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Government's Brexit Preparedness: Statements (17 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I have no confidence that a strategic view has been taken on Ireland’s infrastructural needs in terms of Cork, Shannon and Rosslare. The strategy on Brexit was published on 19 December and stated the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport was engaging with ferry companies to maintain, develop and enhance strategic links to continental Europe. The day before it was published, Irish...

Government's Brexit Preparedness: Statements (17 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The 19 December document has no detail.

Government's Brexit Preparedness: Statements (17 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Do we have the drivers?

Government's Brexit Preparedness: Statements (17 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I have questions on three issues. We have all danced around political sensitivity but I hope there will be direct answers because we need them at this stage. What will the Government do to secure the Single Market at the Border in the event of a no-deal Brexit, when the two jurisdictions on the island of Ireland will be in separate customs territories? There must be some discussions about...

Government's Brexit Preparedness: Statements (17 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: What about the British House of Commons?

Government's Brexit Preparedness: Statements (17 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: What about the common travel area, CTA?

Government's Brexit Preparedness: Statements (17 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I asked the Tánaiste what his views are.

Government's Brexit Preparedness: Statements (17 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Are the other 27 content with that?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (17 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 259. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a review of means in relation to an application for disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2232/19]

Ráitis ó Cheannairí na bPáirtithe agus na nGrúpaí - Statements from Party and Group Leaders (21 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Is pribhléid dom, mar cheannaire Pháirtí an Lucht Oibre, labhairt anseo inniu. Ireland is one of only a handful of countries that have sustained a democratically elected Parliament, uninterrupted, for a century. I am proud of the role that Labour has played to improve the lives of working people, from the very outset of the First Dáil through to the present day. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: National inquiries are sometimes necessary to get to the bottom of wrongdoing. As well as being painfully slow, they can be cold processes as they plough through mountains of documentation and testimonies. The original Tuam babies inquiry was meant to last three years. Then it was four. Now we understand it will take five years to complete. Those affected by the scandal are frustrated...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I always do.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: How is it that this new volume of documents has suddenly come to light four years into the inquiry and has now been submitted by the Department of Health? Has the Taoiseach asked why that would be? Everybody was asked to provide every document from the beginning. This is not the first inquiry where this tardiness, to put it at its kindest, has come to light. I ask the Taoiseach not to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Why the tardiness in getting this done?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Is it not leaders first?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The programme for Government pledges support for credit unions. A key issue for credit unions is the development of a special purpose vehicle, SPV, to allow them to invest some of the €17 billion in assets in lending for social housing which is urgently needed. Apparently, this long promised special vehicle should be ready by the first quarter of this year. It was previously...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee G, justice and equality, last met; and when it will next meet. [53037/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Has the Cabinet committee discussed the implementation of the new legislation on drink-driving? Despite what has gone on previously, I will venture into that area. Does the Taoiseach agree with the view expressed by the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, in writing in one of the national newspapers last weekend that Ministers who criticised the drink-driving legislation...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Does the Taoiseach agree with what Deputy Ross stated regarding the Ministers who criticised the legislation?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I do not agree.