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- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (5 Nov 2015)
Tommy Broughan: That is the problem about the-----
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (5 Nov 2015)
Tommy Broughan: That is the reality of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael - the iron alliance.
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (5 Nov 2015)
Tommy Broughan: When can we expect an announcement on rent certainty? The Minister will be aware that Senator Aideen Hayden has done a lot of work with Threshold on this matter. When will he make an announcement on it? The Minister did not respond to my question about the draft planning and development (urgent social housing supply) directive, which I read very carefully. Is that a direction to the...
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (5 Nov 2015)
Tommy Broughan: In relation to the directive which the Minister issued, which I am sure the Ceann Comhairle has also read, what are the implications of it? Approximately 18 months ago, on the final sitting day prior to the Dáil going into recess, we had a debate on housing policy, at which time the Minister could have taken the line of equipping the local authorities with the capital funding needed to...
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (5 Nov 2015)
Tommy Broughan: There were needed 20 or 25 years ago.
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (5 Nov 2015)
Tommy Broughan: I was calling for them then too.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2015)
Tommy Broughan: We should have a Dublin Minister.
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (5 Nov 2015)
Tommy Broughan: 8. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report to Dáil Éireann on the implementation plan for the State's response to homelessness and the Government's action plan on homelessness; if he will outline the Government's achievements under both plans; if he will say how much remains to be achieved before the end of this Dáil; and if he will...
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (5 Nov 2015)
Tommy Broughan: We on the northside of Dublin have seen very few of the new units to which the Minister of State referred. Reference was made earlier to the 3,600 individuals on the Wexford housing list. We have almost double that number in Dublin Bay North. Among the 750 families in emergency accommodation are 1,600 children. The Minister has published the draft planning and development (urgent social...
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2015)
Tommy Broughan: Jimmy Tully did it.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2015)
Tommy Broughan: Dublin people are in homeless accommodation. They are in emergency accommodation and the Minister is responsible.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2015)
Tommy Broughan: I do not like people being called Dublin-centric. What kind of nonsense is that?
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2015)
Tommy Broughan: Perhaps we need a Dublin Minister.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (5 Nov 2015)
Tommy Broughan: 46. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of new social housing units that have been made available in each local authority area in 2015 to date and that will be made available before the end of 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38220/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Equality Legislation (5 Nov 2015)
Tommy Broughan: 146. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Equal Status Act 2000 will be amended to repeal section 7(3)(c) to ensure that all children will access their right to education without discrimination on religious grounds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38837/15]
- Social Welfare Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2015)
Tommy Broughan: I welcome the partial restorations of pension payments under sections 3 and 4 and Schedule 1, the partial restoration of child benefit payments under section 7, the restoration of the respite care grant under section 6, the partial back-tracking of the family income supplement earnings threshold under section 8, the changes to the carer's allowance under section 9 and the amendments to...
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2015)
Tommy Broughan: When can we expect the road traffic Bill 2015, which refers mainly to drug driving? Will the Taoiseach ask the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, to ensure it will include regular reporting to this House on the implementation of that and other traffic Bills, given that getting information from the Courts Service is like trying to get blood from a stone, and given the totally disingenuous figures...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Tommy Broughan: That is what we are saying.
- Other Questions: Job Losses (4 Nov 2015)
Tommy Broughan: I thank the Minister for that response. I note detailed counterproposals were put forward six or seven months ago by the SIPTU, Unite and TEEU trade unions and by members of the workforce themselves who are obviously expert in this element of food production and it was feared some of the key brands, for example, the Twirl and the Snack, would be outsourced to Poland. The Minister stated we...
- Other Questions: Job Losses (4 Nov 2015)
Tommy Broughan: On the Government's Twitter account, #allaboutjobs, it is notable that the Minister trumpets when new jobs arrive but he tells us nothing when there are serious job losses. On overall job figures, the Government mentions 126,000 jobs created, which is way below the total level of employment in late 2007 or early 2008. The Government is still a long way off that mark. Is the Minister...