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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (13 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 206. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for a disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24636/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I want to return to the strike by health support workers. Some 10,000 health support workers are due to take industrial action next Thursday. Their trade union, SIPTU, has worked patiently for years through the industrial relations machinery of the State, as the Taoiseach has said. The workers' employer is the HSE, which willingly took part in the public service stability agreement and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach will accept that I know something about the Lansdowne Road agreement. The re-evaluation process was to be held before the economic crisis. By agreement, those matters were put into abeyance until such time as we again had the capacity to pay. With the forbearance and agreement of the unions and the workers in the health service, there was a clear understanding that once the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: It would be about a week's overrun in the context of the capital budget.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Honouring an agreement is not a breach of anything.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: But the Government is not doing it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I seek an update from the Minister for Justice and Equality. The Department has been working with me on the online harassment, cyberbulling and related offences Bill. There has been more discussion about the Bill because other cases of online harassment have come to light. There is certainly agreement on the urgency of getting it enacted. It was our common objective to have the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: That was not on the same issue as Deputy Brassil's question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Scottish First Minister, Ms Nicola Sturgeon. [24100/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: It was surprising that the issue of Rockall was not raised during the recent meeting between the Taoiseach and the First Minister of Scotland. Was the Taoiseach briefed on this issue in advance? Was he aware of the Scottish position on Rockall and their efforts to raise it with the Government in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum? We know that there were extensive discussions on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the President of the United States of America, Mr. Donald Trump. [24099/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I do not know whether diplomats in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade were deployed to draft the Taoiseach's reply. Anybody listening to President Trump, as I was, would have been completely taken aback at the total lack of knowledge displayed at his meeting with the Taoiseach at Shannon Airport. His comments about a hard Brexit and its impact on the Border were shockingly...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach can tweet them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: We can see that the Taoiseach is having a great effect on him.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the proposals for a Citizens' Assembly on a Dublin mayor. [24991/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 53. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contact he has had with the Chinese Government on the proposed extradition law being introduced in Hong Kong; his views on the way in which this may damage democratic rule in the city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25220/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Data (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 54. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the volume of imports and exports likely to be disrupted by a disorderly Brexit on 31 October 2019; and the projection of the likely effect of same on economic output and employment. [25218/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 569. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has received correspondence from a person (details supplied); her views on the opinion expressed that the childcare industry is at breaking point; her further views on the points set out in the correspondence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25249/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: That sounds like an election.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: One of the clear indications of Catholic influence on the new Irish Free State was the establishment in 1926 of the Committee on Evil Literature. It led to the Censorship of Publications Act 1929. Over the course of the following decades, many works of literature were banned, as were manuals on reproductive and sexual health. Works by Frank O'Connor, Brendan Behan and Edna O'Brien were...