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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Visits (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: There will be lots of new claims.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 72. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the approach he is taking to the actions of the new Israeli government on its ongoing efforts to destroy a two state solution; the specific actions including sanctions that will be taken against Israel for the recognition of, and development of, new illegal settlements; the measures if any, that will be proposed to halt...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I want to continue on this theme because I feel fundamentally depressed by what is unfolding internationally. The only internationally supported long-term peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was and is a viable two-state solution, a viable and internationally recognised state of Israel and a viable and internationally recognised state of Palestine. That is now being made...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I do not doubt for a second the Minister's sincerity in this regard. This is not just this House condemning a particular act of violence or a particular atrocity, however. It is the undermining of the basis for lasting peace in a situation that has often been the root of a conflict that has spread across the world over the last number of decades. The West Bank is the main part of the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: It is no use all of us saying we will continue to condemn and so on, if the basis for a solution is fundamentally undermined and made impossible. Then, we are talking about a single state. Is that the only viable outcome that is left? That will mean permanent conflict in Israel in my view. We heard the Israeli finance minister, Mr. Bezalel Smotrich, say there is "no such thing" as a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Listen to the Labour Party proposals.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Do something about it.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Disaster Response (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 92. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the assistance provided to Turkey and Syria following the recent earthquake; the amount of aid that has been disbursed; the plans for further assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13612/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Union (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has engaged with the government of Moldova; if any assistance has been offered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13615/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of bilateral aid provided to Ukraine in 2022; the amount committed to in 2023; the additional supports or funds Ireland has made available this year; if he has sought an increase in assistance above the current allocations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13616/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures he has put in place to ensure there are no delays to the issuing of passports this summer; the number of applications that are on hand at present; the current processing time for a passport application for an adult and for a child, respectively; the number of passports that have been issued in each month of the past year; and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of the current waiting times for applications to SEAI (details supplied); his plans to shorten the waiting time for applicants to SEAI for these urgent environmental works; the resources he will provide to SEAI to expedite these works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13314/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Rental Sector (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 327. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the application of the rental tax credit, to ensure that the children of a property owner who are registered tenants in the property with the RTB paying a market rent, can avail of this credit on the same basis as any other renter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13140/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 729. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a child (details supplied) who was denied a place on the school bus to their secondary school in 2022 although they availed of this bus for the previous three years, is provided with transport in the coming school year, which is their only means of getting to school; if she will review the circumstances of this case;...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 946. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a community neuro-rehabilitation team will be put in place for CHO5; if funding has been allocated in 2023 to provide this service; when recruitment for this team will begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13130/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 970. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a liaison public health nurse, LPHN, for the children's disability network team in Wexford will be provided; if he is aware that in the absence of this post, the home support resource manager is unable to provide home support workers for people in urgent need of this support; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 1359. To ask the Minister for Health given the urgent need to fast track the re-build and restoration of Wexford General Hospital, and ensure that vital services are restored there as soon as possible, if he will use the powers available to him under Section 181(2)(a) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 to remove the necessity to go through a planning process in the reconstruction of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (9 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 302. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No.462 of 14 November 2022 concerning a person (details supplied); if the application has been processed yet; if he will set out the expected timeframe for the completion of the consideration of this application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12079/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (8 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Before we move on I want to pay tribute to our former Chair, Deputy McHugh, with whom I served and travelled for the past three years as Leas-Chathaoirleach. He was an excellent Chair and I wish him well into the future. I also wish Deputy Brophy, an experienced member in the area of European and foreign affairs, every success in the endeavours that lie before him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I wish the Minister of State, Deputy Burke, in his first presentation to this committee, every success in his work, although I have met him in his new role elsewhere. Needless to say, the GAC always has a broad agenda. I want to focus on a couple of areas the Minister of State might focus on. First, I want to talk about the new Windsor Framework. I had the privilege of being in Belfast...