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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach's trip to Lebanon to visit the 343 Irish troops serving with the UN-mandated UNIFIL mission was important and I commend him for it. I also welcome his decision to lay a wreath in memory of the 47 Irish soldiers who had lost their lives in the pursuit of peace in the region since 1978. Will he indicate whether he had any political meeting during his trip? If so, whom did he...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Lebanon and his engagements there. [54821/17]
- Order of Business (30 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister of State at the Department of Health with special responsibility for disability issues has announced that the Cabinet has decided to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and he stated that the Government will bring a resolution to this effect before the Dáil. The Disabilities (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016 passed Second Stage...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: As the Tánaiste knows, there is a gender pay gap in Ireland of 13.9%. The Government's legislative agenda, published last week, lists the gender pay dap (wage transparency) Bill, and I welcome that. However, the Labour Party has had a Bill before the Seanad for some considerable time. In fact, it has passed both Second Stage and Committee Stage and is now on Report Stage. What are...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The Labour Party Bill is built on the recommendations of the Law Reform Commission report. While it is not within our power to propose the establishment of the digital safety commissioner we can, in the next few weeks, update our antiquated law to include the offences of sending grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing communications to new modern technology. The Oireachtas has...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The Law Reform Commission is not simple.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The horrific criminal case of a 26 year old man who has pleaded guilty to grooming girls as young as nine has shocked the country. It follows a number of recent and news reports on the types of harmful communications that new technology has enabled. These range from the appalling case that I just referenced to the insidious type of cyberbullying that is now a grave concern for many parents...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: We are taking it this week and I hope we will have all-party support for it.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: No, I introduced legislation here and we are taking it next week in Private Members' time.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The Government is leaving that to third parties.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Is that January?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: We put a 10% cap on it.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Absolutely.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Management companies will do so to an extent.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: My question relates to the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015, which is important legislation that was passed before the marriage equality referendum. It was the view of the previous Government that it needed to be passed before that referendum was put to the country. It amends the law to extend parental rights and responsibilities to non-traditional families and it was long...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: Last Friday, I visited the completed Loreto college in Wexford town. It is a fantastic facility. We were told that pupils would be occupying the building yesterday. It is one of six schools in the schools public private partnership, PPP, bundle 5. Of these schools, 90% are complete and a couple are in turnkey condition. The principal of Coláiste Ráithín in Bray has said he...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The selling point for PPPs is that if one of the partners collapses, then, legally, the remaining partner must take on the responsibility. In this case, that is the Dutch Infrastructure Fund, one of the largest conglomerates in Europe involved in PPPs. This will involve serious reputational problems for it and it will be anxious to resolve this matter, so I was assured last week. Why is...
- Reception Conditions Directive: Motion (23 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: This proposal is a belated response to a long-running scandal. All of us have become somewhat inured to the unconscionable delays in the asylum seeking decision-making process. As Minister of State, my colleague Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin invited Mr. Justice Bryan MacMahon and a group of experts to review the whole asylum system in 2014 and that investigation resulted in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (23 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: More vigour from the Chair is obviously required.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (23 Jan 2018)
Brendan Howlin: At least €5 million is being spent on this unit, one would have to do something.