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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Legislation (21 Nov 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has requested the Departments of Public Expenditure and Reform and Finance to cost the prospect of consolidation of road traffic law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48481/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Legislation (21 Nov 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the consolidation of road traffic legislation; the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48482/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Education Welfare Service (21 Nov 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 226. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will consider allowing all schools, not just DEIS schools, to apply for an education welfare officer service to assist children that may be experiencing homelessness and need additional supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48498/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (21 Nov 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the guidelines or ministerial directives outlining the access routes into emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48497/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (21 Nov 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 254. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the guidelines or ministerial directives outlining the access routes into family hubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48549/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (21 Nov 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the way in which decisions are made to place families in hubs; if there are waiting lists to access hubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48550/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Government Expenditure (22 Nov 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 10. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the trends in general Government interest expenditure since 2017; the projections for the next five years; the way in which this expenditure has been impacted by the NTMA's management of the national debt in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43866/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Government Expenditure (22 Nov 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister may remember I raised concerns about the refinancing of some of our benchmark bonds in 2018 and 2019 with him, the Taoiseach, Deputy Varadkar, and the previous Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny. Since 2008, our national debt and interest payments are approximately the same size as the budget that the Minister launched a couple of weeks ago. The overall size of national debt is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Government Expenditure (22 Nov 2018)

Tommy Broughan: When I look at the NTMA figures, I note the bond component is steadily growing. Does that include the bonds to which the Minister refers, such that that aspect of national debt is increasing but in a safe manner? The concern raised by a number of academics and others over the years was that general interest rates would change and we could be left in a difficult situation. The Minister will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Nov 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 12. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the November 2018 meeting of ECOFIN and the policy debate by EU finance ministers on the proposal to establish a digital services tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48540/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Nov 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister told me a few weeks ago that the digital services tax would cost us at least €160 million per year, but the vibes coming from the ECOFIN meeting were very disturbing. Bruno Le Maire, for example, seemed to say we could bring in a digital services tax by the end of the year and then suspend it for two years and Olaf Scholz said something fairly similar. Is the support the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Nov 2018)

Tommy Broughan: Just over a week ago, we had an appalling assassination in north Kildare. It was one of a litany of homicides that have occurred week in and week out this year. It is alleged that the number of deaths in one drug-fuelled spree of appalling killings has reached 19. Is the Minister confident that we have the legislation in place and the Garda Commissioner, Drew Harris, has the resources to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (22 Nov 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 16. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for legislative and regulatory changes in relation to the business culture of banks and the accountability of senior banking officials; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48542/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Budget Contribution (22 Nov 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 19. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has estimated the likely additional contributions Ireland will make to the EU budget from 2020 onwards in the event of British withdrawal on 29 March 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48543/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Central Bank (22 Nov 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 41. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the ending of the asset purchasing programme quantitative easing by the European Central Bank; the estimated impact this may have on interest rates and economic activity here and the rest of the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48541/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Nov 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 147. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of legal cases have been taken against the HSE for failing to commence assessments of needs within the statutory time period; the steps being taken to ensure that assessments of needs take place within the statutory three month time period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48766/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Nov 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 148. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for an assessment of need; the average waiting time a child must wait for the HSE to commence this assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48767/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (27 Nov 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 68. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funding available to Departments for tackling climate change; if his Department is receiving requests for additional expenditure in this regard; if so, the Departments and the amount, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48841/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (27 Nov 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister of State knows about the targets we have for 2020 for carbon emissions, which we are dismally failing to reach. We have a new Minister announcing an all of Government action plan, which is presumably concerned with the actions that will be taken by each Department. What impact will that have on spending in 2019 and will there be supplementary budgets? We have had eight...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (27 Nov 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The senior Minister had an opportunity in the budget to deliver some type of a green budget and now we are talking about a whole of Government action plan for which the Minister does not seem to have any funding and if he is to get funding for it, it will have to be approved by this House. Our Parliamentary Budget Office, in one of its many excellent reports, has reported on climate change....