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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (16 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 424. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the nine local authority housing units approved for construction in Baile Eoghain, Gorey, County Wexford, in May 2015 have finished construction; if so, their completion date; the final number of units delivered; the total cost of the project; if the development was officially opened by a Minister; if so, when that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (16 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 425. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the ten local authority housing units approved for construction in Killeens, County Wexford, in May 2015 have finished construction; if so, their completion date; the final number of units delivered; the total cost of the project; if the development was officially opened by a Minister; if so, when that happened; if not,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (16 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 426. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the eight local authority housing units approved for construction in Cherry Orchard, Enniscorthy, County Wexford, in January 2016 have finished construction; if so, their completion date; the final number of units delivered; the total cost of the project; if the development was officially opened by a Minister; if so, when...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (16 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 483. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made by the International Protection Appeals Tribunal on an application from a person (details supplied) who arrived in Ireland in July 2021, who is a Somali national and who has endured great hardship in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22400/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of Moldova: Engagement with Ambassador of Moldova (24 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I am not Deputy Ó Murchú, despite what the sign says. I thank the ambassador. It is an important signal that she is accompanied by her brother and sister ambassadors.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of Moldova: Engagement with Ambassador of Moldova (24 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: It is an act of union-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of Moldova: Engagement with Ambassador of Moldova (24 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Is Moldova still importing electricity from Transnistria?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of Moldova: Engagement with Ambassador of Moldova (24 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: It is importing and paying for it. What percentage of Moldova's electricity demand is that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of Moldova: Engagement with Ambassador of Moldova (24 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Can I correct myself if I may? I misspoke when I said that Moldova is importing from Transnistria. A country cannot import from itself. I apologise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of Moldova: Engagement with Ambassador of Moldova (24 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: -----and solidarity that is appreciated and understood by us, in that everyone wants to be in lockstep. I was one of the Deputies who was privileged to visit Moldova, to be well briefed in Chiinãu about exactly what was happening and to see it at first hand. I have a couple of questions. Regarding energy, we saw Transnistria while we were there and it was clear to us that the Russians...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 438. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene to ensure an early appointment with the outpatient ENT Clinic in Waterford University Hospital for a child (details supplied) who has been told that the waiting time for an appointment is up to four years, and whose hearing is significantly disimproving; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23700/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (18 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 442. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out the current situation concerning the new home care tender process; if he and Minister Butler have met with representatives of an organisation (details supplied) to address this issue; the matters that remain to be resolved in finalising the tender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23737/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (18 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 444. To ask the Minister for Health when the pandemic payment will be paid to clerical staff who worked in the Enniscorthy vaccination centre during the pandemic who met with thousands of members of the general public as they received their vaccinations, and who were contracted by a private contractor (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23740/23]

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this really important motion on this really important issue that unites this House. There is no division across the House regarding the need. We need, however, to reflect on exactly what we are talking about. We have a very unusual health system in this country. It grew up through voluntary provision, often by religious orders. The State has been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: That is British Tory Party thinking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ratification of Agreement Establishing EU-LAC Foundation: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (31 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Minister of State for the presentation. I have a couple of questions. The first is a procedural one. There are only two countries – ourselves and Bulgaria – that have not ratified. I am afraid it is invariably the case that the Oireachtas is always late being asked by line Departments. I have had that out with the Department of Justice consistently. In the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ratification of Agreement Establishing EU-LAC Foundation: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (31 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: We do not necessarily have to be the last always though.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ratification of Agreement Establishing EU-LAC Foundation: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (31 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I also want to amplify the cultural links because it is a very important point that we have not really exploited. As I said in my initial remarks, we have not had much focus on Latin America. Our links with that part of the world are deep. I met a Ricardo Howlin, who spoke only Spanish, at a reception in Buenos Aires. My name is almost exclusively from Wexford. The few stray Howlins are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ratification of Agreement Establishing EU-LAC Foundation: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (31 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: All of them? Where are they now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ratification of Agreement Establishing EU-LAC Foundation: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (31 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: So we are moving farther away?