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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Capital Programme (13 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 99. To ask the Minister for Health the impact of the cost overruns for the national children's hospital on important capital projects at Beaumont Hospital in 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11797/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of European Commission Country Report Ireland 2019 and European Semester (13 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome the Deputy director general and his colleagues. Is the full report not, to some extent, a total cop-out in the context of our country having to deal with Brexit? We are following what is happening in the British Parliament on an hourly basis and we cannot believe that we are in the situation in which we find ourselves. We will have a debate on Brexit later this evening in which a...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: On amendment No. 91, will noise impact maps be produced by Fingal County Council, as well as by the DAA? Will the other local authorities in Dublin, and possibly in Meath and Kildare, have the capacity to also have a noise impact map upon which they could evaluate what they might feel are complaints from people who live in those local authorities?

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I support these important amendments brought forward by Deputy Clare Daly around mitigation plans. It has been a while since we have had a chance to discuss the Bill. I have taken another look at the European noise directive and the 2006 regulations. It is striking that the regulations appointed the Environmental Protection Agency to be the national authority for all noise. One of the...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister is putting the fox in charge of the hen house.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister has the 2006 regulations.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister could have taken the EPA option.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I move amendment No. 60:In page 15, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following:“(24) The competent authority shall undertake a health impact study of the residents living in the vicinity of the airport every ten years and shall commence such a study within one year of enactment.”.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grocery Industry Regulation (26 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 66. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the perceived deficits in legislation and regulations relating to the welfare and export of greyhounds; his plans to remedy such deficits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13884/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers Maintenance (26 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 68. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to dredge Howth Harbour; the timeframe and budget for the project; if the local stakeholders and Fingal County Council have been consulted on the plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13885/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (26 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which Ireland will support a UN binding treaty on business and human rights in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13251/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (26 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 155. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which Ireland will participate in the UN open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights which has already met a number of times; if Ireland will participate in upcoming consultations organised by the chair-rapporteur of the working group; and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (26 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 225. To ask the Minister for Finance the timeframe for his proposed and much needed four major measures to address the rising costs of insurance for householders, drivers, small businesses and community development bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13702/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences Data (26 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 425. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drivers disqualified in court in 2016, 2017 and 2018 that appealed the disqualification; the outcome of the appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13461/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Re-examination (26 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 487. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the deportation order against a person (details supplied) will be reviewed and reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13051/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Investigation (26 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 506. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if research or investigations have been undertaken or commissioned on the occurrence of familicide here; his plans to establish a special investigation unit for familicide; his plans to ensure all such cases are subjected to multi-agency domestic homicide reviews as in other jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Student Visas Applications (26 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 536. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 671 of 11 September 2017 and 568 of 7 November 2017, the number of type 2 and 2A visas issued by An Garda Síochána in the north Dublin Garda division in those years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13579/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (26 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 537. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 583 of 16 January 2018, the number of bicycles reported stolen in the Dublin region in 2017; the number retrieved; the number claimed by members of the public; the number in Garda stations throughout Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13585/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (26 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 538. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 275 of 24 April 2018, when the post of the head of training and development within An Garda Síochána will be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13586/19]