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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Without people knowing what they will do.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I am not interested in rewriting history or the rules of collective Cabinet responsibility; rather, I am interested in addressing the issues of today. It well suited the Taoiseach to take the credit for the progress made when he was sitting at the Cabinet table with us. Let me put to him the issues for which he is now responsible in a recovering economy, not one that is in freefall. We...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: In the last year, there have been calls from media organisations for a review of and changes to the defamation laws in Ireland. I understand that the Department of Justice and Equality opened a review of the Defamation Act 2009 in November 2016 with an invitation for submissions. More than two years later, can it be clarified if the report on that review has been completed? Has it been...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Deputies cannot call other Deputies liars.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Data (5 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I am interested in the issue of branding because it seems that anything that is good or perceived to be good is delivered by the Government but I have noticed that all the very strong radio and television advertisements demanding people pay their TV licence or face jail are a matter for the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment. Is it only good things that result from...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): British-Irish Council (5 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It is not surprising that Brexit was the main topic of conversation and the main focus of the discussion. Since June 2016, the British Parliament has been deadlocked on the question of Brexit. After two and a half years of wrangling, we still have no solution that we believe will command a majority at Westminster. Despite the wishes of most Members of this House, there is a growing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (5 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 193. To ask the Minister for Health if he has allocated moneys to a body (details supplied); his views on whether this representative body should receive State funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51072/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (6 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 258. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an illness benefit claim by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51310/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (6 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 259. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an illness benefit claim by a person (details supplied) will go back into payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51311/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Applications (6 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 260. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a working family payment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51312/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meetings with church leaders. [51852/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I agree with the questions which have been posed so far about the new National Maternity Hospital. The Taoiseach talked about the visit of the Pope. There was an interaction during that visit when the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs presented the Pope with a letter. I understand there was follow-on communication. Was there ever a response from the Vatican to that correspondence,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: We will need only a few minutes to deal with the final question, so we could take some of the time allocated to it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I remember well my visit to Holles Street hospital as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, following which I had discussions on the new national maternity hospital with the then Minister for Health, James Reilly, because I allocated the money for it. There was an understanding between us that the hospital would be a national maternity hospital built on a co-located site but totally...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee A on the economy last met; and when it plans to meet next. [51853/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I have two questions. The first concerns the worrying aspect of the recent inability of the Department of Finance to predict corporation taxes accurately. Will the Taoiseach indicate if there has been any analysis on this? France has announced recently that regardless of any European agreement it is going to introduce its own digital tax. This is likely to be followed by a number of other...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The question is "Is it true?"

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: We might be better than Kazakhstan.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It is the pensioners who will be worse off.