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Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: No. Everyone will have the same.

Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: The Deputy is going into someone else's time.

Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: The Deputy is interrupting other people.

Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: Keep going, Deputy.

Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: Deputy Carol Nolan is sharing time with Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: Deputy Ó Caoláin should be allowed to speak without interruption.

Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: I thank the Deputies for their co-operation with regard to time-keeping.

Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: In accordance with Standing Order 70(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time on Thursday, 16 February 2017.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Capital Assistance Scheme (15 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if €86 million was allocated to capital assistance scheme (CAS) projects in 2016; the amount of this allocation that was actually spent on CAS projects; if all CAS applications received were considered for funding; the areas to which the balance of the allocation for CAS projects not used for CAS projects...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Capital Assistance Scheme (15 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 155. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of an application for capital assistance scheme funding (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a company (details supplied) submitted a proposal to his Department through Louth County Council in this case in 2016 and has not yet received a reply; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Mobile Telephony Services (15 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 263. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason Irish mobile telephone customers are paying more than other European customers for making calls when abroad; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that according to ComReg the average surcharge applied by Irish operators is 98c per minute compared with just 69c across the EU; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Mobile Telephony Services (15 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 264. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the outcome for roaming charges between Ireland and the UK post-Brexit (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this is a serious issue for persons living in the Border regions in which mobile operator service providers automatically switch over and back; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Regulations (15 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 287. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the severe restrictions imposed on community and voluntary groups and community work placement initiatives by the need to comply with the Safety, Health and Welfare Act 2005; if she will make it mandatory that all persons employed under these schemes will receive proper training, proper clothing...

Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: The Minister said earlier that his strategy is set out in the programme for Government and that that is his goal. I will not reiterate what Deputy Murphy O'Mahony has said, but clearly there is an opportunity in that legislation to expand and reintroduce an enhanced motorised transport grant for people with disabilities. That grant was to have been reintroduced some time ago. In that...

Motor Insurance Costs: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: I welcome the two reports and compliment all involved. The major focus is on the cost of motor insurance but I wish to comment on the issue of public liability also. The key issue is implementation of the recommendations and for people outside and in the House to achieve reduced motor insurance premiums. I have no doubt this is the intention of the Minister of State and the intention of the...

Topical Issue Debate: Passport Services (21 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: The number of people living in Northern Ireland seeking Irish passports has increased by more than a third over the past year. This is according to figures I obtained from the Minister's office. The figures show almost 33,000 people in the North applied last year for an Irish passport, an increase on 2015 of 34.6%. In 2015, 25,000 people living north of the Border applied for Irish...

Topical Issue Debate: Passport Services (21 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: I thank the Minister for his response. I acknowledge and laud the staff in the Passport Office as well as those in the Minister's office in respect of their work with difficulties with passports. I recognise the importance of the integrity of the passports. As public representatives, we all know about the panic that gets into people when their passports go out of date. The difficulty...

Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: I welcome this Bill. I also commend those, both in the Seanad and Deputy Frank O'Rourke and the many who have tried to get the Bill to where it is today. In the latter days of my career as a principal teacher, it got to a stage where one could hardly buy a role of toilet paper without looking to procurement. That was the reality. We have for some time needed legislation to encourage...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (21 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 301. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on recent reports in the media that his Department is considering ending the labour activation schemes, including Tús and gateway; if his attention has been drawn to the detrimental effect this would have on these fundamental schemes which provide an excellent gateway into the workforce for unemployed persons; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Joint Sitting with Joint Committee on European Union Affairs
First Vice-President of the European Commission, Mr. Frans Timmermans: Discussion (21 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: I thank the Co-Chairman for the opportunity, as a non-member of the committee but as a Border county representative, to make a contribution. Mr. Timmermans talked about solutions. I wish in a non-partisan way to throw two short questions out to him. We all know about the formation of the EU. It was a peace project in the first instance and then an economic project. Is there merit in the...