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Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Brendan Howlin: ...in defence of self interest and they only reinforce us in our determination to advance our policy platform. Since recovery from the financial crash which brought about the collapse of Ireland’s construction industry, the issue of housing has been this country’s main social focus. When other crises faced us, we were able to bring a singular focus to bear to address the...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...attack. Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank, as has been said, are also under attack, with a new licence, basically, having been given to Israeli settlers to simply drive from their lands people who have lived there for generations, and we are watching. What more can Ireland do? The Taoiseach must use the platform of next week's Council meeting to publicly manifest the horror...

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

Brendan Howlin: .... We have €34 million to do all of the things we need to do. What is that €34 million going to do according to the documentation distributed on budget day? It will fund capital investment on defensive equipment, land forces capability development, a force protection programme, the Naval Service vessel renewal and replacement programme and the Air Corps aircraft renewal and...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...the resolution introduced by Jordan was supported by 121 countries, with 14 against and 44 abstentions, eight EU member states - Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Slovenia, Malta and Ireland - voted for it but four - Austria, Croatia, Czechia and Hungary - voted against and the majority, 15 member states, abstained. There can be no military solution to this conflict. The...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Middle East (28 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...not what is happening on the ground. They are every day making the creation of a state of Palestine more impossible with increasing settlements and dislocation of Palestinian people from their traditional lands. I would ask whether it is a sustainable policy for us and for the European Union and others to say a two-state solution is the way to achieve peace if that solution is a fiction...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (28 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...set out the matters raised by him and the responses received, in his meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; if he specifically raised the continued annexation of Palestinian land by Israeli settlers and the treatment of Palestinians in the occupied territories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39898/23]

European Council Meeting: Statements, Questions and Answers (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...events that have happened in recent times, including the destruction of the Kakhovka dam and the long-term implications of this, which have reached as far as Odessa. Ground has been contaminated, land mines have floated across civilian areas and very serious matters must be addressed in terms of even the potential of agricultural land in the area. Additionally, and probably even more...

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...timelines and costings. Right now we have such a plan, a 15-year development vision across 2,500 projects to transform the facilities available to every child, youth and adult who wants to play football in Ireland. I understand how public money is decided. I have some experience in that at central Government level. Those projects best prepared and ready are most likely to be advanced...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Priorities of the Spanish EU Presidency: Discussion with Spanish Ambassador (5 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ..., and therefore on the future direction of the EU. That is the issue of migration. We have talked about it. Spain is very much on the front line of receiving migrants and having a direct land border on the continent of Africa, as the Chairman has said. I would be interested in hearing His Excellency's thoughts on how that matter can be handled in the coming months so that it does not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Security and Defence Policy: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...One can get expert views to coincide with whatever perspective one has. To deal with specifics, I will pose a question to Mr. McNamara first on the Finnish experience. Most of us would view Ireland and Finland as very different in terms of the security threat we face because Finland has the longest land border with Russia of any European country. Certainly, with the experience of...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: .... A number of issues will be discussed at the Council. As for additional support for Ukraine, what specifically will we do? The Taoiseach talks about increasing non-military aid from Ireland. It would be interesting to hear what specifically is proposed. My view is that this is now a pivotal stage of the conflict. It is quite clear that the Russian Federation intends to launch a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...internationally recognised state of Israel and a viable and internationally recognised state of Palestine. That is now being made impossible, day by day, by the illegal settlement on Palestinian lands. We really need a strategy to deal with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...any issue since their election last May, and hopefully that particular issue will be resolved. I have become familiar over the years with negotiations in relation to the impact on Northern Ireland sometimes being characterised by the euphemism "constructive ambiguity", to allow everybody to present issues in a very clear way. One of the difficulties that has beset, if you like, dealing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Impact of Brexit on Ireland: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...to ask Mr. Carr. Prior to Brexit, the committee looked at its likely impact. We argued cogently and clearly that there would be a need for additional direct services from the Republic of Ireland to continental Europe. That was denied by the Irish Maritime Development Office for a time, which stated that the existing companies could do what was necessary. Our view has certainly been...

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

Brendan Howlin: ...right now and some of our fears of a two-tier Europe are still a cause for concern. I ask the Minister of State to flesh out what he understands the political community to be and what his and Ireland's attitude is to how it might develop. Second, our ongoing solidarity and the very strong solidarity of the European Union with the people of Ukraine are very important indeed and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Food Security in the European Union: European Commission for Agriculture and Rural Development (13 Jul 2022)

Brendan Howlin: ...Policy because much of the focus in our generation has been on surpluses and so on. The first Commissioner, Sicco Mansholt, came from a hungry Europe where there was famine in his native Netherlands. Few will disagree with the view that surplus is certainly better than famine. Having an assurance of food is something we all take for granted. Just as we should not take peace in Europe...

European Council Decision: Motion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2022)

Brendan Howlin: ...on us to act in a robust way with regard to taking economic sanctions against Russia and in terms of our humanitarian response in welcoming Ukrainians fleeing from the horrors of war to our land. That is why the adding of violation of EU sanctions to the list of EU crimes that includes terrorism, trafficking in human beings and sexual exploitation of women and children, illicit drug and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Engagement with Ambassadors of Moldova and Romania (27 Apr 2022)

Brendan Howlin: ...to ease the pressure there but we all need to be part of that easing of pressure because should that happen - please God, it will not - it would be a human catastrophe. As we have seen, rockets landed in Odessa last weekend. When we were in Palanka, a 30-minute drive from Odessa, that possibility was made abundantly clear to us. The stated ambition of creating a Russian corridor through...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Post-Brexit Relations: Engagement with Scottish Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture (9 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: ...that a number of refugees - people fleeing from terror in Ukraine who want to come to the United Kingdom because they have family members in the United Kingdom - cannot get access right now. Some are coming to Ireland. I had contact in my office in Wexford this week with a mother and daughter who decided to come to Ireland and apply to access the UK from here. I am wondering if there is...