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Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: With regard to the National Archives (amendment) Bill, since 2013 the British have moved from a 30-year rule to a 20-year rule and are now releasing two years' worth of official records each year up to 2022. We are supposed to be doing something similar. The legislative scrutiny of this Bill was supposed to have been completed by the end of January but it has not been. Will the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: This is my first opportunity to join with colleagues in expressing my own and my party's sympathy and sadness on the passing of our dear and much loved colleague, Peter Mathews. We send our sympathy to his family. I want to raise an issue raised in this House before and which refers to a motion that was passed in the House on 7 July last year on Ibrahim Halawa. As a result of that...

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: It has been postponed 19 times.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: If they are here.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Could the Minister circulate the list of criteria?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (28 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress made and outcomes from the all-island civil dialogue on Brexit. [8420/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (28 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: There is a general welcome for the all-island civic dialogue, which has been a very useful initiative that is appreciated North and South. I would like to see what has come of it. It is important to hear the views of everybody but what action are we taking on foot of it? I have addressed both dialogues and put forward a number of simple measures we could seek from Europe to mitigate the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Justice Reform will next meet. [10034/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I agree. We are committed to having a review of protected disclosures in any event. We are all getting not formal protected disclosures under the Act but many submissions. I am sure other Deputies in the House are getting them, as I am, from people who have been motivated to tell us something on foot of what has emerged in the Maurice McCabe affair. Has the justice reform Cabinet...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Reporting to but not accountable in this Chamber.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Deputy Martin's own comments were qualified too.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Absolutely.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I doubt that.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I thank all Deputies for contributing to the debate. I applaud my colleague, Deputy Alan Kelly, for taking up the baton from Senators Ivana Bacik and Gerakd Nash. It is a baton that started its journey many moons ago in the most capable hands of our dear former colleague in this House who is now Uachtarán na hÉireann, Michael D. Higgins, who felt passionately about this issue. As...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 82. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social policy and public service reform last met. [10035/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (28 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 102. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has issued any alerts to Irish embassies since October 2014 on the Magdalene restorative justice scheme; if not, the reason this is the case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9607/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (28 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 103. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has issued any alerts to Irish embassies in regard to the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9609/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Sector (28 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 225. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has raised Ireland's bid to secure the European Banking Authority with his EU counterparts in bilateral meetings. [2781/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (28 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 455. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has issued any alerts to Irish embassies in regard to the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9610/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (28 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 803. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will contact all those persons that have contacted her Department regarding adoption and mother and baby homes in recent years to inform them of the existence of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9611/17]