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

Brendan Howlin: 375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review an application for a SUSI grant for a person (details supplied) who returned to third-level education as a mature student; if he will review the requirement that a three year gap occurs between leaving a course and commencing a further course to qualify for a SUSI grant, regardless of personal circumstances; and if he will...

Extension of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (7 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I suppose if the Minister of State could talk about quad bikes it is all right to talk about Louth in the same motion. This is a simple motion but an important one because it impacts on every community in the country. As the Minister of State outlined, it provides for the continuation of what we all agree is desirable and wanted across the country, that is, the ability to have outdoor dining...

Extension of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (7 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Income tax was introduced as a temporary measure, for example.

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Well, pay them.

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I compliment my colleague, Deputy Duncan Smith, on his long advocacy for home care workers and home care support, and for tabling the motion. No Member of this House has not struggled with difficult cases from constituents desperate to continue living at home or families desperate to have loved ones come home from long-term hospital care, only to be told again and again that there is no home...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Clearly, one issue dominated the European Council and, indeed, dominates all our thoughts in this House, in this country and in Europe and beyond. The carnage we are witnessing on a daily basis in Gaza is truly sickening. Our first priority must be to halt the killing, to have a ceasefire. This House united in that regard when the vote was put. I welcome the efforts of the Taoiseach to...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Is the Minister of State going to answer questions?

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I see. I think we are all of one mind that the first imperative, as I said repeatedly in my contribution, is to have a ceasefire to stop the killing right now. I am interested in hearing the Minister of State's view on that. It is clear the Taoiseach's efforts at the European Council to achieve a consensus calling for a ceasefire from the EU 27 have not worked. There are strongly held...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: What is the alternative?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (7 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 1215. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who has a full medical card, is being charged for blood tests by their GP surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48086/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 1412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will set out the current position in relation to providing a public service contract and access to an incremental salary scale for tutors employed by ETBs on an hourly paid rate; the outcome of discussions his Department has had with trade union representatives on this issue; when an improved contract will be offered; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (9 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 282. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 449 of 26 September 2023, if it is his intention to appoint members of the Social Economic Environmental Association (SEEFA) to the Forestry Programme Consultative Committee, since SEEFA is the largest private sector representative association; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Or there might be another Deputy to speak.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I have only two minutes and then I will adjourn the debate. I have witnessed many electoral commissions presenting their findings to this House over the years. Up to now they have been an ad hoccommittee of disparate individuals with important tasks brought together simply to determine the constituency boundaries for an election. This is the first time we have actually had an Electoral...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: When will the debate resume?

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I thank Sinn Féin Deputies for tabling this motion and allowing us another opportunity to address this issue. This is my third time to speak on the unfolding horror that we are witnessing in Gaza. Last week, I said that the carnage we are witnessing daily is sickening. The only thing that has happened since is that matters have become even worse. The Minister for Further and Higher...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, for his indulgence. I wanted to make a few comments on the legislation before the House and the fact that this is the product of a new entity, the Electoral Commission, that we have been long promised and has been long talked about. It is great to actually have it in existence. All other electoral boundaries that were presented, and by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Future Treaty Change in the European Union: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I thank our witnesses. As was said, the opening statements covered a broad range of issues, many of which we have touched on with various speakers in this committee in recent years. I will pose several questions on Professor Barrett's paper, but I would like both Professor Barrett and Dr. Colfer to respond. On the comments Professor Barrett made on the EMU, basically saying that because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Future Treaty Change in the European Union: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: These are the things we have to deal with. I do not, though, think we can deal with them by feeding the view of the conspiracy theorists that an elite is trying to avoid allowing the people to have their say. Those are my points.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Future Treaty Change in the European Union: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: This is presuming the best way is actually doable.