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Credit Union Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (28 Nov 2012)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome what the Minister of State said regarding the advisory committee and the negotiations which he hopes will be finalised by the end of the second quarter. However, I still feel it would benefit the credit union movement if he accepted some variant of the three key amendments with regard to the social projects, because that would clearly provide a legislative basis for involvement....

Credit Union Bill 2012: Report Stage (28 Nov 2012)

Tommy Broughan: ..., and this has governed the sector since. Prior to that, Seán Lemass, as Minister, introduced the first system of regulation and invigilation of the credit union movement in 1960. There is a strong feeling from the Irish League of Credit Unions in particular that the Minister for Finance is imposing a very tight straitjacket on the development of credit union structures with this...

Topical Issue Debate: Priory Hall Development (16 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: ...of State does not have a timeframe and there is no framework. When this Dáil asks tribunals and other bodies to report, we usually give them a timeframe or ask for an interim report. People feel desolate at this stage. It is very hard to get across the sense of desolation people feel about being homeless. It is almost like something that would have happened after a war or in 1969...

Other Questions: EU Directives (11 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: ...houses? They have got away with murder in this regard. The target of 1.5% is derisory. On the issue of new homes, I commend the Tipperary based SERVE study on this matter. There is often a feeling that even in the past ten years since we have taken climate change seriously, building regulations have not been followed and we have not built energy efficient houses. What does the...

Water and Sewerage Schemes (14 Jun 2012)

Tommy Broughan: ...from Clonshaugh-Belcamp eastwards to Portmarnock and destroy long-standing Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council plans for the region in terms of a diversion of the Malahide Road. The feeling in my constituency is that this is being dumped on the edge of a vulnerable lower income residential district despite there being more appropriate locations, from a service and environmental...

Fire Safety (28 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: ...Serious questions need to be asked yet again about the planning and fire safety regulatory authorities and how this situation could possibly have occurred yet again in the north fringe. Residents feel the Department, Dublin City Council and the developer, builder and management company - Kitara Limited, LM Developments and Stanley Holdings - have kept them in the dark and let them down...

School Curriculum (23 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: ...areas, I thank the Minister for rowing back on the planned cuts in respect of the DEIS programme. This is a significant and important development for the children to whom I refer. I sometimes feel that in respect of the matter to which I have just referred and in the context of others, the Minister has become a sort of prisoner of Marlborough Street. He will recall that we had one or two...

Planning Issues (20 Sep 2011)

Tommy Broughan: The residents and the 200 families in question feel deeply let down by the regulatory, planning, building control and fire safety systems, which allowed people to self-certify buildings that were grossly badly constructed and may be dangerous, frankly. We need to reassure them. I will come back to the original question I posed. Is the Department of the Environment, Community and Local...

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Tommy Broughan: ...proposes to delete the whole of subsection (2) of section 29 on the basis that there does not seem to be a good reason specified that persons should receive a slap on the wrist. Many people feel that everybody needs to be left in no doubt of the significance of driving under the influence of alcohol. The Minister addressed this on Committee Stage.

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Tommy Broughan: ...It is past time the State began to invigilate heavy goods vehicles, HGVs, properly. I am aware they are part of an important industry and play an important role in our economy. There has been a feeling that the working time directive has been flagrantly ignored and that tachographs have not been properly invigilated. There has been criticism in this regard from PARC and other...

Merchant Shipping Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Jun 2010)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome amendment No. 88. The Minister has come a long way in addressing the issues raised on Committee Stage. We sometimes feel that we do not get important information on issues we need to discuss or are discussing. Issues seem to arise at 6 p.m. on a Friday. We have been through that before, as the Acting Chairman will remember, with other issues in the maritime area. We tend to hear...

Taxi Regulation. (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: ...Bill that we put through the House, the current taxi regulator is the last such regulator. Is the Minister aware of the considerable unease in the taxi industry at present, with many taxi workers feeling it is impossible to earn a decent living under the current conditions and the current regulator? People are going out for three or four hours and coming back with €15 in their pockets,...

Taxi Regulation. (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: ...have heard from taxi workers in every part of the country - not just those represented by the Irish Taxi Council but also those represented by six or seven other bodies, including SIPTU. They all feel we need a coherent taxi service that is up to international standards and run in a different way. The continuous antagonism between taxi drivers and the regulator, as they see it, must end....

Public Transport Regulation Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2009)

Tommy Broughan: ...the following: "may be referred to the Board of the National Transport Authority.". These amendments relate to appeals to the decision to grant a licence. Within the transport industry there is a feeling that the decision of a deciding officer alone may be unfair and that there should be some other level of appeal besides going directly to the Circuit Court. We are very familiar with the...

Public Transport Regulation Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2009)

Tommy Broughan: ...these decisions. The person making a decision could be the same rank as somebody who has already made a decision. The view may be independent but it may not get people very much further if they feel that they have been turned down on a proposal that is genuine, sustainable and an addition to public transport services. I hope it will not be something we live to regret because many of...

Public Transport Regulation Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2009)

Tommy Broughan: ...law. The group of amendments resemble amendments I have addressed already so I will be brief. The amendment inserts a critical provision which the Minister does not refer to in the Bill. He might feel that he has accepted a necessity for longer-term contracts under European legislation for the two State bus companies. The issue is that a network exists, and any time we have met Mr. Tim...

Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (7 Jul 2009)

Tommy Broughan: ...we be better off with a Government of seven or eight people? Some might say that we would be and in the current Administration, a number of people would not make that seven or eight. Most people feel a slightly larger group would be better. With my own long experience of boards in different areas of the social economy, sport and other sectors, I believe that a board with eight members...

Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (7 Jul 2009)

Tommy Broughan: ...No. 19. proposes that we adopt the international standard for pilotage organisations. This is a key group of maritime marine workers. Many of us represent marine constituencies. Many pilots feel they have been badly treated, particularly in respect of the age limit but also in respect of consultation. I urge the Minister to accept these amendments.

Aviation (Preclearance) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2009)

Tommy Broughan: ...Anybody who has been to the United States since 11 September 2001 will be aware of the changes that have taken place. People are now becoming used to web clearance procedures. In this context, I feel the Minister should clearly provide that weapons are not acceptable. Amendment No. 3 provides for this through a negative construction by stating, "Nothing in this Act shall be construed as...

Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: ...welfare budget today. It is something the Tánaiste should be profoundly aware of because the tumbril is coming for her and the Government. This budget marks a watershed and the public will feel the need for vengeance on 5 June and on any other date the Government decides to seek a mandate. I did not have the opportunity over the six or seven months of this intense financial crisis to...