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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Meetings (19 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 284. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the bilateral meetings she has had with her EU counterparts over the past six months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26647/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (19 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 503. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on reports that the National Transport Authority plans to construct 16 new bus radial routes; the impact this will have on residents that live near these proposed new routes in view of the news that 1,300 homeowners may lose their gardens; when homeowners will be notified if they are to be subject to a compulsory purchase...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board Staff (19 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 593. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of requests received from the Residential Tenancies Board for permission to employ additional staff in 2017 and to date in 2018; the number approved, pending or refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26646/18]

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I am grateful to have an opportunity to speak briefly on this motion. I commend Sinn Féin on its introduction this afternoon. More than 700,000 people are on health waiting lists for treatment and assessment. The figures from the National Treatment Purchase Fund for May 2018 represent an increase of 6,200 on the figures for April 2018. There has been a jump of 4,300 to 511,904 in the...

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I am grateful for the brief opportunity to comment on the summer economic statement. Last weekend there were reports that Fine Gael was trying out various general election slogans, such as Let Leo Lead On, based on the Seán Lemass slogan of the 1960s, but listening to the bluster and barefaced attempts this morning by the Taoiseach to rewrite history in response to Deputy Pearse...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (20 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the parameters of classifying homeless figures and statistics; the reason some persons with homeless priority are not included in the overall monthly figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26507/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Availability (20 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the legislation for the national regeneration and development agency will be brought forward to Dáil Éireann; if the acquisition of land for social housing will include private sites in suitable locations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26434/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (20 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) has been imprisoned under an administrative detention order since 2 July 2017 and has reportedly been denied the right to a fair and public trial; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27021/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (20 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional funding which will be allocated to Irish Water in 2018 to address curtailed upgrades of water infrastructure including the continuing discharge of raw sewage into the sea; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27034/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (20 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the legislation for improvements he is planning in relation to the estate management and housing maintenance functions of the local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27038/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (21 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 30. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of new national monuments which have been designated in the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27023/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (21 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 35. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of archaeological monuments that have been added to the Record of Monuments and Places in the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27022/18]

Pre-European Council: Statements (27 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I am delighted to have a brief opportunity to contribute to the debate. The next meeting of the European Council will take place in Brussels tomorrow and Friday, where there will be discussions on migration, including reform of the Common European Asylum System, CEAS, the economy and multi-annual financial framework, PESCO and co-operation with NATO, and, most important for us, Brexit. On...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: Under Standing Order 68, I move that the question on amendment No. 22 be now put based on the fact that we have endlessly discussed the substance of this amendment and every other one since 24 April. We are celebrating the two-month anniversary of discussing this. We have spent something like 14 or 15 hours doing so. This legislation is being treated like no other legislation. Between 24...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I ask that the Ceann Comhairle or Leas-Cheann Comhairle be sent for.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: In Standing Orders relative to Public Business of this House, the position on a Member proposing a closure seems quite clear. I am proposing the closure of this part of the debate. There is another amendment, amendment No. 29, in respect of which all of these issues will come up again and all Deputies will have an opportunity to speak again. Given that we have endlessly discussed the...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: -----that we should have dealt with.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: It is time to bring this circus to an end.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: But-----

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The rules state that a Chair of a committee of this House can in actual fact allow a closure debate to take place.