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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (3 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 1100. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status in respect of achieving targets set at EU level for climate change management, in particular under the EU Climate and Energy Framework 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31689/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Legislation (3 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 1162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the consolidation of the Road Traffic Acts will begin; the expected completion date, given reports that his Department has confirmed that legislation dating back to the 1960s will be consolidated; if this will be completed before the Government's term ends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37480/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (3 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 1169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has given any direction to the Road Safety Authority and to national car test agencies to ensure that so-called clocking on cars and other vehicles will be prevented; his Department's estimate of the extent of this problem in the past five years; the legal measures in place to apprehend and punish the criminal elements behind...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (3 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 1170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has liaised with his European Union colleagues to ensure that access to the national mileage register for cars and other vehicles of each country, and especially of the United Kingdom, will be uniform and immediate for the police forces and car industries of each European Union State; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann Services (3 Nov 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 1183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage of the Bus Éireann fleet that was wheelchair accessible in 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38007/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Road Traffic Offences (22 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: To date this year, 127 people have lost their lives on the roads and many hundreds more families have been traumatised by serious injuries. When I was transport spokesperson, it was calculated that each fatality cost our nation €2 million plus. It is a costly and terrible situation in terms of the personal pain of those individuals and families. Therefore, why does the Government...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Traffic Offences (22 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Crashes.

Topical Issue Debate: Road Traffic Offences (22 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: At the end of August of this year, working in collaboration with Ms Susan Gray and the PARC road safety group, I received a reply from the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, to my Parliamentary Question No. 511 of 14 July. The reply detailed by district court the number of persons listed and convicted and licence numbers recorded for drink driving offences between...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Traffic Offences (22 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: He misled a Member of Dáil Éireann in this regard.

Topical Issue Debate: Road Traffic Offences (22 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: He gave wrong information to Dáil Éireann on this very serious matter in relation to drink driving. Today, The Irish Timescovered another shocking story and reported that between January 2013 and March 2015 521 drivers were already disqualified at the time of conviction for involvement in a collision causing serious injury or death. The Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Traffic Offences (22 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Get me the Minister. I want the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (22 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 24. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the proposed new accident and emergency unit for Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9; if the necessary planning and construction funding will be included in the new capital programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35549/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (22 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 68. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the changes that have taken place on the Emergency Department Task Force since a person (details supplied) very recently took over as chair; if he has set targets for this winter; if hospitals will be fined this winter if they do not meet these targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35548/15]

Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Can we expect a decision on rent certainty, which has been the subject of long-standing discussions, to be made as a matter of urgency? Will legislation be introduced? When will an announcement be made? Is the Taoiseach aware that the vast bulk of the 79 families who became homeless the month before last were evicted by landlords after massive rent increases were imposed? Can we expect...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Eighty families have been evicted.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 17. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action he will take to ensure the vital services of a refuge (details supplied) in Dublin 24 are not closed before Christmas 2015; what he will do to prevent this service from closing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35331/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 37. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the current number of cases where a social worker has not been allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35330/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 46. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the measures she is taking to restore moneys to Irish airlines (general employees) superannuation scheme pensions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36708/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance the negotiations that have taken place or are taking place around restructuring Ireland's debt repayments, especially the large portion resulting from the blanket bank guarantee as identified by the Comptroller and Auditor General; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36710/15]