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Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: 4 o’clock On a point of order-----

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: I believe Deputy Shortall's amendment is being taken in this group. I would have no difficulty if the Leas-Cheann Comhairle wishes to call her first.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: I just thought that would make sense because that amendment was in the group. I will take my slot now that I have it and I will try to be brief. During my nine terms in this House, my approach has always been that everybody is here on their own mandate and entitled to their own views. The notion that Deputies come in here to tell other people how they should think and what is right or...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: I am happy to have an opportunity to speak, even briefly, on this Bill. Every member of the Labour Party and, I suspect, the vast majority of Members of the House have the gravest concerns about this type of legislation. If he was not in ministerial office, I believe the current Minister for Health would be among those voicing the concerns. In any normal circumstances we would not...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Living City Initiative (22 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: 47. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the Living City Initiative to further large towns such as Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32113/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (22 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: 179. To ask the Minister for Health when the reduction in the drugs payment scheme to €114, as announced in budget 2020, will be applied in view that it was to be applied from 01 September 2020 and which has not taken place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32141/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (21 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: I want to focus very briefly on the European Council, which was the question asked. The Taoiseach touched on three outstanding issues in respect of Brexit, namely, oversight, fisheries and a level playing field. I do not have time to go into them in detail. We went through them in detail earlier today in discussions at the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs with the House of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (21 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: What about oversight?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (21 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: What about the EU programme body?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (21 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: This was an important new announcement in the budget last week. Will the Taoiseach confirm that we are talking about additional and new money and not money that has already been allocated across Departments for Border or cross-Border projects? Is there a breakdown, even in indicative terms, of how the proposed €500 million investment will be deployed? It would be useful for us to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: Will the Taoiseach share the details with the House?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: Should we not debate that?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach raised the matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: The question relates to the Cabinet committee on Europe. I listened very carefully to the statement the Taoiseach made to the House yesterday on the conclusions of the European Council meeting last week. One of the things he said intrigued to me and I underlined it. It was when he said that in particular we, presumably Ireland or perhaps the Council, asked the Commission to give timely...

Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Referral to Select Committee (21 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Justice pursuant to Standing Orders 95(3)(a) and 178(1).

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Brexit Negotiations: Members of the House of Lords (21 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: I thank Lord Kinnoull and the members of the committee for giving their time. In response to Lord Wood, we too are a very balanced committee, politically speaking, as all political parties are represented. We are also all balanced in our views on Brexit, in that across the political spectrum we are all opposed to it. That is representative of the view of Ireland. We have been grappling...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Brexit Negotiations: Members of the House of Lords (21 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: I fully endorse everything that Senator Chambers and Deputy Richmond have said. We really must think of a new paradigm of Irish-British relations, and that is a big job of work, but my concern now is the immediacy of the sundering of relations on 1 January next. Historically, we have had patches of poor relations but we have spent more than 20 years building the closest of relationships...

Post-European Council Meeting on 15 and 16 October: Statements (20 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: Five-minute speaking slots for parties is not good enough for a Council meeting. It runs counter to the agreement after the Lisbon treaty when we had a lot of debate about why people had lost faith in it and we wanted proper debate and scrutiny of European Council meetings. I am all in favour of other Deputies being able to participate but it should not be achieved by trying to deal with a...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: It is very difficult to make a substantial contribution to a budget debate in five minutes. There was a time when Members took hours to analyse the impact of a budget and I regret this is no longer the case. As someone who has some experience of budgets, yesterday's announcement was by any measure an extraordinary one. It included the provision of €17 billion in expenditure and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Civilian Staff (14 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: 241. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the full-year cost of recruiting three additional full-time accountants for the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30431/20]