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

Brendan Howlin: Not with the lead bidder in the final stages of a contract.

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

Brendan Howlin: There was at this stage. The Minister went to New York to meet him.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: We are all on a fair run but if one is handicapped at the start, well that is tough. Fine Gael's vision is about rewarding social status and the existing structures of social power. That is why the budget includes measures that are carefully crafted to reduce income and wealth inequality by not one cent.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Fine Gael seems to be quietly satisfied with the way things are - people in big houses seeking to pay less taxes, people in small flats, if they can afford them at all, struggling to pay rising rents, and nearly 10,000 people who are homeless including, shamefully, 3,700 children. Fine Gael has demonstrated that it is expert in at least one art of government, and that is the art of image....

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Yesterday we heard from the Minister for Finance a budget without a purpose. It was a weak, conservative budget. There was no vision attached to it but there should have been. Budget 2019 is not like recent budgets. This was the first budget since 2007 when the Government genuinely had scope to bring about positive social change. The recovery of the economy for which so many people...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: We need a permanent commission.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It is 30 minutes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach has admitted it is a con. He will set up a strategic rainy day fund. We already have a strategic reserve fund; the ISIF has €20 billion in it. The Taoiseach has not explained the difference between that and the new fund. This is about taking money from our strategic reserve fund, relabelling it and pretending it is a new fund. He says he will deploy it in case the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It is entitled "Designing a Rainy Day Fund to Work within the EU Fiscal Rules".

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It is from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, IFAC. Does the Taoiseach not read the council's reports?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Was the budget created without reading the IFAC's analysis-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Does it just stay on deposit?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I wish to begin by expressing my own condolences and those of my party to the family and friends of the late Emma Mhic Mhathúna on this, the day of her funeral. Yesterday the Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform formally advanced the proposed rainy day fund. There are still many unanswered questions about the fund, and not for want of asking. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Before the Government sets aside the money, should it not answer the questions?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Which the Government cannot deploy in those circumstances.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I can read them out again to the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The formal guidelines state that they should be so insulated.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It is a public tender.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: That is not true.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vehicle Emissions (10 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: How much?