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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (16 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 167. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue paid in each of the past five years as a result of the CGT exit tax rate of 33%; the number of companies it applied to as previously provided for in sections 627 and 628 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997; the estimated revenue which would be raised if the new regime was applied at 33% rather than 12.5%; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget Measures (16 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 192. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the projected additional carry-over cost in 2020 of the spending measures introduced in budget 2019; the cost by measure and Department in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42273/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 622. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42036/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (16 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 626. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for illness benefit by a person (details supplied); when payment will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42188/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: For a year we have been awaiting Government legislation to protect tenants and to beef up the Residential Tenancies Board. The latest move from landlords is to charge non-refundable so-called viewing fees; we have actually drafted a Bill to deal with that practice. Rent pressure zones have been in place for nearly two years, but we are still waiting on laws to allow the Residential...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: When?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (17 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 225. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for illness benefit by a person (details supplied); when payment will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42671/18]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: For weeks now there has been a chaotic breakdown in the delivery of illness benefit by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. My colleagues in the Oireachtas and in local authorities across the country have shared information with me about a succession of very challenging cases. People have been left for weeks without payment. This morning, a Labour Party councillor in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Tánaiste tells me what is needed; the Government and the Department should be doing it. We are talking about working people who are paying PRSI. When they are ill, awaiting an operation or injured, they expect the insurance system into which they have paid to provide what they are entitled to, yet that is not happening as the system has collapsed. It has not been happening for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: That is no good. It is a case of live horse, get grass.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Second Stage of the Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill was passed last month with broad cross-party support. Obviously the Bill is time sensitive as the local elections are due in May 2019. It has been referred to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government, but for very obvious reasons that committee is focused very largely on housing and the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It will never be reached.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (23 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff employed in the Government Information Service. [41074/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B, social policy and public services, last met. [41076/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (23 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 230. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to alter the VAT regime on health supplements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43963/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (23 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 630. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a review of the decision to refuse their application for a domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43333/18]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: On Friday, the people will be asked to remove the offence of blasphemy from the Constitution as recommended by the Constitutional Convention. We should remove blasphemy from the Constitution. We should also strengthen the legislation to prohibit religious hatred. The Labour Party introduced the original equality legislation that outlawed discrimination on the basis of religion. We have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Taoiseach for his response. Everybody in the House recognises the importance of religious freedom. Everybody should have freedom of conscience to believe what they want and to express views on it as long as it does not incite hatred. We have laws about incitement to hatred, which can be strengthened, but we need to take the dated concept of blasphemy out of our fundamental law...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: At the weekend, theSunday Times reported that 22 cases of pregnant women being sacked or discriminated against by employers heard before the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, so far this year. Those 22 cases are only the ones that have made it to the WRC. In one case, the adjudicating officer of the WRC expressed frustration at not being able to award a substantial sum to the woman who...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): EU Meetings (24 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the informal summit of EU leaders in Salzburg; the leaders he met with; and the issues discussed. [38627/18]