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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (15 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 125. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a home care package application by a person (details supplied); if it has been sanctioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47511/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Public Sector Reform Implementation (14 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the public sector reform measures under way in his Department; and his priorities in this regard. [46730/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (14 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the role of his Department in establishing a single Government visual identity. [43841/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): National Reform Programme (14 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the National Reform Programme 2018. [43839/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Concerns have rightly been expressed in this House over how sexual offences are tried in court, the way evidence is used and the way victims are treated. There are also concerns about the consistency of sentencing for sexual offences. Our Judiciary is rightly independent, as guaranteed under the Constitution, but major reform was championed by former Chief Justice Susan Denham. That...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Bill in question is due to proceed to Committee Stage.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Is the Taoiseach holding the council hostage to that Bill?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (14 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 278. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for illness benefit by a person (details supplied) will be processed to completion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47408/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: We discussed the issue in the context of the previous group of questions and the Taoiseach stated that he would revert to us.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I ask that we be briefed on any agreement which has been reached

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: When is that due?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It should be there.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: They are all factual questions. Getting factual answers is the problem.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Cabinet committees he has attended since June 2018. [41075/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Factual answers are important. In the previous Administration, much work was done through Cabinet sub-committees which usually met for a full day. I know it is the Taoiseach's practice that more work is done at full Cabinet meetings rather than at Cabinet sub-committee meetings. However, that means one has long agendas. Does the infrastructure committee deal with the national broadband...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It would also be attended by all relevant officials.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Hopefully, the interpretation will be the same.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: In the normal course of events, EU policy decisions are taken at EU level and member states get significant time to digest and implement them locally. Unfortunately, in these negotiations we have moved into classic brinkmanship mode, with all the hard decisions being left to the final hours. We have heard that negotiators are up until 3 a.m. and resume their meetings at dawn, negotiating in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Brussels on 4 October 2018; the meetings he held; and if he has met with Mr. Michel Barnier. [43840/18]

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Spin central.