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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Was the Taoiseach on the Opposition benches?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: He does not get it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, has said that professional people should live like students in so-called co-living accommodation because that is the norm in London and New York. It is obvious that prices and rents are out of control in London and New York, which are among the most unaffordable housing markets in the world. London and New York...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Communications (21 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 510. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of briefings by phone or in writing given by officials of his Department to a person (details supplied); the content of those briefings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21382/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (21 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 628. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer’s benefit application by a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21632/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee G, justice and equality, last met. [15465/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Last Friday, an 18 year old boy, Azzam Raguragui, was tragically stabbed in Dundrum and died a short time later. I know the thoughts and sympathies of all of us in the House go out to Azzam's family. No one in our society should have to suffer the loss of a child but the sad fact is it could have been anybody's child, with knife crime becoming more and more common. The case highlights the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the research survey his Department was to commission in 2018 as part of the strategic communications unit; if it was proceeded with; and if so, the outcomes. [15463/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: It is interesting that the survey promised after the winding-up of the strategic communications unit was not proceeded with. It was intended to happen and we were to be briefed on it. As the European and local elections approach, we are faced with launch after launch by the Government, the Taoiseach and his Ministers. The Government spent more than €4.3 million on advertising last...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Some Ministers had distributed the documentation to the media before some Deputies received it. It was voluminous and printed in full colour, although no contract has been signed and there is no likelihood of any contract for months. People have gone beyond the point of constant announcements of strategic issues. They want action. Does the Taoiseach agree the debacle over the strategic...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C (European Union including Brexit) last met. [16384/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the European Council on 10 April 2019. [17715/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent telephone conversations with EU heads of government as indicated in his statement in advance of the special European Council of 9 April 2019. [17716/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Yesterday, the Tánaiste implied that a change of British Prime Minister would not end the Brexit deadlock. He said this is not about personalities, but about facts and the complexities of Brexit. Unfortunately, we have seen the complete disregard for facts by some of the key figures throughout the Brexit saga and indeed from the initial referendum. Events are now moving at a fast and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: In the spirit of new politics and harmonious relations between Government and Opposition, I acknowledge that the Government will progress the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017 that passed Second Stage here in January 2018. I also welcome the fact that the Cabinet has now approved a number of amendments to that Bill and will present them to the House. I am...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: This is a mess.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach makes a compelling case against the folly of the privatisation of Telecom Éireann all those years ago. It was a disaster. The point I am making is that instead of learning from that disaster the Government proposes to do the same thing in that it proposes to privatise the next generation of telecommunications. The Taoiseach is right that we had to test the market in the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Not without a massive subsidy. It is not a commercial entity.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Yes.