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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Provision (20 Sep 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 328. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to provide funding for the purchase of extra unmarked Garda cars and extra marked Garda vans for the Garda Traffic Corps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39514/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (20 Sep 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 346. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of arrests, prosecutions and convictions for careless driving and or anti-social driving by each district in 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39774/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (20 Sep 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 347. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of arrests, prosecutions and convictions for careless driving and or anti-social driving in and around Clonmel, County Tipperary in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39775/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (20 Sep 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 348. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which careless driving and or anti-social driving, including boy racer driving behaviour and events, are being policed across the country; his plans to improve policing of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39776/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (20 Sep 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 349. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which careless driving and or anti-social driving, including boy racer driving behaviour and events, are being monitored and halted across the country; his plans to improve this area of road safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39777/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Fees (20 Sep 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 396. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on his Department's regulations with regard to the cost of so-called extras being levied on residents of nursing homes and their families. [39183/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Expenditure (20 Sep 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 464. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount it would cost in 2018 to recruit an additional 100 dentists for the public health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39516/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (20 Sep 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 465. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount it would cost to purchase 25 extra fully kitted out ambulances for the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39517/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (20 Sep 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 528. To ask the Minister for Health if the freestyle libre system will be made available for persons with all types of diabetes under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39813/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Procurement Regulations (20 Sep 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 572. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if semi-State bodies and agencies under his Department's remit, including RTE, are required to engage in a public tendering process in accordance with competition law when awarding contracts for contracted work for those bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39415/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (20 Sep 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 630. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on pension schemes within the CIÉ group of companies; if senior management in those companies are also members of those schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39413/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (20 Sep 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 690. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of the free TV licence scheme over the past ten years; and the number of persons who were covered by the scheme for each of those years. [39184/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Business and Employers Confederation (19 Sep 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome the delegation and thank the witnesses for their submission. I wish to ask them about the fiscal space. Obviously, after 2019 the parameters appear to be much easier for us. We still have to deal with legacy issues in 2018. The gross figure we are discussing at present is approximately €1.7 billion, but what type of fiscal space should the Minister be aiming to create...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Business and Employers Confederation (19 Sep 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Does IBEC still want to cut the rate of corporation tax?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Business and Employers Confederation (19 Sep 2017)

Tommy Broughan: That was its policy, was it not?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Economic and Social Research Institute (13 Sep 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome the delegation. Mr. Coffey stated that it was difficult to measure whether there was an infrastructure deficit, but surely it is not. In terms of public transport, for example, if one is in the capital of another European country with a much smaller economy than ours and uses a metro that the city has had for the past 40 years, surely one can see that Dublin is, in English terms,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Economic and Social Research Institute (13 Sep 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Maybe they were built in the wrong places.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Economic and Social Research Institute (13 Sep 2017)

Tommy Broughan: We might move on. I missed part of the debate but I know many speakers earlier spoke about housing. What was very striking for a number of us was that recently Professor Ronan Lyons tried to put figures on what would be a stable housing output and backlog for the country. He indicated that we immediately need 120,000 housing units and 50,000 more per annum. We have never had that kind of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Economic and Social Research Institute (13 Sep 2017)

Tommy Broughan: What is the number? What do we need?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Economic and Social Research Institute (13 Sep 2017)

Tommy Broughan: What do we need to build in 2018?