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

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach is reported as having said during his visit to Northern Ireland that the tectonic plates were shifting. My understanding is the tectonic plates shift very slowly, but, whether they are speeding up, the Taoiseach's meaning is that there are significant shifts in opinions on the constitutional status of Northern Ireland. That will be in very sharp focus in the event of a hard...

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

Brendan Howlin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Northern Ireland; the meetings he held; and the issues discussed. [26546/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Will it be published?

Business of Dáil: Motion (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Is that a motion circulated by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and has it been circulated yet?

Business of Dáil: Motion (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Will that be determined by the Business Committee or who is to determine what the motion should look like? Has it been run past the parties?

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I want to raise a matter of secondary legislation with the Taoiseach. Members will be aware that the report of the local government boundary commission was published last week. It was my understanding that the Government had made a commitment to the former boroughs that they would be stand alone municipal districts. Subsequent to the publication of the plan I have had discussions with the...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Taoiseach for his response. The Rape Crisis Network Ireland is the co-ordinating body of rape crisis centres and provides valuable support to them. It was surprised to be placed under the remit of Tusla. While this was an organisational matter, there is an understanding that the network is not being given the priority it merits in the context of the many different pressures...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: That is patronising.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: In my first Leaders' Questions as party leader, I read out some of the shocking statistics from the 2015 Women's Aid report. The latest version of that report records that there were 19,385 disclosures of domestic abuse against women and children, including 607 cases of sexual abuse. According to Garda statistics last year, 2,947 sexual offences were committed in Ireland, of which 655 were...

Apology for Persons Convicted of Consensual Same-Sex Sexual Acts: Motion (19 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: We have moved within a generation from a time when gay men and women were an alien and shunned phenomenon to one where sexuality in all its expressions can be fully celebrated. That change has been dramatic but politicians and political parties can claim only part of the credit. Civil society and civil organisations have been the pathfinders on this reform and none more so than Senator...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Global Footprint Initiative (19 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It worked for Justin Trudeau.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Global Footprint Initiative (19 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach listed several new locations for diplomatic missions to be opened. Are we preparing the additional staff now so that we will have a sufficient, robust, trained and experienced cohort to move into these missions? Some of these are small missions and would not have a cohort of mentoring staff available. I note the proposal for Japan includes a new Ireland House that will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Global Footprint Initiative (19 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding his commitment to double Ireland's global footprint; and his plans for visits abroad to support same. [26545/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: As we have heard, the Taoiseach spoke on the phone to the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. Trudeau, in the aftermath of the Irish referendum. Since the phonecall, the G7 meeting descended into total acrimony with extraordinary things being said by the American President about the Canadian Prime Minister and the American administration has subsequently begun to impose tariffs on global trade and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Prime Minister of South Korea. [26544/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach should go digital.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: For the purposes of clarity, it is my understanding the legislation to enact the outcome of the referendum on the eighth amendment will be published in the timeframe set out. The Bill will be published in the first week of July. There is no impediment to that happening.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Subject to it being drafted, there is no impediment to publishing it. Let me raise a different issue. The Government has indicated that it will support the Labour Party's Bill to update the law on harassment. The Taoiseach will be aware that there has been controversy in the United Kingdom about the blocking of a Bill to deal with the offence of upskirting. The Harassment, Harmful...

Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: As soon as possible.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I support the call from Deputy Coppinger for the House to take a stand on this issue. Most of us thought that things could not get any worse but this new low, involving the separation of infants and toddlers from their parents in order to intimidate the parents, is shocking. We must be very clear in the stance taken across all benches in this House and we must make our views known to the...