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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: From where is it coming?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Anseo.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I join Deputies in wishing our four departing colleagues every success in their new roles in the European Parliament. I wish our Seanad colleague, Senator Grace O'Sullivan, similar success in the important work she will now be undertaking. Eir has claimed that it can deliver rural broadband for approximately €1 billion, one third of the Government's current cost outline. I...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: We need the Minister's microphone switched on.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: There was just one bidder at the time.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Is the Government open to having a look?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Does the Minister have a fixed view?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: That does not sound like an openness to explore.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: It does not sound like it.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (27 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 244. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27277/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (27 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 246. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has not received payment of an illness benefit claim even though the person received confirmation of being awarded illness benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27309/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Not all leaders.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The Government has extended its rent pressure zones to another 19 areas in 11 counties. However, the policy is not working because the Government's limit of a 4% annual rise in rent is far too high. I said that when this was first introduced and it is still the case. The Government is engaged in Celtic tiger economics. It is totally removed from the reality facing most working people in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Four per cent.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Of course supply is the issue and we need more houses. In the meantime, we cannot throw people out of the rented accommodation sector by virtue of unaffordable rents, which is what the Government is doing. The Government wants us to applaud the extension to 19 areas of a cap of 4% on increases in rent at a time when people’s wages are increasing by less than half of that. How can...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The Government is giving landlords twice the rate that the ECB considers appropriate.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Is the idea that landlords will keep jacking up rents?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: We must attract more landlords.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The Government is pushing people into homelessness.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: On the same issue, I am not satisfied to simply have statements on this matter because Members come in, make a statement and that is that. This is an important issue. Deputy Micheál Martin referred to the extent of deforestation. Some 8,000 sq. km of rainforest were destroyed last year alone. That is an area the size of County Cork. These are fundamental issues if we are serious...