Results 241-260 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector Staff (13 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: It is hard to believe the pillar banks regarding net interest margins because we are still paying among the highest interest rates in the European Union. Therefore, the Irish banking market should be very profitable. Obviously, major developments include FinTech and new structures from the European Union. With regard to Brexit, the financial services sector currently employs 40,000 to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector Staff (13 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: There is a perception that, along with declining work forces, there is also a lack of services as we have branches which have no managers, one manager managing four or five branches and so on. We signed up to the payment services directive and are seeing the impact of that in our current accounts when we get responses on our phones if we carry out transactions on the web. There is also the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector Staff (13 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the continuing job losses in the pillar and other banks and the perception among the public that banking services, including online services, are deteriorating for households and businesses. [45809/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector Staff (13 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Of course, I will observe the time limits. Since the economic crash, the size of the workforce, particularly in the five pillar banks, has fallen by 45%. The Financial Services Union has, rightly, complained that there has been a dripfeed of information, with AIB losing 1,000 workers, Bank of Ireland losing 1,000 workers and losses in Permanent TSB and so on. The workforce has contracted...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Appeals Commission (13 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the rise in the amount of taxation assessments in dispute at the Tax Appeals Commission. [45807/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the Franco-German proposal for a minimum price for carbon taxation in the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46130/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection Forecasts (13 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to propose an annual review of performance of his Department in tax forecasting. [45802/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Central Bank (13 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the key steps which should be recommended to the new Lagarde leadership of the European Central Bank to stimulate the slowing EU economy. [45808/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (13 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 160. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the HSE is improving services for children and adults with intellectual disabilities that also have mental health issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46756/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (12 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The schools in question are two important primary schools in Dublin Bay North, Our Lady Immaculate senior national school, SNS, Darndale, Dublin 17 and St. Laurence's national school, Brookstone Road in Baldoyle Dublin 13. The principal of St. Laurence's, Ms Clare Finnerty, told me that she met the Minister's predecessor, Deputy Bruton, in March 2017 and that she sent in a letter of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (12 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister has not given us any assistance on either issue. St. Laurence's national school in Baldoyle has had a distinguished history but it is unusual in having two separate campuses, 600 m or 700 m apart, along a main road. It has always been a popular choice for families in the Baldoyle area. There is no waiting list for families since every parent who applies on behalf of his or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Armenian Genocide (12 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 44. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a motion or resolution will be brought to Dáil Éireann to recognise the 1915 genocide of Armenians living in the Ottoman empire (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46129/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Armenian Genocide (12 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: On 29 October 2019, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution to recognise the 1915-17 Armenian genocide. It has also been recognised by the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, 16 EU member states and 32 countries worldwide. Is it not time for the Tánaiste and the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Armenian Genocide (12 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Should we not have a particular interest in this, given what happened to our people between 1845 and 1852, which was effectively a genocide as well? According to the 1948 UN genocide convention, the crime is defined as acts "committed with intent to destroy, in whole or part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group". Between 1915 and 1917, after Turkey entered the First World War on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Armenian Genocide (12 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: All we can rely on for the past are historians.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Armenian Genocide (12 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Historians have delved into the documentation on what happened. For example, in July 1915 the US ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Henry Morgenthau Snr., said "a campaign of race extermination is in progress under a pretext of reprisal against rebellion." He was referring to the horrible crimes being committed against the Armenian people. Also, in the year 2000, almost 20 years ago, 126...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (12 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 56. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to secure the release of political prisoners in Bahrain; if he has met with Bahraini officials in regard to the issue; if so, if he will report on the meetings; and his views on the reported refusal of adequate medical care to high profile prisoners. [45810/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel Data (12 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 89. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of vacant promotional positions waiting to be filled in the Defence Forces as of 4 November 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46357/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (12 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 99. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the establishment of a parliamentary assembly at the United Nations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46152/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Enlargement (12 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 103. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the proposed timeframe for the admission of Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Armenia and Georgia into the European Union. [45803/19]