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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: When will it get to the General Affairs Council? That is the point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: There is one question under any other business. In our private session, I had contacted the clerk about inviting in the ambassador of Armenia. The Cathaoirleach referenced it but I did not get a timescale on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: The Armenians would certainly regard themselves as European but there we are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Will we invite the Armenian ambassador to speak to the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: We have invited the Georgian ambassador.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Very good.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (10 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 49. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence following the successful operation of the Joint Task Force in interdicting a huge drugs consignment off the Irish coast, and acknowledging the importance of having members of An Garda Síochána and the Revenue Commissioners on secondment to the Maritime Operations Centre in Lisbon, if it is intended that an Irish naval officer would...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 315. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the ceasing of the payment of the State pension to a person (details supplied) who suffers from dementia and did not respond to questions posed by her Department due to the condition; if she accepts that the questions asked have now been responded to; if she acknowledges that any delay in restoring this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (10 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 563. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that there are an estimated 3,000 trained nurses from India and the Philippines currently working in Ireland; if he plans to allow those who wish to have their nursing qualifications recognised by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland and those who need additional language training to progress to recognition as nurses; and if he will...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Motion (18 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: They can be moved later.

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Deputy Bacik will take the last two minutes of my time. We have witnessed a level of ongoing savagery and brutality in Israel and Palestine in the past two weeks that has shocked the world. The savage attack on Israeli men, women and children on 7 October and the taking of 250 hostages by Hamas are inexcusable and deplorable. The response by Israel, in the bombardment of Gaza, the levelling...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that an additional needs class is provided for a school (details supplied) for the 2024/2025 school year, that this class has been sanctioned and funded by the NCSE but has yet to be opened; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44634/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will set out the additional supports her Department will provide to a school (details supplied) which is in an area of obvious economic and educational poverty; if there are any other supports available to this school other than rural DEIS status; the reason this status is of less support than the urban DEIS band 1 status; if she is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: What questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I think there is such a myriad of individual programmes and schemes that the vast bulk of people really do not know about them. My concern has always been that it will become a specialist area. There are people who throw out acronyms that blind most people all the time. I co-chaired the SEUPB as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for five years. Very significant amounts of money...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Assistance with financing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Is that the regional assembly's job or the county council's job?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Is there a role for either the regional assemblies or the European Commission office in Dublin to do the advertising that these are the benefits of these things? Many people do not know they are there. It is about communicating the point the Chair made about the funding coming from Europe and my earlier comment about Wales. Much of the good that is happening is not known to the great bulk...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I give credit to Senator Keogan. That has been her campaign since we joined this committee.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (19 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will set out the supports his Department offers to students living in the Republic of Ireland who are studying in universities and colleges of further education in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45810/23]