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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It is a fact.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I welcome the Taoiseach's acknowledgement of the vulnerability of our tax base but all of his actions and all of the kites being flown in recent times undermine that. The Taoiseach spoke about sustainable house prices. There are no sustainable house prices. In many parts of the country, house prices are back to the unaffordable level we had during the boom. The issue is that people's...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee E, health, last met; and when it next plans to meet. [37752/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Council (25 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the British-Irish Council in Guernsey; the meetings he held; and the issues raised. [29006/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to the UN and the United States of America; and the meetings he held and groups he met. [30644/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The introduction of a new entrant pay scale from 1 January 2011 resulted in a two-tier pay system in the public service, which now affects some 60,500 public servants. They are not paid equally for their work and, as we heard yesterday, it is having an impact on recruitment in a variety of areas. Since the publication of the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service's costings, there...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Will it be concluded in advance of the budget, as was committed?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (20 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Tánaiste is correct that I have experience of the run-up to budgets over time. It is my experience that Ministers do test run proposals to see how they will fly. We all have experience of that. When I see a particular proposal attached to a particular Minister's name, I know what it is, namely, test flying. We need to be clear. If this budget is to be about housing, it cannot...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (20 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It is at this time of year that the Government and individual Ministers start flying kites about what might appear in the budget. One kite floated in the newspapers this week was that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, is considering a capital gains tax break to charge less than half of the regular amount in tax due on the sales or development of vacant property. During the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I begin by expressing my concern and sharing the concerns expressed by other Members about all those who have been adversely affected by the current storm conditions. Hopefully, we will have no more fatalities later in the day. I ask specifically about a programme for Government commitment to have local authorities monitor and benchmark the new vacant site levy legislated for by the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Pardon me.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his bilateral meeting with the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May, at the Council of the European Union. [30645/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with IMF managing director, Ms Christine Lagarde. [29004/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Other Deputies have raised issues that are very important. I am deeply concerned there will be a lot of quickly moving parts in a very short period of time, and that we might be blindsided by some of the decisions that are happening. On the domestic front, it was announced a year ago as a key Brexit support measure that there would be a €300 million Brexit loan fund. It was...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C. European Union, including Brexit, last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [37751/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The UK Supreme Court ruled at the end of August that the exclusion of cohabitees from claiming widowed parent's allowance was discriminatory on the basis of marital or birth status. Siobhan McLaughlin and her partner whom she never married lived together for 23 years and had four children together. The widowed parent's allowance in Northern Ireland is payable to widowed men and women with...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach should tell the Minister that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Time is running out or to use the phrase of Michel Barnier, "the clock is ticking". We had hoped to have the Irish issues settled, separate from the withdrawal agreement, in June. Then it was October. Now it is to be November. The Taoiseach referred to some of the English newspapers. Bloomberg reported today that the EU will make support for Ireland's Brexit position conditional on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: What does the Taoiseach make of it?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: One of the critical judgments to be made of the Taoiseach's Government is on how badly Ireland will be impacted by Brexit. It is clear that Brexit risks doing incalculable damage to our country. Everybody in this House knows it. We have discussed it in and out. Tens of thousands of jobs are at risk, as is social cohesion on both sides of the Border. For those of us who have had the...