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Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I move amendment No. 45:In page 10, line 13, after “2006)” to insert “, Regulation (EU) No 598/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014”.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I support Deputies Daly and Munster and her Sinn Féin colleagues on this. It was shattering to find in that report, to which previous speakers referred, Fingal County Council's clear desire not to be the noise regulator for all the reasons we laid out last week. If we had known about that letter last week, the debate in that regard would have been even more vigorous. Obviously there...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 39. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has contacted Dublin City Council in relation to cost-benefit and opportunity cost studies of significant vacant lands under the control of the authority which have been earmarked for social and affordable housing for decades; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8187/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Weather Events Response (20 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to fully prepare for extreme weather events in 2019 (details supplied); if his Department is monitoring the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3139/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Services (20 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Irish Coastguard no longer has the ability to use blue lights in emergency situations; the road traffic provisions for all emergency drivers and vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8633/19]

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The freedom of information correspondence on this matter is really disturbing. The reference from director of services, AnnMarie Farrelly, in respect of the 2018 rates bill for the DAA noted that it came to just under €18 million, which represents 14.76% of the total rates levied by Fingal County Council in 2018. It is a highly significant element of its income. The grave...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The abstainers are abstaining right, left, and centre to keep this very shaky show on the road, as they did yesterday.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: This is clearly an area in which they could decide, if they wanted to, to go for the Commission for Aviation Regulation.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: As I have said, the abstainers would be a good name for an old band. The correspondence again shows the well-founded fears of Fingal County Council. One of my constituents has reminded me of the approximately 100 acres - I am not sure what that would be in hectares - of commercial land bought from NAMA located in the Dublin enterprise zone, which is right at the famous roundabout, the...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: So have I. I have worked in the airport as well.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: This is total nonsense. The Ceann Comhairle should intervene.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I walked into the lobby against Deputy Darragh O'Brien's party with Deputy Brendan Ryan's brother-----

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: ------to defend the workers of Dublin Airport when Fianna Fáil was selling them down the river.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I am not going to take that from Fianna Fáil. It is total crap. The Deputy does not even live on the flight path. What is he talking about?

Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Motion (21 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on the report. I commend the Chairperson, Deputy O’Dowd, and the rest of the Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport on their work in holding hearings on accessibility to public transport and presenting us, as Deputy O’Dowd noted in his introduction, with the "experiences of disadvantage, exclusion and unequal treatment" endured...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Parks and Wildlife Service (21 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 27. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will direct the National Parks and Wildlife Service to study the proposal to create a national park in the wilderness areas of Howth peninsula in view of development pressures and the 1 million visitors to the peninsula each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8549/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (21 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 63. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 684 and 685 of 5 February 2019, if her Department receives submissions from the public regarding whether a monument should be designated as a national monument; if so, the number of such submissions received in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of requests...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (21 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 123. To ask the Minister for Health if requested and necessary funding has been allocated for the work and projects of a society (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8820/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (21 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 124. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will publish the results of its consultation (details supplied) and policy on improving the use of biosimilar medicines in the health system here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8821/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (21 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 125. To ask the Minister for Health when Kuvan will be approved by his Department and the HSE for persons with PKU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8822/19]