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Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security Committee (30 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I wish to focus on the security of the State in the light of some of the comments made last week after the horrific bombing in Manchester. It would be extremely naive to think this country would not possibly be the site of an attack. We must have a proper debate about these matters. To put it bluntly, the notion that there is a secret committee examining and hearing about threats to the...

Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Since the formation of the Government we have listened to the Minister, Deputy Ross, pontificate about the dramatic reforms he proposes in the appointment of the Judiciary. It is no exaggeration to say he seems obsessed with an area for which he has no ministerial responsibility. Many of us may have concerns about what he proposes, but we will debate it when it actually happens. Having...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security Committee (30 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the role and functions of the national security committee. [25619/17]

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: In the history of the State - we celebrated the centenary of 1916 last year - our most grievous failing has been in the protection of children. That is why, in Government together, we looked at issues such as constitutional change, a Department for children and a Minister dedicated to children. All of those tasks were done, but have they brought about this cultural change we are talking...

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I do not doubt the Taoiseach's sincerity on this issue, but I think all of us were shocked by the report of the special rapporteur on children and the screening last night by "RTE Investigates". It was a special broadcast looking at the case studies and findings of Dr. Geoffrey Shannon as well as the detail of yet another disturbing case in my own south east region. Dr. Geoffrey Shannon has...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Eligibility (30 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 266. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will expedite the processing of an invalidity pension for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25330/17]

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I am sharing time with my colleague, Deputy Burton. I will take seven minutes if that is acceptable to the House. Anyone charged with investigating serious crime has two basic obligations. The first is to assemble all the information needed to persuade a jury that the accused person has committed a crime. The second is to maintain the integrity of that information and of the...

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Will the Tánaiste acknowledge that it is unacceptable that there are 200,000 vacant homes while we have a homelessness crisis? The figure is not 200 or 2,000. The Government was to have an audit completed and published and a vacant homes strategy published by the end of March. We are now approaching June. All the plans and talk are one thing but when will we see the strategy that was...

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The strategy is two months behind already.

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I also want to focus on housing. There have been regular discussions in this House on the issue of social housing and the housing crisis. From intolerable rent increases to enormous social housing waiting lists to growing homelessness, the situation has been grave for some time now. The Tánaiste is correct in that there have been discussions across parties to develop plans to address...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I raise a different issue, which is of great concern. It is my understanding that, in determining the fiscal space available to the State, the Government decided to disregard the 2015 figures on gross domestic product, GDP. While we happily took the additional corporate taxes generated in this period from the relocation of corporate profits to the island of Ireland, for some very odd reason...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Will the growth figures be accepted?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Renewal Schemes (24 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I raised this issue with the Taoiseach a number of weeks ago. I acknowledged at the time, and since the Taoiseach took the initiative in the summer of last year, that there was a consensus in the House that we could use a model over a number of Dáileanna to invest, improve and transform an area that needed that level of focus and maybe potentially use the model elsewhere if it worked....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Renewal Schemes (24 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach really should try to do it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Renewal Schemes (24 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach could not keep him away.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Economy, Trade and Jobs last met; and when it next intends to meet. [24723/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Renewal Schemes (24 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a progress update on the recommendations of the Mulvey report on the north inner city; and when he will appoint an independent executive chair, as committed to in February 2017. [24368/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Clearly, as in the case of all his foreign excursions, the Taoiseach was certainly not idle; he had a full programme. I want to ask the Taoiseach about two issues. First, he has acknowledged that he discussed with the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. Trudeau, the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, which we now call CETA. The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Will it be this side of the summer break?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I only asked one question.