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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I raise a different issue, which is of great concern. It is my understanding that, in determining the fiscal space available to the State, the Government decided to disregard the 2015 figures on gross domestic product, GDP. While we happily took the additional corporate taxes generated in this period from the relocation of corporate profits to the island of Ireland, for some very odd reason...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Will the growth figures be accepted?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Michel Barnier. [24370/17]

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I also want to focus on housing. There have been regular discussions in this House on the issue of social housing and the housing crisis. From intolerable rent increases to enormous social housing waiting lists to growing homelessness, the situation has been grave for some time now. The Tánaiste is correct in that there have been discussions across parties to develop plans to address...

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Will the Tánaiste acknowledge that it is unacceptable that there are 200,000 vacant homes while we have a homelessness crisis? The figure is not 200 or 2,000. The Government was to have an audit completed and published and a vacant homes strategy published by the end of March. We are now approaching June. All the plans and talk are one thing but when will we see the strategy that was...

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The strategy is two months behind already.

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I am sharing time with my colleague, Deputy Burton. I will take seven minutes if that is acceptable to the House. Anyone charged with investigating serious crime has two basic obligations. The first is to assemble all the information needed to persuade a jury that the accused person has committed a crime. The second is to maintain the integrity of that information and of the...

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I do not doubt the Taoiseach's sincerity on this issue, but I think all of us were shocked by the report of the special rapporteur on children and the screening last night by "RTE Investigates". It was a special broadcast looking at the case studies and findings of Dr. Geoffrey Shannon as well as the detail of yet another disturbing case in my own south east region. Dr. Geoffrey Shannon has...

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: In the history of the State - we celebrated the centenary of 1916 last year - our most grievous failing has been in the protection of children. That is why, in Government together, we looked at issues such as constitutional change, a Department for children and a Minister dedicated to children. All of those tasks were done, but have they brought about this cultural change we are talking...

Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Since the formation of the Government we have listened to the Minister, Deputy Ross, pontificate about the dramatic reforms he proposes in the appointment of the Judiciary. It is no exaggeration to say he seems obsessed with an area for which he has no ministerial responsibility. Many of us may have concerns about what he proposes, but we will debate it when it actually happens. Having...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security Committee (30 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the role and functions of the national security committee. [25619/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security Committee (30 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I wish to focus on the security of the State in the light of some of the comments made last week after the horrific bombing in Manchester. It would be extremely naive to think this country would not possibly be the site of an attack. We must have a proper debate about these matters. To put it bluntly, the notion that there is a secret committee examining and hearing about threats to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security Committee (30 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Does the Taoiseach have a view?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (30 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the establishment of an implementation group on Seanad reform. [25620/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (30 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: We are Questions Nos. 7 to 9 about the Seanad.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (30 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: In a bout of complete honesty, perhaps the Taoiseach will admit that nothing has happened with this set of proposals and nothing is intended to happen with them. I would like to ask a few very direct questions. Is it the fixed Government position that the Manning proposals are the blueprint for what should happen into the future? If the answer to that question is "Yes", why has no action...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (30 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: To see if the nominees were still alive.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (30 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Has the Taoiseach no insight?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Mr. Michel Barnier. [24370/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Government promised to publish a new paper on economic and tax issues relating to Brexit. When will we see this publication? I have a brief question relating to the very worrying position that was repeated last night in the British general election debate that the likely outcome of the hard line taken by the UK will be no deal. Have our officials produced any scoping of what the...