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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Prime Minister Beata Szydło in Warsaw, Poland. [7046/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Taoiseach for his comprehensive reply. The Taoiseach will be aware that the so-called Visegrád Group of countries - Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia - have announced that they will veto any Brexit deal that does not accommodate their citizens currently living in the United Kingdom. Did the Taoiseach have any discussion with the Polish Prime Minister about...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Unless she is on the WhatsApp.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I listened with some care to the Taoiseach's replies to Deputy Micheál Martin during Leaders' Questions. I had thought we had an all-party approach to dealing with this issue, because it is the compelling social issue right now. It is a fact that the last Government allocated €3 billion, an unprecedented sum. However, that was almost three years ago and, for some reason, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Stability and Growth Pact prohibits it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: It does.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Six months-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I am looking for solutions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Is the Taoiseach referring to modular houses?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Housing last met; and when it will meet again. [8421/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: To pick up on a point raised in the Taoiseach's previous reply, he will recall we put in significant funding on the capital side for the 1916 centenary commemorations. The argument was very strongly made by my colleague, Deputy Burton, that this should be embedded in capital funding for the arts because it is an area that has been lacking in capital funding, although we put in a rolling...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Who is working on that?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet Committee on Arts, Irish and the Gaeltacht has met since October 2016; and when it is planned to meet next. [7047/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Women in Work Index has found a 14.8% difference in median pay between men and women. In other words, a woman working a 40 hour week effectively works the final six hours for free. The time is long past, and I think everybody in this House would agree, when men should automatically be paid more than women. Will the Taoiseach support yesterday's call by the trade union IMPACT for...

Order of Business (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I support the proposal.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Eligibility (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 482. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can access treatment through the national treatment purchase fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8619/17]

Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: What about a direction to preserve evidence?

Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: What custom and practice dictates that we take the second amendment before the first one?

Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: On a point of order, there are real and legitimate concerns and we need to have an answer from the Tánaiste about the points raised. For the sake of five minutes or so, I do not think we should-----

Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Absolutely.