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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (12 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has identified Ireland's red line issues in the EU-UK Article 50 negotiations. [12049/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a new school (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18368/17]

Reform of An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (11 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I will speak to the amendment in my name and that of my Labour Party colleagues. In doing so, I want to concentrate on the many areas on which I believe we have broad agreement in this House. We were all disturbed at the news that 145,000 District Court summonses for road traffic fixed charges were wrongly issued, which is an astonishing number, and that 14,700 of those resulted in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The very real question the Taoiseach asks is whether I or the House want Theresa May to arrive up and hold hands as Taoiseach and Prime Minister have done on every occasion and ride into it. I know from talking to people, including the American facilitators of peace over the time, that the question is about when they will actually stand on their own two feet. Will it be in a decade, two...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his engagements with Mr. Donald Tusk on the Brexit negotiating mandate from the EU Council to the EU Commission. [16426/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: It is reported in today's Financial Timesthat the 27 EU member states are set to approve tough draft Brexit guidelines, among which would be that Britain will have to accept EU laws, the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice and pay a determined amount in budget fees if Britain is to seek even a gradual transition from the Single Market. Is there any agreement within the EU 27 on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: If we go through everybody, we will have lost the first question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Is there a sum agreed?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Will there have to be agreement on the sum to move on?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: My question was bundled together for lack of time. Yet, other people can seem to banter about whatever they like.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Is that the Taoiseach's view?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I have not-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I have not got to put a second question yet.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Deputy McDonald was right when she said that there is no single view in respect of whether the United Kingdom should have stayed in the European Union. However, there is surely a commonality of interest in respect of what is good for the people of Northern Ireland and the people of the island of Ireland as a whole such that we can build a consensus view. Unfortunately, there is nobody at the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: While I do not want to get involved in everybody else's scrap-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: -----one should be allowed to ask one's parliamentary questions if other people eat up the time. I am really worried on a number of fronts. I am worried that Northern Ireland is not properly represented in respect of the ongoing Brexit talks now they have formally started. I do not believe the people of Northern Ireland will be adequately represented by the Theresa May Government, no more...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his engagements with political leaders in Northern Ireland and the UK on plans to restore the political institutions following the Northern Ireland Assembly elections. [17851/17]

Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Good Friday.

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Later today, the Dáil will debate a Fine Gael Party Private Members' Bill, the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Divorce) Bill 2016, which proposes to reduce the waiting time for divorce from four to two years. Unusually, this welcome Bill, which my party will support, will be taken in Government time. In the event that it is passed, is a referendum on the matter envisaged...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reviews (6 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 80. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the actions which have been taken to implement the recommendations of the report of the independent review group on the Department of Justice and Equality; the recommendations which remain outstanding; her plans to implement those recommendations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17217/17]