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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Yield (3 Feb 2015)

Robert Dowds: 262. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected by the State in 2014 through the universal social charge on the portion of income between €30,001 and €40,000 of all persons who pay the charge. [4756/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Yield (3 Feb 2015)

Robert Dowds: 263. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected by the State in 2014 through the universal social charge on the portion of income between €40,001 and €50,000 of all persons who pay the charge. [4757/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Yield (3 Feb 2015)

Robert Dowds: 264. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected by the State in 2014 through the universal social charge on the portion of income between €50,001 and €60,000 of all persons who pay the charge. [4758/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Yield (3 Feb 2015)

Robert Dowds: 265. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected by the State in 2014 through the universal social charge on the portion of income between €60,001 and €70,000 of all persons who pay the charge. [4759/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Yield (3 Feb 2015)

Robert Dowds: 266. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected by the State in 2014 through the universal social charge on the portion of income between €70,001 and €80,000 of all persons who pay the charge. [4760/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Yield (3 Feb 2015)

Robert Dowds: 267. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected by the State in 2014 through the universal social charge on the portion of income between €80,001 and €90,000 of all persons who pay the charge. [4761/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Yield (3 Feb 2015)

Robert Dowds: 268. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected by the State in 2014 through the universal social charge on the portion of income between €90,001 and €100,000 of all persons who pay the charge. [4762/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Yield (3 Feb 2015)

Robert Dowds: 269. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected by the State in 2014 through the universal social charge on the portion of income above €100,000 of all persons who pay the charge. [4763/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Horses (3 Feb 2015)

Robert Dowds: 328. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to tackle the problem of loose, feral horses or neglected horses in urban areas of Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4535/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Planning and Development (No. 2) Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Feb 2015)

Robert Dowds: I welcome Mr. Sheridan and his team. Like Senator Keane, I, too, regret the necessity for this Bill. I represent an area that was subject to more planning abuse than any other area in the whole country, namely, the Clondalkin, Lucan and Palmerstown area. We were deprived of our town centre because of the inappropriate behaviour on the old Dublin County Council in the late 1980s and early...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Planning and Development (No. 2) Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Feb 2015)

Robert Dowds: Could I add to what Deputy O'Dowd has said?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Planning and Development (No. 2) Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Feb 2015)

Robert Dowds: I agree absolutely with his last point. I have personal experience of it concerning a strategic development zone, or SDZ, in my own county. There needs to be a mechanism whereby people's reasonable concerns are properly addressed. It is not always done in the current system. Some of the so-called consultation can be a joke because it is just ticking a particular box. That issue needs to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Planning and Development (No. 2) Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Feb 2015)

Robert Dowds: Of course it does and it should have been developed yonks ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Planning and Development (No. 2) Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Feb 2015)

Robert Dowds: Yet it is the one area between Lucan and Clondalkin that has no housing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Planning and Development (No. 2) Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Feb 2015)

Robert Dowds: May I get a response on the issue of disability?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Planning and Development (No. 2) Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Feb 2015)

Robert Dowds: In terms of any new housing, is Mr. Cussen saying there will definitely have to be good accessibility?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Penalty Points System (4 Feb 2015)

Robert Dowds: 177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to amend the penalty point regulations to make the traffic offence of breach of weight restrictions traffic management an offence for which penalty points will be imposed, and if so, when he plans to make this amendment. [5052/15]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)

Robert Dowds: How long does the Comptroller and Auditor General reckon it will take him to complete his report on the HEA? May I follow that up with a further question after he answers this question?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)

Robert Dowds: That is quite a long time to wait before talking to the HEA again, if it will take the Comptroller and Auditor General that long. However, I can understand why it would take a considerable length of time. In common with Deputy O'Donovan, I was very unhappy with some of the HEA replies when its representatives appeared before the committee. If the Comptroller and Auditor General finds...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)

Robert Dowds: Is it the Comptroller and Auditor General's impression that in a way, the Department also is remiss in this regard?