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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (28 Nov 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will contact the Chief Executive Officer of Dublin Bus regarding a bus service (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53234/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (29 Nov 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the taxi industry testing process being carried out for the National Transport Authority by Prometric; his views that applicants who fail the test should be provided with the breakdown of the sections of the test they failed; the reason questions in the knowledge entry tests can relate to county areas outside the 30...

Other Questions: Pyrite Issues (4 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the recommendations of the recent report of the Pyrite Panel will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54207/12]

Order of Business (4 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Priory Hall Development (4 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the Priory Hall, Dublin, resolution process; when he believes the resolution process will be concluded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54206/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services (4 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reforms he has introduced to the legal profession to ensure greater competitiveness and price transparency for consumers; if he plans any further reforms of the legal and other professions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51777/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (4 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if drivers who have been convicted of road traffic offences and are required to hand over their licence to the Courts Services are now doing so; the number of licences that have been handed over to the Courts Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54410/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (4 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí that have undertaken intoxilyser training courses in November 2012; the number that will undertake the training in December 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54411/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmaceutical Sector (4 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the numbers of staff, levels of income and expenditure at the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland; if he will indicate the levels and amount of fees levied by the Society on the pharmacy sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53733/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Regulations (4 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Health if he will indicate the current position on the rollout of the system of invigilation of the pharmacy sector by the Pharmaceutical Society and whether that system includes any early warning or mediation-type process for possible breaches of regulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53734/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which he plans to present the paper outlining the package of supports being put in place for those affected by Narcolepsy associated with the vaccine Pandemrix; the reason for the delay in the presentation of the paper prior to Dáil Éireann summer recess, again in September 2012 and once again this October; when will he re-establish...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (4 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Health when the proposed independent inspectors of voluntary and private sector intellectual disability services in this country will commence; when he will publish new regulations on standards regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53894/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Proposed Legislation (4 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Taxi Bill will be published and when it will be introduced into Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53735/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of costs for the proposed LUAS BXD line project; if he will explain the very high cost per kilometre compared to other European light rail construction projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54427/12]

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: I concur with some of the comments Deputies have made on the resolutions. What does the Minister expect the measures in Financial Resolution No. 10 to yield? He indicated that Financial Resolution No. 11 would yield €47 million. Will he also elaborate on the reference to credit unions? I concur with colleagues that since the introduction by the former Minister for Finance, Mr....

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Some time ago, I suggested to the Minister for Finance that he establish a commission on top pay, similar to that which the Miliband brothers are seeking to establish in the United Kingdom. The Minister responded by rubbishing my proposal. He does not want to know where the wealth is in this country and why would he given that his party and Fianna Fáil have for decades represented that...

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: It is not rubbish. The Minister of State, Deputy White, is only a wet day in this House.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: I and the Minister were fighting elections 30 years ago when Deputy White was with another party.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: He was. The cuts announced in social welfare are a grave error and one which should be remedied before next week. As anyone who has been unemployed will agree, cutting jobseeker's benefit when people are vulnerable as they desperately try to return to work is reprehensible. The mean cuts in the back-to-school allowance and household benefits package do not have anything to do with the...

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: I am steering around to the fact that a section of the Labour Party-----