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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: On Monday, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, published a ground-breaking report on precarious work entitled, Insecure and Uncertain: Precarious work in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The report found that 160,000 people or 8% of the workforce are experiencing significant variations in their hours of work from week to week. This has serious ramifications for workers'...

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

Brendan Howlin: One area where NESC has been helpful and successful in the past is sustainable development. The Taoiseach referenced the NESC work programme. Will he indicate whether the council intends to take on any work in respect of climate change? When a former Minister and current EU Commissioner - someone the Taoiseach knows well - is calling on Ireland to wake up soon, we know it is time for us to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: In the minute and a half I have I wish to focus on the capital plan. The Taoiseach has repeatedly told us that the Government intends to publish a ten-year capital plan. That is a momentous event because it will tie the next two Dáileanna to a capital programme that he and this House will determine. How can we have an input into the plan? I accept that things will be tweaked over...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D - infrastructure - last met; and when it will meet again. [52000/17]

Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: On the same matter, the Taoiseach will be aware that the Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill passed Second Stage in February. It has been on Committee Stage for nine months. For nine months, we have been awaiting the very thing he has now announced, which is for the Minister of State to bring forward amendments that were promised. When various Members of this House raised the...

Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: With the Ceann Comhairle's permission, I would like to express my sympathy to the family and friends of those involved in the horrific road traffic accident that occurred in my own constituency of Wexford, on the New Ross road, last night. I empathise with the emergency response personnel, the gardaí and the ambulance crews, and indeed local people who arrived on what was a scene of...

Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I ask that it be referred to the committee.

Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Army Chief of Staff could come in.

Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Any matter that impinges on defence is a matter of great sensitivity for the Members of this House and, more importantly, for the people of this country. We all engaged in a great deal of introspection immediately after the initial defeat of the referendum on the Lisbon treaty. One of the things that became evident at that time was the need for mechanisms in this House to accommodate proper...

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: However disappointed all of us are at the turn of events yesterday, obviously we are all now required to look forward and not back. Has the Taoiseach had discussions with Michel Barnier since the events of noon yesterday? Has he ascertained his position as the mandated negotiator on behalf of the EU 27? How can Mr. Barnier and his negotiating team sit down and negotiate to a conclusion a...

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Long before the Brexit referendum, it was clear that Brexit presented a mortal threat to the soft Border between Ireland and Northern Ireland and the peace process that had been built up by so many people over many decades. The Labour Party has consistently supported the position adopted by the Government on the commitment required by the people of this island from the British Government to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ship Disposal (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 440. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the resources his Department has devoted to the removal of abandoned boats around the coast; the powers local authorities have to force owners to remove such boats; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51968/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ship Disposal (5 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 454. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the resources his Department has devoted to the removal of abandoned boats around the coast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51967/17]

Legal Proceedings against Members of Dáil Éireann: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Unlike the previous speaker, I will not try to determine what the decision will be of the High Court which constitutionally is independent. We should not be making decisions for it on the floor of the House. All Members of the House have to live by the Constitution. Bunreacht na hÉireann is the basic law to which we are all obliged to adhere. Article 16(2)(ii) is crystal clear. The...

Legal Proceedings against Members of Dáil Éireann: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I commend former Deputy Joe Costello - I hop he will be a Deputy in the future - for taking the initiative and seeking to ensure his constituents will be properly represented numerically in the next Dáil.

Legal Proceedings against Members of Dáil Éireann: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I commend the Business Committee for the alacrity with which it has responded to the legal proceedings initiated by him.

Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Nov 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill was published last July. Last summer, it was the stated intention of the new Minister to get the Bill through before the summer recess. Meanwhile, a new Social Welfare Bill has been published and is progressing. We are now waiting nearly half a year for detailed amendments to come from the Government that would address the complex...

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2017)

Brendan Howlin: That is appreciated.

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I appreciate the Tánaiste's reply and understand he cannot give me a comprehensive response on the Casement Aerodrome issues. I look forward to either a direct briefing or a written response in due course. I have full knowledge of pay issues in dealing with the public service as a whole, but there is a compelling case to be made for separating out the Defence Forces for a bespoke...

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2017)

Brendan Howlin: In addition to his other duties the Taoiseach has retained for himself the role of Minister for Defence. It is not clear to me that he takes any real responsibility for the area of Defence. It is not acceptable for a Cabinet Minister to simply delegate the entire responsibility for a Government Department to a Minister of State. The Taoiseach does not answer parliamentary questions on the...