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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: What is meant by the phrase "the intent has not changed"?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: He is in Croatia.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Even the best laid plans can go awry and yesterday's publicity stunt did not work as well as anticipated. However, I wish to raise a different issue. There is good news today in a report showing that the percentage of smokers in Ireland has fallen from 23% to 17%. However, obesity levels are among the highest in Europe, at 60% of the population. Smoking rates are highest among young...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 102. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No.150 of 12 November 2019, if the question of the clear unfair anomaly between former public servants taking up employment again in the public sector against those that take up employment in the private sector will be addressed; his views on whether it is a positive disincentive for such persons,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (21 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 135. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the reduction in available service hours at a centre (details supplied) for persons with an intellectual disability; if sufficient funds will be provided to ensure full service is supplied to clients of the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48351/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Disability Allowance Applications (21 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 240. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48330/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Well-established democracies around the world are struggling to deal with the issue of fake news. Part of the problem is that online political advertisements that are misleading or malicious can be purchased on social media platforms by third parties and targeted at specific audiences to maximise the damage that such misinformation can cause. In December 2017, following consideration of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: We have no commitment from the Taoiseach that it will be done in time for the next election. Is that his ambition at least? I am genuinely concerned about the open use of racist, sexist and other bigoted language on social media by fringe political groups and movements. I had a conversation with somebody who is regulating that for one of the platforms and he told me one would be shocked...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: On a number of occasions, I and my Labour Party colleagues have argued in favour of allowing Permanent Defence Forces Representative Association, PDFORRA and representatives of the Defence Forces to have rights similar to trade unions, including membership of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, which has agreed in principle to accept PDFORRA as a member. This would bring Ireland into line...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Enhancement Programme (26 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Dublin inner city forum. [47362/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Enhancement Programme (26 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Further to the comments by a range of Deputies during questions on the Order of Business, it is clear that the Government has failed to address the causes of crime. When one looks at the areas of crime and drug abuse not just in Dublin's inner city but across the country, there is a familiar pattern of economic and social disadvantage in the areas that are suffering the greatest problems....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (26 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he has responded to the open letter seeking dialogue on the constitutional future of island of Ireland. [47363/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (26 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Earlier this month, the civic nationalist group known as Ireland's Future wrote yet another open letter calling on the Government to establish a citizens' assembly to look at building broad support for a united Ireland. I have raised this issue since I became leader of the Labour Party because I believe it is important that we have a mechanism akin to the New Ireland Forum that does not set...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Garda Reform (26 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [46453/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Garda Reform (26 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: At the beginning of this year, it was reported that Ireland had one of the lowest police-to-population ratios in Europe. The average ratio across the EU 28 was 318 police officers per 100,000 inhabitants while in Ireland, that figure was 278 gardaí per 100,000 inhabitants. This definition does not take account the number of civilian staff who are not directly involved in police work...

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

Brendan Howlin: There have been seven murders in north Dublin in recent months. Four of these killings were of men aged 22 or 23, including the latest murder. One of the 22 year olds was shot in the head by a gunman as he was pushing his baby son in a buggy. Some of these young men were not believed to have been involved in gangs, except that they owed them money. Alongside the murders, there has been...

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

Brendan Howlin: I welcome the Taoiseach's openness to consider it. When the original north inner city task force was established, it was to see how we could have an integrated template to make a substantial permanent difference in a particular community, but it was not understood then that it was going to be a once-off initiative. I pointed out yesterday there are seven areas in this city where...

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

Brendan Howlin: The Government reduced its recruitment target.

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

Brendan Howlin: Nobody else has either.

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

Brendan Howlin: It is all right then; is it?