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Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I will share time with Deputy Sherlock. Before I get into the body of my remarks on the budget, as I wished to respond to the invitation offered by the Taoiseach during Leaders' Questions to read the Low Pay Commission report in detail, I went out to see if I could do so, but it has not been published. I, therefore, ask the Taoiseach to facilitate its publication in order that we can...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: As I have indicated previously, clearly the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection has had little influence on the budget. She said yesterday that she wanted to defer raising the minimum wage as recommended by the Low Pay Commission until late 2020 or not at all in the event of a no-deal Brexit. That is bad economics. Research from the IMF and countless other economic...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach cannot argue both ways. If raising the minimum wage has no impact on employment, he cannot argue that he must not do it to protect employment. That does not make sense to me. In what he sets out in response to this and my previous question, he says the budget announced yesterday was a Brexit budget intended to Brexit-proof the nation. Rightly, significant sums of money have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Back again.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: It depends on how it is measured.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: That will be a great comfort to people trying to pay their bills next year.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: It should be no surprise to the Taoiseach - I am sure it is not - that the Labour Party and Fine Gael have very different approaches to the economy. It turns out that Labour is better at managing the public finances and protecting the most vulnerable. Several commentators who are no friends of Labour described yesterday's budget as worse austerity than anything done during the period of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: With that response and with one minute, it is very hard to know where to start. That was a-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach is becoming more like Donald Trump every day, being detached from reality. I want to make a few very clear points. The document the Taoiseach is holding up, Building an Equal Society: Labour's Alternative Budget 2020, which I am very glad he has read, is built on the figures presented by the Department of Finance. Unless the Taoiseach is suggesting they are completely...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Stamp Duties - Section 126AA Bank Levy (8 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: They did not get a bailout.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Stamp Duties - Section 126AA Bank Levy (8 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: None of them got a bailout.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Stamp Duties - Section 126AA Bank Levy (8 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I also wish to speak on Financial Resolution No. 3. I have the same perspective as the Sinn Féin Deputy, but I have come to a slightly different conclusion, in that it is wholly inadequate. This is a technical amendment just to hold still on the bank levy. We are going to get €150 million from the banks next year by way of a levy. These are organisations that, individually,...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The Labour Party supports Financial Resolution No. 1, the increase of 50 cent per pack of 20 cigarettes. We accept the view of the tax strategy group that it is unlikely to contribute a great increase in yield because the objective is to reduce demand rather than to get money. In this regard, however, I note that 13% of cigarettes consumed in the State now are illicit. We must be mindful...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: He does not have far to go either.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (8 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 8. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has jurisdiction over the inner six mile zone around Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40623/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 39. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of the dormant accounts fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40726/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Newborn Screening Cards (8 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 289. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to introduce expanded newborn screening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40987/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry Data (8 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 333. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated amount of mussel seed available for fishing in the waters of the State in each of the years 2016 to 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40612/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry Data (8 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 334. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the location of mussel seed beds; the specific restrictions that apply in each area, such as the closed fishery in a location (details supplied) or other impediments to the fishing or transportation of mussel seed such as the detection of parasites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40613/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry Data (8 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 335. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of mussel seed fished here in each of the years 2016 to 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40614/19]