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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Compulsory Purchase Orders (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 234. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will consider introducing emergency legislation to permit local authorities to compulsory purchase zoned land in the four Dublin, Cork and Limerick and other local authority areas with great housing shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39517/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Compulsory Purchase Orders (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 235. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will consider introducing emergency legislation to permit local authorities to compulsory purchase land with planning permissions in the four Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and other urban regions to build these permissions to eliminate homelessness and up to 10 years plus waiting times on housing lists; and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when he will ensure that all homeless families and children are rehoused from emergency accommodation in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39519/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the situation with regard to measures to address the sewage discharges at Doldrum Bay, Howth; the timeframe he envisages to deliver a longterm solution for the cessation of sewage discharges near this location and from the Howth peninsula generally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39538/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Review (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 288. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many useful community and socio-economic functions have lost community employment workers that have not been replaced; if important civic roles carried out by these workers will be maintained; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39514/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Data (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 289. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of community employment places provided in each of the years from 2013 to date in 2016; the number of these that were unfilled for periods during each of those years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39515/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Data (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 290. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans for the community employment scheme for 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39516/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 493. To ask the Minister for Health the number waiting for a child and adolescent mental health service appointment in community care area, CCA, 9; the numbers waiting between three and six months, six and 12 months, and more than 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39965/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Postal Services (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 592. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he last met formally with the CEO and chairperson of An Post; the issues discussed; when he will next meet the CEO and chairperson; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39966/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 606. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has liaised with his colleague, the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, in respect of the seemingly serious inconsistencies in District Court decisions on speeding offences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39522/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 607. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address the increase in road deaths in 2016 and to ensure 2017 will be a much safer year on Irish roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39523/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 608. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he and his Department have held any meetings with the Society of the Irish Motor Industry, SIMI, and major manufacturers of vehicles selling here with regard to improving vehicle safety systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39524/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 609. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current position with regard to the licensing of self-drive cars; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that any of the new sensor technology on self-drive vehicles can be applied generally to normally driven vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39525/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 626. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding funding and construction of the Malahide Road bypass at Clare Hall, Dublin 13, which is a key infrastructural development for the completion of the north fringe of Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39971/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (13 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 682. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a new recruitment drive for the Army, Air Corps and Naval Service will commence early in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39967/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Foreign Direct Investment (8 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: Regarding Pfizer's cancellation of its expansion at Grange Castle, which would have been worth €400 million to the economy and an additional 350 permanent jobs, the timing was unfortunate, at the very least. The company attributed this to the cancellation of the new drug for controlling cholesterol. There is concern over this. The Taoiseach met President-elect Trump's strategic...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Foreign Direct Investment (8 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I asked the Minister about her speech to Dublin Chamber of Commerce. It is very nervous at the moment.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Foreign Direct Investment (8 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: Many of us were heartened last night to see on BBC's "Newsnight" programme that a London banking company said it is moving to Dublin. It is definitely coming to Dublin with approximately 140 jobs. That seems to be the message. Obviously, there will be swings and roundabouts in the circumstances we face. It was said we are in competition with Paris, Frankfurt, Bratislava, Malta and Madrid...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Foreign Direct Investment (8 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the meetings she and her Department's agencies have had to prepare for possible adverse impacts of the upcoming Trump Presidency such as the recent cancellation of a €400 million expansion plan by an American company based here (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39184/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Foreign Direct Investment (8 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: President-elect Donald Trump has tweeted on a number of occasions that any business that fires its employees in the United Sates and builds a new factory or plant in another country cannot then expect to be able to sell its products into the United States without retribution or consequences. That is wrong. I note that when the Taoiseach visited Silicon Valley and New York, he met Mayor...