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- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Jul 2018)
Brendan Howlin: As we speak, the British Prime Minister is flying to Berlin to persuade Angela Merkel not to dismiss out of hand what we expect to emerge from the discussion of the British Cabinet tomorrow, which is a hybrid of the two previous ideas - an emphasis on non-existent new technology and some aspects of a customs partnership. Let us be clear. The bulletproof arrangement that we understood to be...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Jul 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Is the Tánaiste telling us he is optimistic?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Jul 2018)
Brendan Howlin: It should be half an hour.
- Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: First Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to restore town councils for the purposes of local government, and to provide for related matters. The town council tier of local government was abolished by the previous Administration, of which I was a member, and it was a mistake. I acknowledged that while we were in government and I made a speech to the Labour Party at...
- Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: First Stage (5 Jul 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2018)
Brendan Howlin: We all welcome the fact that, after two years negotiating among themselves, we finally have before us a document that outlines a future EU-UK relationship. It is useful that we have something with which to engage, although it remains to be seen whether it will continue to be the settled position of the British Government once the more detailed White Paper is published in a few days' time, or...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Why?
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I never thought I would say that the UK Government is making this country's Government look positively stable.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I caution the Taoiseach against seeking a mandate for a strong and stable Government because it has not worked out so well for his counterpart across the water. I want to say clearly and passionately that I genuinely believe, on the basis of all the contacts and discussions I have had with my British colleagues, that if there is a deadline of September for a settlement on the backstop issue,...
- Order of Business (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Brendan Howlin: On No. 16, the motion on the report of the Joint Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport under Standing Order 114, my party does not have a member on the committee and the report is not online this morning in order for us to know exactly what we are doing. This is a European procedure. If a number of national parliaments agree to it, it can actually block a regulation. It is a rather...
- Order of Business (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Last year, the then Minister for Justice and Equality said the coroners (amendment) Bill was the absolute priority for the Government and it is on the Government priority list. The Bill will introduce mandatory reporting, post mortem examination and inquests in cases of maternal death, as Deputy Clare Daly has sought for some time in her Private Members' Bill. There have been repeated...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)
Brendan Howlin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the actions taken to strengthen Cabinet accountability as outlined in A Programme for a Partnership Government; and if a report will be published on the outcome of the examination of the role of Ministers of State. [29005/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)
Brendan Howlin: In the programme for Government there is a reference to strengthening Cabinet accountability, stating the Government will support an enhanced approach by Ministers of State playing a more substantive role in decision-making. Will the Taoiseach explain exactly how that has been achieved? The document also indicates the Government will consider the creation of unpaid parliamentary private...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The law was changed.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)
Brendan Howlin: No, the Ministers are fixed by the Constitution but Ministers of State are fixed by law. Is the law still that 21 are allowed but there are just 19? Did we change the law? I cannot remember.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Have they all written statutory responsibility? Is there a delegation order for each of them? The Taoiseach might circulate that to see exactly what specific role each of the 19 Ministers of State has.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy is part of the Government.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Not too many.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)
Brendan Howlin: They chair committees.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)
Brendan Howlin: We should allow the Taoiseach another minute because he was asked two further questions.