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Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (28 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...day of the budget, shows that, in sub-programme A, defence policy and support, military capacities and operational outputs - the core spending of the Department on the military - is to rise from €915.362 million next year to €920.712 million. That is a 1%, or €5 million, increase. It is a joke. The Government is not serious about giving capacity to our Defence...

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy Report: Statements (22 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...Capabilities and Operational Outputs, which is the main defence spend after stripping out pensions and so on, was €896,187,000. Of this, €720,212,000 related to current expenditure and €175,975,000 related to capital. Over the year, we are to see a vast increase of 1%. After all the talk we had, there will be an increase of 1%. That covers 9,072 associated public...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)

Brendan Howlin: In this supplementary question I wish to ask about the non-pay Vote. Something in the order of €60 million in non-pay additional funding seems to be very little in terms of the equipment requirements laid out, if we are going to do anything. The cost of the replacement of the two maritime aircraft would gobble up that amount. Would consideration be given to going down the road of...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (13 Jul 2022)

Brendan Howlin: ...the action plan on solidarity lanes will offer an alternative; in fact, it will not. The Commission explained to us that, at best, it will get half the volume of grain out of Ukraine, that is, 2.5 million tonnes per month as opposed to 5 million tonnes, and at much greater cost. How likely is the opening of the ports by way of the Turkish initiative?

Afghanistan Crisis: Statements (29 Sep 2021)

Brendan Howlin: I begin by expressing my appreciation to the Business Committee for scheduling this truly important debate at the request of my colleague, Deputy Duncan Smith, with whom I will share time. Like millions of others, I watched with fear and concern as the Taliban forces advanced towards Kabul in August and regained total control of Afghanistan. We were aware of the type of regime the...

Criminal Procedure Bill 2021: Second Stage (10 Feb 2021)

Brendan Howlin: ...to the fact that we now have a major problem regarding the backlog of serious trials. These are trials under the determination of the Courts Service that cannot commence during a period of level 5 restrictions. We have a serious backlog and we do not know how long either level 5 or analogous restrictions will apply, although it is clear that will be well beyond this month and probably...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: ...is suggesting they are completely false, they are all we can budget on. The figures were all proofed by the Department of Finance. They project a surplus next year of 0.2% of GDP, or €700 million, having provided €5 per week to every pensioner or anybody in receipt of a social welfare payment, including the disability benefit or carer's benefit. What it does do is ask the...

Brexit: Motion (21 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...surveys suggest the main fears about migration are about competition for jobs, concern about crime and access to housing. Just before the June 2016 vote to leave the EU, UK unemployment was just under 5% and employment was nearly 75%. Clearly, migrants were not leaving many British people outside the jobs market. Crime rates have been static or falling across the UK for a number of...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...have locked a generation out of the security of home ownership. For those aged 37, the rainy day fund makes no sense. A rainy day fund may sound prudent - it is designed to achieve that objective - but taking €1.5 billion from the strategic fund, an actual buffer for the State, and changing its name on paper is not creating any new money. Where will it now be invested? Taking...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (8 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...to us since 4 April? For clarification, does the title "strategic communications unit" exist anymore or has it been abolished? Is there a strategic communications unit currently? On the €5 million, the Taoiseach says half the sum will simply be rebated to the Exchequer and not reallocated within his Department. Is that right? What is the employment framework number for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (24 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...briefed and had given their views on the contents of the survey. When will that process take place and will the research proceed? On the overall budget, the Taoiseach indicated the budget of €5 million was to be reallocated, with €2.5 million to be retained to meet existing financial commitments. I understand from his reply that the remaining €2.5 million will be...

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: .... Epidemics and plagues were a constant fear. Through the application of centuries of scientific research, we, as a species, have been able to combat dozens of diseases that once routinely killed millions. The success of these efforts should not be forgotten, and we will continually search out new ways to defeat diseases that so often were a constant threat to our very survival as a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (7 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...and Reform - that in budgeting, it is a Minister who determines the amount of money to be sought for any agency or unit. Who then proposed that the strategic communications unit should get €5 million and who determined that it should have 15 staff?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements: Supplementary Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (31 Jan 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It has a very concentrated population of 5 million.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (30 Jan 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...plan be published? Earlier, in a different debate, the Taoiseach told us that it would be in the coming weeks. I do not believe for a moment that the Government propaganda unit, with its €5 million to spend, has not already got detailed plans, colour documents, logos and websites planned. Specifically, when will the capital plan be published? My next question is specifically...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (23 Jan 2018)

Brendan Howlin: At least €5 million is being spent on this unit, one would have to do something.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (23 Jan 2018)

Brendan Howlin: A sum of €5 million has been spent so it has to produce something.

Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...the grand sum of €4 a week but only for the richest half of the working population. I hope it is clear that this bad idea should not manifest itself in the budget. Fianna Fail's view is that instead the 5% rate of the universal social charge, USC, should be lowered. Again, it would be a regressive measure, albeit marginally less so than the Taoiseach's proposal. It would benefit...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (21 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...made by my colleague, Deputy Burton, that this should be embedded in capital funding for the arts because it is an area that has been lacking in capital funding, although we put in a rolling €5 million per annum for arts centres and so on. Is it is intended to keep that €50 million? The Taoiseach indicated it was being left in place. What specifically will it be paid out...

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2016)

Brendan Howlin: ...Taoiseach's reply is profoundly disappointing. Our corporation tax receipts are nearly €1 billion higher this November than they were last November. The overall corporation tax take is €170 million higher than Revenue planned for this year. This is happening when war is raging across the Middle East and when famine is taking hold across Africa. As we know, Ireland is the...

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