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Brexit: Statements (7 May 2020)

Brendan Howlin: In terms of the Belfast office.

Brexit: Statements (7 May 2020)

Brendan Howlin: I also congratulate Deputy Mythen, my constituency colleague, on his maiden speech and look forward to many more such speeches in the years to come. I will confine myself to three questions initially. Hopefully, the Tánaiste will be concise in his answers to those and I will have time for two further questions. I want to further push the point regarding an extension of the...

Brexit: Statements (7 May 2020)

Brendan Howlin: It is a question of how we go about that.

Brexit: Statements (7 May 2020)

Brendan Howlin: I too am glad to be back to debating Brexit. I will deal with a technical point first. I found the stakeholders forum on Brexit a very helpful and informative forum both for me and all politicians, but it is not a great idea to have both on the same day. Having statements in the House means that Members who are not Dublin based, like me, could not participate in it. I say that for future...

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Acting Chairman for the opportunity to address the House in these surreal times. In my long sojourn here I never envisaged the day I would come in to see seats in Dáil Éireann roped off from Members but that is the reality we face now. Clearly, from everything we know, businesses in Ireland have never faced the unique pressures that they are facing and that exist...

An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála Eile Ar Mhaithe Le Leas an Phobail), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Mar 2020)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 1: In page 4, to delete lines 16 to 35 and substitute the following: “(3) Subject to subsections (4) and (5), each of the amendments effected by this Act shall continue in operation for six months from the passing of this Act and shall then expire. (4) An amendment effected by this Act may be continued in operation from time to time by a resolution passed by...

An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála Eile Ar Mhaithe Le Leas an Phobail), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Mar 2020)

Brendan Howlin: We can twiddle our thumbs.

An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála Eile Ar Mhaithe Le Leas an Phobail), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Mar 2020)

Brendan Howlin: How far away are we from getting the amendments?

An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála Eile Ar Mhaithe Le Leas an Phobail), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Mar 2020)

Brendan Howlin: Can we not wait minutes? If we waited an hour and a half, we can wait minutes.

An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála Eile Ar Mhaithe Le Leas an Phobail), 2020: An Dara Céim - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Second Stage (19 Mar 2020)

Brendan Howlin: Like others in this House, I begin by expressing my solidarity and that of the Labour Party with everyone who is affected by the coronavirus, especially those who are ill right now, those who are in the front line of providing health and social care, retail, transport and logistics and policing, and the amazing 30,000 or more people who have volunteered to support our health services in this...

European Council Meeting: Statements (5 Mar 2020)

Brendan Howlin: The European Council of 20 February failed. It failed to reach agreement on the multi-annual financial framework for the next seven years. It failed to take robust action to resolve the humanitarian rights abuses and the growing crisis occurring in Syria, and, according to official documents, it failed to even discuss Covid-19, which had already been declared a public health emergency of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2020)

Brendan Howlin: I am aware of the discussions at the committee earlier today. I wrote to the Ceann Comhairle in respect of the Dáil establishing an all-party committee on the Covid-19 virus. I am strongly of the view that this is necessary, particularly if the Dáil is not going to sit for another two weeks. We are in the unusual situation of being in an interregnum period where, by convention,...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (20 Feb 2020)

Brendan Howlin: Each Member gathered in this House has spent the past number of weeks talking and, I hope, listening to thousands of our people. We are here because we have been selected by our people to be here - each one with his or her unique mandate - each one equally legitimate. Nobody's mandate is stronger or better than that of anybody else. Each one of us looks to his or her constituency for his...

Ainmniú Iarrthóirí agus Ceann Comhairle a Thoghadh - Selection of Candidate and Election of Ceann Comhairle (20 Feb 2020)

Brendan Howlin: Comhghairdeas leatsa, a Cheann Comhairle, as a bheith atofa i do Cheann Comhairle. The office of Ceann Comhairle is one of the most important in this State. Deputy Ó Fearghaíl held it over the past four years, with great skill and forbearance, more often than not. He steered a difficult Dáil through those four years with enormous understanding of the role of Parliament. I...

Environmental Policy: Motion [Private Members] (18 Dec 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Deputies from the various parties and the Independent Deputies who spoke on what is a very important end-of-term debate on the environment, which is the overarching economic and social issue of our time. Our motion calls on Dáil Éireann to recognise that environmental pollution and degradation are all too often the by-product of our economy. We ask all Deputies to...

Post-European Council: Statements (18 Dec 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I am glad to have the opportunity to make a few observations on the European Council meeting that took place last week. It is important to debate matters discussed at the European Council in this House. As I said this morning, the single biggest economic challenge facing the European Union is providing global leadership on climate change and forming the vanguard on climate action, not least...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (18 Dec 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I am confused because I did not realise that we were going to take a fourth group of questions.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (18 Dec 2019)

Brendan Howlin: We normally take three groups. Do we have time for this?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (18 Dec 2019)

Brendan Howlin: That is fine. The statements on last week's EU Council meeting will begin shortly. I would like to ask the Taoiseach about the focus on an area that is now being driven by one of the new vice presidents of the European Commission, Mr. Frans Timmermans. His responsibilities include climate change, which all of us in this House recognise as the biggest economic and social issue that we need...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (18 Dec 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach his views on the EU reform proposals that the President of France is seeking to implement. [51615/19]