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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Migration Crisis (4 May 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 229. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised at European Union or United Nations level the question of Turkey’s status as a safe state for refugees being overturned; the efforts being made to stop the process of refugees being returned to Turkey; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8871/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Membership (4 May 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 230. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has expressed concerns at European Union level regarding Turkey’s application for membership of the European Union, given the human rights abuses being carried out against the people of Kurdistan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8872/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (4 May 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 231. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of Ireland’s plans to formally recognise the autonomous region of Kurdistan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8873/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority Data (4 May 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 336. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of complaints made to the National Transport Authority against taxi drivers, by category of complaint, by number of drivers against whom complaints were made, by number of enforcement actions per category of complaint, by number and type of prosecution, by number of driver licences revoked, by number of staff dealing...

Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I propose to share my time with Deputy Clare Daly. I welcome the opportunity to speak briefly on this important topic. I have always believed in the policy of being tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime. Along with some of my colleagues from my former party on Dublin City Council, we developed that kind of policy in the early and mid-1990s - long before the Blairites. We...

Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Acting Chairman. Constituents often ask whether Dublin, or the greater Dublin area including mid-Leinster, should have a totally separate Garda command in An Garda Síochána or even a totally separate police force. We have recently been commemorating the events of 1916. It should be noted that up to 1922, Dublin had a separate force. With the population of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Funding (5 May 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 1. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of providing an additional 1,000 community employment scheme places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9205/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishery Harbour Centres (5 May 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 26. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to report on the rent collected and the arrears in all tenancies of State property at Howth Harbour in County Dublin in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9207/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (5 May 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 77. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed new primary care centre in Edenmore in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9293/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (5 May 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 97. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the additional staff he will allocate to the Passport Office over the busy summer period to deal with passport applications. [9206/16]

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Tommy Broughan: On a personal level I congratulate the people who have been appointed as Ministers and who will receive their seals of office very shortly. Personally, I wish them well. This is a sham Administration. It is a temporary, ghost Administration, one that we know cannot and will not last. Years ago the great John Healy, the political journalist, a predecessor of Stephen Collins and Pat...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I found Deputy Eamon Ryan's speech this morning extraordinary. The leader of the Green Party has an extraordinarily hard neck.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I met people as well but I did not betray them like Deputy McGrath has done. He made commitments. This is the second time he has done this. Deputy Finian McGrath was never an Independent and was never on the left. Deputy Zappone and myself were on a couple of programmes putting the Independent case. She might remember that I joked she would be the Minister for Education and I would be...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Tommy Broughan: Deputy Ryan bankrupted the State.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Tommy Broughan: Control the State.

Other Questions: Gangland Crime (17 May 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 7. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures she is taking to ensure that An Garda Síochána has sufficient resources to stop gang-related murders and crime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10012/16]

Other Questions: Gangland Crime (17 May 2016)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister and the Garda Commissioner recently met community leaders from the inner city. Tonight there is to be a peace procession in an area of our capital city which is traumatised by the series of assassinations during recent months and by a perceived failure on the part of the Minister's Department to give the Garda Síochána the requisite resources to stamp it out and bring...

Other Questions: Gangland Crime (17 May 2016)

Tommy Broughan: Our rural colleagues have been speaking about the extensive closures of Garda stations. Do some of the Dublin Garda stations need to reopen? The former Lord Mayor of Dublin, Councillor Christy Burke, made the point about Fitzgibbon Street Garda station and asked whether a 24-7 presence was necessary there. Regarding the direction of gangland crime from outside this jurisdiction, what steps...

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Tommy Broughan: On a point of order-----

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I know that the Acting Chairman is the most experienced parliamentarian in the House, but Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett is speaking to section 14, which is such a powerful section that he-----