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Tributes on Retirement of Member of Staff (26 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: She actually abolished it.

Tributes on Retirement of Member of Staff (26 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I am truly delighted to have the opportunity to say a few words about Marie. She has looked after Labour Party tables for many years. There used to be Labour Party tables, plural. Those who are around as long as I am will remember that Marie's late mum, Peg, and Peg's close associate Isabelle, overlapped Marie's sterling service here. Marie knows more State secrets and Members' foibles...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Projects (25 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: This is a broad canvas. Quite frankly, an awful lot of good has been done. I want to acknowledge that and the initiatives taken by the Taoiseach's predecessor. There is some transformative work being done. I just want to concentrate on one little aspect of that broad canvas, namely, the area of the national drugs strategy and its implications. I do not think we can actually tackle the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Projects (25 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: That is shocking; it is not true. The Taoiseach knows that Deputy Jan O'Sullivan did remarkable work.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Projects (25 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: This is incredibly partisan.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Projects (25 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Why is the Taoiseach being so deliberately bitter?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It was a hotbed of Bolshevism.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Projects (25 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the status of improvements being made on the Dublin inner city forum. [17616/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the role of his Department in the annual 1916 commemoration. [16664/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. He said his Department co-ordinates the 1916 commemoration. I think we can all agree that we had a wonderful centenary in 2016, but in a general sense the annual event needs more focus. Will the Taoiseach review the nature of it? I noted that the Taoiseach had Rahm Emanuel as a guest. Is there an official guest list? That might be a good idea and...

Business of Dáil (25 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I want to raise a point of order because I want to give an opportunity to the Taoiseach. Yesterday, I raised a question on Leaders' Questions and the Taoiseach may have inadvertently misled the Dáil. He said, when I raised the issue of voluntary contributions in schools:Voluntary contributions are permissible provided it is made absolutely clear to parents that there is no question of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C, European Union, including Brexit, last met; and when it will next meet. [16661/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. The Brexit stakeholders forum meets periodically is of very great use and is an important innovation to continue. I want to ask the Taoiseach about what I discern to be a slight difference of opinion between himself and the Tánaiste on the timetabling of critical decisions. The Tánaiste has repeatedly made it clear that June really is...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The State cannot be impotent. Otherwise PPPs are pointless.

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Government is impotent, not idle.

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Does the Minister have a timeline for these schools?

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister cannot be a bystander.

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: No, I never was.

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: We had to do it.

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I wish to return to the schools building programme and particularly to the PPP school bundle 5, which I first raised in January. The difficulties caused by the liquidation of Carillion have been compounded somewhat with the de facto construction company, the Sammon Group, going into examinership more recently. Six schools are at stake here. They are located in my own constituency of...