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Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I am sure there are others but the Minister of State must accept the point. Half of the so-called "council builds" were actually purchased. That is instead of having two streams to bring homes onto the market, one involving houses built by local authorities as they used to do when we had housing departments buying land years in advance, servicing it and building according to need, and a...

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Print the money.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Agreements with Members (30 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he has specific deals or arrangements with Independent Deputies. [23584/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Requests (30 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the number of freedom of information requests his Department has received to date in 2018. [23582/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (30 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the implementation of A Programme for a Partnership Government. [21242/18]

Referendum of 25 May: Statements (29 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I said yesterday that for many people Saturday was a day of great excitement and that for some of us it was equally a day of relief. Clearly, 35 years is a long time to wait to repeal a measure we opposed in the first place. When I was in the Seanad in 1983 we came close to defeating the amendment. I recognise that would not have stopped the referendum in 1983. It would merely have...

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: What of interim arrangements?

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It will not be enacted.

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Like others, I have raised a number of times with the Taoiseach the issue of legislation to remove the mandatory retirement age in the public service. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform promised this would be before the House in this session. Extending the retirement age voluntarily would give comfort to many people who are now reaching retirement age and are not quite clear how...

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I suggest that we do not conclude the statements. If we do what is scheduled for today and simply adjourn the debate and hold it when the Business Committee can fit it in later in the week, for a more considered debate than we would have in five minutes.

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I agree with the Taoiseach 100% on the value of both the Constitutional Convention and the Citizens' Assembly. Originally it was former Deputy Eamon Gilmore's idea. Even within the Labour Party, he had some convincing to do on the idea that another forum would have merit. However, the model has proven its worth. One of its values is that it depoliticises an issue for a while. In other...

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Too often the profession of politics has a bad name in this country. The result of the referendum over the weekend, however, showed Irish politics and the Irish people at their best. The credit lies with the thousands, mostly women, who campaigned long and hard for the result and those who told their stories bravely and often for the first time. It lies with those in Together for Yes,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Referendum Campaigns (29 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 64. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the referendum campaign on the eighth amendment. [18940/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (29 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 599. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23322/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Both of the Minister's predecessors had long conversations about that matter but they never resolved it.

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Dáil has descended into farce on a number of occasions in recent weeks. The Government is incapable of moving its own legislation through Report Stage and the "dog's dinner", to borrow a phrase from the Attorney General, that was the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill has become even worse. Deputies who oppose a different Bill are speaking at length on it to use up time and that...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Today the House will sit from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on statements on worthy topics but legislation is the most important part and we need to make progress. Although I know it is a matter for the Business Committee, will the Government propose to keep the Dáil sitting as long as it takes next week to deal with the Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill once and for all? Will it withdraw the Judicial...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It is a dog's dinner now.

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: On the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill, the Government has the power to withdraw it. It obviously cannot be amended now.

Leaders' Questions (24 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I agree with the Tánaiste. I think the most impactive thing for me in the campaign over the past number of months was the personal stories that complete strangers would tell you on the doorstep much less in public fora. People, I could name them, came to meetings around the country and in my constituency of Wexford to talk and share their experiences for the first time. Those stories...