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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Targets (8 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 25. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the confidence levels among Dublin businesses falling for a third consecutive quarter in 2016 according to Dublin Chamber of Commerce surveys; her 2017 job creation targets for IDA and Enterprise Ireland in the greater Dublin area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38952/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Zero-hour Contracts (8 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 39. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the steps taken by her Department to address the problem of zero hour contracts; her policies in relation to pay and conditions in, if and when, and other uncertain and broken hour contracts in many areas of the economy including in the so-called sharing economy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38951/16]

Pension Equality and Fairness: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak briefly to this important motion on pension equality and fairness. I commend my Sinn Féin colleagues for raising the matter in the House. It is one I have raised many times as it affects a great many of my constituents in Dublin Bay North, especially women. It has been brought to my attention consistently during the years. I...

Other Questions: Road Safety Strategy (7 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 38. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of his Department's priorities listed which include the statement that a mid-term review of the road safety strategy has commenced; the details of this review; the achievements he envisages from the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38657/16]

Other Questions: Road Safety Strategy (7 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister has at long last put up his list of priorities on his Department's website and it includes the mid-term review of the National Road Safety Strategy 2013-2020. Would the Minister agree that parts of that strategy seem to be in tatters when one looks at the enforcement targets, for example, or the annual report on the strength of the Garda traffic corps and how it is actually...

Other Questions: Road Safety Strategy (7 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I have said this to the Taoiseach a few weeks ago. Since the Minister and I were elected to this House in 2011, almost 1,000 people have died on our roads and there have been between 15,000 and 16,000 very serious injuries. Clearly, if this was happening in any other area of Irish life or administration it would be a targeted area and action would be...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Events (7 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 39. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the government’s support for the Irish bid for the 2023 Rugby World Cup to be held here, including the net possible cost to the exchequer, the cost benefit generally to Irish rugby, Irish sport overall and to the economy. [38658/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services Provision (7 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 241. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts that have been made by him and his Department to improve staffing levels at St. Joseph’s Service, Portrane; if he will meet with a group (details supplied) with a view to addressing their concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39137/16]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion (6 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome our colleagues from the Commission. We have been following events in Italy closely for the past several years, as well as events in Greece and Spain. Does Mr. Carlos Martínez Mongay accept European monetary policy is completely inappropriate for certain member states? Could it be inappropriate in 2017 for Ireland?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion (6 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: What, however, if that monetary policy, which may suit the Benelux and Germany best, is destroying the industrial base of Italy, the second industrial power in Europe, as Italian politicians have been saying, or destroying large tranches of Greece's economy in the process? Are the alert mechanism reports picking this up? Will those reports include Brexit and its uncertainty? It will affect...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion (6 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: That does not matter to this economy because it is the uncertainty that has been created for our agricultural exports and across a whole range of our economic performance. This uncertainty is a significant factor for us which is already impacting on us.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Assets Bureau (6 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 95. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current levels of Garda and specialist staff numbers in the Criminal Assets Bureau; her plans to increase these staff resources; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38746/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Policing (6 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 96. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí by rank stationed in Coolock, Swords and Malahide as of November 2013, November 2014, November 2015 and November 2016; her plans to increase the number of community gardaí in these stations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38747/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (6 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 97. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána has a specific operation to target alcohol-related crime and anti-social behaviour in Dublin city centre over the Christmas and new year period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38748/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Enlargement (6 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 258. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding Serbia, Montenegro, FYR Macedonia and Iceland becoming members of the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38749/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (6 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 476. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will seek assurances from the chief executive officer of Iarnród Éireann that extra security will be provided to the Howth Junction-Donaghmede DART station over the Christmas and New Year period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38750/16]

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I would like to share time with Deputy Joan Collins.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I echo the comments that have just been made by Deputy Boyd Barrett. Nothing more true has been said about housing in this House in the past seven or eight years. The regressive and retrograde decision to abandon large local authority development in the mid-1990s was made on spurious grounds of design etc. The Minister will agree that there are many examples of beautiful and incredibly...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (1 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 34. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the struggles faced by persons suffering from the rare metabolic condition phenylketonuria, PKU, in accessing suitable very low protein food and protein substitute food products; his plans to address this issue and improve the range of such products available to persons on the long-term illness card list and generally...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (1 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 35. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to address the deficits in the legislative powers given to the HSE in the 2007 Health Act in protecting vulnerable adults in different settings as outlined by the chief executive of HIQA recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37946/16]