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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Prison Service (29 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: It is 70% of prisoners.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Prison Service (29 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I am grateful for the reply of the Minister of State and the focus to which he referred, but his initial response to me and the House focused entirely on the in-prison education system. What I hoped would be focused on, which he indicated he was focused on it while in opposition, is preventing people ending up in prison in the first place. A collaborative effort between the Departments of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (29 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 348. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15769/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (29 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 370. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16043/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (29 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 386. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it will be ensured that a new passport is issued to a person (details supplied) whose original passport was issued from the Irish Embassy, New Delhi, India and subsequent passport issued by the passport office in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16493/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (29 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the earnings threshold for the receipt of SUSI grant in view of the current inflation and the extraordinary increase in the cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16557/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 743. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of his plans to provide locum cover for rural based general practitioners to cover for unavoidable absences; if he is developing a plan to establish a national locum register or regional register of available general practitioners as has been developed to cover absent teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16486/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 376. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a certificate of vaccination for the booster vaccine will be issued to a person (details supplied) via email which was requested of his Department in February 2022 and which is required for travel purposes. [15560/22]

European Arrest Warrant (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I am long enough in this House to remember the tortuous and cumbersome extradition procedure that used to exist prior to the enactment on foot of an EU framework directive of the European arrest warrant legislation. The Minister of State is far too young to remember any of that, but I remember debates in this House and major battles in the courts before criminals could be extradited from...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: Questions have been repeatedly raised in this House about the expulsion of the Russian ambassador and the large size of the Russian Embassy staff here, which numbers more than 30. Today, the Polish intelligence services have asked their foreign ministry to consider expelling 45 Russian diplomats, some of whom have allegedly been working for Moscow's secret services under the cover of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: The past four weeks have witnessed the illegal and unprovoked war of extermination launched by Vladimir Putin's Russia against the people of Ukraine. The world, in particular Europe, has changed and nothing will be the same again and we have to give most serious consideration, both as an Oireachtas and as a people, to a broad range of issues that will flow from this terrible aggression. I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I warmly welcome that, but it needs to be in place for tomorrow, which is when the next Cherbourg boat arrives. The Minister will recall that our response to Brexit was to put customs officials and agents on board ferry vessels so that, by the time truck drivers arrived here, all the paperwork had been done. Surely we need to put cross-departmental teams on board the ferries. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Response to the Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ambassador of Slovakia (23 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the ambassador for his presentation. First, the idea of a model "Lex Ukraine" is one we might have a look at - codifying what refugees are entitled to in a legal framework - because part of the issue we have now is how, in a co-ordinated way, to provide information to people arriving here. I am conscious that in his presentation, the ambassador tells us that 10,000 refugees a day...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Response to the Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ambassador of Slovakia (23 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: How many of the 270,000 are actually staying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Response to the Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ambassador of Slovakia (23 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: The core of my question is as follows. The immediate neighbours have finite capacity. Right now, the biggest burden is on Poland. The ambassador can talk about providing school places, but it is not possible to provide infinite school places for millions of refugees. While I hate the phrase, there will need to be burden sharing - a sharing of welcome across Europe. How can we do that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Response to the Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ambassador of Slovakia (23 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I have a supplementary question for the ambassador that I put to his Georgian and Moldovan colleagues last week because I am interested in the nuances in the differences of approach. It concerns a move towards defence co-operation within the EU, the EU having its own defence capacity and how this would sit with NATO. I discerned last week that there was concern that the defence of Georgia,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Response to the Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ambassador of Slovakia (23 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I understand the diplomacy required. It is a very difficult question to answer. In essence, I am asking whether the ambassador would bet his nation's security on the agreement in question, regardless of who turns out to be the next President of the United States.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Response to the Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ambassador of Slovakia (23 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: That is as far as I am going to get. How does the ambassador envisage the enhancement of EU co-operation walking in parallel with the concept he outlined?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Response to the Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: Engagement with Ambassador of Slovakia (23 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: Complementary.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I begin, as I have done in most of our debates on European Council statements, by decrying the shortage of time we have. It is not in accordance with the commitments we made after the Lisbon Treaty. All of the normal debates, issues and challenges faced at the European Council which we normally debate in this Chamber beforehand, have been eclipsed in the last four weeks following the...