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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: International Agreements (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 27. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the approach of the Government to the decision of the United States of America to reimpose sanctions on Iran and the consequences for a rules-based international order; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21367/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: International Agreements (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Last week the United States unilaterally repudiated the 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran. Will the Tánaiste outline the implications for the international order and for the countries of the European Union of that decision?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: International Agreements (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: That is the net issue I want to pursue. I am very concerned about the implications for the international order. How do we embark, for example, on negotiations in relation to the Korean Peninsula if one party can unilaterally tear up an agreement when everybody has agreed that the other party is fulfilling the terms of the agreement? Specifically, we cannot allow the United States to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: International Agreements (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: All deals by their nature are imperfect and I do not think any country ever enters into a deal that it regards as perfect, but the Iranian agreement was regarded by all the participant countries, who freely signed up to the deal, as being the best achievable, and everybody is compliant with it. I dare say if a similar deal could be contracted with North Korea, the current American...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Does she?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Yesterday, Michel Barnier told Ministers that little progress has been made on the issue of Ireland since the March announcement. Time is getting very tight. We understand the British Cabinet is today meeting in the two structured committees, one looking at the so-called customs partnership and the other the so-called maximum facilitation. Neither is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It sounds cosmetic.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policy Functions (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: What about the Ireland East group?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times Cabinet committee C, European Union, including Brexit, has met to date in 2018; when it plans to meet next; and the persons attending. [21022/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Overarching.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policy Functions (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [21021/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policy Functions (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: With regard to the public sector reform initiative which was very strongly driven in the last Administration, is it happening, in effect, under one Minister with the amalgamation of the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform? In particular with regard to making senior administrators accountable, we had embarked on a Secretary General's analysis system....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I would not recommend it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee G, justice and equality, last met; and when it is next scheduled to meet. [21020/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Will he bring the House up to speed on the position regarding the appointment of a new Garda Commissioner? The deadline for applications was 12 April last. Will this be a stand-alone appointment or is it envisaged that there will be a strengthening support base for whomever is appointed? The Taoiseach referred to the Commission on the Future of...

Order of Business (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I have made my comments on Gaza. I am happy that we will have an opportunity to discuss the matter later today. I want to raise a different issue with the Taoiseach now. It is one I have raised on several occasions. As a consequence of the collapse of Carillion in January and the Sammon Group subsequently going into examinership, the completion of the construction of a bundle of six...

Order of Business (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It was moved by the Business Committee.

Order of Business (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: What is Deputy Paul Murphy's counter proposal?

Order of Business (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: At what time?

Order of Business (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Agreed.