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Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Or there might be another Deputy to speak.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (9 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 282. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 449 of 26 September 2023, if it is his intention to appoint members of the Social Economic Environmental Association (SEEFA) to the Forestry Programme Consultative Committee, since SEEFA is the largest private sector representative association; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: What is the alternative?

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Is the Minister of State going to answer questions?

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I see. I think we are all of one mind that the first imperative, as I said repeatedly in my contribution, is to have a ceasefire to stop the killing right now. I am interested in hearing the Minister of State's view on that. It is clear the Taoiseach's efforts at the European Council to achieve a consensus calling for a ceasefire from the EU 27 have not worked. There are strongly held...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Clearly, one issue dominated the European Council and, indeed, dominates all our thoughts in this House, in this country and in Europe and beyond. The carnage we are witnessing on a daily basis in Gaza is truly sickening. Our first priority must be to halt the killing, to have a ceasefire. This House united in that regard when the vote was put. I welcome the efforts of the Taoiseach to...

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Well, pay them.

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I compliment my colleague, Deputy Duncan Smith, on his long advocacy for home care workers and home care support, and for tabling the motion. No Member of this House has not struggled with difficult cases from constituents desperate to continue living at home or families desperate to have loved ones come home from long-term hospital care, only to be told again and again that there is no home...

Extension of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (7 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Income tax was introduced as a temporary measure, for example.

Extension of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (7 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I suppose if the Minister of State could talk about quad bikes it is all right to talk about Louth in the same motion. This is a simple motion but an important one because it impacts on every community in the country. As the Minister of State outlined, it provides for the continuation of what we all agree is desirable and wanted across the country, that is, the ability to have outdoor dining...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (7 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 1215. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who has a full medical card, is being charged for blood tests by their GP surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48086/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 1412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will set out the current position in relation to providing a public service contract and access to an incremental salary scale for tutors employed by ETBs on an hourly paid rate; the outcome of discussions his Department has had with trade union representatives on this issue; when an improved contract will be offered; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (19 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will set out the supports his Department offers to students living in the Republic of Ireland who are studying in universities and colleges of further education in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45810/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (19 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review an application for a SUSI grant for a person (details supplied) who returned to third-level education as a mature student; if he will review the requirement that a three year gap occurs between leaving a course and commencing a further course to qualify for a SUSI grant, regardless of personal circumstances; and if he will...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Deputy Bacik will take the last two minutes of my time. We have witnessed a level of ongoing savagery and brutality in Israel and Palestine in the past two weeks that has shocked the world. The savage attack on Israeli men, women and children on 7 October and the taking of 250 hostages by Hamas are inexcusable and deplorable. The response by Israel, in the bombardment of Gaza, the levelling...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Motion (18 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: They can be moved later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: What questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I think there is such a myriad of individual programmes and schemes that the vast bulk of people really do not know about them. My concern has always been that it will become a specialist area. There are people who throw out acronyms that blind most people all the time. I co-chaired the SEUPB as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for five years. Very significant amounts of money...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Assistance with financing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Is that the regional assembly's job or the county council's job?