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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)
Brendan Howlin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to appoint new special advisers. [36045/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Is it true, as reported in The Irish Times, that a ministerial adviser has been made available to Deputy Harty? What is the legal basis for such an appointment? Is every Opposition Deputy to have access to the resources of a special adviser or is that only to be made available, in the words of Deputy Harty to Opposition Deputies who are "well-disposed"...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Only one?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)
Brendan Howlin: It was stated in The Irish Timesthat he has access to a special adviser.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)
Brendan Howlin: In today'sedition ofThe Irish Times it is stated that Deputy Harty has access to a special adviser appointed through a member of the Government. I presume that is with the Taoiseach's consent. I would be very surprised if it is without the Taoiseach's knowledge. We are very careful about any special advisers. I am strongly of the view that special advisers perform a very useful and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Does the Taoiseach have a view on it?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)
Brendan Howlin: And their roles.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)
Brendan Howlin: The Fine Gael Ministers are getting-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I presume there are six special advisers available now to the three Ministers of State who attend Cabinet meetings. It is new that there are three Ministers of State attending Cabinet meetings. The two Independent Ministers of State, Deputies Halligan and Canney, have special advisers. Have there been any applications from Ministers of State of a Fine Gael persuasion to have advisers or do...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Will he inherit the adviser?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)
Brendan Howlin: For such a vital issue.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Nov 2016)
Brendan Howlin: There is a consensus in this House that addressing the two issues that have been set out, namely rough sleeping and homelessness, needs urgent attention. The Cabinet committee brings together the various actors at Government level but there is no simple solution to this. It is an issue of supply and we must get the supply right. There is a number of proposals coming from the Opposition....
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Nov 2016)
Brendan Howlin: 66. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet committee on housing took place; and the future plans for meetings. [37414/16]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 Nov 2016)
Brendan Howlin: 67. To ask the Taoiseach his planned travel schedule to meet international leaders up to the end of 2016. [37416/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (29 Nov 2016)
Brendan Howlin: 305. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Question No. 254 of 22 November 2016, the basis on which he supported the payment of statutory redundancy, by approving amendment of the LCDP financial guidelines, to employees made redundant as a result of reorganising and replacing the LCDP scheme in 2015, but has not supported the making of ex gratia...
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (29 Nov 2016)
Brendan Howlin: 418. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans that have been put in place to commemorate the centenary of the death of John Redmond in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36936/16]
- Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2016)
Brendan Howlin: As Deputy McDonald has indicated, Members received the report of the commission on water last evening. The very first recommendation of the expert commission concerns the public ownership of the water infrastructure. It states that as part of the overall approach to settling the issue addressed in the report, the expert commission recommends that the adoption of a suitable constitutional...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I welcome this acknowledgement. The Labour Party supported the Water Services Act that gave the plebiscite guarantee, but, to be blunt, it is not good enough. People want further assurance and want to hold it in their own hands. That is why we need a constitutional referendum. I welcome the views of the Minister in this regard. Let us agree across the House that we will do that. That...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2016)
Brendan Howlin: It is a matter of equity.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2016)
Brendan Howlin: All politics is local.