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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Retention (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 62. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the communications he has had with the company Twitter concerning its Irish operations and on the recently announced 336 job losses at the company; if all the Irish jobs in the company are safe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36711/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 82. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she is bringing the bail Bill before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36715/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Naval Vessels (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 134. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the military vessels that are accessing Irish waters; their purpose; their point of origin and destination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36712/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Military Aircraft (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 135. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the military aircraft that are accessing Irish airspace, their purpose, their point of origin and destination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36713/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UN Issues (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 136. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on Ireland's involvement with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36714/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a percentage of the proceeds from the sale of the Government's Aer Lingus shares will be restored to Irish Airlines (general employees) superannuation scheme pensioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36709/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (20 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 134. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on her Department's collaboration with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, An Garda Síochána, the Road Safety Authority and the Courts Service on rectifying the many discrepancies in the enforcement of our road safety laws, given the continuing number of loopholes discovered in summer 2015, along with...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Tribunals of Inquiry Reports (20 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 144. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of the Garda Commissioner's examination of the Moriarty report, the Flood report and the Mahon report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31710/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (20 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 373. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will bring the criminal justice (victims of crime) Bill before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36285/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (20 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 652. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to request lower emission reduction targets than those of our European Union counterparts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36284/15]

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: With the impending general election the long suffering people finally got some respite yesterday from the implacable austerity forced on them since late 2008. In my own submission a few weeks to the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, I called again for many of the positive social expenditure measures that have...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Smuggling (14 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 12. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons prosecuted for cigarette and tobacco smuggling at Dublin Port and Dublin Airport in 2014, and in 2015 to date; the number of successful convictions and prosecutions ongoing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35853/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 61. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list to see a consultant neurologist at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9; the average waiting times; the steps being taken to reduce these; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35852/15]

Financial Resolution No. 4: Income Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: I wish to echo some of Deputy Ó Caoláin's comments on this financial resolution. The health capital budget and the entire capital programme up to 2020 was extremely disappointingvis-à-visthe amount we could spend up to the time of the decision by the Minister and his party to support to the disastrous blanket guarantee for the banks. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael together...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 43. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to cut and restructure the local property tax, which is such a huge burden for low income Dublin households; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35234/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 44. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase the low contribution of Ireland’s tax revenue from capital and wealth assets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35235/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Data (13 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 85. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on the so-called trusted partner status for companies and agencies based here, and hiring workers from outside the European Economic Area; the number of such workers who have entered the State under this system in each year since 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35236/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (13 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 157. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reforms that have been made to the legal profession since 2010, given the serious public concerns that this profession remains totally unreformed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35231/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments (13 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 158. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to end the political appointment of judges; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35232/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (13 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 159. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address the rising costs of legal services; the lack of any independent regulatory mechanism to decrease these costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35233/15]