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

Brendan Howlin: What about the legislation?

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

Brendan Howlin: That is a lot of seminars.

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

Brendan Howlin: The love in did not last long.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Perhaps I could finish this sentence please. There is a real prospect of a second vote being successful. That would really be the best outcome for this island.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Technology is advancing relentlessly. Every year, workers, businesses and consumers have to adjust to new ways of working. Some jobs decline and new occupations emerge. Businesses and workers have to adapt. The downside is that technology is voracious in its appetite for energy and too reliant on fossil fuels which have caused climate change and the destruction of the natural world. All...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Writing in The Irish Timestoday, the Tánaiste said that Irish preparations for a no deal Brexit are accelerating. He stated:All departments have already examined the legislation that will be required for no deal. Priority will be attached in the new year to giving this legislation Dáil and Seanad time. Political support across the Dáil will be necessary to do this. Some...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: For clarity, this is not a stakeholders' issue; we are not talking about the Industrial Development Authority, IDA, or anything else. This is a parliamentary briefing. If legislation is necessary urgently, we should be preparing for that in Parliament so that we can hit the deck running on whatever legislative preparations are needed, rather than have broad discussions with everybody. I...

Death of former Members: Expressions of Sympathy (12 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: -----but we had a very interesting overnight train journey from Moscow to Vilnius in the former Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. As well as the samovar of tea, we also had a stronger native beverage and I had some very good, insightful discussions on all politics and all politicians on that journey with those remarkable women.

Death of former Members: Expressions of Sympathy (12 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I often wondered about that afterwards because we were accompanied by a Russian. Maybe there is a transcript worth reading in some liberated archive in Moscow. On that trip one of the people we met was Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space. I remember that Monica was truly delighted to meet a woman who had been in space. As others said, Monica was a true feminist who would...

Death of former Members: Expressions of Sympathy (12 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It is my great privilege as well as my duty to pay tribute to two remarkable former Members of this House and two remarkable public servants I was privileged to know. At first glance, the two might have appeared to be very different people, and they were, but they shared extraordinary values, passionate views on what was right and passionate voices to articulate those views regardless of the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 60. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his planned visits abroad in the next six months. [52102/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It is the pensioners who will be worse off.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Nor mine.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Keep going, then.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I have two questions. The first concerns the worrying aspect of the recent inability of the Department of Finance to predict corporation taxes accurately. Will the Taoiseach indicate if there has been any analysis on this? France has announced recently that regardless of any European agreement it is going to introduce its own digital tax. This is likely to be followed by a number of other...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The question is "Is it true?"

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: We might be better than Kazakhstan.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee A on the economy last met; and when it plans to meet next. [51853/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: We will need only a few minutes to deal with the final question, so we could take some of the time allocated to it.