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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (23 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I too acknowledge the work done by our own officials, as well as the Barnier task force. I expressed that directly to Michel Barnier last week. It showed great solidarity with a small member state and its particular needs. On where we go from here, I understand that the Taoiseach has agreed with President Tusk today to an extension to 31 January 2020, in what the Taoiseach has described...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (23 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Does the Taoiseach agree to that?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (23 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the President of the European Council. [41980/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (23 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the European Council on 17 and 18 October 2019. [43182/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (23 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I agree with the Taoiseach concerning the agreement that was reached last week, in that the best is often the enemy of the good. Most of us would acknowledge that the agreed deal is a poorer one than what was offered in Prime Minister Theresa May's deal. As others have pointed out, the clear signal from Prime Minister Boris Johnson - the Taoiseach might not have picked up on it, but it is...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (23 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Whatever it will be called, I am referring to a new funded PEACE arrangement that will finance activities on both sides of the Border.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (23 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: That is the point I was making.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: There are dark clouds on the horizon, some of which I mentioned this morning. The United States has placed €6.8 billion worth of tariffs on European trade that will directly affect our exports. The United States is also engaged in a trade war with China that affects the global supply of components for manufacturing, with knock-on effects for manufacturing in Ireland. Most countries,...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: It is a different issue. The British Parliament has allowed the legislation to be debated and it is quite clear that some Members of Parliament did so with the intention of making fundamental amendments to the agreement. What will happen if the Brexit legislation is seriously challenged? We should urge the EU to continue to avoid a hard Brexit by giving sufficient time, whatever time...

Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I hope the clock is stopped.

Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: A well-regulated market economy requires a strong regulator and a genuine competition among multiple enterprises. When it comes to network infrastructure, whether an electricity grid or, in this case, a network of fibre optic cables, it is often not possible to have multiple competing firms. It is simply prohibitively expensive and patently inefficient to have two overlapping networks....

Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: That is rubbish.

Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Does the Minister accept the competition collapsed as a result?

Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The competition collapsed as a result.

Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I would say that.

Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Or privatising Eircom.

Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: It certainly is.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: A Cheann Comhairle, I welcome the strength and earnestness of your comments on voting in this House. We know we now need to act to address the genuine concerns of the general public. There is near unanimity in this House that from an Irish perspective, there is no such thing as a good Brexit. However, there are bad Brexits and worse Brexits. In recent weeks, there was a genuine fear...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: We agreed in this House that the core issue - and Deputies from all of the benches gave incredible solidarity to the Government - was maintaining a borderless island. As the Tánaiste indicated, all trade, including animal trade, between North and South is protected. That does not, however, include east-west trade, which is the bulk of our trade. That is, or should be, a core issue for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: We all agree on that. I was referring to the future of east-west relations.