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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: All week the House has been convulsed by voting irregularities. There has also been plenty of speculation about the date of the general election. It is nearly a year since the regulatory impact assessment was made of the electoral commission Bill. For some time we have been promised an electoral commission which is to be established by the Government. It is the subject of a commitment in...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Wiill it be introduced in time for the next general election?

Report of the Committee on Procedure on Dáil Divisions: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I welcome the Report of the Committee on Procedure on the Review by the Clerk of Dáil Éireann of Electronic Voting in Dáil Éireann on Thursday 17 October 2019 laid before the House today. I thank the Ceann Comhairle and all of those involved for their speedy conclusions and presentation of those facts. The report clearly and methodically sets out clear facts. It tells...

Report of the Committee on Procedure on Dáil Divisions: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The bottom line is that the Minister said, "Present". He did not say, "and voting". One does not only have to be present, one has to vote.

Report of the Committee on Procedure on Dáil Divisions: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: That is the truth, Simon. From the highest level, both parties went on the offensive, selectively picking issues to throw at one another. Let me be crystal clear for the Minister for Health. The Constitution does not say that one can parse and analyse the present and voting elements.

Report of the Committee on Procedure on Dáil Divisions: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The report presented to the House sets the record straight. The Minister may not have had a chance to read it. Paragraph 8 on page 26 states: During the voting block, Members take the opportunity to speak to Ministers and other colleagues, and are therefore not always in their designated seats when the vote is taking place. As a result, the practice of Members voting on behalf of their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Provision (24 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 163. To ask the Minister for Health if resources will be provided to the oncology unit in Wexford General Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43879/19]

Death of Mr. Gay Byrne: Expressions of Sympathy (5 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Like hundreds of thousands of Irish people at home and abroad, I stopped in my tracks when I heard the news of the passing of Gay Byrne while I was in my constituency office yesterday afternoon. I wondered why it affected all of us to hear that. It is almost like a bereavement in any family. I was trying to think of a precedent and I could not. I thought of the words of the then French...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I welcomed the indication that there was to be a motion on this issue. It is a frustration for everybody in this House. The notion that this is a new type of Dáil with new politics, that resolutions, motions and legislation from the Opposition benches would be welcomed and that everybody would be treated in like manner has not been the fact. I am a member of the Sub-Committee on...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: What are we voting on if there is no motion down for Private Member's business?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: We need to know. Can I suggest the Ceann Comhairle defer-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)

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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Can we defer a decision on Wednesday's business until later?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure last met. [43183/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: It was reported at the weekend that the Government plans to finally sign off on the national broadband plan next week after much delay and at six times the original cost. In response to a recent question in this House, the Taoiseach stated that the delay was due to a challenge by another broadband provider which has apparently contested the maps. The company in question, Imagine, recently...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Seanad Reform (5 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the work of the Seanad reform implementation group and progress on implementing the recommendations. [43187/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (5 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 126. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected yield from increasing VAT on food supplements from 0% to 13.5%; the reason this policy change was not announced or included on the documentation published on budget day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44509/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (5 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 127. To ask the Minister for Finance if his decision to apply VAT to food supplements will be irreversible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44510/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Measures (5 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 128. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures included in the Finance Bill 2019 that will result in additional revenue for the Exchequer in 2020 that were not announced on budget day, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44511/19]