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

Brendan Howlin: Is there a role for either the regional assemblies or the European Commission office in Dublin to do the advertising that these are the benefits of these things? Many people do not know they are there. It is about communicating the point the Chair made about the funding coming from Europe and my earlier comment about Wales. Much of the good that is happening is not known to the great bulk...

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

Brendan Howlin: I give credit to Senator Keogan. That has been her campaign since we joined this committee.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that an additional needs class is provided for a school (details supplied) for the 2024/2025 school year, that this class has been sanctioned and funded by the NCSE but has yet to be opened; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44634/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will set out the additional supports her Department will provide to a school (details supplied) which is in an area of obvious economic and educational poverty; if there are any other supports available to this school other than rural DEIS status; the reason this status is of less support than the urban DEIS band 1 status; if she is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I want to deal with enlargement and migration but we can come back to those issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: What is the EU's position?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I refer to the contradiction between the statement of the Commissioner-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Chair. As the Chair stated in his introduction, the GAC covers a broad range of areas, all of which are critical. Most of us will focus on the immediate crisis in the Middle East now but I want to touch upon the very point the Chair made on the Franco-German group. I had a parliamentary question about it last week. I want to talk about migration but, first, I want to get from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: There is an awful lot more we could say on the first topic but we will have opportunities again. Please god, we will not be talking about an even worse situation at that stage. I wish to raise two other issues with the Minister of State. One is the issue touched upon by the Chairman in his opening remarks, the Franco-German group paper discussed at the most recent General Affairs Council,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: By GAC.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: So it is like the Cabinet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: There will be lesser members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: When will it get to the General Affairs Council? That is the point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: There is one question under any other business. In our private session, I had contacted the clerk about inviting in the ambassador of Armenia. The Cathaoirleach referenced it but I did not get a timescale on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: The Armenians would certainly regard themselves as European but there we are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Will we invite the Armenian ambassador to speak to the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: We have invited the Georgian ambassador.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Very good.