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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (9 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 32. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her estimate of the number of jobs in the financial services sectors which could possibly be gained through financial companies relocating from the UK to Ireland; the further measures being taken to promote and encourage this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6181/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Portfolio (9 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 41. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if IDA Ireland has identified the number of multinational companies here which only service the UK market; the contacts taking place with these companies; if any such companies are planning to move out of Ireland; if so, the expected job losses this could create; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6180/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Public Health and Safety (9 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 120. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the national or local government agency responsible for public safety at public events including funfairs, amusement parks, musical and sporting events and other locations of public entertainment; if legislation is necessary to extend the powers of the HSA and or local authorities in this regard; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Living Wage (9 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 249. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps she is taking to ensure that Irish workers will be entitled to a living wage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6490/17]

Courts (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak briefly on this important Bill before us today, the Courts (No. 2) Bill 2016. It is sponsored by the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Fitzgerald, and I understand that it is a collaborative effort with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. It will allow for the commencement at long last of section 44 of the...

Media Ownership Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: We have always been aware of the impact and power of the concentration of media in certain companies. The Ceann Comhairle will remember that in 1997, when we went out on that fateful election day, the Irish Independenthad the headline "Payback time", which was directed against the outgoing Fine Gael and Labour Government. In the run-up to the 2007 election, we saw the rapprochement between...

Other Questions: Driver Licences Data (8 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: This continues to be a massive problem. Road safety organisations, like the outstanding PARC, continually bring it to my attention that they believe the Garda PULSE system is outdated. There could be several recorded dates of birth for a person and different addresses. Unlike the Police Service of Northern Ireland, we do not have roadside hand-held devices. I also asked the Minister...

Other Questions: Driver Licences Data (8 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome the Minister's comments and he brought forward the road traffic Bill. We are also discussing the section 44 issue in the Courts (No. 2) Bill at the moment. There is a major deficit of information. I asked the Road Safety Authority about the information for when drivers informed it of a change of address or other change of details to the ten-year driving licence. I am still...

Other Questions: Driver Licences Data (8 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 36. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the procedures regarding the administering of driving licences, application of penalty points and the efficient sharing of necessary licence data between all agencies concerned with road safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5890/17]

Other Questions: Driver Licences Data (8 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I understand the director of the Road Safety Authority, RSA, was in the House this morning. Since 2013, the authority has been responsible for administering driving licences through the National Driver Licence Service, NDLS. According to figures that were released in 2015, approximately 96% of drivers who are disqualified in court do not surrender their licences. The Irish Timesrecently...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC (8 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Hands off Dublin.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC (8 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I apologise for missing the earlier discussion. One of the boards of which I am a member, the Northside Enterprise Centre, is a member of IBEC and receives a large amount of interesting information from it. I apologise if members have asked the question I am about to ask. Did IBEC submit to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, a fully costed budget,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC (8 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Are we meeting depreciation levels?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Service Obligation Services (8 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 54. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he is taking to increase PSO levels to Bus Éireann; the engagement he has had with management and unions since the motion in Dáil Éireann on 31 January 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5889/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Appointment of Receivers (8 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the measures he is taking with the Minister for Finance to determine receivers' responsibilities to tenants in situ when a property is being taken into receivership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6220/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Data (8 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 156. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of housing assistance payment, HAP, tenancies currently in operation in each county; the number of those tenancies paying a top up to the landlord; the average of such top up per county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6213/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Administration (8 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 157. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the protection measures in place for housing assistance payment, HAP, tenants should a landlord end their tenancy along the lines of the previous RAS scheme where local authorities were responsible to re-house tenants should a RAS landlord exit the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6214/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (8 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 158. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the measures he is putting in place with local authorities to begin homelessness prevention with families when a valid notice to quit has been received giving the family the requisite notice for the end of a tenancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6215/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (8 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 159. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for homeless families after July 2017 when the practice of accommodating them in commercial hotels will be ended; the places they will be accommodated; if the 783 families and 2,505 children will be permanently housed by that deadline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6217/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Administration (8 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 160. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will allow regeneration zones to accept housing assistance payment, HAP, tenancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6218/17]