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- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Absolutely, and we said it. In fact, Sinn Féin was second to the SDLP in this.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I replied to Deputy Adams.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I replied to the effect that it was a good idea to progress in the consensual way we wanted. There is no advantage in our trying to score political points on a separate agenda on this real issue that is a manifest threat to us all, namely, Brexit. My job is to perfect the imperfections of this Republic and I make no apologies for that. In the meantime, I want to address real issues that...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: A poll about whether to have a poll.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: We are very flexible today.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: We have 13 minutes remaining for Questions to the Taoiseach, but we are not taking-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I was a bit confused on Monday.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I read the reporting of the script, which is not always the same thing of course.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Have there been any other offers?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: We will use the 11 minutes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Two minutes were spent giving out.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I have two.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Agreed.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: We might get answers.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for facilitating all of us. These are really important questions. As has been mentioned by a number of other speakers, representatives of all parties and groups in this House gathered in Government Buildings last week at the Taoiseach's invitation to discuss the implications of Brexit for the island of Ireland. It was a very useful and constructive meeting and,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the discussions he had with the British Prime Minister, the First and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland and the First Minister of Scotland on the British exit from the EU. [21101/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the discussions he has had on the Border issue with the British Prime Minister and the First and Deputy First Ministers of Northern Ireland since the decision on Brexit by the British people, and if there will be some mechanism for political parties across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland to participate in developing Ireland's strategy for...
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (20 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: As the Taoiseach is aware, the last Government published the heads of the adoption Bill that included vital provisions relating to information and tracing. The point of those provisions was to provide a legal basis for people to trace their natural parents where possible. There is a growing consensus in the House that it is the right thing to do. The Taoiseach will remember that this...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (19 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: On a point of order and the way questions are grouped, this was a question about discussions between the Taoiseach and the Scottish First Minister which interacted with a raft of further questions. Given these are really significant issues on which we would all like to contribute, could we look at how questions are grouped?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Jul 2016)
Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on justice reform was last convened. [19812/16]