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- Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Nothing personal.
- Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I have not seen any amendments. May I see them?
- Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I have been in the House since the start of business today.
- Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The events that have led us to this point have exposed society in a way few other issues could have done. All of this began with the relatively low-key efforts of a decent man who wanted to highlight wrongdoing in our police force. That the situation has been allowed to escalate to a point where we are once again establishing a tribunal of inquiry is astonishing. The series of events have...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The other Ministers are all willing to outline their plans.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: This week, the intergovernmental panel on climate change held a scoping meeting in Dublin on climate change, agriculture and food security. One of the pieces of legislation we passed in Government was the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 but we still await the national mitigation plan and the national adaptation framework. When will the critically important plan be...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister's answer is not good enough. He talks about supply. Of course, supply is the answer but the reality I have just outlined is that there are only 4,000 houses available to rent this month. There is no point in the Minister talking about a year or so. We need to have a rental policy now and that rental policy has to affect every citizen. We do not want a protracted process that...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That is not a lot of help to people-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Meanwhile-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: But in the meanwhile-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Only in Dublin and Cork.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Every other issue has been buried amid the chaos of the last seven days. The Government has now survived a motion of no confidence. In whatever time it has left, it is important that the Government focuses on some of the crucial issues on which it promised clear action. A new report was published on the private rental sector this week. It showed the largest yearly increase in rents across...
- Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Labour Party campaigned in the election 12 months ago for the re-election of the outgoing Government and at the first meeting of the Dáil honoured its election pledge by supporting the nomination of the Fine Gael candidate for Taoiseach. However, we voted against the arrangement cobbled together by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, supported by Independents, that brought this...
- Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I have looked at the register. Every political entity, including all the tiny parties all over the United Kingdom, registered because they wanted to spend more than £10,000 on their campaigns because this was such an important issue. It is remarkable that Sinn Féin did not do that. Registration not only allowed parties to spend money, it allowed them access to polling stations...
- Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: This week, we have a Government in crisis while the United Kingdom is only weeks away from triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty. It does not bode well for Ireland that collective responsibility in our Government has broken down just a the country faces a challenge that will define it for decades to come. For the past few months, the Dáil has been left in the dark on Brexit,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Has a particular dossier been given to them?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he raised any issues during the exchange with ECB President Mario Draghi at the most recent EU Council. [5691/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has prepared any position paper regarding Ireland’s concerns on Brexit for presentation to EU leaders at the Malta summit in February 2017. [5692/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Yes, two blocks. There are 13 questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: There is a variety of different questions. My first question relates to the ECB President Draghi. As the Taoiseach informed us, President Tusk invited Mario Draghi to deliver a brief intervention at the Council to get his views on economic recovery and the outlook for the European Union. We understand his view is that while there was a pick up in 2016 he warned that 2017 was fraught with...