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Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Brendan Howlin: That means that, if I stand, I can use up ten minutes arguing about procedure to exclude Deputies.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Brendan Howlin: That is unfair.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I tabled questions. The Labour Party has a voice in this and I would like to be able to ask the question. This is grossly unfair.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I sat on the reform committee with the Ceann Comhairle-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Brendan Howlin: -----for very many meetings. I understood that all Deputies were to be treated equally in the House.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Was I wrong?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Why am I the only Deputy with a question in this group of questions who is to be excluded?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Brendan Howlin: We would have asked and answered-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Brendan Howlin: -----the questions. Deputy Micheál Martin invited a procedural debate and got it from the Deputy opposite. He used up the time in which I could have properly put a question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Brendan Howlin: These are important issues for our people.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach his discussions with EU leaders and the British Prime Minister, Ms Theresa May, on the possibility of a hard Border between Ireland and Northern Ireland; and his plans to avoid this outcome. [3238/17]

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Brendan Howlin: We cannot hear the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Since last year, I have been calling for the immediate publication of the expert reports in the "Grace" foster care scandal. It is time the public knew exactly who was responsible for the horrific litany of abuse against "Grace" and more than 40 other children and young people and how this came about. We have been told the HSE refused to publish these reports on the advice of local...

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Why so long?

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Brendan Howlin: On a point of order-----

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Brendan Howlin: That is fine but I still want to make a point of order.

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Brendan Howlin: We need to hear these things and that is why we should have a debate in order to have full clarity. On a point of order, on reflection perhaps the Chief Whip would withdraw what she said. This is not an issue where we are time-wasting by standing up. I submitted a Private Notice Question and thought that was the way it was going to be dealt with. I have just been notified by text that...

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Subject to proper procedures.

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Brendan Howlin: This is a unique set of circumstances.

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The ordering of business is now a matter for the House itself, rather than in former Dáileanna where it was a matter for the Government. I submitted a private notice question to the Ceann Comhairle on a matter of very serious importance, namely, the executive order signed by President Trump and its implications for this country. It is important that we deal with this issue today and...