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Questions on Proposed Legislation (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: You can bet on it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he has held discussions on Brexit with the governments of Gibraltar and the Isle of Man; and, if not, his plans to do so. [38621/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I asked the Taoiseach whether he had met the Government of Gibraltar, which might seem like a left-field question. The Taoiseach's response was that as a Crown dependency he did not meet it and is not contemplating it. The Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, is seeking a special status for Gibraltar, where 96% of the people voted to remain. He says there is an existential threat...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Cabinet committees and the number of meetings held since September 2016. [37412/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach informed the House that the committee on infrastructure, which I take it deals with transport, had met once. What date did the committee meet? Did the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross, attend the meeting? Did he give any heads-up to the committee on the information he gave to Cabinet yesterday to the effect that Bus Éireann, one of our most...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I fully accept the Ceann Comhairle's ruling on this but if that article of the Constitution applies to Cabinet sub-committees, surely it applies to the Cabinet itself, yet the same Minister can go onto national television and tell us what he briefed the Cabinet on yesterday. If the Minister is able, in that manner, to brief us in defiance of the constitutional embargo on what he told Cabinet...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: It seems to be very open nowadays.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: When will the Government Bill be published?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: Regarding the Government's decision yesterday to have a lay majority in the selection of judges, will this policy decision impact on all public appointments? Will we have a lay majority in the appointment of doctors, consultants, architects and other professionals? Can we expect this new policy to be implemented across the board?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Pope and the issues discussed. [38662/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I welcome the meeting between the Taoiseach and Pope Francis and the proposed visit of Pope Francis to Ireland. I disagree with Deputy Gerry Adams that the Taoiseach's discussions constituted rapprochement. It is very healthy for there to be some tension not only between individual states but also between religions and the independent Republic of Ireland. I was sitting close to the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Advisers (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: 76. To ask the Taoiseach if he has made his Government advisors and programme managers available to Opposition Members of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann. [38664/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: 285. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if, in preparing for the recent EU Council at which trade deals were discussed, she sought legal advice as to whether provisions of CETA would require a referendum here. [34742/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (8 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: In the past week, the media have been full of heartwrenching stories about children caught in domestic abuse. The tragedy of the situation is that those children do not now have the protection of law. We are assured that the domestic violence Bill will be published soon. I am sure that the Minister and, certainly, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs are aware of the campaign by...

Social and Affordable Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: The Labour Party Bill before the House sets out to address key problems in the housing market. Everybody in this House understands that this is the social issue of our time and everybody is coming forward with solutions - sometimes thinking outside the box and grasping issues that we have been talking about for a very long time. I will make two brief points. In respect of the point the...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: Last Thursday, the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government urged the Dáil to reject the Social and Affordable Housing Bill 2016, which was proposed by the Labour Party. According to the amendment he proposed, our Bill "pre-empts" the delivery of the commitment in his action plan for housing and homelessness to publish "a strategy for the rental sector". We now...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: They can charge what they want.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach is arguing an increasingly lonely and isolated, unsustainable position. Does he not accept the view of those on the front line, including Threshold, Focus Ireland, the Simon Community, the Peter McVerry Trust and even the NESC on these matters? Are they all wrong in respect of this issue, with only the Government and Fianna Fáil in the right? The Government is...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: They can, but not under the Minister's plan. He is arguing about a plan that he published 40 minutes ago. He might at least have given us the chance to debate it.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I have read the Minister's leaks this morning.