Results 221-240 of 29,158 for speaker:Brendan Howlin

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: There is one question under any other business. In our private session, I had contacted the clerk about inviting in the ambassador of Armenia. The Cathaoirleach referenced it but I did not get a timescale on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: The Armenians would certainly regard themselves as European but there we are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Will we invite the Armenian ambassador to speak to the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: We have invited the Georgian ambassador.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Very good.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: There should not be personal comment in the debate.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Yes.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: That is most unusual.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Canvassing.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (10 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 49. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence following the successful operation of the Joint Task Force in interdicting a huge drugs consignment off the Irish coast, and acknowledging the importance of having members of An Garda Síochána and the Revenue Commissioners on secondment to the Maritime Operations Centre in Lisbon, if it is intended that an Irish naval officer would...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 315. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the ceasing of the payment of the State pension to a person (details supplied) who suffers from dementia and did not respond to questions posed by her Department due to the condition; if she accepts that the questions asked have now been responded to; if she acknowledges that any delay in restoring this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (10 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 563. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that there are an estimated 3,000 trained nurses from India and the Philippines currently working in Ireland; if he plans to allow those who wish to have their nursing qualifications recognised by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland and those who need additional language training to progress to recognition as nurses; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (5 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 314. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 236 of 11 May 2022, if any improvement has been made in filling vacant therapist posts (occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, psychology therapy) in County Wexford’s four CDNTs; the plans he has to ensure that an adequate service for children in County...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: The great economic work of Fianna Fáil.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 182. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and location of therapist posts, including speech and language therapists, occupational, psychological and other, appointed to special schools to date in 2023, setting out the CHO areas of each appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43112/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Did she ask it?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: It was done by negotiation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: It was by negotiation. There is no process.

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Middle East (28 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: First, I strongly agree with the Tánaiste that there needs to be a new testing of the democratic will of the Palestinian people and I hope it can be facilitated. Fear of an election is not a trait we can accept anywhere in the world. The more fundamental point is if the Israelis, in the Tánaiste's discussions with the most senior members, were of the view that they still...