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Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: Maybe you would like to display a sense of fairness to the Opposition, which has very limited time today and tomorrow to discuss this most important Bill.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister has not addressed the central concerns. Those in his party sometimes portrays themselves as representatives of the squeezed middle. On this matter the Minister is not representing the people he hopes to represent. Maybe the squeezed middle is better represented by this side of the House. Why did the Minister not go in a different direction and examine capping the overall...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I warmly support the amendment put forward by Deputy Doherty. It is clearly a huge lacuna in budgetary strategy and policy that we do not have the serious equality proofing he talks about. For about ten years we have inserted a couple of pages in the budget documents which give a rudimentary Department of Finance type of analysis of the impact each tax change will have. I have been calling...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: The thing about the Government is that we have paralysis but not analysis on many issues such as housing. We are mired and nothing is happening, and there is not much analysis either. I know of the Minister of State's distinguished career; we were both spokespersons on energy.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I did not realise the Minister of State also had responsibility for finance. I have been here for many hours and I wonder why neither the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, nor the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, is here at the ultimate Stage of the Bill in the House. I would have thought it was the responsibility of at least one of them, without belittling the...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: The same number of people emigrated. That is more than it takes to fill the Aviva Stadium.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: They are asking those in government to close the gate behind them as they leave.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: They will be back in February. From now on they will be visiting us twice rather than four times each year.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Sale of State Assets (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 11. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the current situation regarding the sale of Bord Gáis Energy. [51566/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 122. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on Garda Operation Bambi; the number of persons arrested and charged as part of this operation to date broken down on an annual basis; the number of successful convictions obtained as a result of the operation; and if the operation is still active. [52130/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Missing Children (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 146. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a breakdown of the number of children who have been reported missing from the care system in Dublin and on a national basis in the years 2012 and to date in 2013; the number of these children who were subsequently found and re-entered the care system; and the ages of the children involved. [52125/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 160. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish a primary care centre in Donaghmede, Dublin 13 and the North Fringe [52131/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Training (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 161. To ask the Minister for Health if he will significantly increase the number of general practitioner training places following recent media reports and statements from the Irish College of General Practitioners regarding the shortage in the number of GP training places and the need to educate GPs to staff the new primary care network [52132/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of bus shelters that have been installed in the Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council administrative areas since January to date in 2013; and if he will provide the location of these new bus shelters. [52126/13]

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I wish to speak along the same lines as the previous speakers. The real challenge facing the Government was to do something about minimum pricing. That was one of the foundation stones of Deputy Shortall’s public policy on health when she was Minister of State. She will arrive shortly for the debate. The very low price of beer and other alcohol products is a public health matter...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I move amendment No. 36:In page 87, to delete lines 14 to 30.Probably one of the main responses to the budget in our e-mails and other forms of correspondence has concerned this particular provision, which now appears in section 71. I refer to the increase in the pension levy and its extension to 2015. People feel incredibly sore. Members and Oireachtas colleagues bear a special...

Order of Business (5 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: As the Minister knows, the Government spent almost three years working on a housing Bill, but we have no legislative underpinning for the cold weather initiative which lasts from November to March. A total of 140 people sleep on the streets and in parks, often with tragic consequences. Dublin City Council, where the Minister and I began our political careers, has approximately 20,000...

Order of Business (5 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: Given his background, the Minister has a particular interest in the subject and I wonder whether he can have something expedited.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive response, with most of which I do not agree, and for his illuminating comments on the PSPR. People are conscious of the fact that public sector pensioners are on fixed incomes. As time passes and as increasing numbers of utility charges, new taxes, etc., are introduced, people in the mid to late 70s and upwards - even those who previously...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 10. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his Department's work in addressing the ongoing social housing crisis; and if a more advanced level of a social housing building programme will be on his Department's agenda to address the crisis. [51810/13]