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Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: That's right.

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Getting all three re-elected is the thing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I join the Cathaoirleach in welcoming the Minister of State. I also will begin by paying tribute to the late John Bruton. I was privileged to be a member of the rainbow Government from 1994 to 1997 under his Taoiseachship and found him to be an excellent chairman of the Cabinet and an exemplary statesman. We all have had our opportunities to pay tribute to him but it is appropriate at a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Is it an informal paper too?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Enlargement (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Georgia engaged a lot with us.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I would first make it crystal clear that while the litany of abuse against the Palestinian people is decades long, shocking and horrible, there is no excuse whatever for the wanton murder carried out by Hamas on 7 October. My question is directly in relation to the provisional measures that will hopefully be announced tomorrow. One of the calls relating to those measures relates to an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Is Question No. 75 not included in the grouping?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: It is on the same issue of the legal case against Israel by South Africa in the International Court of Justice.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Is it?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Thank you.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I begin by condemning utterly the threats that were made against Jeffrey Donaldson and that he spoke about in the House of Commons yesterday. There is no room on any part of this island or anywhere else for threats of physical violence against any political person. Does the Tánaiste agree with me that the Northern Ireland governance framework which was so hard-won over so many years...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: What will happen on 8 February?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Does the Tánaiste agree that the fundamental problem with the DUP and Sinn Féin in the build-up to a settlement is that neither will move on something fundamental and important if they feel that there is any segment of their own party who will not move with them? Others, particularly in Northern Ireland, took risks to move matters along, but those parties in particular seem...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I think most of us would agree that the objections of Hungary are contrived. The specifics regarding Ukraine are not real. It is a twofold attempt, first, to publicly manifest support for Russia and, second, to blackmail the rest of the EU Council into easing sanctions against Hungary over rule-of-law issues. I would be interested to hear the Tánaiste's view on that. I am also...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: What about the Fico discussions?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide details of the contact he has had with the Northern Ireland Secretary of State since the beginning of the year; the efforts made by him to encourage a restoration of the Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3130/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 6. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he expects an agreement to be reached at the EU Council on the Special Fund for Ukraine; the discussions he has had with other EU Foreign Ministers on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3131/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: My question concerns support for Ukraine. The ongoing onslaught on Ukraine by Russia is a daily occurrence. There are so many terrible events happening in the world that sometimes our focus on Ukraine is diminished. However, it will need the support of the EU just to maintain normal functioning as a state. I am interested to hear his view on whether that will come about.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: It is crystal clear that we cannot simply have a situation where one country, Hungary with Viktor Orbán, is simply blackmailing the rest of the European Union first for his own ends in terms of his unhidden support for Putin, but also to leverage other matters within the European Union so that there would be no sanctions against Hungary on the rule of law issues. What specifically will...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Those are important.