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Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (3 Nov 2010)

Tommy Broughan: Question 164: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform his plans to enhance the security of public transport commuters and staff through a separate transport policing unit or any other mechanism in view of the recent spate of anti-social and violent attacks on the Luas tram and other public transport systems; his views regarding this alleged recent rise in anti-social and criminal...

Written Answers — Cash for Gold Schemes: Cash for Gold Schemes (3 Nov 2010)

Tommy Broughan: Question 173: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the concerns that have been raised at recent community meetings at the proliferation of gold shops and gold trader operations across the Dublin region; if there is any licensing procedure in place for the establishment and operation of gold shops, on-street or door-to-door gold trading operations;...

Written Answers — Local Authority Lands: Local Authority Lands (3 Nov 2010)

Tommy Broughan: Question 211: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 506 of 27 October 2010, if he will indicate the location of the 32 acres of land on the Malahide Road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40417/10]

Written Answers — Local Authority Lands: Local Authority Lands (3 Nov 2010)

Tommy Broughan: Question 212: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 506 of 27 October 2010, to confirm if the lands (details supplied) have been transferred to the Housing and Sustainable Communities Ltd; if that body has the right to dispose of those lands as it so wishes whether for housing or other purposes; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (3 Nov 2010)

Tommy Broughan: Question 213: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will report on the mandate and activities of the Housing and Sustainable Communities Ltd.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40419/10]

Written Answers — Agri-Environment Options Scheme: Agri-Environment Options Scheme (4 Nov 2010)

Tommy Broughan: Question 19: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of farmers who have applied for the agri-environmental options scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40625/10]

Written Answers — Greyhound Racing Industry: Greyhound Racing Industry (4 Nov 2010)

Tommy Broughan: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he will bring forward legislation relating to the regulation of the greyhound sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40644/10]

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (4 Nov 2010)

Tommy Broughan: Question 169: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will report on Operation Tombola; the cost and achievements of this operation so far; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40744/10]

Written Answers — Daylight Savings Time: Daylight Savings Time (9 Nov 2010)

Tommy Broughan: Question 270: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he has contacted his counterpart in the British Government on current UK proposals to move to central European time; if so, if he will indicate the status of this proposal and whether the British Home Secretary has indicated to him the likely timeframe for the implementation of this proposal; his views on the likely impact of...

Agreements with Members (10 Nov 2010)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister of State, Deputy Connick, recently visited my constituency but he never informed me that he intended to do so.

Agreements with Members (10 Nov 2010)

Tommy Broughan: Will the Taoiseach confirm whether the Independent Members - Deputies Lowry, Healy Rae and Finian McGrath - are still in receipt of €43,000 per annum in the form of the so-called party leaders' allowance? If they do remain in receipt of it, then possibly €1 million or more has been allocated-----

Agreements with Members (10 Nov 2010)

Tommy Broughan: A great deal of money has been spent on these so-called party leaders. Is it the case that the allowances to which I refer are not subject to audit by the Standards in Public Office Commission? In other words, they are not audited in any way, shape or form. The Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Cuffe, is sitting beside the Taoiseach.

Agreements with Members (10 Nov 2010)

Tommy Broughan: Why are these so-called party leaders' allowances not publicly audited? Political party funding cannot be spent for electoral purposes. However, we do not know how the allowances of €43,000 which are paid to the Independent Members to whom I refer are spent. We do not know what happens to a single euro of this money. Is there any intention to audit these allowances?

Property Services (Regulation) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2010)

Tommy Broughan: I also welcome the Bill on which the House has waited for the best part of 13 years. We needed a property services regulatory authority in recent decades. That this legislation has arrived in the dying days of the Government provides a poor commentary on how government operates. We also had to wait for more than a decade for the Multi-unit Developments Bill, the second element of the...

Property Services (Regulation) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2010)

Tommy Broughan: However, with one or two exceptions, the same journalists have hardly ever mentioned that their colleagues and the owners of their newspapers played a huge role in what has come to pass with the effective collapse of our fiscal position. This point must be noted and should be examined because either there is journalism or there is not. Journalism should be about giving the real facts about,...

Written Answers — Central Bank Reports: Central Bank Reports (10 Nov 2010)

Tommy Broughan: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects the publication of the next Financial Stability Report by the Central Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41622/10]

Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (10 Nov 2010)

Tommy Broughan: Question 91: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the continued weakness in income tax receipts; the extent to which he attributes this ongoing weakness to emigration, job losses, declining hourly pay, declining hours worked, declining labour market participation or other factors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41623/10]

Written Answers — Vocational Education Committees: Vocational Education Committees (10 Nov 2010)

Tommy Broughan: Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff employed by the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee and County Dublin VEC for 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41808/10]

Written Answers — Senior Debt Obligations: Senior Debt Obligations (10 Nov 2010)

Tommy Broughan: Question 140: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will specify where under Irish law it is mandated that senior bondholders have the same status as depositors or holders of Irish sovereign debt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41811/10]

Written Answers — Penalty Points System: Penalty Points System (10 Nov 2010)

Tommy Broughan: Question 191: To ask the Minister for Transport if the Road Traffic Act 2010 is being implemented in terms of the requirement of drivers who have been charged with penalty points offences to present their licence to the courts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41860/10]