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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Sale of State Assets (22 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the approach to the sale of State assets in the commercial banks; and the purposes for which disposal of State shares will be earmarked. [9138/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Data (22 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance the size and key breakdown elements of outstanding tax owed by commercial entities and the farming sector to the Revenue Commissioners at the end of each of the years 2013 to 2017. [9139/18]

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

Tommy Broughan: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason no public competition was held to identify a person for nomination to a possible position on the executive board of the European Central Bank. [9140/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Staff (22 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which vacancies for the positions of governor, deputy governor and executive directors of the Central Bank are filled; and the reason public competitions are not held for all these positions in view of the crucial role of the bank in monetary policy. [9141/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (22 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the remaining work of NAMA; the estimated likely net proceeds from the completion of NAMA; and the statutory task and future roles he envisages for the agency. [9142/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (22 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to research in Irish universities, institutes and industry on the extraction of carbon from natural gas and the production of clean hydrogen based energy; and the steps he has taken to encourage this research. [9143/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: An Bord Pleanála (22 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 229. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will request An Bord Pleanála to inform local authorities and public representatives when major infrastructure and housing developments are directly submitted through a regular e-mail newsletter or section of the board's website. [9144/18]

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I have always believed in indicative planning. From the time of T.K. Whitaker in the 1950s and the years of Seán Lemass, having objectives for a nation is important even if some or many of those objectives are not achieved, as happened with the last plan from 2002. The scale of Ireland's infrastructure deficit is vast. There was no reference by the Taoiseach and the Minister for...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I move the adjournment.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: That concludes statements on the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their work on this issue. The fundamental point is whether this was a political decision. Although the six areas are somewhat valuable, what of apprenticeships? There is a difficulty in getting both genders to undertake apprenticeships, which must change, given that the professions of qualified plumbers, carpenters and other tradespeople are among...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I appreciate the issues of which I am thinking are political decisions but it seems that to have gone after key areas of inequality, to set up channels to do that and to set in train the process in other areas might have been important. I note that a point made in the papers we have been given or in one of the witnesses' contributions is that in terms of cost-benefit analysis it is a huge...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: In the context of the steering group involving other organisations from civil society and so on, will the Department work through the process and then revert to us fairly regularly in respect of our input into budget 2019? We want to see serious impacts coming out of the Department's work and our discussion.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: We will obviously see the results and the delivery.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: Based on the Department's work and research, what are the best two or three exemplar countries? Would it be Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries or New Zealand?

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: As regards the proposed building control (construction industry register Ireland) Bill, thousands of homes built during the Celtic Tiger era are defective and may be fire traps, yet developers who allegedly built some of those homes are now building once again and announcing new estates, etc., with the help of NAMA in spite of the particular importance of this issue since the Grenfell Tower...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizen Information Services (20 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the restructuring of the Citizen Information services and MABS companies; when this decision was made; the person or body that will make the decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8301/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (20 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she has taken to address concerns outlined at a meeting (details supplied) regarding security; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8300/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Immunity (20 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions Ireland is involved in at UN level regarding the parameters of diplomatic immunity for UN employees and other diplomatic staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8524/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Immunity (20 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 124. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions Ireland is involved in at UN level regarding diplomatic immunity for diplomats accused of crimes including alleged child abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8525/18]