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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Data (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated fiscal space available in 2019 to 2021 following budget 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44806/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2018 (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 113. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the full estimated year cost in 2019 of spending measures announced in budget 2018; the impact on the fiscal space available for budget 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44807/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Quality and Qualifications Ireland (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his plans to implement the findings of a report (details supplied) into the operation and organisation of Quality and Qualifications Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44777/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Page 71 of the programme for Government notes that the Government intends to introduce legislation for the introduction of a new mobility scheme to assist those with disabilities in meeting their increased mobility costs. As the Taoiseach is aware, four years have passed since the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant scheme closed following concerns raised by the Ombudsman about...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Hear, hear.

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Is there an allocation of funding for next year?

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: It is from the Chairman of the committee.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the publication of the final national risk assessment 2017 overview of strategic risks. [41719/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: If one did not want to sleep at night, one should read the national risk assessment report, which outlines everything that could potentially befall us. The issue of Brexit is central to the assessment but changes to our climate have the potential for even greater harm. We have witnessed Hurricane Ophelia and the enormous damage that it did to our country, including the taking of three...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D (infrastructure) will next meet. [44892/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Does the Taoiseach have a definitive date for the publication of the capital plan? We should agree the national planning framework at least in tandem with, if not before, we allocate money under the capital plan. It seems we are now pushing back the date for finalising the national planning framework and I agree with that because there are many new submissions to come in. We need to get it...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: It is amazing, is it not?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Scottish First Minister. [44894/17]

European Council: Statements (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: It is racism.

European Council: Statements (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The EU Council came to a number of important conclusions last week on migration, digital Europe, security and defence, external relations and Brexit. Since we last spoke on this issue, a number of significant developments have progressed. In his remarks prior to the Council meeting last week the Taoiseach spoke on digital Europe and the importance of delivering practical benefits to our...

Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: One has to wonder what it is about the banks in Ireland that allows them to behave so disgracefully so often. From Ansbacher to the DIRT inquiry, we saw the banks do serious harm, and then they brought our country to its knees with reckless lending. Now, just a few years later, we have another scandal. While posting billions of euros in profits, they have systematically defrauded tens of...

Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Tánaiste is absolutely right that the people of this nation put the banks back on their feet by their hard work and forbearance over the past five years. In that context, what we have now discovered is an act of gross betrayal. Given the Ansbacher accounts, the DIRT inquiry, everything else that has happened and what the banks have gone through, and the enormous amount of...

Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: It talked last week about moral suasion.

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach has set out a series of seven referendums to be held over the next two years. I will not list them all. It is certainly the most comprehensive series of referendums proposed in a set timeline. How will we deal with them? The Taoiseach is talking about a stand-alone referendum on the eighth amendment but the others will be grouped. We need to carry out a lot of advance...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Applications (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 253. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for fuel allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45392/17]