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Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2018)

Brendan Howlin: What about the other 500,000?

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Tánaiste knows full well that what he is saying is not right. The plan to roll out broadband was on track until it was fatally undermined by the decision of the Minister last year.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2018)

Brendan Howlin: He said we were now at the end of a process but the Minister, Deputy Naughten, like Blackadder's Baldrick, is telling The Irish Timesthat he has a cunning plan B. Faced with disaster, he is potentially going to re-tender. What is plan B? If we are at the end of a process that will advance things, as we were told on "Six One" last night, why is he now telling us we might need a different...

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2018)

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Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Feb 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The programme for Government makes a commitment to improve cancer prevention and treatment. The Tánaiste will know this is European cervical cancer prevention week, which is a critical issue. The Irish Family Planning Association and CervicalCheck are running their annual Pearl of Wisdom campaign. Each year 260 women in Ireland are diagnosed with cervical cancer and up to 70 lives are...

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Feb 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Is the Tánaiste sure about that?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Data (1 Feb 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 93. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the arrangements to ensure that retired civil servants on pensions receive pro-rata payment restoration with serving civil servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4985/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (1 Feb 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building project for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4982/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C, European Union, including Brexit,) last met; and when it will next meet. [4552/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (6 Feb 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the priorities of his Department for 2018. [5417/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to the European Parliament on 18 January 2018. [3378/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (6 Feb 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 575. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a review of a decision not to grant disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5401/18]

Death of former Ceann Comhairle: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Séamus Pattison was a champion of working people and an outstanding parliamentarian. Following in the footsteps of his distinguished father James, or Jimmy, Pattison, he distinguished himself as a trade unionist, local representative and on the national and international stage. Séamus won his first general election in 1961. His opponents said at the time that it was an accident....

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Feb 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I wish to raise a parallel issue to the one raised by Deputy Micheál Martin and reference the drugs strategy again. Part of the strategy that is published is to keep legislation up to date to deal with emerging trends. The Taoiseach will have seen the article in The Sunday Business Post by journalist Susan Mitchell over the weekend on the explosion in the amount of prescription drugs...

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Feb 2018)

Brendan Howlin: We do not all have daddy to write the cheque.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Urban Renewal Schemes (7 Feb 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the oversight group for the north-east inner city project chaired by the Secretary General of his Department has met; and if he has been provided with a report on progress from the programme implementation board. [5418/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Urban Renewal Schemes (7 Feb 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I, too, commend the progress that has been made because I know there was a genuine cross-party, all-of-House view that this task force had to succeed and that all necessary resources should be committed on an ongoing basis and beyond the length of any particular Dáil in order that we might make social change a reality for a community that has suffered a great deal. However, it is true...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (7 Feb 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos; the meetings he attended; the number of staff from his Department that attended; and the estimated cost to his Department of the visit. [4550/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (7 Feb 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the budget in his Department for social media. [5419/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Brexit Data (7 Feb 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 77. To ask the Taoiseach the additional budget for 2018 or other years, provided to his Department and all agencies and bodies within his remit to plan or prepare for Brexit; the number of additional staff that have been recruited to work on this policy area in each body, agency and his Department; and the number of dedicated staff planning and working on Brexit matters in each. [6329/18]