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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (7 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to hold constitutional referenda during 2017. [3241/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (7 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Does the Taoiseach envisage a referendum being held during 2017? In particular, is it envisaged that a referendum on the outcome of the Citizens' Assembly's report on the eighth amendment would be held this year? Does he have an update on when the assembly's first report is due? Has the Taoiseach discussed with his Brexit team and the Attorney General whether, in any circumstances that are...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (7 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Does the Taoiseach envisage it?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (7 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: There will be no new institutions or no new bodies.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (7 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: It is better than consideration.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: What we have heard from the Taoiseach is simply a rehash of a series of announcements already made in respect of the capital plan and so on.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I have read every page of it. The only new funding announced is €60 million for 600 towns over three years, that is, €33,000 per year per town. That might be used to buy a few additional lamp posts-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: -----but it will not make any significant difference. The Taoiseach says I should read the action plan. I have read it. I am interested in, for example, action No. 183, which relates to the continued delivery of Inland Fisheries Ireland's Something Fishy national schools programme to inform and educate students on fish, water and angling. Will that rejuvenate rural Ireland? In much...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Something Fishy.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That is rural to the Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on regional and rural affairs last met; and when it is planned to meet next. [4272/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: All those measures are already enacted.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I am looking forward to it.
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: In November of last year I tabled the Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016. The Bill was designed to tackle the issue of rogue crisis pregnancy agencies. The Bill passed Second Stage and I was assured that it would be a priority piece of work for the Government. At this stage, three months later, I have received no further detailed report of its progress. However,...
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I do not think set-piece speeches will advance our knowledge of these matters. I put it to the Business Committee that there should be some sort of interaction in the course of the proposed debate so that we can pose questions and get responses to those questions.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That is shocking.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I had hoped that the days when vitally important infrastructure was left lying idle were in the past, but apparently not. Is that not shocking? Why is that happening? Who is accountable for it? We have major infrastructural projects to be built in this country. Will the Taoiseach agree to the suggestion by my colleague, Deputy Burton, that the additional costings should be referred to...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: We need the answer to that question.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Somebody has to be accountable.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Individual harrowing tales set before us last night by the "RTE Investigates" programme revealed a deep malaise at the heart of our national health service. The idea that Governments going back to 2002 were misled about the state of our waiting list is troubling. I echo the call made by my colleague, Deputy Alan Kelly, who wanted and is calling for an independent probe into how these lists...