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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: My question is also directed to the Minister for Finance. It is just as well because the Taoiseach has obviously had to leave. In the context of budget 2019, one of the tax measures that was not provided for in legislation but that seems to have been sneaked in was a 23% rise in the price of food supplements, which is to come into effect on 1 March. This was not done by way of legislative...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff Retirements (23 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date of retirement in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3156/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Expenditure (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: There is a unique delivery system.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Expenditure (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: It will be running up to May.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Expenditure (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I welcome the clarification that the Taoiseach he is moving back to the traditional way whereby health promotional initiatives are funded by the Department of Health and education initiatives by the Department of Education and Skills. Notwithstanding the Taoiseach stating that his initiative was a new departure, taking the budget line away from line Departments, €290,000 was spent on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I will take the same-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I said I will take the same time as everybody else so far.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I want to ask a very direct question of the Taoiseach because he has been very forthright in many of his utterances in recent weeks. He has stated it is not enough simply to say we will not have a hard border and that we have to have a legal basis to implement these words. They are meaningless just as a throwaway remark. I ask the Taoiseach to be clear and frank with the Dáil now. In...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Expenditure (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the proposed spending in 2019 by his Department on communications. [2545/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I do not agree.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: She did in the past.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent discussions with Chancellor Merkel. [2544/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Does the Taoiseach agree with what Deputy Ross stated regarding the Ministers who criticised the legislation?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee G, justice and equality, last met; and when it will next meet. [53037/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Has the Cabinet committee discussed the implementation of the new legislation on drink-driving? Despite what has gone on previously, I will venture into that area. Does the Taoiseach agree with the view expressed by the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, in writing in one of the national newspapers last weekend that Ministers who criticised the drink-driving legislation...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The programme for Government pledges support for credit unions. A key issue for credit unions is the development of a special purpose vehicle, SPV, to allow them to invest some of the €17 billion in assets in lending for social housing which is urgently needed. Apparently, this long promised special vehicle should be ready by the first quarter of this year. It was previously...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Is it not leaders first?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: How is it that this new volume of documents has suddenly come to light four years into the inquiry and has now been submitted by the Department of Health? Has the Taoiseach asked why that would be? Everybody was asked to provide every document from the beginning. This is not the first inquiry where this tardiness, to put it at its kindest, has come to light. I ask the Taoiseach not to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Why the tardiness in getting this done?