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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Scottish First Minister. [44894/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Does the Taoiseach have a definitive date for the publication of the capital plan? We should agree the national planning framework at least in tandem with, if not before, we allocate money under the capital plan. It seems we are now pushing back the date for finalising the national planning framework and I agree with that because there are many new submissions to come in. We need to get it...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: It is amazing, is it not?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D (infrastructure) will next meet. [44892/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the publication of the final national risk assessment 2017 overview of strategic risks. [41719/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: If one did not want to sleep at night, one should read the national risk assessment report, which outlines everything that could potentially befall us. The issue of Brexit is central to the assessment but changes to our climate have the potential for even greater harm. We have witnessed Hurricane Ophelia and the enormous damage that it did to our country, including the taking of three...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Page 71 of the programme for Government notes that the Government intends to introduce legislation for the introduction of a new mobility scheme to assist those with disabilities in meeting their increased mobility costs. As the Taoiseach is aware, four years have passed since the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant scheme closed following concerns raised by the Ombudsman about...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Hear, hear.

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Is there an allocation of funding for next year?

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: It is from the Chairman of the committee.

Catalonia: Statements (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I will start by quoting a statement from the Catalonian President with which I profoundly agree. Carles Puigdemont told his parliament on 10 October:The current moment is serious enough for everyone to assume their corresponding responsibility, and for the necessity to de-escalate tension and not to contribute to it, neither through word nor gesture... [T]he way forward can be none other...

Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I join others in warmly welcoming the release of Ibrahim Halawa and thank the consular section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the embassy staff in Cairo. I was very happy to be part of the delegation earlier this year and I am glad that this has come to a happy conclusion. More than two years ago, I published the general scheme of the data sharing and governance Bill,...

Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I have one question on tomorrow's business. During Leaders' Question, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade said that the Minister for Finance would make a statement on the tracker mortgage scandal. Is it envisaged that this will happen during Fianna Fáil Private Members' time or will there be a separate statement in the House during Government time?

Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Will that be before his statement?

Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: It is unusual for the Minister to make a formal statement on a major issue such as this during Opposition time.

Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: There should be a separate statement and we should be given the opportunity to ask questions.

Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: We have just heard from the Minister that the Minister for Finance intends to make a formal statement on an issue in respect of which Members have been engaged in debate for the past two weeks.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Data (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated fiscal space available in 2019 to 2021 following budget 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44806/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2018 (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 113. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the full estimated year cost in 2019 of spending measures announced in budget 2018; the impact on the fiscal space available for budget 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44807/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Quality and Qualifications Ireland (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his plans to implement the findings of a report (details supplied) into the operation and organisation of Quality and Qualifications Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44777/17]