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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I would first make it crystal clear that while the litany of abuse against the Palestinian people is decades long, shocking and horrible, there is no excuse whatever for the wanton murder carried out by Hamas on 7 October. My question is directly in relation to the provisional measures that will hopefully be announced tomorrow. One of the calls relating to those measures relates to an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Enlargement (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Georgia engaged a lot with us.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (23 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 384. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is considering the excluding of maintenance payments made by social welfare recipients in the calculation of weekly means in determining eligibility for the free fuel allowance; if she considers it fair and reasonable to include such regular outgoing payments as means; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (23 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 421. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the supports available to enable international protection applicants, long-time resident in direct provision centres, to undertake courses of study to acquire skills that will be useful to enable them to find employment if their applications are approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2440/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 75. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had any contact with the government of South Africa to discuss that country's legal case against Israel in the International Court of Justice, concerning the carnage being inflicted of the people of Gaza; if he sees a role for Ireland in assisting or supporting this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3127/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 50. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set out the issues he raised with the Mexican Foreign Minister on his recent visit to Mexico; if he will provide details of the meetings he had there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3128/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set out the issues he raised with Columbian officials on his recent visit to Columbia; the role Ireland will play as guarantor of the ongoing peace dialogue there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3129/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 153. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade why there is a difference in duration in the validity of a card passport and a book passport; why both cannot run for a full ten years, which would reduce the necessity of renewal applications and the workload of the Passport Office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3593/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will set out the number and location of fast electric vehicle chargers currently available in the country; the number expected to be in place in each of the next three years; if it is his intention to have a common pricing system for chargers across the country in order to encourage greater E.V usage; and if he will make a...

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: That's right.

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Getting all three re-elected is the thing.

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I am deeply privileged to have the opportunity to say a few words in memory of a very distinguished Member of this House and a fine statesman, John Bruton. I was privileged to serve in the rainbow Government from 1994 to 1997 as Minister for the Environment under the leadership of John Bruton. That Government, as others will recall, had an unusual, if not unique, genesis. It was the only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I join the Cathaoirleach in welcoming the Minister of State. I also will begin by paying tribute to the late John Bruton. I was privileged to be a member of the rainbow Government from 1994 to 1997 under his Taoiseachship and found him to be an excellent chairman of the Cabinet and an exemplary statesman. We all have had our opportunities to pay tribute to him but it is appropriate at a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Is it an informal paper too?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (13 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government accepts that Israeli settlement policy in the occupied Palestinian territories is a breach of peremptory norms of international law, including in particular international humanitarian law; if the Government recognises the obligation of the State not to recognise the illegal situation created by this breach, and not to...

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Deirtear gurb é an rud is annamh is iontach. After numerous false dawns and Groundhog Days, finally, the institutions envisaged in the power-sharing arrangements of the Good Friday Agreement have been restored in Northern Ireland. Two years after the people of Northern Ireland elected the members of the Assembly, there is at last a working Assembly and a functioning Executive. The...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (15 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 179. To ask the Minister for Finance when the revised disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme will be introduced; when the criteria for issuing a primary medical certificate for his scheme will be revised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7180/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (15 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on the application for citizenship by a person (details supplied) who applied to her Department for citizenship on 19 February 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7194/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I welcome Mr. O'Leary back to his old bailiwick, where he was a distinguished public servant, and also his colleagues. For clarity, the Electoral Commission is a brand new organisation. Can Mr. O'Leary give us an indication of the Electoral Commission's current staffing and the allocation of those staff to the various tasks? It seems that under the Act, the Electoral Commission has a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Excuse me, I do not mean to interrupt but does An Coimisiún Toghcháin see itself as being able to bring in expertise on a contractual basis to deal with some of the issues that are immediate?