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Postal Services: Motion (5 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: I pay warm tribute to the postmen and women of Ireland, with the postmasters and postmistresses, as they enter their busiest season. One must remember that at this time every year, the post office renders outstanding service to the nation. Over the next three and a half weeks or so, it will deliver large volumes of mail to every household and business in the State. That is a really hard...

Postal Services: Motion (5 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: We continually hear the Taoiseach and Ministers regurgitating a long list of statistics before the cameras. We must listen to it daily, and today it concerned the Minister of State's portfolio in the health area. The Taoiseach told us how many hundreds of millions the Government had spent, but the one statistic that Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats do not want us to know is that...

Postal Services: Motion (5 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: They have eviscerated the post office network. If I started reading out the names of those closed since summer 1997, I might be here until 9 p.m. That is a disgraceful record. In the last 11-month period, communities around the country, including Whitehall and St. Margaret's in Dublin, Brandon in Kerry, Tomhaggard in Wexford, Grangecon in Wicklow, Church Cross, Kildinan and Carrigrohane in...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (5 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of radiotherapy services in the north west of the country; her further views on earlier announcements of a network of radiotherapy services to be provided by 2011; the timeframes available for providing radiotherapy services to the north west; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41388/06]

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (5 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Question 113: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the BreastCheck roll-out nationwide and particularly the roll-out for the north west; the budget spend on the roll-out by region with initial cost projections and the current cost projections; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41389/06]

Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Is it intended to bring the Foyle and Carlingford fisheries Bill before the House next session? Second, now that we have the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Noel Dempsey, back from his Asian travels, is it possible to agree with the Whips a short session next week on the Commission proposals for the 2007 EU fisheries quotas?

Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Swingeing cutbacks are proposed.

Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: It was the Foyle and Carlingford fisheries Bill. I also asked the Taoiseach regarding the fisheries proposals of the EU Commission.

Written Answers — Traffic Management: Traffic Management (6 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Question 65: To ask the Minister for Transport the discussions he has had with the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government regarding a joint effort at improving road traffic and planning legislation to curtail the increasing problem of the use of large trucks of several axles to deliver to small neighbourhood shops; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41620/06]

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (6 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Transport the service performance standards he has set down for Bus Éireann, Iarnród Éireann and Dublin Bus through the 2006 memorandum of understanding; and the way he will improve same in the 2007 memorandum of understanding. [41619/06]

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: The next Government will definitely take care of it.

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: What about the €215 for senior citizens?

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: I am delighted to have this opportunity to say a few words on a remarkably flat and latterly almost boring occasion. It was a simple listing of events that had taken place in the course of the year, with no imagination, flair or real hope for people. For example, there was very little in the budget for the 20% of the population identified in the recent Deloitte and Touche report as being...

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Certain measures in the budget were obviously very welcome and Deputy Shortall referred to the changes affecting social welfare recipients accessing carer's allowance. Over the years we have found that a tremendous difficulty for people. The Department of Social and Family Affairs' iron rule has been that one may benefit only from a single social welfare allowance. That change certainly...

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: The issue did not gain any impetus yesterday. In its pre-budget submission, the Combat Poverty Agency urged the Government to taper the subvention of SEI's greener homes towards low income households to ensure that all new social housing would be fitted with alternative energy sources. The Minister for Finance took no action in this regard and neither did he take any action on the homes of...

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: If that is what Fianna Fáil was thinking, the Green Party Deputies will be able to tell them that they did not achieve the objective. The paltry €4 increase in the fuel allowance was another disappointing aspect of the budget. Everyone expected the Minister for Finance to grant a fuel allowance of at least €25. Despite the increases in fuel costs, this allowance is still means tested....

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: It is shameful. I am sure even the Deputies sitting opposite me, who probably had no input into this measure, are ashamed of it. Earlier this year, I made representations on behalf of some constituents in respect of the insulation grants that are awarded by the Health Service Executive. I discovered, to my horror, that the HSE north-eastern area had exhausted its annual funding for this...

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, made little reference to this yesterday. This may be the Government's last budget. On what is perhaps the key issue facing humanity, the need to secure and sustain energy supply, the Minister for Finance had little or nothing to say. The budget contributed nothing to the issues of energy policy and climate change; there was merely a sense of flat...

Written Answers — Crime Levels: Crime Levels (7 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Question 33: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of cases of murder in which firearms were used in respect of each year from 1998 to date in 2006; the number of such cases in which prosecutions for murder were initiated; the number of such cases where convictions were secured; if he has satisfied himself with the level of detection and conviction...

Written Answers — Crime Levels: Crime Levels (7 Dec 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Question 50: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of tiger robberies, where people were taken hostage in an attempt to force others to hand over cash or goods, that have been recorded to date in 2006; the way these figures compare for the same period in each of the previous five years; if he is planning new measures to counter this threat; and if...