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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 737. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue on a claim for illness benefit by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37272/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 742. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a claim for illness benefit by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37347/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I begin by expressing my concern and sharing the concerns expressed by other Members about all those who have been adversely affected by the current storm conditions. Hopefully, we will have no more fatalities later in the day. I ask specifically about a programme for Government commitment to have local authorities monitor and benchmark the new vacant site levy legislated for by the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Pardon me.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (20 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It is at this time of year that the Government and individual Ministers start flying kites about what might appear in the budget. One kite floated in the newspapers this week was that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, is considering a capital gains tax break to charge less than half of the regular amount in tax due on the sales or development of vacant property. During the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (20 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Tánaiste is correct that I have experience of the run-up to budgets over time. It is my experience that Ministers do test run proposals to see how they will fly. We all have experience of that. When I see a particular proposal attached to a particular Minister's name, I know what it is, namely, test flying. We need to be clear. If this budget is to be about housing, it cannot...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The introduction of a new entrant pay scale from 1 January 2011 resulted in a two-tier pay system in the public service, which now affects some 60,500 public servants. They are not paid equally for their work and, as we heard yesterday, it is having an impact on recruitment in a variety of areas. Since the publication of the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service's costings, there...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Will it be concluded in advance of the budget, as was committed?

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Council (25 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the British-Irish Council in Guernsey; the meetings he held; and the issues raised. [29006/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee E, health, last met; and when it next plans to meet. [37752/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to the UN and the United States of America; and the meetings he held and groups he met. [30644/18]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It is ten years since Ireland's economic collapse. When the economy collapsed, Ireland's tax base was exposed as fragile and narrow. Ten years ago, tax receipts fell by 30% in one year. This did not happen by accident. For a decade, Fianna Fáil had riddled the tax system with all sorts of tax breaks and bought popularity at budget time by cutting personal taxes to a level far below...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It is a fact.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I welcome the Taoiseach's acknowledgement of the vulnerability of our tax base but all of his actions and all of the kites being flown in recent times undermine that. The Taoiseach spoke about sustainable house prices. There are no sustainable house prices. In many parts of the country, house prices are back to the unaffordable level we had during the boom. The issue is that people's...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Page 103 of the programme for Government says the State will provide a safe haven for refugees. We all applauded the sterling wok of the Naval Service in rescuing distressed families and children in the Mediterranean. The Aquariusvessel has been operating in the Mediterranean rescuing migrants at sea. Médecins sans Frontières and SOS Méditerranée have described the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Does the Taoiseach have a view?

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I am interested in the discussions the Taoiseach has had about the application for Security Council membership. This is an application I and the Labour Party strongly support and we have used our contacts to advance it. In general, has it compromised our ability on the world stage to criticise countries as we look for their votes? The Taoiseach met the secretary general of the Arab League....

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet Committee F, national security, last met; and when it next plans to meet. [37753/18]

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I move "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." In 2013, the House passed the Local Government Reform Bill, which was steered through by Phil Hogan, who was then Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government. My party was in government at that time. Some 80 town councils were abolished, which was a mistake. I personally regret that the Government of which I was a...

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy should talk to the town councillors.