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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I want to follow-up on the regional impact, which is really important. The analysis suggests that Dublin might do all right out of all of this but there will be regions that will be enormously adversely hit, particularly the midlands and the south east. That is what the ESRI has told us and the Taoiseach directly. We need to be working right now on an export strategy that improves our...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: We need to be planning for that now.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: There is no rush out the door.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister of State, Deputy Murphy, is doing his best.

Brexit: Statements (4 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: With the formal Brexit process now under way, and no certainty on what the outcome will be, Ireland clearly faces years of uncertainty. The exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union will, as I said previously, present this country and island with the greatest social, economic and diplomatic challenges it has faced since the Emergency. For some time, I have been calling for special...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 95. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his audience with the Pope in Rome on 24 March 2017. [16730/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences Data (4 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 115. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drink driving tests carried out between 2012 and 2016, in addition to the previously reported figures for such testing, by year and Garda district, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16070/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (4 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 517. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the policy proposals for the Health (Transport Support) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16280/17]

Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: We read in today's newspapers that the Tánaiste, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, yesterday secured Cabinet approval to establish an independent root and branch review of An Garda Síochána. The Taoiseach is aware that the Labour Party published draft terms of reference for such a review last weekend. We have seen no similar draft terms of reference from the Government. I will meet...

Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: When will that be?

Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The inspectorate.

Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply and I accept, as regards the terms of reference for the review, that we need to read exactly what the Fennelly report has recommended. We will engage on that basis. However, what I heard from the Taoiseach regarding what was happening right now was that there was an implementation of the Commissioner's agenda for reform. I am asking about the...

Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Can we have a published timeline on that? In the meanwhile, is it the Government's view that we can have continued confidence in the current management of An Garda Síochána in light of what we now know and the views of the majority in the House and of the people?

Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Several.

Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: When will that be?

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: If I may, I want to return to the very important issue raised by Deputy Healy, in line with promised legislation. It is shocking that at least 100 families may have lost their homes because they were wrongly moved from tracker mortgages. When this matter was raised with the Governor of the Central Bank yesterday in a question posed by Deputy Sean Sherlock, the Governor said he cannot name...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on justice reform last met; and when it will next meet. [16424/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: It is truly astonishing that the Cabinet sub-committee on justice reform has not met in a month. In light of-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Let me deal with that. I was a member of the last justice reform committee. The Government does not have at its meetings the Garda Commissioner, the chairperson of the Policing Authority or the senior administrators in the Department of Justice and Equality, all of whom should have been there to answer questions of key Ministers in advance of any decisions being made at Cabinet. Did the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: They do. The Taoiseach knows that they do.