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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his St. Patrick's Day visit to the United States of America. [12796/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I share the general assessment and view expressed by the previous two speakers. I want to ask the Taoiseach a number of specific questions if he has the opportunity to listen. There has been a lack of clarity about the Taoiseach's view of the specific proposal to appoint a special envoy to Northern Ireland. Is it something he welcomes? Is it something he has asked for? What is his...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: This is a perennial issue, but I understand that we are now taking 16 questions in the first tranche, varying from dealing with the undocumented to a meeting with the governor of Texas. In the third tranche we are taking one question. It seems that we have to do things better than to give 15 minutes to 16 questions and then 15 minutes to one question.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I am happy for the Deputy to ask it.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It is important.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I ask for an update on the national review of specialist cardiac services. The Taoiseach will be well aware that this matter is very much to the fore of the minds of all Deputies from the south east. We were to have a review of cardiac services in the south east commencing last August. This has now been subsumed into the national review. There is growing and real concern in the south east...

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: That has nothing to do with the Bill.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: That is outrageous.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: To paraphrase the unfortunate words of a UK special advisor on 9/11, yesterday was a good day to bury bad news. While the Government was taking the unprecedented step of expelling a Russian diplomat in solidarity with another country, the Taoiseach's Department managed to get out the bad news, publishing the reports on the Strategic Communications Unit and the Collins report on the...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I would like the Taoiseach to address the central issue here, which is that we do not have reliable crime statistics in this State. For the Taoiseach to welcome the publication of statistics that the CSO, our independent statistics office, cannot stand over is quite worrying. An officer of the CSO said on national radio this morning that they were the best available statistics, but are...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (28 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the contributions, proposals or changes his department made to the EU proposal for a transition period and the proposed future relationship of the UK with the EU. [5755/18]

Government Response to Salisbury Attack: Statements (27 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Like the Tánaiste, I too would like to begin by expressing sadness and empathy on my behalf and that of the Labour Party for the people of the Russian city Kemerovo on the appalling tragedy they have endured in recent days. The attack in Salisbury on 4 March with a rare chemical weapon is a shocking and worrying development in international affairs. The nature of the attack is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Prime Minister of Luxembourg. [13984/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the President of the European Council, Mr. Donald Tusk, on 8 March 2018. [12795/18]

Order of Business (27 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The motion is tomorrow.

Order of Business (27 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I pointed out this morning that as this suggestion was carried in five national newspapers today, presumably it was promulgated by the Government itself. For the new Bill to require a two-thirds majority of this House to amend would be unconstitutional. I too would be interested to know whether that is being entertained, because several Ministers were reported in the newspapers as saying...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Papal Visit (27 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department is involved in preparations for the visit of Pope Francis in August 2018. [13983/18]

Order of Business (27 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: On Wednesday's business, No. 9a, motion regarding the report of the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government under Standing Order 114 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the quality of water intended for human consumption, I do not know what that recommendation is and the Labour Party does not have a member on the committee. I...

Order of Business (27 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Perhaps the Chair of the committee might respond.

Order of Business (27 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: How can we accept a motion without debate when we have not seen what the resolution is or what the reasoning is?