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- Questions - Ceisteanna: Brexit Issues (12 Jun 2018)
Brendan Howlin: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister May in Sofia. [22706/18]
- Questions - Ceisteanna: Brexit Issues (12 Jun 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Most of us are becoming very fearful of the direction of travel in the negotiations, despite what was said last December. The Taoiseach warned the withdrawal agreement would be in question if progress was not made by the June Council. Specifically, he stated that "if we are not making real and substantial progress by June then we need to seriously question whether we are going to have a...
- Questions - Ceisteanna: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Jun 2018)
Brendan Howlin: There is a bit of an overlap.
- Questions - Ceisteanna: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Jun 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I take it we will leave the bilateral discussion questions on Brexit to the next group. I raised previously the issue of extending membership of the Union and whether that is something that has a horizon. Is there a timeframe now for the countries in the western Balkans joining? Was that laid out in any great detail? Is there a sequencing? Is the next expansion going to happen within...
- Questions - Ceisteanna: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Jun 2018)
Brendan Howlin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the meetings he attended in Sofia, Bulgaria. [22462/18]
- Order of Business (12 Jun 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I do not think there is a Deputy in the House who does not have a number of queries in his or her constituency office about the mobility allowance and the replacement scheme that has been promised for some considerable time. I understand the complexity of the issue and the difficulty in drafting the replacement scheme but we have waited for it for an inordinate amount of time.
- Order of Business (12 Jun 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I will ignore that comment.
- Order of Business (12 Jun 2018)
Brendan Howlin: There was a difficulty following advice from the Attorney General regarding the legal framework that defined the existing mobility allowance. We need certainty now. The Government in which the Labour Party was involved promised that there would be a replacement scheme but it has taken time to work it out.
- Order of Business (12 Jun 2018)
Brendan Howlin: When will we see the scheme?
- Order of Business (12 Jun 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Will it be this side of the summer recess?
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)
Brendan Howlin: They are only out of order for parliamentary questions.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)
Brendan Howlin: It is shocking.
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ministerial Meetings (12 Jun 2018)
Brendan Howlin: 1253. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the representations made to her by the equine and related industries in the past 12 months seeking alterations to or derogation from the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 and its associated regulations; the way in which she plans to respond to these representations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25364/18]
- Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)
Brendan Howlin: They know that is nonsense. It is a lovely soundbite but unconstitutional and unfeasible. It is not real. People need real solutions. If we embrace the measures we have here to give security of tenure to tenants and to give security to landlords too in a balanced way in order that they can invest in properties and bring unused properties back into use and at the same time invest heavily...
- Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)
Brendan Howlin: First thing.
- Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I thank everyone who has contributed to the debate. In particular, I thank Deputy Healy for acknowledging that every Labour Party Minister has always prioritised housing and produced thousands of houses, as he said.
- Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I am very glad that was acknowledged. Deputy Murphy said we could have built houses in 2011. In 2011, the country was on its knees. Our indebtedness was 30% of GDP, which was higher than that of Zimbabwe. That was a nominal figure. The actual figure, even taking out the bank debt, was 11% of GDP. We had no money to spend. Deputy Murphy thinks we could borrow the money from the European...
- Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)
Brendan Howlin: They are not.
- Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)
Brendan Howlin: I can show the Minister of State an estate in my constituency which a developer built and where eight houses were bought by the local authority.
- Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)
Brendan Howlin: They were not built to order. These were private developments.