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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I have asked specifically for a briefing on the legislation, whether it is one Bill or 45 Bills-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: -----so that we are prepared when we come back after the Christmas recess.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Can we have one in Parliament too?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach said yesterday that there were plans to pass 45 emergency Bills next year in the event of a hard Brexit coming to pass. I have raised this matter with him a number of times and he indicated we would be briefed on it. In the new year, there will be 29 scheduled sitting days between the time the House comes back and 29 March. Is it envisaged that we would pass 45 Bills, sight...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I warmly welcome the bulk of recommendations and I welcomed the process when it was inaugurated. It really is a transforming moment for which we have waited a long time. There is one net issue, however. The report stated that the right mix of skills can be achieved by giving the Garda Commissioner the freedom to design his own team. It cannot be right for whoever is at the apex of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I have spoken to Kathleen O’Toole too.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: There also has to be external people.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The report of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland is a strategy to transform policing in Ireland.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I will wait until there is order.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I take it we will start the clock again.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The report of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland is a strategy to transform policing in Ireland. The report rightly notes that many people have very good relations with An Garda Síochána. We want to preserve everything that is right with An Garda Síochána. There is, equally, a need for large-scale, once in a generation reform and change in how the force...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 637. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for illness benefit by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53249/18]

Centenary of 1918 General Election: Statements (13 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: December 1918 was a time of great change in Ireland and across the world. The Great War had just ended. A total of 19 million were dead and many more were injured. There had never before been warfare on that scale, or with such brutality. The price paid in blood accelerated the already legitimate claim by working people for political equality, and as others have said, they secured the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Concerns have been raised in recent weeks about the proposed new national maternity hospital. These concerns centre on ownership and services to be provided at the hospital. We have also learned that if work does not commence by the end of the year, we may have to begin the planning process all over again in order to ensure that the building meets new environmental standards set by new...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I always do. From January 2008 to October of this year, the consumer price index, CPI, rose by 3%. One might think that the cost of living has only risen marginally in that period but that would be a mistake; the CPI is not a cost of living index. This has been forcefully stated by the CSO for years but the message does not seem to have penetrated the minds of Government officials. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Asked-for rents are 26% higher than at the peak of the Celtic tiger according to daft.ie. Job opportunities are overwhelmingly concentrated in the towns and cities and that is where the rent pressures are most acute. Rent pressure zones are meant to slow down rent increases to 4% a year, but if we use compound over the period of five years, that is 21.7% even where they are working. In...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The issue now is rents.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: However, the Government does not control it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Government is shifting them on to the public purse.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Tánaiste obviously does not agree that workers need a pay rise. It is good for the economy. We have looked in very great detail across several countries. There is always resistance to increases in the minimum wage from employers in other sectors, but in every case it is good for the economy because it puts more money into circulation. We have a very unbalanced wage structure in...