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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Assistance Fund (9 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports available to assist a single parent who was in full-time employment, is over the income limit for SUSI and is now returning to full-time education in order to become a qualified mental health nurse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40836/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (9 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to update the Succession Act 1965 in order to simplify and expedite the administration of estates particularly in non-contentious cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41015/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I ask the Tánaiste about the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017, with which he may be familiar. This is a Labour Party Bill dealing with the important issues of cyberbullying and online harassment and the real damage being done online, particularly to younger people. There was strong support for it across the House, including from the Government benches,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: So he told me, yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: One third of workers will not be affected.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Next week's budget will test the Government in a way that previous budgets have not tested it. It is the first budget in more than ten years where it is fair to say there is genuine scope for significant investment in public services. As the Tánaiste knows, public spending here, at 26% of GDP, is low compared with many of our European counterparts. Even if we use GNI* as the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: That is not true either.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Tánaiste is correct that we have a very progressive taxation system and the Labour Party was instrumental in ensuring that it remained progressive in the downtime. However, the base income divide between the rich and poor is manifestly much broader in this country than it is in any of our comparator countries. It is rebalanced somewhat by social transfers through taxation and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Most of that spending is due to demographics.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference (4 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 8. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the role his Department will play in preparations for a British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference. [30646/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Negotiations (4 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 5. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the discussion he has had with his counterparts in the British Government regarding the backstop and the indicated timeframe for the UK Government to outline its counterproposals and publication of legal language in advance of the October 2018 EU summit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40524/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Gender Equality (3 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach has informed us that he will reconvene a Citizens' Assembly to address the issue of gender equality. He may be aware that today the Seanad is dealing with Report and Final Stages of the Labour Party's gender pay gap reporting Bill to deal with the issue of gender equality. It is expected to pass this week. When it does, it will come back to the Dáil. The indication is...

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Gender Equality (3 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I found a memorandum I produced in 1996 for the then Government on it.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Is the Taoiseach saying the recruitment was not budgeted for?

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: They are all budgeted for.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: That is privatising a public resource.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: So the budget is only indicative.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Nor does he pay it anywhere else by the looks of it.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach is talking about people who are not tax resident here.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: We have to know how this works.