks yesterday. My first question relates to secondary legislation. As the Tánaiste is aware, the last Administration introduced the Regulation of Lobbying Act. It seems some well-established businesses, including major...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Those of us who were not in the House would like to be associated with those points.
- Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: We can amend that. The committee could come back and say it wants more time. That is a technical issue. The ten-week period refers to consideration in committee. We can begin the process and deal with it, but the notion of killing it off for a year means it will not happen. I am impressed by the contribution tonight of the new Chairman of the Committee on Education and Skills, Deputy...
- Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: It was passed eventually. It was not passed in the next Dáil because that one was voted down by the Fianna Fáil-Green Party Government.
- Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: It was enacted on the third go. We will oppose the Government amendment, and I ask the Government to think again because to knock it back for 12 months is too much. I ask Fianna Fáil, which is in a strong position to influence this, to ask the Government to relent on this point and accept the principle of the Bill. That is all Second Stage is - the acceptance of the principle of...
- Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I thank all the Deputies who contributed. It was a very good debate on a very serious issue. I have listened with great care to all the views expressed and know many speakers have given a lot of thought to these issues because they have been around for a long time. Some colleagues commented that Labour's Equal Status (Admissions to Schools) Bill is not radical enough. It is, in truth,...
- Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: It would kill them off.
- Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: The unaligned Deputies may yet arrive.
- Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: We could change that.
- Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: We should not say 12 months.
- Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: New politics, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Let him be chaste, but not just yet.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (28 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Does the Tánaiste expect that to happen in this Dáil term?