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Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach did exactly what I expected him to do. It is unfortunate. He did not answer the question and embrace the real economic needs of our people. He gave what is now becoming his stock election speech that Fine Gael is prudent and everybody else is profligate. Meanwhile, look at the true economy. The Taoiseach talks about GDP. We can argue about whether GDP is appropriate but...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach used the phrase.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Even GNI* is-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: There are two ways a Government can damage the economy - reckless spending and failure to invest, both of which are ruinous. The doctrine of the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, has been to circle the wagons around the national finances and to limit debate by not publishing the full range of national statistics. For example, because the Minister has decided to pursue his own so-called...

Commission of Investigation: Motion (26 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I wish to begin by thanking the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, for bringing this motion before the House. I call on the Minister to thank his immediate predecessor, the former Tánaiste, Deputy Fitzgerald, who agreed to do this. As others have said, there are numerous demands for particular forms of inquiry, including commissions of inquiry and tribunals. It is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (26 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: This is a really important matter. One of our problems is that we debate issues such as biodiversity in isolation because they do not run across everything else we do. We do not have joined-up thinking on biodiversity. The national biodiversity action plan, published last year, should have been a wake-up call. It said that 90% of our habitats were in a bad or inadequate position. I refer...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: No problem.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: That is what happens when socialists are involved.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Two issues will dominate the upcoming European Council meeting and we will have a chance to deal with them tomorrow in statements. Those are the issues of migration and Brexit. We had assumed up to relatively recently that the Brexit issue would be the definitive one. It may well be eclipsed now by migration. On the strong words expressed in this House last week by the President of the...

Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Despite the concerns of GRECO and the European Commission.

Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Group of States against Corruption, GRECO, which is a Council of Europe body, has published a draft report criticising the changes to the judicial appointments system proposed in the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017. This follows an extraordinary intervention by the presidents of the five Irish courts. They directly contradict the views of the Government that there has been...

Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017 is scheduled for Report Stage today. I am aware that we cannot have a debate about it now, but a very unusual set of rulings was made by the Chair at committee. Virtually every amendment proposed by the Opposition was ruled out of order on the basis of Standing Order 179(3), that is, on the basis that they proposed to impose a charge on...

Address by Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission (21 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: A Cheann Comhairle, a Chathaoirligh, Monsieur le Président, I join others in welcoming President Juncker and his colleagues, Mr. Michel Barnier and Commissioner Hogan, to the House for an important interaction at a crucial juncture in our history. I have a mere four minutes to set out a few ideas on behalf of my party, the Labour Party. When the Irish economy collapsed in 2008, our...

Seanad: Address by Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission (21 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: A Cheann Comhairle, a Chathaoirligh, Monsieur le Président, I join others in welcoming President Juncker and his colleagues, Mr. Michel Barnier and Commissioner Hogan, to the House for an important interaction at a crucial juncture in our history. I have a mere four minutes to set out a few ideas on behalf of my party, the Labour Party. When the Irish economy collapsed in 2008, our...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (21 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 168. To ask the Minister for Health the average number of ambulances suitable for an echo or delta response; the number of echo and delta response calls; the number of echo and delta response calls that fall outside of the 18 minutes 59 second response time in each of the past five years by county and NUTS 3 regional basis in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27173/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (21 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the average number of qualified ambulance personnel at each grade; the allocated budget and expenditure of the National Ambulance Service in each of the past five years by county and NUTS 3 regional basis in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27174/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (21 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 170. To ask the Minister for Health if he will identify non-service issues for purposes of raising a parliamentary question in relation to the National Ambulance Service. [27175/18]

United States Immigration Policy: Motion (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: At least 50 million people died in the Second World War during which entire towns and cities were reduced to rubble and millions of people across Europe and elsewhere were displaced. One of the greatest mass movements of people took place in the aftermath of that conflagration, but from the ashes of that catastrophe, a new international order was built. Under the guiding hand of one...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It will come as no surprise to the Taoiseach that I raise an issue which is causing great concern in my region of the south east. There have been a number of resignations from psychiatric teams, particularly in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, CAMHS in Wexford. One of the consultant psychiatrists, Dr. Kieran Moore, said that he was resigning from the Wexford team because...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: We could try.