Results 12,681-12,700 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach answered that question yesterday. It will be next year.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I have no knowledge at all of that matter, but I will ask the Minister for Education and Skills to respond.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister for Finance has indicated that it is hoped the legislation will be introduced this year, but if the overarching NTMA legislation is not available, we will advance that element of it separately in order that we can have access to funding for the stimulus packages we have announced and further packages.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The road traffic (no. 3) Bill will be next year.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2013)
Brendan Howlin: That Bill is expected in the first half of next year.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2013)
Brendan Howlin: That is a priority for the Government and the Taoiseach has indicated that it will be introduced this session.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The health Bill will be introduced this session. We expect it to come before a Cabinet sub-committee within the next fortnight. Heads of the legal aid Bill have been approved by the Cabinet, but the Bill will not be published until next year. I have no date for the cybercrime Bill yet.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The water services Bill will be before the House in this session. The Central Bank Bill is not expected until next year, but since it is in gestation, perhaps suggestions the Deputy or the finance committee would like to make might be incorporated in the Bill.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I am not sure, but I am sure the Minister for Finance will have regard to any submissions the Deputy would like to make to the Bill.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 was enacted last year and it deals with that issue.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I will ask the Government Whip to find out and he will refer directly to the Deputy.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2013)
Brendan Howlin: There is a huge list of Bills in the justice area. I do not have a date for that, but I suspect it will be next year.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy asked a series of questions and I will try to go through them as best I can. First, she prefaced her comments with reference to the ESB pension scheme. This scheme is sound; we should acknowledge that. Changes were introduced in the scheme last year, by agreement with the workers. The new funding standards that have been set for all pension schemes have been set by the...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I have no views on ruling the world but I thought the Deputy opposite was a traditional Wobbly, uniting the workers of the world. From the years I spent listening to her on the administrative council of the Labour Party, I know her good Trot view of that. Unfortunately, being caught in the time warp of the Sixties is of no value to us in terms of interpreting the economic crisis we now...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2013)
Brendan Howlin: In terms of pension provision, we could take the line the Deputy advocates, ensure that nobody puts any private money into a pension fund and have entire dependence on the State.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2013)
Brendan Howlin: That is entirely unaffordable in the short term. What we are doing, for the first time, is putting a cap on the pension that can accrue with State support. I hoped, and would have thought, the Deputy might welcome that but of course she is always too busy attacking the Labour Party and the left rather than looking to attack the right and its views on what is happening.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2013)
Brendan Howlin: It is proposed to take No. 3, Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013 - Second Stage (resumed).
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The previous Government's strategy, which it pushed through this House, of cutting the minimum wage was the wrong one. Our strategy is not to have a low wage economy, to rush to the bottom and to think we can create jobs by pushing down people's basic wage. In the most difficult of economic times, we undid the damaging economic decision the previous Government took.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2013)
Brendan Howlin: In thanking the Deputy for his belated acknowledgment of the successful strategy being pursued by this Government, I can assure him that in the next budget we will continue to ensure that jobs continue to be created.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy first raised the issue of mortgage arrears in the context of the discussion that took place yesterday between Professor Honohan and the Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform. Before I go on to the second question, I want to say that the issue of mortgage arrears is an absolute focus of Government because it is one of the deepest scars of the legacy of the...