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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Visits (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply. Although there are very good links between Ireland and France, there is capacity for even greater links in a post-Brexit environment. One of the perverse positive outcomes of Brexit was the growth in direct connectivity between Ireland and France, with direct sailings from Rosslare to France, and indeed to Belgium, rising from six per week to 46 per...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Visits (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: In recent times France has appointed a number of honorary consuls across the regions of Ireland, including one in Wexford. Does the Tánaiste have any plans to appoint honorary French consuls to represent Ireland in the regions of France to deepen that new connectivity? Nick Thomas-Symonds is the British Cabinet Office minister who last week briefed the Oireachtas Joint Committee on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 17. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action he has taken to date to address the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Sudan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36389/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 25. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set out the contacts he has had with UN and EU Member States concerning the urgent need to have a ceasefire in Gaza, in particular his contacts with US, Egyptian and Qatari representatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36390/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 39. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he has taken to mobilise international opposition to the huge increase in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36391/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is working with like-minded colleagues in the European Union to develop a strategy to combat the rise of far-right actors across Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36394/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will review the regulations under the warmer homes scheme to allow works to be grant aided to households that are in particular hardship, but are slightly outside the age of homes which qualify under existing regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40687/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport he is aware of the lack of EV charging points in the Rosslare Europort and Rosslare Strand tourist area; the plans to address this obvious deficit in one of our main gateway ports and tourist areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40710/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Union-United Kingdom Trade: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their written presentations, which were helpful. Brexit has been an unprecedented disruptor. I know it is the job of the witnesses to be positive but the best we have been doing in recent years, both with the trade and co-operation agreement and in negotiating the Windsor Framework, has been to mitigate as far as we can the negative impacts of that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Union-United Kingdom Trade: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: That is good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Union-United Kingdom Trade: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Dr. Mathieson might send me an email on that.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (3 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 83. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of the difficulty being experienced by companies in the motor industry, including companies with HGVs, buses, domestic and commercial vehicles, in finding trained technicians and mechanics; if work permits for vehicle technicians are limited by his Department; if he is satisfied the current limit meets the needs of...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (3 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 98. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of the enormous number of voluntary groups and countless individuals who give their time to produce and perform musical theatre in every part of the country; if she believes a dedicated line of funding should be available for such groups who provide an introduction to both music and theatre to a huge number of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (3 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 135. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the review of the operations of the Legal Services Regulation Act 2015, as required under section 6 of that Act, will be completed and submitted to her; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39511/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (3 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 148. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what is preventing his Department from funding preparatory, preliminary and actual works to dredge Dungarvan Harbour sufficiently to facilitate access to and from Cé Heilbhic in Gaeltacht na nDéise; if he is aware that the indigenous fishing industry is under threat because of silting in the harbour, which is reducing the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The Windsor Framework and Related Matters: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I welcome the witnesses. It is almost with a sense of foreboding that we re-enter the horror story of the washout of Brexit, something which seems to have occupied not just this committee but also so much of all of our thinking for years in a very unproductive way. It is simply about trying to make the best of the situation for Ireland and, in my view, the United Kingdom. The outworking of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The Windsor Framework and Related Matters: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: So it is not a matter of being comfortable. It is that they cannot deal with it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The Windsor Framework and Related Matters: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: When Mr. Donohoe says "not comfortable", are they legally able to be comfortable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The Windsor Framework and Related Matters: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: What about what went before?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The Windsor Framework and Related Matters: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Constituency events are increasingly-----