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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (8 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 341. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a vessel from the UK and Northern Ireland needs to hold an allocation of mussel seed given by him to an aquaculture site here in order to fish legally under the Sea Fisheries (Amendment) Act 2019; if such a vessel will be permitted to fish an allocation of mussel seed given to it by an authority in Northern Ireland in the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (8 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 342. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a vessel from the UK and Northern Ireland will be permitted to fish an allocation of mussel seed given to it by an authority in another part of the UK such as Wales to fish mussel seed in the territorial waters of the State under the Sea Fisheries (Amendment) Act 2019; if a fishing vessel owned by a Welsh company will meet the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (8 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 343. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the basis for an effective pooling of the mussel seed resource of the State in a system of joint management with a state that has no mussel seed resource in relation to a judgment (details supplied); the basis in law for a process which facilitates alienation of Irish mussel seed resource to the benefit of aquaculture sites in the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Vessel Licences (8 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 344. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the definition of the term owned and operated in Northern Ireland in relation to fishing vessels; the way in which is it defined in Irish law; if the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority and the Naval Service will take responsibility to ensure foreign vessels are licensed in accordance with EU regulations as adopted by the control...

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

Brendan Howlin: It should be no surprise to the Taoiseach - I am sure it is not - that the Labour Party and Fine Gael have very different approaches to the economy. It turns out that Labour is better at managing the public finances and protecting the most vulnerable. Several commentators who are no friends of Labour described yesterday's budget as worse austerity than anything done during the period of...

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

Brendan Howlin: With that response and with one minute, it is very hard to know where to start. That was a-----

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

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach is becoming more like Donald Trump every day, being detached from reality. I want to make a few very clear points. The document the Taoiseach is holding up, Building an Equal Society: Labour's Alternative Budget 2020, which I am very glad he has read, is built on the figures presented by the Department of Finance. Unless the Taoiseach is suggesting they are completely...

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

Brendan Howlin: That will be a great comfort to people trying to pay their bills next year.

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

Brendan Howlin: Back again.

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

Brendan Howlin: It depends on how it is measured.

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

Brendan Howlin: As I have indicated previously, clearly the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection has had little influence on the budget. She said yesterday that she wanted to defer raising the minimum wage as recommended by the Low Pay Commission until late 2020 or not at all in the event of a no-deal Brexit. That is bad economics. Research from the IMF and countless other economic...

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

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach cannot argue both ways. If raising the minimum wage has no impact on employment, he cannot argue that he must not do it to protect employment. That does not make sense to me. In what he sets out in response to this and my previous question, he says the budget announced yesterday was a Brexit budget intended to Brexit-proof the nation. Rightly, significant sums of money have...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I will share time with Deputy Sherlock. Before I get into the body of my remarks on the budget, as I wished to respond to the invitation offered by the Taoiseach during Leaders' Questions to read the Low Pay Commission report in detail, I went out to see if I could do so, but it has not been published. I, therefore, ask the Taoiseach to facilitate its publication in order that we can...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Among the budget documentation released by the Government this week was a report by the OECD on equality budgeting in Ireland. The three recommendations in the report were that we should develop a set of national equality goals and indicators as a performance budgeting framework; that we should expand equality budgeting beyond performance measurements to link to other policies, such as...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: It has been 18 months.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: This week several housing experts have raised serious questions about the Government's Land Development Agency and have, in effect, characterised it as a land privatisation agency. The agency will have sweeping powers outside of direct Government control and will have an unmistakably commercial remit akin to that of speculative developers, according to one expert, with building work...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Will it be subject to FOI?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: What about FOI?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (15 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with church leaders on 4 July 2019. [37446/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (15 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: At the Kennedy Summer School, which was held in my constituency last month, the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Archbishop Eamon Martin, spoke of Catholic politicians. Specifically, he spoke of Catholic politicians having a responsibility to support laws which uphold the dignity of every human person made in God's image from conception to death, and cautioned against politicians...