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Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (21 Jul 2011)

Tommy Broughan: Question 471: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has had any response from developers to his request that they act without delay and address the problems of unfinished so-called ghost estates; if he is disappointed at the response; his views on any other measures to force developers to fulfil all of their responsibilities in terms of any estates...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (21 Jul 2011)

Tommy Broughan: Question 472: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if there will be any more tranches of money available under the Resolving Ireland's Unfinished Housing Developments programme to address the public safety issues associated with unfinished estates; if so, when this money will be allocated and the local authorities that will receive same; the mechanism that...

Written Answers — Legal Services: Legal Services (21 Jul 2011)

Tommy Broughan: Question 517: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the regulation of the writing of wills here; his views on the training that solicitors receive in the writing of wills, in view of the recent report in the UK by the Legal Services Consumer Panel on the will-writing market which found that 25% of wills drawn up in the study had serious legal defects even when...

Written Answers — Anti-Social Behaviour: Anti-Social Behaviour (21 Jul 2011)

Tommy Broughan: Question 518: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of anti-social behaviour orders that have been issued under the Criminal Justice Act 2006 each year since 2007 and to date in 2011; the age profile of those that have been issued ASBOs; the type and level of offences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22161/11]

Written Answers — Anti-Social Behaviour: Anti-Social Behaviour (21 Jul 2011)

Tommy Broughan: Question 519: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider, in liaison with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, new measures to target anti-social behaviour in privately owned and privately rented houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22162/11]

Written Answers — Prison Sentencing: Prison Sentencing (21 Jul 2011)

Tommy Broughan: Question 520: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he is carrying out a review of sentencing policy; his views on whether adequate sentences are being handed down for those found guilty of serious criminally violent activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22163/11]

Written Answers — Recidivism Rates: Recidivism Rates (21 Jul 2011)

Tommy Broughan: Question 521: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on monitoring or collecting information at Departmental level on prisoner re-offending rates in view of the fact that the only information available on this matter in the State appears to be a 2006 study of prisoner re-offending rates of 19,955 prisoners that was carried out by the UCD Institute of Criminology; the number...

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (21 Jul 2011)

Tommy Broughan: Question 734: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the numbers of drivers and staff at Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann at the end of the 2010; the numbers of drivers and staff at Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann at 1 July 2011; the figures for same at the end of December 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22159/11]

Written Answers — Pay Levels: Pay Levels (14 Sep 2011)

Tommy Broughan: Question 238: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will establish a top pay commission to examine pay and compensation levels across the whole economy and establish key pay relatives across the public and private sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22333/11]

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (15 Sep 2011)

Tommy Broughan: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on Garda operation Balloon; the number of vehicles seized for non-insurance or no driving licence; the number of drivers prosecuted for no tax, no NCT certificate and so on; if this operation is still active; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24308/11]

Written Answers — Child Protection: Child Protection (15 Sep 2011)

Tommy Broughan: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to establish a Garda child protection unit in the R and J districts of the Dublin region; if so, the number of gardaí by rank in each unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24309/11]

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (15 Sep 2011)

Tommy Broughan: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on Garda operation Bóthar; the number of persons arrested and charged under this operation; the number of gardaí involved; the cost of the operation to date; the number of successful convictions secured to date; if this operation is still ongoing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24310/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (15 Sep 2011)

Tommy Broughan: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant cardiologists at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; the number of persons on the waiting list to see a consultant; the average waiting time to see a consultant; the steps being taken to reduce the waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24306/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (15 Sep 2011)

Tommy Broughan: Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant urologists at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; the number of persons on the waiting list to see the consultant; the average waiting time to see the consultant; and the steps being taken to reduce the waiting times [24307/11]

Planning Issues (20 Sep 2011)

Tommy Broughan: I wish to share time with Deputy Seán Kenny.

Planning Issues (20 Sep 2011)

Tommy Broughan: I attended a packed meeting of very anxious and upset Priory Hall residents in the Hilton Airport Hotel on the Malahide Road on Thursday night last. Priory Hall is a relatively new residential apartment complex of 187 units - it was built by the Coalport Building Company Limited - in the huge new North Fringe district in the constituency of Dublin North East and included among its residents...

Planning Issues (20 Sep 2011)

Tommy Broughan: The residents and the 200 families in question feel deeply let down by the regulatory, planning, building control and fire safety systems, which allowed people to self-certify buildings that were grossly badly constructed and may be dangerous, frankly. We need to reassure them. I will come back to the original question I posed. Is the Department of the Environment, Community and Local...

ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (20 Sep 2011)

Tommy Broughan: Does that include interest payments?

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (20 Sep 2011)

Tommy Broughan: Question 338: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the steps being taken in conjunction with the relevant local authority and a developer (details supplied) to urgently complete the unfinished estate of Castlemoyne, Balgriffin, Dublin 13, and remedy all outstanding defects for the benefit of existing residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (20 Sep 2011)

Tommy Broughan: Question 526: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has received a business case from Iarnród Éireann in relation to the development of a DART link to Dublin Airport; his views on the project; the estimated cost and forecast patronage of the proposed link; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24504/11]