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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet Committee A (Economy) last met. [43751/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Is the capital plan being discussed by this Cabinet subcommittee or by the Cabinet as a whole? It will affect every area of Government and every Department of State. Will this House be able to make an input into the plan before it is determined by the full Cabinet? We are all mindful of the damage that has been done in this country in recent days. The mitigation of the effects of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It must be right if President Trump is saying it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It could put moral pressure on the banks.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Summits (18 Oct 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the EU digital summit in Estonia. [43750/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Summits (18 Oct 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I take it we will have an opportunity to hear the Taoiseach outline in some detail his approach to the upcoming Council, and particularly the major matter of Brexit, when we get to the statements. The EU digital summit is the focus of these questions. We understand that at the summit French President Macron proposed an EU-wide tax on Internet companies. What was the Taoiseach's response to...
- Pre-European Council: Statements (18 Oct 2017)
Brendan Howlin: When we last discussed this issue in June, I flagged, as did others, the need for appropriate briefing material to be circulated to all of us in advance of the Council and afterwards. I do not think this has happened. I said in June it would be worthwhile and constructive to be informed before the meeting of the agenda, and particularly of the positions and attitudes to be put forward by...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: EU Agreements (18 Oct 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 207. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the proposed Interinstitutional Proclamation on the European Pillar of Social Rights, COM/2017/251 final, that is due to be agreed by the European Parliament, the EU Council and the EU Commission at the Gothenburg Social Summit on 17 November 2017; the issues she has raised during the discussions on this...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2017)
Brendan Howlin: After his election earlier this year, the Taoiseach made a commitment to double funding for the arts and culture over the coming years. It was an imitation of a pledge made by his good friend, Justin Trudeau. It created great hope and expectation across the arts community. Unlike his Canadian friend, the Taoiseach did not follow through on what he had said with a serious commitment in the...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2017)
Brendan Howlin: A scheme I funded before I left office.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That is simply not a fact. There is no getting around the fact that the commitment to double funding over a set period raised expectations among the arts community which were dashed when no additional real money was allocated to the Arts Council. If the Government is serious about this, it should not make commitments and then state there are particular constraints in a given year. It...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Oct 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister is aware that in 2011, the agreement between Labour and Fine Gael contained a commitment to explore the establishment of a technical university of the south east. Arising from that commitment, we now have four consortia of institutes of technology seeking university status. The legislation to allow for that reached Committee Stage in January 2016. I know some time was spent...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Oct 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Will we see it next week?
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I have one question on tomorrow's business. During Leaders' Question, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade said that the Minister for Finance would make a statement on the tracker mortgage scandal. Is it envisaged that this will happen during Fianna Fáil Private Members' time or will there be a separate statement in the House during Government time?
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Will that be before his statement?
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It is unusual for the Minister to make a formal statement on a major issue such as this during Opposition time.
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)
Brendan Howlin: There should be a separate statement and we should be given the opportunity to ask questions.
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)
Brendan Howlin: We have just heard from the Minister that the Minister for Finance intends to make a formal statement on an issue in respect of which Members have been engaged in debate for the past two weeks.
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I join others in warmly welcoming the release of Ibrahim Halawa and thank the consular section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the embassy staff in Cairo. I was very happy to be part of the delegation earlier this year and I am glad that this has come to a happy conclusion. More than two years ago, I published the general scheme of the data sharing and governance Bill,...
- Catalonia: Statements (24 Oct 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I will start by quoting a statement from the Catalonian President with which I profoundly agree. Carles Puigdemont told his parliament on 10 October:The current moment is serious enough for everyone to assume their corresponding responsibility, and for the necessity to de-escalate tension and not to contribute to it, neither through word nor gesture... [T]he way forward can be none other...