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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: Everybody knows that banning bituminous coal is important.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: What about apprenticeships for retrofitting?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: What about the question on apprenticeships?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: On the issue of apprenticeships if we are to retrofit houses, is there a strategy to provide the skills base? I outlined the numbers of apprenticeships in training, which are pathetic.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: There are only 30 registered plasterers, 127 apprentices in stonemasonry-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: How many minutes remain?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: In that case, there is no point in moving on.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: I would like the answer to the question we have asked. Is the Taoiseach just going to give us an answer and not allow us to ask any supplementary questions?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: We have only four minutes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: Only four minutes remain.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: Only three minutes remain.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: There has not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: There were 127 apprenticeships in bricklaying last year and 30 in plastering.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: I join others in congratulating the Ceann Comhairle and RTÉ on facilitating real innovation in the form of the Youth Assembly on climate action, which has presented a challenge to all of us. The Ceann Comhairle wants to bring forward the conclusions of that assembly for action. The recently introduced climate action plan contains a target to retrofit 50,000 homes per year by 2021....
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: I wish to put on the record of the House my own and my party's appreciation for the understanding and solidarity we have received as a nation from the outgoing European Council President, Mr. Donald Tusk. The clarity of his utterances, sometimes regarded as less than absolutely diplomatic, were helpful during a period when issues of fundamental importance for this country were at play. He...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: Motor on.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent discussion with the President of the European Council. [46454/19]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: I have repeatedly asked the Government to be open and clear on its decision to impose VAT on food supplements. The Minister for Finance has repeatedly hidden behind the Revenue Commissioners on this but, as I have said repeatedly, Revenue does not make policy but implements policy determined by this House. The health food industry is worried about the Minister for Finance's repeated...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: That is just the spin machine.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Brendan Howlin: Ten thousand homeless.