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Ceisteanna - Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: To pick up on a point raised in the Taoiseach's previous reply, he will recall we put in significant funding on the capital side for the 1916 centenary commemorations. The argument was very strongly made by my colleague, Deputy Burton, that this should be embedded in capital funding for the arts because it is an area that has been lacking in capital funding, although we put in a rolling...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Who is working on that?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Housing last met; and when it will meet again. [8421/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I listened with some care to the Taoiseach's replies to Deputy Micheál Martin during Leaders' Questions. I had thought we had an all-party approach to dealing with this issue, because it is the compelling social issue right now. It is a fact that the last Government allocated €3 billion, an unprecedented sum. However, that was almost three years ago and, for some reason, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Stability and Growth Pact prohibits it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: It does.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Six months-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I am looking for solutions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Is the Taoiseach referring to modular houses?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Prime Minister Beata Szydło in Warsaw, Poland. [7046/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Taoiseach for his comprehensive reply. The Taoiseach will be aware that the so-called Visegrád Group of countries - Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia - have announced that they will veto any Brexit deal that does not accommodate their citizens currently living in the United Kingdom. Did the Taoiseach have any discussion with the Polish Prime Minister about...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Unless she is on the WhatsApp.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Eligibility (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 482. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can access treatment through the national treatment purchase fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8619/17]

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach is on the record as saying that industrial peace is a critical factor in our national recovery. However, over the last nine months we have seen increasing industrial unrest, both in the public and private employment. It now looks like the record of this Administration will be a return to an era of industrial chaos. Four weeks ago I raised the issue of Bus Éireann with...

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: No, recovery does not automatically mean industrial chaos. Industrial peace requires constant minding and tending, as I think the Taoiseach knows, and it is clear that attention to industrial peace is not being afforded by this Administration. That is the plain fact of it. In our time we legislated for the restoration of registered employment agreements and the capacity to have sectoral...

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I asked the Taoiseach earlier about a matter which should be at the top of the agenda of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, but which sadly is not. I now to turn to an issue that seems to be his obsession, although he has no responsibility for it at all. I am talking, of course, about the promised judicial appointments legislation. Today's edition of The Irish...

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Are judges being appointed at present?

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Is there an embargo?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Information and Communications Technology (22 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: A code of silence.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Information and Communications Technology (22 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I wish to broaden the question a bit if I can. The Taoiseach will recall that in our time we established the national cyber security centre to deal with the revelations that virtually any system is subject to hacking. What are the results of establishing that centre and has it completed a risk assessment of our vulnerability? Has it made any recommendations to strengthen the systems of...