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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Administrative Arrangements (6 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the number of political staff he has now appointed; and his plans for further appointments. [51722/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation (6 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister thinks 80% of it has been done.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Membership (6 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. On the specific role of the national security committee, has it given consideration to a matter I raised with the Taoiseach previously, namely, the need for a bespoke security agency which would separate security considerations from An Garda Síochána, leaving the Garda as a policing organisation and taking all the elements of security it...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Membership (6 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: How many levels are there?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Membership (6 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: That is correct.

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: That is impossible.

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The very thing the Ceann Comhairle said cannot be done.

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Yesterday I proposed to the House that this matter would be referred to the defence committee, and I understood there was broad agreement on it, so that it would be capable of calling witnesses and the Army would be able to present at it, but now I understand that a joke is being made of that proposal. It is going to the defence committee but it is coming back here tomorrow, so there is no...

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: There is no doubt about it.

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: It is over a year since the Government announced in budget 2017 its intention to pursue an affordable child care scheme. Many parents across Ireland have since seen their child care costs increase well above any subsidy provided by the State. As the Taoiseach knows, the universal subsidy is worth about €80 per month. I know of one example where parents faced an increase of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme Applications (6 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the minor works grant is being paid to primary schools; and if so, when payment will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52140/17]

Situation in Syria: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I commend Deputies Daly and Wallace on using their scarce parliamentary time on this important issue. The conflict in Syria, as others have said, is the world's gravest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. Millions of people have been displaced, both inside and beyond the borders of Syria, and more than half a million people are believed to have been killed since 2011, the vast...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Yes, that is correct. There are too many such matters.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: We know all of that. What is the Minister going to do about it?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister will recall that the Toland group was set up by a Government of which we were both members to deal with fundamental issues of concern in the Department of Justice and Equality. I listened with some dismay to the initial response from the Minister. The five issues the independent review group first identified were a closed, secretive, silo-driven culture; significant leadership...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Does the Minister reject Toland?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister opened by saying he was informed that 80% of the Toland recommendations have been implemented. He concluded by saying that the Department is now outward-looking and there has been cultural change, as if the realities of the past two weeks have not happened. If that is the mindset, I despair. The Minister said all the work of reform is well under way and is, in fact, well...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Are we taking my question now as well?

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Government may need to come up with a name other than the renewable heat programme.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee A - economy - will next meet. [50202/17]