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

Tommy Broughan: I move amendment No. 13:In page 27, after line 38, to insert the following:"38.Section 3 of the Road Traffic Act 2006 is amended by inserting after subsection (4) the following:"(5) The offence of holding a mobile phone while driving shall incur six penalty points with a fine of €160. If summonsed to court it shall result in an automatic disqualification for six months for first...

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

Tommy Broughan: A lot of work has been done by the Minister's predecessors, going back to the time of people like the former Minister, Noel Dempsey, and so on. That work has been undermined by the fact that two Ministers are responsible for this area. The Minister knows that in any business there must be one chief executive because when responsibility is split between two departments, things fall in the...

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

Tommy Broughan: The focus in amendment No. 7 was on drivers on a learner permit driving unaccompanied, which is the key point, and the problem that some insurance companies are counter suing when the terms and conditions of the policies have not been met. They would often be on their parents' policies for the reasons mentioned by a previous speaker. The insurance companies would appear to be doing this...

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

Tommy Broughan: I move amendment No. 8:In page 24, to delete lines 34 and 35, and substitute the following:“(ii) where the licence or permit was produced, all the details specified in that licence or permit and those details to be forwarded by the Court to the NVDF and the Road Safety Authority within 5 working days of the conviction, and (iii) names of the persons who failed to produce their...

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

Tommy Broughan: How would the Minister view this approach in terms of the insurance industry making sure that unaccompanied drivers with learner permits do not persist in driving on the public roads? This was a difficult amendment to frame. What is the Minister's view of amendment No. 7?

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I move amendment No. 7:In page 24, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “31. The Minister shall instruct all motor insurance companies to write to all present and future learner drivers stating that driving unaccompanied by a specified qualified driver and/or without displaying L plates invalidates the terms and conditions of their insurance policy and that any payment...

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I will brief. We are all used to rickshaws being brought out when there is a big gig, an all-Ireland final, a rugby international or late at night in the city. Most comparable cities regulate their use. I have asked this Minister previously about regulating their use and I raised the issue in previous Dáileanna. We should regulate their use. I support the amendments.

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I echo the comments made by Deputy Seamus Healy on finishing the Bill tonight. It is so important to get the key elements of this Bill on the Statute Book as an additional armoury for the Garda Síochána and the RSA. I hope the Minister will continue to work for a consolidated traffic law to bring together the key elements of law. He stated this is a difficult area and perhaps it...

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I am delighted to warmly congratulate Deputy Willie Penrose on bringing forward this important Bill. The Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2016 will insert section 65A into the Broadcasting Act 2009 and provide for a quota of at least 40% to be allocated to Irish music or musical compositions that relate to some distinguishing element of the culture of our country. When one looks at Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Schemes (14 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 238. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the warmth and well-being energy efficiency upgrade scheme will be extended to Dublin 3, 5, 13 and 17; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40343/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Homeless Persons Supports (14 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 248. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 24 of 8 November 2016 regarding the supports she was making available to homeless children, if she will confirm if Leap cards have now been granted to families; the events she is hosting for families experiencing homelessness this Christmas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40390/16]

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I support the amendments tabled by Deputy Troy and Deputy Munster. I did not get a chance to attend Committee Stage but on Second Stage we had discussion on this and the Minister came back on it. Quite clearly, the drugs in the existing Schedule are some of the most widely used. Given the crisis at the moment, the increased casualties on the roads, what we know has been happening and the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: Is that in a scenario whereby the growth rate falls? We are discussing the way public investment is linked to growth.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: My question follows from that point. At times, it seems to many of us that we are on the cusp or beginning of moving into a completely different economic era with the uncertainty of Brexit, the Trump presidency and the changes to quantitative easing. Does the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council try to build any of those uncertainties into the figures for domestic demand, investment and growth?...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: Overall, is the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council disappointed with the performance of the Government in 2016 for the 2017 outturn, because obviously there has been this slippage? Do the witnesses feel that is a very fundamental move away from the commitments the council made?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: Reference was made to revenue surprises but they are not really surprises are they? We would have known there were certain assets - even after the disaster of the banking crash - that would possibly be used in the coming years. Are these one-off surprises ever really total surprises? Obviously, the GDP measurements were a terrible shock to many people, and perhaps to the Irish Fiscal...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: With regard to the Minister's comments on the rainy day fund and the 45% debt target - this may have been raised earlier - does the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council see the comments as just rhetoric in the sense that the State's has such an infrastructural deficit, or is it a target we could be realistic about?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: It was about the rainy day fund.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: Does it also depend of the performance of the economy like other sovereign wealth funds and so on?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I thank Professor McHale for his service to the State in the past five and a half years with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. I wish him well.