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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens Assembly (16 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on progress towards a citizens' assembly on a directly elected mayor for Dublin. [38490/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the UN General Assembly and UN Climate Action Summit. [39284/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Statute of Limitations (16 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2018, as it relates to thalidomide survivors and unacknowledged thalidomide survivors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42489/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (16 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 180. To ask the Minister for Health if correspondence has been received from a pharmacist (details supplied) regarding the abuse of codeine products; if he has considered the contents of the correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42490/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach's proposal was regressive in that it gave pensioners nothing, not even an extra €5.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment last met. [41978/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: GNI*.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Has the Taoiseach got that analysis?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [38481/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: We have had no briefing either.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Last week, the Government, with the support of Fianna Fáil, passed what has been rightly characterised as a regressive budget. The Taoiseach used the Brexit issue as a cover for a decision to reduce in real terms next year the income of a whole range of people dependent on social welfare. That was a wrong choice. The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, IFAC, on Monday rubbished any notion...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (15 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: At the Kennedy Summer School, which was held in my constituency last month, the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Archbishop Eamon Martin, spoke of Catholic politicians. Specifically, he spoke of Catholic politicians having a responsibility to support laws which uphold the dignity of every human person made in God's image from conception to death, and cautioned against politicians...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (15 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with church leaders on 4 July 2019. [37446/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: This week several housing experts have raised serious questions about the Government's Land Development Agency and have, in effect, characterised it as a land privatisation agency. The agency will have sweeping powers outside of direct Government control and will have an unmistakably commercial remit akin to that of speculative developers, according to one expert, with building work...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Will it be subject to FOI?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: What about FOI?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates Process (15 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 174. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of the Supplementary Estimates required for 2019 by Department, Vote and expenditure programme in which the additional expenditure is required; if the details of these additional Estimates is outlined in the budget documentation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42052/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: It has been 18 months.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Among the budget documentation released by the Government this week was a report by the OECD on equality budgeting in Ireland. The three recommendations in the report were that we should develop a set of national equality goals and indicators as a performance budgeting framework; that we should expand equality budgeting beyond performance measurements to link to other policies, such as...