Results 7,241-7,260 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: This Vote is agreed because it is circulated.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. It is important that this report be debated in the House. Perhaps the Whips will set time aside in the next week or two weeks for that to happen. However, we also need to follow through with practical proposals. I look forward to hearing the timeline for the enactment of the criminal justice (victims of crime) Bill, the heads of which were approved...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: The report of Women’s Aid, published today, highlights the fact that in 2015 the national domestic abuse service received 16,375 disclosures of domestic abuse against women and 5,966 disclosures of child abuse. That is a total of 22,341 abuse disclosures. These figures will shock not only those of us in this Chamber but also everybody across the country. Across Ireland, women have...
- Order of Business (14 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: If it is appropriate, I wish firstly to say a few words on the mass murder in Orlando.
- Order of Business (14 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Coming just a year after the joyous scenes that followed the passage of the marriage equality referendum in this country, the appalling crimes carried out in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, late on Sunday night serve as a stark reminder to us all of the need to maintain a relentless focus on building equality for all people. These crimes must be condemned for what they were, namely,...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I want to understand this. This money will not be expended until next year. Is that what the Taoiseach is telling us now? When it is drawn down, it has to be matched by some percentage of local government money. What is that percentage? Where are the local authorities to get that money? Will only local authorities with the capacity to find matching funding be allowed to draw down that...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: There is nothing this year. Is that correct?
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: There will be nothing until next year. Is that correct?
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I will begin where the Taoiseach ended. I welcome what I read in this morning's media, which has since been confirmed to the House by the Taoiseach, namely, the establishment of a new infrastructure fund of €200 million to bring unserviced sites into use for housing. I seek some clarity about the fund. Is this new money to be accounted for on or off-balance sheet? The Taoiseach...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Is the €70 million for this year?
- Order of Business (9 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: It would be useful for it to be published ahead of the debate.
- Order of Business (9 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: What about the Commission?
- Order of Business (9 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: As part of this year's budget it was agreed that two weeks of paid paternity leave would be introduced from September of this year. To give effect to this, the paternity leave Bill would have to be passed by both Houses in the next few weeks. As it is on the list of priority Bills, when will we see the paternity leave Bill, will it be subject to legislative scrutiny and will it be enacted...
- Order of Business (9 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: And published when?
- Order of Business (9 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Is it expected it will be in place-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Last week, together with my Labour colleague, Joe Costello, I held a series of meetings in Dublin north's inner city with community leaders, business owners, educators, service providers and members of An Garda Síochána. As everybody in the House knows, the spotlight is on the north inner city because of gun deaths and the focus on crime. This is a cause of great frustration for...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I welcome the Minister's initial positive view of the all-party pledge in respect of this. The Minister said that this is a challenge for the Dáil. It is more than a challenge. It is imperative that we do not just talk about an area that has been in the public view periodically for decades, but actually commit ourselves to finding a resolution. We can do that. All of us, and I put...
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Functions vested in Departments cannot, under the Ministers and Secretaries Acts, be carried out under the direction of two different Ministers at the same time. With regard to two functions of Government, namely, the post office network and the national broadband service, what exactly is the Government's intention? Will statutory responsibility for those two programmes - post offices and...
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Sorry, have the Revised Estimates been signed off?
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: They have been signed off by the Government?