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Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to Disability Service in the South East and Related Matters): Motion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: We would have the right to re-submit, obviously.

Commission of Investigation into the Grace case: Motion (7 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I said this afternoon - and I am happy to repeat it now - that Deputy Deasy has campaigned with compassion and determination to bring this particularly gruesome story to the full light of day. I also acknowledge the work done by Daniel McConnell, Fergus Finlay, Colm Ó Mongáin, Deputy McGuinness, who is present, and others. We got two long-delayed reports last week about the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Job opportunities for them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I, too, want to talk about the infrastructure deficiencies in the State. Obviously, we have gone through a period when money was particularly scarce and in order to ensure continued provision of vital public services over the past six years or so, the amount of money devoted to our built infrastructure was diminished. That needs to be rectified now but we must do it in a way that is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Just a barrel.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (7 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Does the Taoiseach have a date for that yet?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate change last met and the plans to meet. [11757/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (7 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I have been tabling questions on the National Economic and Social Council, NESC, for some time. I am no wiser about the Taoiseach's exact attitude to the council. Obviously, there was a long hiatus when he did not appoint members to the board. I assumed there would be a replacement of some description or a reconfiguration but the Taoiseach is now advising the House that by the end of this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (7 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the other new engagement structures he envisages working with and their remit and membership, particularly in view of the statement in his Department's recent Strategy Statement 2016-2019 (details supplied). [10031/17]

Order of Business (7 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Tá sé soiléir go bhfuil níos mó cearta ag mná na hÉireann ná mar a bhí ag a máithreacha, a seanmhaithreacha agus a sinseanmháithreacha. Fós féin, níl an comhionannas idir fir agus mná beartaithe amach go hiomlán. Is iad na fir atá fós níos treise san ionad oibre. Léirítear i...

Order of Business (7 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Níl aon gá go mbeadh críoch leis an díospóireacht an ar Déardaoin.

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Grace was the person longest resident in this foster home - she lived there for 20 years or more - but she was probably also the one least able to complain. She is still not in a position to give her account of what happened to her. Meanwhile, there are 47 other directly contemporaneous witnesses. It simply makes no sense that this should not be all taken in one investigation if there are...

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Just those in regard to the 47 other individuals.

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Intermittently the name "Grace" has been mentioned in this Chamber. Deputy Deasy has campaigned with compassion and determination to bring her story to light. Daniel McConnell, Fergus Finlay, Colm Ó Mongáin and others have done much work they can be proud of too. Over the weekend we heard more about the appalling mismanagement of Grace's case. On the "This Week" programme, it...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Protection (7 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 371. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the application of Wexford County Council to co-fund coastal protection works at Rosslare Warren Middle, County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11960/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (7 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 601. To ask the Minister for Health the number of service users who are currently on the waiting list to access full-time adult residential care places in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11810/17]

Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: It is coming as well, is it? It is ten years on. I have no doubt that budgetary restraints of the past few years have impacted, but I wonder if the Minister of State thinks any institutional changes are needed to improve the flow of legislation, particularly through the justice area. It is an area on which I was spokesperson many years ago, and it is an area of great demand. The volume of...

Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality, Deputy David Stanton, to the debate. It will not have the same applause and attention as the announcement last night and I congratulate the Minister of State on that initiative, which was very important. This legislation is important too. The Bill is welcome but it is belated. It originates in the EU directive that...

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Mahon tribunal completed its work this month five years ago after being established in 1997. One of its key recommendations was to criminalise the making of payments knowingly or recklessly to a third party who intended to use them as bribes. The corruption Bill that was promised from that would enhance the ability of the DPP to bring about prosecutions in that regard. Pre-legislative...

Leaders' Questions (2 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: It has nothing to do with supply.