Results 18,561-18,580 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: We will get to that also.
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: What does the Deputy want debated?
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: What does the Deputy want to debate?
- Order of Business (12 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy should listen.
- Order of Business (12 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy should put down a question.
- Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: The jobs initiative announced yesterday is a clear statement that the new Government has a new approach to the economic crisis. This jobs package demonstrates the new Government has done more in two months to promote employment and economic recovery than the previous Government did in two years. Despite the very real fiscal constraints we have inherited, we have produced a package of...
- Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Is the Deputy laying claim to his great activity as Minister that led directly to 440,000 unemployed?
- Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Every assistance which the former Minister offers is no doubt welcome but the people have decided they have had enough of his help and they have now determined-----
- Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I ask the Deputy not to shout me down.
- Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy opposite should have the good grace to respect the decision of the people to elect a new Government and not shout down those who are elected to make decisions now and allow us explain the decisions that have been made.
- Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: It is further developing the pathways to employment programme which will provide interaction with each unemployed individual at clear milestones. The Department of Social Protection is doing important work which will underpin this enhanced approach to activation. It is developing a profiling system which will allow for a ranking of jobseeker claimants according to their probability of...
- Official Engagements (11 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: You are damned if you do and you are damned if you do not.
- Official Engagements (11 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: That is true.
- Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: It was not much of a secret.
- Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: What do we do?
- Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy is only allowed to ask one question.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I sincerely thank Deputy Murphy for getting me an audience. I thank all the Deputies who contributed to the debate. We need to have more discussion but it should be predicated on honesty. Both Government parties said during the election campaign that they would tell the people the truth about our economic circumstances and that we would not give them false hope or pretend that there was an...
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Let us be honest with people about where we have to go, what we have to do and the level of pain people are enduring and will have to endure. I disagree with very little that Deputy Catherine Murphy said. She is absolutely correct about Anglo Irish Bank. We should never have nationalised its indebtedness.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: It was a disastrous strategy, but we are stuck with it now. It has already cost the taxpayers and people dearly. We need the strategic investment bank and we are determined to have it. Her attitude to Europe is correct. I re-read as part of a debate earlier the speeches of the founding fathers of the European Community. We have gone a long way from that. We need to have leadership in...
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I waited to see what his first sentence would be in his best, dramatic Kerry tradition, whether the Labour Party's treachery was "profound" or "monumental". It is always one or the other. Today it was "profound". I could refer to parts of the document I would criticise. The one thing he criticised was the increase in the age for the old age pension between now and 2028. It is going up in...