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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Budget 2023 (17 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 260. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will set out the amount allocated in Budget 2023 to update ICT in her Department; the amounts to be allocated to updating the digitalisation needs relating to asylum, migration or border controls including Eurodac, SIS and VIS; if she will set out the expenditure on these issues in 2022; and if she will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: Is there a prospect of renegotiation? The settlement that emerged after the Brexit vote was the hardest form of Brexit because of the unique political dynamic of the House of Commons at the time. Is there any prospect that a more pragmatic trade approach would open discussions again? I am not talking about undoing Brexit but opening the terms of Brexit again. Is that possible?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I thank all the witnesses for the written papers they submitted. They were optimistic in their presentations and perhaps they have to be. Politicians also try to be optimistic but I am afraid I am a little more sanguine on a number of issues. Across the political divide here, Brexit was regarded as a bad idea and the protocol was the best negotiated device we could make to deal with the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disaster Response (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions that he has taken to date at the EU, UN or directly to address the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Somalia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57817/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disaster Response (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: The scale of the unfolding hunger crisis in Somalia and in its neighbours in the Horn of Africa is truly shocking. It clearly demands an urgent and comprehensive international response. My question is simply to ask the Minister to set out what that response is.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disaster Response (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: Few of us who witnessed it at the time will forget the visit of then President Mary Robinson to Somalia in 1992. After three days of visiting camps and meeting starving people, she broke down and wept at a press conference in neighbouring Kenya. People will remember that. Thirty years later it is happening again, only on an even greater scale. In a year of unprecedented hunger,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disaster Response (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I warmly welcome the Government's focus on these matters. Both the Minister of State, Deputy Brophy, and the Minister, Deputy Coveney, have a clear focus on the issue of hunger. Ireland has championed, with the United States, hunger at the United Nations as an absolute priority but now 22 million people face starvation in the Horn of Africa. There is an immediate issue that needs to be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 80. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions that he has taken to date to protest at the suppression and violence being perpetrated on peaceful protestors in Iran; if he has summoned the Iranian ambassador to personally set out Ireland's abhorrence of these actions; the additional sanctions that Ireland is supporting or has proposed; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: Despite my longevity in this House, I am always confused about how questions are grouped. My question, Question No. 91, which was not in the previous group, deals specifically with LGBT rights for visitors to the World Cup in Qatar, yet it was not encompassed in that group.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: Is it?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: How these things happen confuses me. I will move on to the questions. A number of Deputies have raised the issue of Iran. It was dealt with previously. It merits considerable focus in this House. Most of us are-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: Exactly. We have time to tease out exactly what is happening in Iran and the information being circulated by the Iranian ambassador here, which many of us will have received, and the ongoing struggle, as the Minister said, of young people and women in taking a stand against oppression. I am interested in the Minister's view.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I think this House should praise, without question, the bravery of Iran's national soccer team yesterday. While others did not take a stand, they risked their safety by taking a clear stand against their own government yesterday on a fundamental issue. The Irish Times reports that at least 58 Iranian children have been killed since the anti-regime protests began, following the death in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister is right in his contention no reasonable person would say the death of a nine-year-old or the deaths of 58 children could in any way be justified by the restoration of order. The Minister has told us, basically, that in that interaction with the ambassador, he was told falsehoods. That is very worrying. Has the Minister summoned him back since to ask him to correct and give...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Sector Pensions (15 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 599. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has had any discussions with Coillte Ltd. in relation to the pension situation of former Coillte workers who have not received a pension increase since 2007; if his attention has been drawn to reports that workers who transferred to Coillte from the Civil Service were assured that their terms and conditions as civil servants...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (24 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the agreements reached between the Irish and UK governments post-Brexit provide that Irish students wishing to study at postgraduate level in the UK pay the same fees as British students; if such students are eligible for maintenance grants under the Irish student grants scheme; if students undertaking distance-learning postgraduate courses...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the actions taken to date by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in relation to the holding of Assembly elections in Northern Ireland; the discussions that he has held with parties with a view to restoring a functioning Assembly and Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57821/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Sports Events (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 91. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made any public statement or had any communication with Qatar authorities regarding LGBTQ+ rights for visitors to the World Cup games underway at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57820/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline Ireland's remaining priorities before the end of its term on the UN Security Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57822/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 120. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will set out the totality of supports in money and material given to support Ukraine to date; if Ireland has offered or provided any additional financial or technical assistance to Ukraine in restoring its damaged power, heating and water systems following Russia's recent targeted attacks on that infrastructure; and if he will make...