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Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Ireland was described in an article I read as the wild west of gambling due to the lack of regulation of the gambling sector here. The Gambling Control Bill passed pre-legislative scrutiny in 2013. The current Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality, Deputy David Stanton, was Chairman of the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality when the pre-legislative scrutiny of...

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: What about the main Bill?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (22 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 85. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the person or body that will undertake the review of the pre-clearance arrangements in Shannon and Dublin airports; and when he expects it to be completed. [8427/17]

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I want to make a political point. I have great respect for Donald Tusk but it is a problematic decision. It is not good that the European People's Party now holds the presidency of the European Council, the presidency of the European Parliament and the presidency of the European Commission. That never has been the position in the past. There has been always an understanding that there is...

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: It is odd that we are debating the most recent European Council meeting on the same day it is announced that the next meeting will decide the negotiating strategy for Brexit. I hope we can have a meaningful debate on Brexit before the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May, sends her letter to the Commission next week. It is important that we have an opportunity to have a debate, and not...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I agree entirely with the view, as I think everybody in this House does, that we need to have a functioning Executive back in Northern Ireland. We certainly do not need either another round of elections or the imposition of direct rule. We must find a path that avoids those two outcomes. We are all reflecting on the death of Martin McGuinness today. How, in the Taoiseach's view, will that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: My question is on the same issue of Brexit. Deputy McGrath put it succinctly in describing it as a harmless document. Brexit is listed in the strategic priorities but among a group of (a) to (f), including planning for the future and a better society. Specifically, however, Brexit does not get a mention in the core work activities of the Department, which are listed in the document. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his conversation and discussions with Prime Minister May following the Northern Ireland Assembly elections. [13187/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (21 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (21 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach will obviously provide me with the data I require to answer the question I asked.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (21 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Is it the practice in the Department that all freedom of information requests are published? Is this at the same time as they are provided to the requester? This is a very good idea because it gives the public an opportunity to evaluate them given that not all freedom of information requests are of equal value. There is a really important underpinning of democracy in having access to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (21 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the number of freedom of information, FOI, requests received by his Department in 2016; the number of staff working in the relevant section; the number of requests that have been refused; and the number appealed. [11759/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (21 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Taoiseach for providing the House with details of the FOI requests his Department has received. It is certainly a substantial number at 275. I ask the Taoiseach about the Open Government Partnership, which, he will recall, I signed Ireland up to on behalf of the Government. It is an initiative of 70 countries which aims to secure concrete commitments from governments on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (21 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: More than the price of a sandwich.

Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Is this about legislation?

Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Technological Universities Bill was published by my colleague, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, and reached Report Stage prior to the election last year. Last May I asked the Taoiseach about progress on the legislation and he gave me an assurance at that point that it would proceed, yet we have seen very little progress in the full year that has elapsed since the election. The Taoiseach is...

Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: What about the timeline?

Death of Martin McGuinness: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Like many in this House, I was saddened when I turned on RTE radio this morning to hear of the death of Martin McGuinness. As on all such occasions, our first thoughts are with his wife, Bernie, his children and grandchildren and his extended family, which, as others have said, were the first centre of his life. I also think of the Sinn Féin Deputies who knew Martin as a friend and...

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: That is the very point I am making.

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach knows that the Department of Finance has worked for three years trying to find that.