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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Prison Service (29 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: Is the Minister as shocked as I am - maybe I should not be shocked - to discover that some 70% of prisoners in Irish jails have literacy problems? Does she consider that an issue that must be addressed on an integrated way across government? What is she going to do about it?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Prison Service (29 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Minister of State for his response but it focused entirely on the in-prison service, as though everybody looks at the situation in their own silo. It is shocking that so many people who have clearly been failed by the education system end up in prison. What is going to be done about that in a joined-up way? I recall a former prison governor indicating that the vast bulk of the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Prison Service (29 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: It is 70% of prisoners.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Prison Service (29 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I am grateful for the reply of the Minister of State and the focus to which he referred, but his initial response to me and the House focused entirely on the in-prison education system. What I hoped would be focused on, which he indicated he was focused on it while in opposition, is preventing people ending up in prison in the first place. A collaborative effort between the Departments of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (29 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 348. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15769/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (29 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 370. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16043/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (29 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 386. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it will be ensured that a new passport is issued to a person (details supplied) whose original passport was issued from the Irish Embassy, New Delhi, India and subsequent passport issued by the passport office in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16493/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (29 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the earnings threshold for the receipt of SUSI grant in view of the current inflation and the extraordinary increase in the cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16557/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 743. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of his plans to provide locum cover for rural based general practitioners to cover for unavoidable absences; if he is developing a plan to establish a national locum register or regional register of available general practitioners as has been developed to cover absent teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16486/22]

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht), 2022: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: Speaking immediately after her election as Labour Party leader last Thursday, Deputy Bacik said the following: I am committed to Irish neutrality. But I believe our non-aligned status isn’t about opting out. It has to be about opting in: Opting into humanitarian missions, to peacekeeping, to diplomacy, and to the prosecution of war criminals. We are not, and we never have been,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Response to the Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ambassador of Slovakia (23 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the ambassador for his presentation. First, the idea of a model "Lex Ukraine" is one we might have a look at - codifying what refugees are entitled to in a legal framework - because part of the issue we have now is how, in a co-ordinated way, to provide information to people arriving here. I am conscious that in his presentation, the ambassador tells us that 10,000 refugees a day...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Response to the Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ambassador of Slovakia (23 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: How many of the 270,000 are actually staying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Response to the Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ambassador of Slovakia (23 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: The core of my question is as follows. The immediate neighbours have finite capacity. Right now, the biggest burden is on Poland. The ambassador can talk about providing school places, but it is not possible to provide infinite school places for millions of refugees. While I hate the phrase, there will need to be burden sharing - a sharing of welcome across Europe. How can we do that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Response to the Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ambassador of Slovakia (23 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I have a supplementary question for the ambassador that I put to his Georgian and Moldovan colleagues last week because I am interested in the nuances in the differences of approach. It concerns a move towards defence co-operation within the EU, the EU having its own defence capacity and how this would sit with NATO. I discerned last week that there was concern that the defence of Georgia,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Response to the Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ambassador of Slovakia (23 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I understand the diplomacy required. It is a very difficult question to answer. In essence, I am asking whether the ambassador would bet his nation's security on the agreement in question, regardless of who turns out to be the next President of the United States.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Response to the Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ambassador of Slovakia (23 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: That is as far as I am going to get. How does the ambassador envisage the enhancement of EU co-operation walking in parallel with the concept he outlined?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Response to the Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ambassador of Slovakia (23 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: Complementary.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Inspections (5 Apr 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a whole-school evaluation of a school (details supplied), which took place in February 2022, will be made available to the school community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17944/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (5 Apr 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 908. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of private sector and Coillte felling licences, respectively that have been issued on a weekly basis to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17636/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (5 Apr 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 909. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of private sector forest and Coillte forest road licences, respectively that have been issued on a weekly basis to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17637/22]