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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Impact of Brexit on Ireland: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I thank Mr. Drennan and Mr. Nolan, both of whom are true experts in the issues we want to address. I want to touch briefly on three areas. Mr. Nolan may feel free to interject as well as Mr. Drennan. My first question is on Mr. Drennan's comments on the Windsor Framework, which we are all grappling with. I was in Brussels yesterday. Mr. Drennan makes a very relevant point, which is to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Impact of Brexit on Ireland: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Mr. Drennan is not only extensively quoted on the front page, but on page 9 as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Impact of Brexit on Ireland: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: No, Mr. Drennan is fully clad. We are all conscious of newspaper headlines. I put that to Glenn Carr, who set out the timelines for the investments, as well as the current real difficulties even with getting quotes for investment, because of the volatility of materials in the post-Covid-19 world. I am interested in hearing Mr. Drennan's perspective on that headline. Maybe he did not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Impact of Brexit on Ireland: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Is that regarding Stranraer and Belfast Harbour?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Impact of Brexit on Ireland: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Is Mr. Drennan saying that if an Irish company wanted to buy steel, it will buy it from Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland company will simply source it in Wales, ship it to Northern Ireland and then sell it without cost into the Republic?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Impact of Brexit on Ireland: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I am trying to get my head around this. That is because Northern Ireland remains part of the UK and the UK market. If somebody was to buy it from the Republic and source it in Northern Ireland, that tariff would be payable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Impact of Brexit on Ireland: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: But if it was intended to move from Northern Ireland to the Republic, it would be payable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Impact of Brexit on Ireland: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Is it the same for Dunkirk?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Impact of Brexit on Ireland: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: It would be interesting to hear Mr. Drennan's final thoughts on my earlier query.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Impact of Brexit on Ireland: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Senator McDowell would know much better than me about this. The complication is that bringing a box of corn flakes from Birmingham to Belfast is UK transport. If we open up the notion of this same box of cornflakes coming from outside the EU into the EU there is a difficulty which my colleague has mentioned. As soon as we start bringing goods in without checks to the Single Market the fear...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Impact of Brexit on Ireland: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Impact of Brexit on Ireland: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: Even in the trusted trader regime in the Windsor Framework there are checks to be had.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Impact of Brexit on Ireland: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: We do not want checks on goods going from the island of Ireland into the rest of the Single Market. That would be a disaster for us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Impact of Brexit on Ireland: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: It is no wonder Mr. Drennan gets his front page.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Regulations (23 Feb 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 82. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has concerns regarding the negative impact on Ireland of the relaxation of EU State aid rules which has seen France and Germany account for 77% of the €672 million EU-approved programmes since 22 March 2022 following the Franco German Leaders’ meeting in Paris; the discussions he has had with other EU partners on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2023)

Brendan Howlin: What about the climate?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Feb 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 544. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange to have a mammogram provided for a person (details supplied) who was first called for a mammogram in November 2019, and due to Covid delays, has still not received this test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6494/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 613. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 302 of 7 July 2022, if he will provide an update on the results of the deliberation of the HSE of the medicines management programme assessment for the use of the medication, following the reply received from the HSE in relation to the provision of affordable cariban medication for women suffering from hyperemesis; and...

Emergency Housing Measures: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2023)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister of State knows too well that this House has debated housing more than any other issue in the past couple of years. If only words could build houses. We are tabling another motion tonight because, despite all the plans, the schemes and all the announcements that have been rehearsed again tonight in the Minister of State's speech, the situation for families and individuals in all...