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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Road Traffic Offences (16 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: There is an ongoing scandal of disqualified drivers continuing to drive. It has been highlighted continuously by road safety activists such as Ms Susan Gray and the PARC road safety group, yet the figures are stark. The Minister's colleague, Deputy Burke, reported that approximately 83,000 licences of banned drivers were not surrendered in the past eight years. The Minister gave me figures...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Road Traffic Offences (16 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Banned drivers are involved in between 11 and 14 deaths every year, and 500 banned drivers were involved in serious crashes in a two-year period in the middle of this decade. The Minister's figures are incredibly stark. Before Christmas, the Road Safety Authority, RSA, told me that in 2016 the number of drivers with a court disqualification was 8,296; driver licences surrendered amounted to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Road Traffic Offences (16 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The list of policing priorities for 2019, which Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has reported to the Oireachtas, is very interesting and includes policing our roads, safeguarding road users, denying criminals the use of roads and spot checks on roads. These are very important as they help to identify disqualified drivers and alert us to criminal behaviour. The head of the RSA, Ms Moyagh...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Time Zones (16 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 10. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the preparations his Department is making to prepare for the EU's harmonisation of daylight saving time in March and October 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20941/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Time Zones (16 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: On 28 March, MEPs voted to cease the seasonal clock changes with effect from April 2021. I understand that the vote was two to one in favour. The last mandatory clock change took place on 31 March last. The Minister will be aware there has been interest among Members of this House in the matter for a long time. His colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, the late Senator,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Time Zones (16 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I agree with the Minister that it would be impossible to have different time zones in the Republic and Northern Ireland. The Minister will be aware there was a powerful Lighter Later movement in the UK for most of this century to retain summer time and return to what prevailed in the era prior to the First World War. There was overwhelming support in surveys undertaken by the European Union...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Time Zones (16 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I agree with the Minister that it would be a significant development if it were to proceed. The debate on the Brighter Evenings Bill which I brought forward was taken by the Minister's predecessor, former Deputy Shatter. A clear issue was how we would protect our school children on darker mornings and so on. It is interesting that the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, when he was Chair of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Time Zones (16 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: In Scandinavia, children go to school later in the day.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Personal Injury Claims (16 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 19. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to investigate capping personal injury payouts; the way in which this will be achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17645/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Personal Injury Claims (16 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister has made some tough comments recently on the capping of personal injury payments, and I think it is fair to say that this House is totally exasperated with the escalating cost of insurance. We have had a number of debates, including Private Members' debates, on insurance over the past three years, and yet many of the groups which represent the very hard pressed say that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Personal Injury Claims (16 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister mentioned the former president of the High Court, Mr. Justice Nicholas Kearns, whose fundamental point was that there is a compo culture in our country. Slips and trips are a key feature of the legal system, and schools, crèches, shops, small businesses, and local authorities have all become victims of both this and the escalating cost of insurance. As I said, there is a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Personal Injury Claims (16 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 12 o’clock Is the Government supporting the Bill brought before the Seanad and will the Minister try to steer it through this House as well? He mentioned fraud and perjury, a very important aspect of the problem, but the cost of insurance working group found that sufficient legislative provision exists to combat fraud and perjury in some of these claims using section 14 of the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Costs (16 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the fact that transport costs rose 3.7% in April 2019 compared to 1.7% average consumer price inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21249/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (21 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he will take to implement the decision of Dáil Éireann to declare a climate emergency following the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21343/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (21 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Our colleagues moved the motion to declare a climate emergency a couple of weeks ago based on the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Action which, the Minister will agree, was a fine effort and one of the achievements of this 32nd Dáil. The question now is what the Government is going to do to implement it. Fine Gael has had eight years of budgets, following five or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (21 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The concern among constituents is that the most vulnerable households are affected. The report notes from its own research that 28% of households suffer energy poverty. How can we decarbonise energy if it is to be left to ordinary individuals? The Taoiseach has been flinging around figures such as €50 billion for what the decarbonisation effort will cost. Nobody seems to know. ...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (21 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: On legislation, will it be similar to the Brexit legislation in terms of the provisions for the various sectors in the case of a bad Brexit? The report refers to a review to be carried out this year on the area of fuel poverty and the potential impacts of an increase in carbon tax. Will that happen? The Department of Finance was asked to look at the possible impact of a carbon tax on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Illegal Dumping (21 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to address the issue of illegal household dumping and of alleged highly organised illegal dumping of industrial and soil waste in areas of north County Dublin and Fingal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15749/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Illegal Dumping (21 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: This question was submitted some time ago. It is about the serious problem of littering in our constituency of Dublin Bay North and the general problem of illegal dumping across north Dublin, especially in an area I indicated to the Minister. He has provided additional funding of €3 million for the 2019 anti-dumping initiative but constituents are still very anxious that the problem...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Illegal Dumping (21 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The key concern was the emergence of a huge, illegal dump beside residents' homes. It was illegal under the 1996 Act and regulations. As I said previously, a mountain of rubbish has begun to move across an amenity open space towards dozens of houses. People are very distressed by this. It has been a problem across the north fringe of Dublin city and the south fringe of Fingal, which the...