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Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Engagement with the Taoiseach (12 May 2022)

Brendan Howlin: It is a three-year envelope.

Protocol No. 21 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union: Motions (11 May 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I will begin with a technical point. We have been asked today to approve Ireland's opt-in to two Council decisions and a Council regulation. We had much debate after the initial failure of the Lisbon treaty on how we would deal with secondary legislation coming from the European Union. We spend a lot of time on statements in the House but this is lawmaking and we do not give enough...

Protocol No. 21 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union: Motions (11 May 2022)

Brendan Howlin: Even on that basis, I asked when the debate was to start and I was told it was scheduled for 5.20 p.m. This is my third parliamentary intervention today. Most people are busy. The other debate on defamation ran quickly. I would say there are many speakers who would have been here had the debate appeared as scheduled. That is nobody's fault.

Protocol No. 21 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union: Motions (11 May 2022)

Brendan Howlin: If I may, the way the trade and co-operation agreement, which is a brand-new legislative framework, will deal with our relationship with the UK after Brexit on critical matters of co-operation requires a move away from the normal way of rubber-stamping measures. This is my view.

Protocol No. 21 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union: Motions (11 May 2022)

Brendan Howlin: Is that encompassed in the UK agreement now also?

Protocol No. 21 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union: Motions (11 May 2022)

Brendan Howlin: It is not in the document.

Defamation Act 2009 Review: Statements (11 May 2022)

Brendan Howlin: Forgive me for rushing in. Wednesdays seem to be one of those days. I was just at the launch of our committee report. I am switching my brain to something else. The issue of defamation is a very important subject. Defamation laws are always an extremely difficult policy issue to deal with in respect of balance when it comes to the right of free speech and fair comment, which must be...

Living Wage Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 May 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I am very proud to speak on this important legislation and to support it. I commend my colleague Deputy Nash, in particular, on his ongoing commitment to increasing the wages of those paid the least in our society and on his amazing work in government in the worst of times in establishing the Low Pay Commission and in bringing about increases of 20% in the minimum wage, something which has...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (11 May 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 152. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that the passport applications of persons (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23779/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (11 May 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 153. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that a passport application by person (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23780/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (11 May 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 140. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that passport applications by persons (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23578/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (11 May 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 226. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an Irish residency permit renewal application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23876/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (11 May 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 236. To ask the Minister for Health when the vacant occupational therapist posts and speech and language therapist posts that are allocated to the four children's disability network teams in County Wexford will be filled; his plans to ensure that an adequate service for children in County Wexford is provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23525/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Europe Day and the European Year of Youth 2022: Engagement with Comhairle na nÓg (11 May 2022)

Brendan Howlin: It is apparent that the Chairman is the former Minister for Education. Míle buíochas as na ráitis thábhachtacha sin. We certainly need to readjust ourselves to a listening mode, from what the witnesses have said. I have two questions. When President Macron embarked on the future of Europe dialogue, there was a certain dryness about it. There was a certain staleness...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Europe Day and the European Year of Youth 2022: Engagement with Comhairle na nÓg (11 May 2022)

Brendan Howlin: Yes, but Deputy Ó Murchú had to represent us.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (10 May 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 105. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the support that is being made available by Ireland directly to support the ongoing efforts to shelter and provide for Ukrainians driven from their homeland by the aggression of the military forces of President Putin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23174/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (10 May 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 130. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the current sanctions being imposed on the Russian Federation and named Russian officials as a result of Russia’s unlawful and unjustified invasion of Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23175/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Union (10 May 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 132. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the financial support in new money terms being made available directly to Moldova, Poland and Romania by the European Union to support their ongoing efforts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23176/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (10 May 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 140. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the initiatives that he has taken to date to address the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia; the progress that has been made to ensure that humanitarian assistance is available to vulnerable persons as a result of this conflict; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23173/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (10 May 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 392. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will take an initiative at the United Nations Security Council to place the issue of Ethiopia on the formal agenda of the Council given the ongoing slow genocide unfolding in Ethiopia; if he has had contact with the Ethiopian authorities in relation to the provision of humanitarian aid to those in urgent need of food and...