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Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Could the Taoiseach clarify the situation regarding the Barnier oversight group?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Who is on it?

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: There are currently three Bills before the House relating to defined benefit pension schemes as Bills have been tabled by the Labour Party Bill, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin. The shortest way to deal with this really important issue on which many parties in the Opposition are focused is to make it part of the social welfare and pensions Bill that will be the Government vehicle. Will...

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: What about the defined benefit pensions element I mentioned?

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: We have spent 15 minutes on this. Will we have injury time?

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: That is unfair to Deputy O'Dowd. The Deputy has, over decades, developed quite a reputation for speaking on health issues in the House.

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: We dealt with the specific issue at the Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform in the way the Ceann Comhairle said. There is no difficulty having a second round. That would be a good thing but there is now a new demand from Fianna Fáil for strict proportionality. In the previous Dáil, where the Government majority was very large, strict proportionality would have completely suppressed...

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: That is the way it is. The reform proposals we have gone through in some great detail and teased out practically with a group of working people over several months should be allowed to be implemented. If people have suggestions, they should submit them to that committee rather than seeking to "upscuttle" arrangements on the floor of the House.

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Mattie's ready.

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Yes. That is the point.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I was going to instance that very legislation, having worked for a very long time to protect whistleblowers. We have a very poor record in this jurisdiction of listening to whistleblowers or acting upon their information. I have not seen the report because the Government has not provided it to us, although it has caused a commission of investigation without any discussion with the...

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Nobody made reference to any of them.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Yesterday, it was announced that there is to be a commission of inquiry into these matters. We have not seen the terms of reference for that. Those on the Opposition benches have not seen the redacted or full report that led the Government to make the decision. I am making no allegation.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I will be guided by the Ceann Comhairle. I have some track record in these matters.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: On the previous occasion that such information was given to me, I went directly to the then Minister for Justice and Equality, who caused an inquiry into these matters. I ended up in both the High Court and the Supreme Court, where I was told the proper course of action would have been to raise such matters directly in the House.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: There is to be a formal inquiry into these matters. I am saying that I have been contacted by somebody who is willing to give evidence to the commission and, in the circumstances, it is my belief that the Garda Commissioner should stand aside until the inquiry comes to its determination. I ask the Taoiseach to agree with me on that.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: We have not seen the review.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The charges that have been laid at the Garda Commissioner's door are incredibly serious. The Government has acknowledged this in making the decision to establish a commission of investigation to be chaired by Mr. Justice Peter Charleton. It is quite unusual for the Government to have made a decision to establish a commission of investigation without consultation with the Opposition parties....

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Commissions of Investigation (8 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 85. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the commission of investigation into IBRC. [6040/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Staff (8 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 305 of 29 November 2016, if the comprehensive legal advice referred to has been fully analysed; if a decision has been made in the matter of providing ex gratia payments to former employees of LCDP companies, made redundant and whereby no moneys were available to fund payments;...