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Ceisteanna - Questions: Global Footprint Initiative (19 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach listed several new locations for diplomatic missions to be opened. Are we preparing the additional staff now so that we will have a sufficient, robust, trained and experienced cohort to move into these missions? Some of these are small missions and would not have a cohort of mentoring staff available. I note the proposal for Japan includes a new Ireland House that will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Global Footprint Initiative (19 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It worked for Justin Trudeau.

Apology for Persons Convicted of Consensual Same-Sex Sexual Acts: Motion (19 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: We have moved within a generation from a time when gay men and women were an alien and shunned phenomenon to one where sexuality in all its expressions can be fully celebrated. That change has been dramatic but politicians and political parties can claim only part of the credit. Civil society and civil organisations have been the pathfinders on this reform and none more so than Senator...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (19 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 124. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of calls received by the passport office in Cork and Dublin compared to the amount of calls answered by the passport office in Cork and Dublin in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26684/18]

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: That is patronising.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: In my first Leaders' Questions as party leader, I read out some of the shocking statistics from the 2015 Women's Aid report. The latest version of that report records that there were 19,385 disclosures of domestic abuse against women and children, including 607 cases of sexual abuse. According to Garda statistics last year, 2,947 sexual offences were committed in Ireland, of which 655 were...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Taoiseach for his response. The Rape Crisis Network Ireland is the co-ordinating body of rape crisis centres and provides valuable support to them. It was surprised to be placed under the remit of Tusla. While this was an organisational matter, there is an understanding that the network is not being given the priority it merits in the context of the many different pressures...

Business of Dáil: Motion (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Is that a motion circulated by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and has it been circulated yet?

Business of Dáil: Motion (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Will that be determined by the Business Committee or who is to determine what the motion should look like? Has it been run past the parties?

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I want to raise a matter of secondary legislation with the Taoiseach. Members will be aware that the report of the local government boundary commission was published last week. It was my understanding that the Government had made a commitment to the former boroughs that they would be stand alone municipal districts. Subsequent to the publication of the plan I have had discussions with the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Will it be published?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Northern Ireland; the meetings he held; and the issues discussed. [26546/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach is reported as having said during his visit to Northern Ireland that the tectonic plates were shifting. My understanding is the tectonic plates shift very slowly, but, whether they are speeding up, the Taoiseach's meaning is that there are significant shifts in opinions on the constitutional status of Northern Ireland. That will be in very sharp focus in the event of a hard...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: We could try.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It will come as no surprise to the Taoiseach that I raise an issue which is causing great concern in my region of the south east. There have been a number of resignations from psychiatric teams, particularly in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, CAMHS in Wexford. One of the consultant psychiatrists, Dr. Kieran Moore, said that he was resigning from the Wexford team because...

United States Immigration Policy: Motion (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: At least 50 million people died in the Second World War during which entire towns and cities were reduced to rubble and millions of people across Europe and elsewhere were displaced. One of the greatest mass movements of people took place in the aftermath of that conflagration, but from the ashes of that catastrophe, a new international order was built. Under the guiding hand of one...

Address by Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission (21 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: A Cheann Comhairle, a Chathaoirligh, Monsieur le Président, I join others in welcoming President Juncker and his colleagues, Mr. Michel Barnier and Commissioner Hogan, to the House for an important interaction at a crucial juncture in our history. I have a mere four minutes to set out a few ideas on behalf of my party, the Labour Party. When the Irish economy collapsed in 2008, our...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (21 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 168. To ask the Minister for Health the average number of ambulances suitable for an echo or delta response; the number of echo and delta response calls; the number of echo and delta response calls that fall outside of the 18 minutes 59 second response time in each of the past five years by county and NUTS 3 regional basis in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27173/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (21 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the average number of qualified ambulance personnel at each grade; the allocated budget and expenditure of the National Ambulance Service in each of the past five years by county and NUTS 3 regional basis in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27174/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (21 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 170. To ask the Minister for Health if he will identify non-service issues for purposes of raising a parliamentary question in relation to the National Ambulance Service. [27175/18]