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Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The visit yesterday of the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. Trudeau, was an important one. While socks and jogging might have captured the headlines, it seems clear from Prime Minister Trudeau's comments that he was here for one specific reason, building support for the free trade agreement between Canada and the European Union, CETA. Like most Members of this House, I understand the benefits...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (5 Jul 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 305 of 29 November 2016, if the comprehensive legal advice referred to has been fully analysed; if a decision has been made in the matter of providing ex gratia payments to former employees of LCDP companies made redundant and whereby no moneys were available to fund payments;...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Referendum Campaigns (4 Jul 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I also welcome the clear commitment to have a referendum on the eighth amendment during the course of 2018. I do not want to rehearse or repeat matters that have already been raised by my colleague with which I strongly agree. However, I wish to get some clarification from the Taoiseach. I do not think anybody on any side of the House believes that this Dáil will last a full five-year...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Jul 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I did not want to sound parochial.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Referendum Campaigns (4 Jul 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for constitutional reform. [29974/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Jul 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I wish to focus on two areas, the first being broadband. Most people outside the major cities were profoundly worried about the impact of the delay in the rolling out of broadband. Obviously, I was directly involved in the previous Administration in examining this issue and setting out clearly what would be commercially available and the areas in which the State had to step in. We had...

Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Brendan Howlin: He is a very busy man.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Six months ago RTE first broadcast the "We Need to Talk about Dad" programme and it was aired again last night. Anybody who watched RTE would have been struck by Mr. Brendan Courtney's struggle to care for his dad, Frank, after he was left paralysed by a stroke. The family had to battle to try to get the resources needed to allow him stay in his own home. I and others raised this when the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Jun 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Last September, I published a Bill to propose the regulation of crisis pregnancy counselling in Ireland. The need for legislation in this regard is clear to all by now. As I have said repeatedly, women in crisis pregnancy situations are being abused by charlatans who lie to them. Those rogue agencies are still operating in this city although they have been condemned by those on all sides...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Jun 2017)

Brendan Howlin: When will it happen?

Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The programme for Government promised a new era of transparency in budgetary formation. It was the most important dialogue between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in the formation of Government. It meant we would have the participation of this House in budgetary formation. I suggested the national economic dialogue but it was not simply to be a forum where people came and did what they...

Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2017)

Brendan Howlin: What does that mean?

Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Will it be before the recess?

Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2017)

Brendan Howlin: That is shocking.

Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2017)

Brendan Howlin: That is an outrageous argument.

Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The national economic dialogue has been taking place yesterday and today, but in truth it is a farcical exercise. The dialogue is happening without any indication from Government of what the fiscal space for next year might be. We are asked to discuss expenditure without knowing how much there is to spend. As my colleague, Deputy Burton, noted last week, the summer economic statement - up...

European Council: Statements (28 Jun 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I hope that the Taoiseach enjoyed his first Council meeting. I congratulate the Minister of State on her new responsibilities and wish her well in that regard. It seems from reports that the Taoiseach enjoyed his visit to Brussels and had a busy schedule there. Last week, Deputy Micheál Martin raised with the Taoiseach his frustration with the level of debate and engagement on EU...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (28 Jun 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his telephone conversation and other engagements with President Macron of France. [29973/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (28 Jun 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I agree with the views expressed by Deputy Micheál Martin about citizenship. One would imagine that it would have been a very easy win at the beginning and have established a pattern of goodwill on both sides simply to acknowledge and accommodate fully UK citizens who have been resident for many years in other EU countries and vice versa. That should have been an easy open concession....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Jun 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach thinks out loud.