Results 501-520 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Dublin Chamber of Commerce and Chambers Ireland (24 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I urge the chambers to do more about infrastructure and hassle the Government to deliver.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: EU Directives (19 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 40. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the findings of the recent Irish Habitats and Species Report prepared by her Department and submitted to the EU which revealed a worrying deterioration in habitats here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35806/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (19 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing legislation to rescind the autonomy of the Central Bank in view of the failure of the bank to create financial regulations to improve the ability of younger persons to purchase their own homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38001/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hare Coursing Regulation (19 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 262. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if full protection will be granted to the Irish hare; if all forms of hare hunting and coursing will be banned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38000/19]

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Statements (18 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Acting Chairman for the opportunity to speak briefly in the debate on Brexit. With just 42 days to go, it is fair to say that citizens are deeply concerned about the efficacy or effectiveness of the Government's preparations, especially for a no-deal outcome. We heard from the Minister for Finance at the Committee on Budgetary Oversight yesterday that budget 2020 will be...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Before the recess, the Taoiseach met the Stardust relatives and victims committee and an indication was given that the Attorney General would come back with a decision on the report which they and their solicitor, Mr. Darragh Mackin, had compiled in relation to the call for a new inquest. The Minister of State indicated many dates in the past ten months for when a decision would be made and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (18 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: It is astonishing, given this repeated and outrageous environmental vandalism of our UNESCO designated bay and all the associated waters, that the Minister and Irish Water would say that it is normal when one has storm water overflow then sewage will be pumped into Dublin Bay. Our great beaches of Dollymount and Sutton end up with an unbelievable smell and with contaminated waters. It is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (18 Sep 2019)

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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (18 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: It is correct. The Minister's Government cut capital investment to below the depreciation rate and we could not even maintain the systems we had at the Ringsend plant and at other facilities. Will the interim measures proposed by the Minister ensure that we do not have a repetition, week after week, of noxious pollution of our beautiful bay? The Minister represents the bay area on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (18 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to protect the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, designated ecosystem of Dublin Bay, Baldoyle Bay and the wider Dublin coastline following continuous overspills from the Ringsend wastewater treatment plant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35807/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (18 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons on Dublin social housing waiting lists who have been relocated outside of Dublin in each of the years 2009 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the number located to each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36518/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenancy Protection Scheme (18 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which tenants will be protected in co-living units if they are not to be given tenancy agreements; if he plans to update the regulations for co-living units to ensure that tenants have rights and protections under housing and tenancy legislation; his views on whether all tenants in the private rental sector should...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (18 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 84. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he and his EU foreign minister colleagues are taking with regard to repression of the independence movement in West Papua; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37904/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (18 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 85. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised the issue of autonomy or independence for West Papua with the European Commission, Parliament and Council of Ministers and at the General Assembly of the United Nations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37905/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (18 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he and his EU colleagues are taking to request the extradition to the International Criminal Court in the Hague of the alleged killers of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37906/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Sanctions (18 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will request his EU counterparts to consider introducing sanctions against the current Saudi Arabian regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37907/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Electronic Cigarettes (18 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 142. To ask the Minister for Health the status of examinations by his Department into the potential health impacts of e-cigarettes; if regulation will be forthcoming in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37782/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Staff (17 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to increase the number of embassy and consular staff throughout the UK in the lead up to and months after Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36515/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Staff (17 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: We are hurtling towards Hallowe'en and the very depressing prospect of Brexit. In terms of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, what resources are available to our diplomats and the secretariat in our embassy in London and in the consulates general in Cardiff and Edinburgh, given that our relationship with the UK may change so drastically in just a few weeks' time?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Staff (17 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Passports are critically important because last year approximately 200,000 people from Britain and Northern Ireland applied for an Irish passport. We will have staff on the ground at ports to assist the movement of goods through the landbridge, if necessary. The Tánaiste referred to Team Ireland which comprises bodies such as Enterprise Ireland, the IDA and Tourism Ireland. We have...