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Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Did the Taoiseach tell them?

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: On a point of order-----

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: It is the same point of order as I raised last week. Before the Minister for Education and Skills leaves, we constructed the Order of Business to allow all Cabinet members respond to questions. Many of the questions the Taoiseach responded to would be much better responded to Members if all members of Cabinet were here. Last week, when I raised it, there was one additional member of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing last met; and when future meetings are planned. [21872/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I entirely agree with the Taoiseach. It is a matter of supply because much of what the Government is trying to do, and we tried to do in our time, is tinkering with the fundamental issue, namely, that we need to have more houses. One of the early wins we thought we could have is to get the voids back into play. The Taoiseach will recall that in our time in government we put in place a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Could the Taoiseach respond about the voids and putting on pressure to bring them back into use?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: What about refurbishing hotels and calling them something else?

Ireland and the Negotiations on the UK’s Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (9 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Check against delivery.

Ireland and the Negotiations on the UK’s Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (9 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: On behalf of my party and the labour movement, I wish the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and all in this House a happy Europe Day. May we be "united in diversity," to quote the official motto of the European Union. I welcome that the Government has finally produced a more comprehensive document on its approach to Brexit. It is well overdue, as others have stated, but unfortunately it is sadly...

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I move:That Dáil Éireann: is confident that capital investment can provide both social benefits as well as economic growth, rather than presenting a false choice in relation to such investment; together with the International Monetary Fund, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Irish Business and Employers Confederation believes that, in order to tackle infrastructural...

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: -----does not agree to this. We cannot spend money we did not have. I am arguing for spending money we do have. I know the Sinn Féin position in 2011 was to tell the troika to get lost and take their money with them, which would have collapsed the economy then. Prudent management has got us to a position now where we can equally invest in the requirements of our economy going...

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: They told nobody.

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: We had no money. Would they have had us bankrupt the country?

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Of course, it was. It is ignorance.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 87. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Croatian President. [21874/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 88. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on regional and rural affairs last met. [21875/17]

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: This is shocking.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: There is a complete denial of the facts.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: What action?

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: That is exactly what happened.