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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (17 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 1000. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide the necessary funding to fully staff the national narcolepsy and sleep disorder service in St. James’s Hospital; the supports his department will provide to families of children and young adults who developed narcolepsy when they were given the swine flu vaccination in 2009/2010 in view of the fact they now begin to transition...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (17 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 926. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours that will be allocated to the Dublin 13 and Dublin 5 areas under the 2017 HSE work programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41312/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Waiting Lists (17 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 1278. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for physiotherapy services for patients in the Dublin north-east region of the HSE and the numbers of patients who received these services in each of the years from 2014 to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1526/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 1279. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the social care disability service plan for 2017 and indicate the levels of proposed residential and day places in 2017 compared to 2015 and 2016; the level of day and night respite supports proposed for 2017 compared to 2015 and 2016; the levels of proposed residential emergency places in 2017 compared to 2015 and 2016; the levels of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Electromagnetic Fields Studies (17 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 1504. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will report on his Department's policies on monitoring health effects of electromagnetic radiation and microwave radiation; if there are any new initiatives evaluating these impacts and examining the way to minimise any impacts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1489/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Issues (17 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 1605. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of drones weighing more than 1 kg that have been registered with the Irish Aviation Authority; the number of this category of drones which are still unregistered; if he will estimate the total number of drones, including machines lighter than 1 kg, which have been sold and which operate in Irish airspace; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Maritime Spatial Planning (17 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 1606. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the work of the Irish Maritime Development Office, IMDO, over the past four years and on the size of the Irish shipping registry for each of those years; the plans of the IMDO to develop the role of the Irish merchant fleet and ports here over the next decade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1524/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (17 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 1631. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of requests her Department has received from either IDA Ireland or Enterprise Ireland since Brexit for permission to employ additional staff; the number of requests approved, pending or refused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41314/16]

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I support Deputies Healy and Jan O'Sullivan on these amendments. When I discussed housing with the Minister before this Government was formed, I made the point that strong action would be required at an early stage. I referred specifically to the declaration of an emergency in this area. I am sure the Ceann Comhairle recalls all the Tuesday nights and weekend nights like this when we...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I warmly support this amendment and ask the Minister to accept it. It would require him to come back to us to identify some of the fundamental issues around supply, which is obviously the critical background to the outrageous rent gauging we have seen over the past several years. The amendment attempts to deal with that. In my constituency, on the north fringe of Dublin City Council and...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: Where did the Tánaiste get the figure of 18,000? Since 2008 and 2009, housing output has been disastrous in addressing the needs of the hundreds of thousands people on housing lists. On Second Stage, I said I could not see if the blockages were due to local authorities. I have discussed this since with senior planning personnel in Dublin City Council and other Dublin local...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Prosecutions (16 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 27. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the fact that still large numbers of speeding cases are being struck out in District Courts; her further views on the fact that significant numbers of convicted persons are not having their licences recorded; the measures she is taking to ensure consistency in the enforcement of traffic law; and if she will make a statement on the...

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: Again, we are going into this interface between the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport looking after road safety and the justice system which is failing us. In this instance, it is failing gardaí who have done a good job investigating fatal crashes and who want to ensure that a key element of evidence is contained in the book of evidence. That is the idea behind my amendment....

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: Is it possible for the Minister to accept the first part of the amendment?

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I accept the Minister's point about the difficulty with the drafting of the amendment. Obviously we are investigating and invigilating complex traffic laws on our own with very limited resources. Solicitors have earned their living from dealing with traffic law, among other things, down the years. This offence is a major factor in road safety. Looking at penalty point totals to October...

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: Is it possible to increase the penalty points?

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister might be able to make a priority in the context of the road safety review.

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: Then, I will press the amendment as we want to expedite this.

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I move amendment No. 14:In page 27, after line 38, to insert the following: “38. The Principal Act is amended in section 36, by inserting the following:“(9) The following offences shall be included in the book of evidence pertaining to learner drivers— (a) driving unaccompanied, (b) non-display of L plates shall be included in the book of evidence presented to the...

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I move amendment No. 12:In page 27, after line 38, to insert the following:"38. The Principal Act, is amended in section 36, by inserting the following:"(6A) A learner driver driving without an accompanied specified qualified driver shall be deemed in law to be driving without valid motor insurance and can therefore be arrested by An Garda Síochána, the vehicle seized on the spot...