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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 82. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she is bringing the bail Bill before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36715/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Naval Vessels (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 134. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the military vessels that are accessing Irish waters; their purpose; their point of origin and destination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36712/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Military Aircraft (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 135. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the military aircraft that are accessing Irish airspace, their purpose, their point of origin and destination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36713/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UN Issues (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 136. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on Ireland's involvement with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36714/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a percentage of the proceeds from the sale of the Government's Aer Lingus shares will be restored to Irish Airlines (general employees) superannuation scheme pensioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36709/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Road Traffic Offences (22 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: At the end of August of this year, working in collaboration with Ms Susan Gray and the PARC road safety group, I received a reply from the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, to my Parliamentary Question No. 511 of 14 July. The reply detailed by district court the number of persons listed and convicted and licence numbers recorded for drink driving offences between...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Traffic Offences (22 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: He misled a Member of Dáil Éireann in this regard.

Topical Issue Debate: Road Traffic Offences (22 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: He gave wrong information to Dáil Éireann on this very serious matter in relation to drink driving. Today, The Irish Timescovered another shocking story and reported that between January 2013 and March 2015 521 drivers were already disqualified at the time of conviction for involvement in a collision causing serious injury or death. The Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Traffic Offences (22 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Get me the Minister. I want the Minister.

Topical Issue Debate: Road Traffic Offences (22 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: To date this year, 127 people have lost their lives on the roads and many hundreds more families have been traumatised by serious injuries. When I was transport spokesperson, it was calculated that each fatality cost our nation €2 million plus. It is a costly and terrible situation in terms of the personal pain of those individuals and families. Therefore, why does the Government...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Traffic Offences (22 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Crashes.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (22 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 24. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the proposed new accident and emergency unit for Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9; if the necessary planning and construction funding will be included in the new capital programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35549/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (22 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 68. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the changes that have taken place on the Emergency Department Task Force since a person (details supplied) very recently took over as chair; if he has set targets for this winter; if hospitals will be fined this winter if they do not meet these targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35548/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Relations (3 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 118. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on Ireland's current trade status with China; if this trade continues to grow; if Chinese companies are, or will be, involved in any Public Private Partnership projects in the new Capital Programme; the value of this trade to the Irish economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36839/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Relations (3 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his Department's plans for safeguarding Ireland’s trade relationship with the United Kingdoom, should the latter decide to exit the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36840/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (3 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to ensure that women who spent a lengthy period of time on home duties, and subsequently worked for up to 25 years and paid social insurance, will be afforded an opportunity to obtain a State pension (contributory), which will fully recognise their work in the home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38164/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Currency Circulation (3 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 294. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the result of any cost benefit analysis carried out by his Department on the rounding-up of prices, and change to the nearest 5 cent; whether the Government intends to eliminate the production of 1 cent and 2 cent coins; the timetable envisaged for this change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37613/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Central Bank (3 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 295. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has estimated the impact of European Central Bank quantitative easing on growth rates on tax revenues since this policy began; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37614/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (3 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 323. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has requested the Central Bank of Ireland, as regulator of the insurance industry, to report to his Department and the Houses of the Oireachtas on the massive increase in car and other insurance costs during 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38016/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (3 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 539. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if resources will be allocated directly to the Garda Síochána traffic corps, given recent worrying reports of the low conviction rates for drink driving offences; if she envisages any changes to the Courts Service Act 1998, given the low level of convictions of drink driving prosecutions; and if she will make a statement on the...