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Ceisteanna - Questions: National Emergency Plan (12 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I associate myself and my party with the remarks of the Taoiseach with regard to the ongoing search for the two missing crewmen of Rescue 116. There has been extraordinary public support and anguish empathising with the bereaved. These are people who have selflessly given their lives in this instance to support communities. I am reminded of that every time I cross Wexford Bridge to go home...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Emergency Plan (12 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: There are probably not emergency experts for each of those areas in each Department.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Emergency Plan (12 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Sweden would have thought the same.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Emergency Plan (12 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 2 o’clock When an emergency happens in Britain, everybody expects what is known as COBRA, which is basically the Cabinet Office emergency unit, to come into existence under the auspices of the British Prime Minister. Is it appropriate that we would have our own prime ministerial command centre to deal with any emergency that might arise and to bring in the particular expertise we...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (12 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has identified Ireland's red line issues in the EU-UK Article 50 negotiations. [12049/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a new school (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18368/17]

Leaders' Questions (13 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: We in the Labour Party were critical of last year's budget, particularly the determination of Government to use a huge chunk of money to give the equivalent of a cup of coffee back to some people rather than investing it in urgently needed public services. Inevitably, this meant that progress ground to a halt on things we were doing. There was no reduction in class sizes, there was...

Leaders' Questions (13 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Where is it?

Leaders' Questions (13 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: When is that?

Leaders' Questions (13 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: We did that.

Leaders' Questions (13 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: We did that too.

Leaders' Questions (13 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: What about the targeted group?

Leaders' Questions (13 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: It is extraordinary that the only positive things the Tánaiste has to announce are things done by the previous Government.

Leaders' Questions (13 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: In terms of the specific commitment-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Not only the specific commitment but the signature commitment of last year's budget will not happen. That was clear in February. We knew there were going to be problems with the scheme because Pobal told the Government so during the pre-legislative scrutiny. The Government has had since February at least to be honest with people and tell them this would not happen in the timeline set out...

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Last June, the Government colluded with Fianna Fáil to kick the Labour Party's Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill down the road. Ten months after that Bill was introduced, nothing has changed. We will not have any statutory guidelines in place on how schools should deal with cases of over-subscription. We will not have any legislation in place to make it clear that all schools...

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Will anything change on this by September?

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: That is very disappointing.

Reform of An Garda Síochána: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 1:To insert the following after “challenges posed by policing in the 21st century;”: “declares its conviction that: — the systems, structures and processes of Garda management are not fit for purpose and no longer command or deserve the confidence of the public, or of public representatives; and — a transformative programme of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Cross-Border Projects (13 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 6. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to secure EU funding for cross-Border projects, as outlined in the Taoiseach's speech to the IIEA. [12047/17]