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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (8 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 1508. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount issued annually over the past five years in compensation for malicious damage to property under the compensation scheme established under the Malicious Injuries Act 1981 and the Malicious Injuries (Amendment) Act 1986; the amount paid out annually over the past five years that specifically relates to compensation...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 1595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will publish the review by a person (details supplied) into certain planning matters in respect of Donegal County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20062/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: It was a very long response.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The Tánaiste will recall that it is many years since we had the first ban on smoky coal and a clean air strategy that affects many of our towns. We were promised a national clean air strategy to enforce a national ban on bituminous coal. For some reason that I cannot get my head around, the current Government has decided to delay that. My questions are very direct and simple. When...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: What of the national clean air strategy?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Has the Minister set a date for publication?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (9 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 170. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the impact of the total contributions approach introduced in 2018 as a result of anomalies due to changes in legislation in 2012, particularly on pensioners born prior to the cut-off date introduced, will be reviewed; her plans to amend the cut-off date to include a wider group of pensioners that may have been adversely...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: We own the motorways.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Is the Department wrong?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: After the withering criticism of the Government's broadband plan, Ministers, including the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, have called on other parties to explain their proposals for rural broadband. The Labour Party is fully committed to a comprehensive delivery of broadband to every home and business in the country as, I believe, is every other party. That goes without needing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach makes a compelling case against the folly of the privatisation of Telecom Éireann all those years ago. It was a disaster. The point I am making is that instead of learning from that disaster the Government proposes to do the same thing in that it proposes to privatise the next generation of telecommunications. The Taoiseach is right that we had to test the market in the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Not without a massive subsidy. It is not a commercial entity.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: This is a mess.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: In the spirit of new politics and harmonious relations between Government and Opposition, I acknowledge that the Government will progress the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017 that passed Second Stage here in January 2018. I also welcome the fact that the Cabinet has now approved a number of amendments to that Bill and will present them to the House. I am...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C (European Union including Brexit) last met. [16384/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the European Council on 10 April 2019. [17715/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent telephone conversations with EU heads of government as indicated in his statement in advance of the special European Council of 9 April 2019. [17716/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Yesterday, the Tánaiste implied that a change of British Prime Minister would not end the Brexit deadlock. He said this is not about personalities, but about facts and the complexities of Brexit. Unfortunately, we have seen the complete disregard for facts by some of the key figures throughout the Brexit saga and indeed from the initial referendum. Events are now moving at a fast and...