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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (16 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 626. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for illness benefit by a person (details supplied); when payment will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42188/18]

Resignation of Minister: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Politics is a human endeavour and on a personal basis this is a difficult day for Deputy Denis Naughten and his friends and family. After the mire of controversy more than 20 years ago that led to the Moriarty tribunal, we repeatedly set out strict codes of conduct for how to handle any contract of the State and certainly any major procurement, right down to individual projects. It is...

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Sure the Taoiseach sacked him.

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Can we amend the order?

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: We came in here to ask a series of questions, primarily on the future of the national broadband plan, which is the most important piece of national infrastructure that has yet to be put in place for rural Ireland. It has been many years in gestation. Like others, I believe that it was a mistake to allow 300,000 premises to be taken out of the package to be provided under the plan. This...

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: In circumstances where there is no Minister available to answer questions, I suggest that the debate be adjourned.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister for Finance announced in May that the Government had approved the drafting of the so-called rainy day fund Bill. The budget allocated €500 million to that fund and another €1.5 billion is to be transferred to it from the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF. The national surplus (reserve fund for exceptional contingencies) Bill - not an elegant title - was...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Will the Tánaiste circulate a note to the Members?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: There is somebody in the Deputy's office going through it right now-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: As stated by the Tánaiste, the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Naughten, is to make a statement in the House this afternoon. I seek clarity from the Tánaiste on the central issue. Despite what the Taoiseach said in the House yesterday, it is inappropriate for a Minister to have any contact with a bidder during a procurement process, and every...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I ask the Tánaiste to answer the questions I put to him.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I did no such thing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: He is not a telecoms man. He is a man who owns a financial investment company.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: A bidder.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: May a Minister sit beside an official as he or she is doing so?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I did not ask about that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The guidelines are crystal clear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister is the person in charge under the law.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I asked the Tánaiste whether it was appropriate for the Minister, Deputy Naughten, to have two meetings with the lead bidder in the most significant contract being overseen by his Department? It is a simple and straightforward question. I have had engagements with procurement officers in the context of the protocols for this area, which I drew up during my time as Minister for Public...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Why do these protocols not apply in this case?