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Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: It starts in September, but why not earlier? If this is the real issue it has been identified as being, why wait three quarters of the year before providing the support that is needed? We support the Minister's overall approach. However, to imagine that a sum of €32 million will deliver anything like universal coverage is obviously misguided. It will be quite complicated to deliver...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I have said from the outset of my leadership of the Labour Party that we will give credit to and support the implementation of any measures in this House that are positive and progressive. I also made it clear that we will not support measures we regard as negative or backward moving, which is why we will not support this budget. The budget in the round cannot be regarded as having achieved...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: -----but Wexford Creamery milk is €1.32. That is roughly the equivalent of the difference of this budget to a household on the minimum wage. It is hard, seeing that reality, to agree with the Tánaiste that this budget is making work worthwhile. What is maddening about this is that it would not have cost much to make it different. A simple change to the terms of reference of...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I will allow a Fianna Fáil exit. I was going to mention it in patches.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: Earlier this week in a newspaper article I wrote I made two predictions about the budget. My first guess was that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, would wear a blue or a purple tie. My second was that the budget would not be regarded as fair, progressive or even sensible. I take no joy in being right on both fronts. For the first time in six years, I...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: Get to the point.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: Nothing.

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: It is reported in The Irish Times this morning that the date on which social welfare increases will come into effect next year has not yet been agreed. Understandably, this has been the subject of considerable debate on national and local radio this morning. In recent months, the Labour Party argued for social welfare payments to be at least indexed. I welcome the fact that indexation has...

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I am afraid that is not a satisfactory position. The Taoiseach and I worked together for five years and even in the worst of times, we did not publish a budget document without knowing the precise figures. The Government has published tables that will be debated in the House. There is a cost involved for every week a payment is made. Will all the increases in social welfare benefits be...

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: Are the documents outlining the costings accurate?

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: The Government must make a decision because that is what Governments do.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments (11 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: 42. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of judicial vacancies that exist currently in each of the courts; the timescale envisaged to fill these vacancies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29782/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships (11 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: 310. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current position regarding the revised Manual on Government Deficit and Debt, MGDD, published by EUROSTAT on 4 March 2016; the implications of these guidelines for the treatment of existing and future public-private partnerships, PPPs; the implications for future profit sharing between the State and PPPs; if he has had any...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: Yesterday, when I raised the judicial appointments legislation, the Taoiseach gave an undertaking to the House that he will not allow the year, or many months, it will take to enact the legislation to stop the appointment of urgently needed judges, for example, to the Court of Appeal. That was the instance he gave. According toThe Irish Times, a few hours later his spokesperson contradicted...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: Is there an embargo on appointments?

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: The legislative programme published by the Government lists the judicial council Bill for priority in this session. In the list of Bills to undergo pre-legislative scrutiny this session, the programme includes the judicial appointments Bill. I take it that these will be taken as two separate Bills. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport has told us, via The Irish Times, that we have...

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: That is very heartening. That is two Ministers in successive weeks.

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: So appointments are going ahead then.

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: I want to indicate the Labour Party support for such a motion.

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: Sure we might as well not be here at all. Why would we debate it?