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Order of Business (14 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: They are coming, too.

Order of Business (14 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: What was the Deputy's comment on slow learners?

Leaders' Questions (13 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Let us try it out.

Order of Business (7 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Caoimhghín had so much more gravitas.

Order of Business (7 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: It is not badger time either.

Bank Reorganisation: Statements (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I understood there was to be a ten minute concluding contribution from the Government side. Is that not to be?

Bank Reorganisation: Statements (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: It is hard to wrap up over two days but I will do my best.

Bank Reorganisation: Statements (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I will probably work in my Department on Saturday and Sunday in any case.

Bank Reorganisation: Statements (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Brendan Howlin: While I concur with Deputy Higgins that people continue to be scandalised by the amount of money the public purse was required to contribute to maintain a functioning banking system, he is incorrect to suggest the full figure amounts to €70 billion or that the current bailout amounts to €24 billion of public money ón chiste phoiblí, to use the Deputy's words. As he knows, a number of...

Banks Recapitalisation and Restructuring: Statements (31 Mar 2011)

Brendan Howlin: They speak highly of the Deputy.

Making Committees Work in the 31st Dáil: Statements (31 Mar 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I thank all Deputies who participated in this short but useful debate. I apologise for not being present throughout, but there were other things happening today that involved Ministers. I do not want to downplay the importance of this debate in any way. I am very passionate about the role of Parliament. We have not focused enough on the rebalancing of Parliament and the Executive. In the...

Declaration by Leas-Cheann Comhairle (31 Mar 2011)

Brendan Howlin: It is a great pleasure for me to be the first to congratulate you on your election as Leas-Cheann Comhairle, an office about which I know something, as I was honoured to hold it during the lifetime of the previous Dáil. I wish you well and I know you will be a great credit to the House in exercising the responsibilities and duties of the office.

Making Committees Work in the 31st Dáil: Statements (31 Mar 2011)

Brendan Howlin: We are at a critical juncture in our history and our democracy. The scale and depth of the crisis that has engulfed our State has undermined confidence in our public institutions. The political culture that captured the previous Government and allowed this crisis to happen — a culture of golden circles, of impunity, of conflating party political interest with the national interest — has...

Order of Business (31 Mar 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy was obviously not listening.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2011)

Brendan Howlin: We are still on the Order of Business.

European Council Meetings (29 Mar 2011)

Brendan Howlin: That is a great help.

Tribunals of Inquiry (29 Mar 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Like the answers the Deputy himself gives.

Programme for Government: Motion (15 Mar 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I shall start by addressing the very last words uttered by Deputy Ó Cuív, while acknowledging his classical scholarship. It certainly was not this Government that cast any doubt on the view of Ireland's corporation tax rate. That was, as he knows, put on the table by others. I am not absolutely certain of Sinn Féin's position, but I believe that all parties in this House hold that the...

Leaders' Questions (15 Mar 2011)

Brendan Howlin: He could have waited a week.

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I should advise that we are dealing with this amendment, No. 17, as part of a group on which the decision on Report Stage, by order of the House, will be made in two minutes' time.