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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (8 May 2019)

Robert Troy: 1400. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the pension review will be completed; and the percentage of same that resulted in an increase. [18559/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: National Minimum Wage (8 May 2019)

Robert Troy: 1401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the provisions of the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2018 to ensure that the training rate of pay for adults over 20 years of age is protected in certain instances (details supplied). [18560/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Industrial Development (8 May 2019)

Robert Troy: 1402. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if assistance will be provided to an organisation (details supplied) in implementing a national strategy to support the industry and ensure sustainable development. [18562/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (8 May 2019)

Robert Troy: 1412. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a domiciliary care allowance will be awarded to a person (details supplied). [18822/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (8 May 2019)

Robert Troy: 1439. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review for disability allowance will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied). [19301/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Reviews (8 May 2019)

Robert Troy: 1456. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an invalidity pension will be awarded to a person (details supplied) following review. [19599/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water (8 May 2019)

Robert Troy: 1512. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he approved the significant increases in the cost of domestic connections which came into effect on 1 April 2019. [19362/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (8 May 2019)

Robert Troy: 1541. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if grants are available for completion of a house that never finished construction and was never occupied. [18853/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Policy (18 Apr 2019)

Robert Troy: I referred to the certification process.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Policy (18 Apr 2019)

Robert Troy: That is not what I said. The Minister of State should be fair.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Policy (18 Apr 2019)

Robert Troy: As the Minister of State is aware, the deputy leader of Fianna Fáil raised this issue during Leaders' Questions today with the Tánaiste following reports in today's newspapers that a further 295 houses in Leopardstown will be sold directly to an institutional investor. What this does is reinforce how Fine Gael favours financial institutions and big corporations over ordinary...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Policy (18 Apr 2019)

Robert Troy: The Minister of State is not saying anything new. Nobody is saying that it involves 100% of the market but institutional investors' share of the market is growing rapidly because they are buying more and small landlords are getting out. The reason why small landlords are getting out is because they are taxed to within an inch of their lives. A total of 52% or 53% of the rent a small...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)

Robert Troy: Which Private Members' business did the Deputy use for that?

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)

Robert Troy: Limbo.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)

Robert Troy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. I thank Deputy Clare Daly for her sympathy but we are okay and Fianna Fáil can stand on its own two feet. We are the only two Deputies in this House to have continuously raised this issue in the last two and a half years. While we may now differ on a number of points, until today I would have said we have worked constructively...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)

Robert Troy: I want to make the point-----

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)

Robert Troy: I have never been in government since I have been a Member of this House, unlike Deputy Brendan Ryan.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)

Robert Troy: EU Regulation No. 598/2014 makes clear and explicit references to health. It states:The importance of health aspects needs to be recognised in relation to noise problems, and it is therefore important that those aspects be taken into consideration in a consistent manner at all airports when a decision is taken on noise abatement objectives, taking into account the existence of common Union...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)

Robert Troy: The people of Ireland did not want to abolish it.

Public Transport: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Apr 2019)

Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 2:To delete all words after “calls on the Government to:” and substitute the following: “—increase investment in sustainable transport projects in order to tackle congestion, reduce emissions and drive sustainable growth; —accelerate the rollout of additional rail carriages in order to tackle severe overcrowding on commuter trains; ...