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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Communications (19 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: They did not have to go anywhere.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: That was a public event.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: What is the point of doing that? We have had five minutes of the Taoiseach broadcasting-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: -----fiscal policy without answering any of the questions raised.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: As the Taoiseach has outlined in his response, a broad range of issues is captured by his Department's strategy statement and the report published recently but I wish to focus on two specific issues. In the Taoiseach's message in the preamble to the Department's 2018 annual report, one of the commitments he makes is to establish a policing reform office in his Department to drive the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the annual strategy update report for his Department. [24992/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the leader of the UK Labour Party, Mr. Jeremy Corbyn. [24098/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: After their meeting, the Taoiseach and Jeremy Corbyn expressed serious concern about the possibility of a no-deal scenario and the danger that it may happen by default. Those concerns are not shared by members and prospective leaders of the Conservative Party. Boris Johnson described anxiety expressed by citizens, businesses and farmers as "pure millennium bug stuff". A poll of Tory...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Yesterday, in response to questions put to him, the Minister for Finance warned of a significant risk of health spending overruns. There are claims and reports that spending in this regard has escalated out of control. It is the third week of June and there has been a recruitment embargo in place for several weeks. The Exchequer returns in May showed that current health spending was...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: It is under profile, as I understand it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I welcome the Taoiseach's response. There are two separate items of legislation. I hope the online safety Bill announced by the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment in March will I hope give rise to a digital safety commissioner. The Taoiseach might confirm that is the intention of the Government. The second item of legislation is the Labour Party's Harassment,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: It has been done.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: One of the clear indications of Catholic influence on the new Irish Free State was the establishment in 1926 of the Committee on Evil Literature. It led to the Censorship of Publications Act 1929. Over the course of the following decades, many works of literature were banned, as were manuals on reproductive and sexual health. Works by Frank O'Connor, Brendan Behan and Edna O'Brien were...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I do not intend to go into the case any further than that, other than to refer to the conclusions we need to draw from it as a Parliament. It is up to professionals to assess the impact of such material on impressionable children but we can clearly and unambiguously say that this material should not be accessible to children. The United Kingdom has introduced a new law, taking effect...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: That sounds like an election.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the proposals for a Citizens' Assembly on a Dublin mayor. [24991/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach can tweet them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: We can see that the Taoiseach is having a great effect on him.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the President of the United States of America, Mr. Donald Trump. [24099/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I do not know whether diplomats in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade were deployed to draft the Taoiseach's reply. Anybody listening to President Trump, as I was, would have been completely taken aback at the total lack of knowledge displayed at his meeting with the Taoiseach at Shannon Airport. His comments about a hard Brexit and its impact on the Border were shockingly...