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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I welcome the meeting between the Taoiseach and Pope Francis and the proposed visit of Pope Francis to Ireland. I disagree with Deputy Gerry Adams that the Taoiseach's discussions constituted rapprochement. It is very healthy for there to be some tension not only between individual states but also between religions and the independent Republic of Ireland. I was sitting close to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: It seems to be very open nowadays.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: When will the Government Bill be published?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: Regarding the Government's decision yesterday to have a lay majority in the selection of judges, will this policy decision impact on all public appointments? Will we have a lay majority in the appointment of doctors, consultants, architects and other professionals? Can we expect this new policy to be implemented across the board?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Pope and the issues discussed. [38662/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Cabinet committees and the number of meetings held since September 2016. [37412/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach informed the House that the committee on infrastructure, which I take it deals with transport, had met once. What date did the committee meet? Did the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross, attend the meeting? Did he give any heads-up to the committee on the information he gave to Cabinet yesterday to the effect that Bus Éireann, one of our most...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I fully accept the Ceann Comhairle's ruling on this but if that article of the Constitution applies to Cabinet sub-committees, surely it applies to the Cabinet itself, yet the same Minister can go onto national television and tell us what he briefed the Cabinet on yesterday. If the Minister is able, in that manner, to brief us in defiance of the constitutional embargo on what he told Cabinet...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I asked the Taoiseach whether he had met the Government of Gibraltar, which might seem like a left-field question. The Taoiseach's response was that as a Crown dependency he did not meet it and is not contemplating it. The Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, is seeking a special status for Gibraltar, where 96% of the people voted to remain. He says there is an existential threat...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he has held discussions on Brexit with the governments of Gibraltar and the Isle of Man; and, if not, his plans to do so. [38621/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: You can bet on it.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: On 27 September the Government published its legislative programme for this session. On that day the House was informed that 25 Bills had been given priority and listed for publication. I do not want to take up the time of the House in announcing each of them, but how many have been published?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Advisers (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: 76. To ask the Taoiseach if he has made his Government advisors and programme managers available to Opposition Members of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann. [38664/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (7 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: 285. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if, in preparing for the recent EU Council at which trade deals were discussed, she sought legal advice as to whether provisions of CETA would require a referendum here. [34742/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (6 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: On the point made by Deputy Micheál Martin in regard to the clearly enunciated view of the Scottish First Minister that she wants a bespoke deal for the people of Scotland, in the same way as many have argued that a bespoke deal is required for the people of Northern Ireland, both of which by a significant majority voted to remain part of the European Union, has the Taoiseach,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (6 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: What about Northern Ireland?

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (6 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: The State cannot spend under the rules.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (6 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for a bilateral meeting with the Scottish First Minister regarding Brexit. [37411/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (6 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: Every time I listen to either a spokesperson from any of the negotiating teams, whether it is that of the Commission or the Parliament, or any British commentator, there seems to be a complete misunderstanding of how this will work out. As Deputy Adams has stated, Michel Barnier, when asked today if he believed there would be a hard border on the island of Ireland, replied, "The UK's...

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (6 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: It is having its cake and eating it.