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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Mar 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Do not give a dog a bad name.

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...in their communities, they will find that the things most people get animated about are what we would call "the smaller things", namely, the street lights, the footpaths, the vacant buildings, dog-fouling or minor things in the greater scheme of things but important things for people. It is town councillors, who are clearly accountable to the local population, who address those issues...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Dáil has descended into farce on a number of occasions in recent weeks. The Government is incapable of moving its own legislation through Report Stage and the "dog's dinner", to borrow a phrase from the Attorney General, that was the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill has become even worse. Deputies who oppose a different Bill are speaking at length on it to use up time and that...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It is a dog's dinner now.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It is a dog's dinner.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I would not start to train the dogs just yet.

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Brendan Howlin: .... I hope as Taoiseach he will take a more compassionate approach to those who have least in society. It can be easy at times to make political targets of those who rely on the State. Whether as a dog whistle to a particular electoral base or as a mechanism for reducing the size and capacity of the State to intervene on behalf of the most marginalised, too often those policies are...

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...cut to their pensions just before they retire would leave those plans in tatters. I understand the desire in Fine Gael to be as tough as possible on the public sector - in many ways it is a dog whistle to the right wing voters they are seeking to court - but that is wrong with regard to public sector pensions. The average public sector pension is approximately €20,000. There is...

Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...we arrive at, it is the turmoil that exit will create that is the real challenge for our politics and public policy. As a Westminster committee was recently told, "In future you will not be able to walk your dog on Slieve Russell unless you have a passport for the dog." In truth, the range of questions that Brexit has placed before us demand detailed and forensic answers. I have...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (5 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: 88. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drug detection dogs available to An Garda Síochána; the location of such dogs; and her plans to deploy more drug detection dogs across the country. [19242/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Controls (5 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: 126. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of drug detection dogs available to the customs service; the location of such dogs; his plans to deploy more drug detection dogs at the points of entry into this country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19243/16]

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to the Cavan-Monaghan Division of An Garda Síochána) Report: Statements (25 May 2016)

Brendan Howlin: ...abuses across the water. In addition, what happened during the anti-water metering protests was not an exceptional circumstance. In 2006, some 200 gardaí descended on the community of Rossport in County Mayo, with strong-arm tactics employed to force the Shell refinery on local people. Despite 111 complaints of alleged Garda violence and intimidation submitted to GSOC, not a single...

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (29 Jan 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...indicated that this was anchored in a suite of measures, none of which will compete but many of which interact. I am under no illusion that one can legislate for goodness. One just puts up watch dogs as best one can but cultural change is much more profound and that is a job of work we must undertake so that we change the way of doing things. That will not be achieved by legislation...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Protection (11 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ...to walkway and access €12,000 Beach Road, Cleggan Structural damage to embankment - rock armour required €6,000 Streamstown Structural damage to embankment - rock armour required €6,000 Clifden Ballyconneeley R341 Road and wing wall of bridge washed away €6,000 Dolan, Roundstone Road infrastructure damaged €1,200 Dogs Bay, Roundstone Road...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Sleeping dogs, Deputy.

Messages from Seanad (29 Sep 2010)

Brendan Howlin: ...Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010, without amendment, the Criminal Procedure Bill 2009, without amendment, the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009, without amendment and the Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009, without amendment.

Adjournment Debate Matters (13 May 2008)

Brendan Howlin: ...to discuss the progress to date regarding the Le Chéile Educate Together national school, Mornington Road, Drogheda, County Meath; (6) Deputy Andrew Doyle — the need to address the issue of dog breeding establishment regulations; (7) Deputy Tom Sheahan — will the Minister confirm that he is about to rush through a by-law preventing the draft fishermen of Cromane, County Kerry, from...

Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed). (27 Jun 2006)

Brendan Howlin: ...to ensure one does have functioning video equipment in Garda stations and that one can produce the result of the interview. The notion that the equipment broke down is like the excuse that the dog ate my exercise book. There needs to be a requirement to safely ensure the recording of interviews. I do not wish to refer again to the Morris tribunal, but concerns exist and if we are going to...

Reform of the Competition Act 2002: Motion. (15 Nov 2005)

Brendan Howlin: .... It is a normal consequence when an industry, such as the taxi industry, is deregulated that regulations are put in place to ensure some referee is in the market and that it is not completely dog eat dog. This is something that needs to be said before we adopt the notion that competition should not be qualified or that open and unbridled competition is intrinsically good in all...