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Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: We might get answers.

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for facilitating all of us. These are really important questions. As has been mentioned by a number of other speakers, representatives of all parties and groups in this House gathered in Government Buildings last week at the Taoiseach's invitation to discuss the implications of Brexit for the island of Ireland. It was a very useful and constructive meeting and,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: We are very flexible today.

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: We have 13 minutes remaining for Questions to the Taoiseach, but we are not taking-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I was a bit confused on Monday.

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I read the reporting of the script, which is not always the same thing of course.

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: Have there been any other offers?

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: We will use the 11 minutes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: Two minutes were spent giving out.

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I want to get back to the nub of the questions. I thought we had a broad agreement last week on an invitation to an inclusive dialogue without preconditions for people to ask about the implications of this profound change in the status of the United Kingdom for the people on the island of Ireland. We invited people, whether farmers, industrialists, workers or employers, to come and talk to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I though we had a unanimous view which Sinn Féin bought into Government Buildings last week.

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: Absolutely, and we said it. In fact, Sinn Féin was second to the SDLP in this.

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I replied to Deputy Adams.

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I replied to the effect that it was a good idea to progress in the consensual way we wanted. There is no advantage in our trying to score political points on a separate agenda on this real issue that is a manifest threat to us all, namely, Brexit. My job is to perfect the imperfections of this Republic and I make no apologies for that. In the meantime, I want to address real issues that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: A poll about whether to have a poll.

Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (20 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 1:In page 4, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following:“(8) Where property is seized and detained under subsection (1) or (2), an application to the Court for an interim order or an interlocutory order in respect of the property shall be made by the bureau officer concerned as soon as he or she has enough evidence to make such an application.”. I...

Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (20 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: Can it?

Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (20 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: The CAB can avail of it.

Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (20 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I have listened with care to the learned counsel and to the Tánaiste. My genuine fear is that if it were accepted, the amendment would have an inadvertent and adverse impact on the effectiveness of what is extremely important anti-gang and anti-criminal legislation. As others have pointed out, the new section 3 lies at the heart of the legislation and it introduces the notion of the...

Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (20 Jul 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I tabled the amendment knowing that it was likely to be ruled out of order but I thought I had done my best on Second Stage to make an impassioned plea to the Minister. I had hoped that I would see a similar amendment in her name because it is not often in this House that one sees a consensus view, such as we saw even from the Deputies behind the Minister on this matter. I said that I...