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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: There were by-elections.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: We remember it well.

Second Anniversary of War in Ukraine: Statements (20 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I too welcome to the Chamber the wonderful ambassador of Ukraine to hear this debate. Two years ago, the bloodiest conflict our continent has seen since the Second World War began. There is no end visible to the carnage and wanton destruction. The imperial ambitions of Vladimir Putin which caused him to invade his neighbour, Ukraine, and set out to remove that nation from existence,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (15 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 179. To ask the Minister for Finance when the revised disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme will be introduced; when the criteria for issuing a primary medical certificate for his scheme will be revised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7180/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (15 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on the application for citizenship by a person (details supplied) who applied to her Department for citizenship on 19 February 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7194/24]

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Deirtear gurb é an rud is annamh is iontach. After numerous false dawns and Groundhog Days, finally, the institutions envisaged in the power-sharing arrangements of the Good Friday Agreement have been restored in Northern Ireland. Two years after the people of Northern Ireland elected the members of the Assembly, there is at last a working Assembly and a functioning Executive. The...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (13 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government accepts that Israeli settlement policy in the occupied Palestinian territories is a breach of peremptory norms of international law, including in particular international humanitarian law; if the Government recognises the obligation of the State not to recognise the illegal situation created by this breach, and not to...

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I am deeply privileged to have the opportunity to say a few words in memory of a very distinguished Member of this House and a fine statesman, John Bruton. I was privileged to serve in the rainbow Government from 1994 to 1997 as Minister for the Environment under the leadership of John Bruton. That Government, as others will recall, had an unusual, if not unique, genesis. It was the only...

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: That's right.

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Getting all three re-elected is the thing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I join the Cathaoirleach in welcoming the Minister of State. I also will begin by paying tribute to the late John Bruton. I was privileged to be a member of the rainbow Government from 1994 to 1997 under his Taoiseachship and found him to be an excellent chairman of the Cabinet and an exemplary statesman. We all have had our opportunities to pay tribute to him but it is appropriate at a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Is it an informal paper too?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Enlargement (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Georgia engaged a lot with us.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I would first make it crystal clear that while the litany of abuse against the Palestinian people is decades long, shocking and horrible, there is no excuse whatever for the wanton murder carried out by Hamas on 7 October. My question is directly in relation to the provisional measures that will hopefully be announced tomorrow. One of the calls relating to those measures relates to an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Is Question No. 75 not included in the grouping?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: It is on the same issue of the legal case against Israel by South Africa in the International Court of Justice.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Is it?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Thank you.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I begin by condemning utterly the threats that were made against Jeffrey Donaldson and that he spoke about in the House of Commons yesterday. There is no room on any part of this island or anywhere else for threats of physical violence against any political person. Does the Tánaiste agree with me that the Northern Ireland governance framework which was so hard-won over so many years...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: What will happen on 8 February?