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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Policy (18 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: I referred to the certification process.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Policy (18 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: That is not what I said. The Minister of State should be fair.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Policy (18 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: As the Minister of State is aware, the deputy leader of Fianna Fáil raised this issue during Leaders' Questions today with the Tánaiste following reports in today's newspapers that a further 295 houses in Leopardstown will be sold directly to an institutional investor. What this does is reinforce how Fine Gael favours financial institutions and big corporations over ordinary...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Policy (18 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: The Minister of State is not saying anything new. Nobody is saying that it involves 100% of the market but institutional investors' share of the market is growing rapidly because they are buying more and small landlords are getting out. The reason why small landlords are getting out is because they are taxed to within an inch of their lives. A total of 52% or 53% of the rent a small...
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: Which Private Members' business did the Deputy use for that?
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: Limbo.
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. I thank Deputy Clare Daly for her sympathy but we are okay and Fianna Fáil can stand on its own two feet. We are the only two Deputies in this House to have continuously raised this issue in the last two and a half years. While we may now differ on a number of points, until today I would have said we have worked constructively...
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: I want to make the point-----
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: I have never been in government since I have been a Member of this House, unlike Deputy Brendan Ryan.
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: EU Regulation No. 598/2014 makes clear and explicit references to health. It states:The importance of health aspects needs to be recognised in relation to noise problems, and it is therefore important that those aspects be taken into consideration in a consistent manner at all airports when a decision is taken on noise abatement objectives, taking into account the existence of common Union...
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: The people of Ireland did not want to abolish it.
- Public Transport: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 2:To delete all words after “calls on the Government to:” and substitute the following: “—increase investment in sustainable transport projects in order to tackle congestion, reduce emissions and drive sustainable growth; —accelerate the rollout of additional rail carriages in order to tackle severe overcrowding on commuter trains; ...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: Is this the man who delivers?
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport Provision (18 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18137/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: 190. To ask the Minister for Health if a date for optical surgery will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [18196/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (18 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: 251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of full-time equivalent driver testers that retired to date in 2019. [18312/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (18 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: 252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of full-time equivalent driver testers employed. [18313/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (18 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: 253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of full-time equivalent driver testers hired to date in 2019. [18314/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (18 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: 254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of electric vehicles purchased in 2018; and the number purchased to date in 2019. [18315/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (18 Apr 2019)
Robert Troy: 255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of his plan to purchase additional train carriages; the date by which these trains will be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18316/19]