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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Dumping at Sea (1 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 247. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an application by Dublin Port to the Environment Protection Agency to dump dredged materials off the south-east coast of Howth in County Dublin; the way in which his Department and its agencies will protect the newly designated United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation,...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Air Services Provision (1 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 272. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in light of the profound opposition of the population of the Aran Islands, and their relations and contacts on the mainland, if she will ensure that the Aer Arann connection is maintained; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33737/15]

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: There was modular housing in my constituency when I started out in politics and people had been living in it for ten or 15 years. They had to be rehoused. Like other Deputies, I visited the display of modular housing and I honestly do not think the Taoiseach-----

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: For the Taoiseach's information, at €70,000 or €80,000 a pop, I do not think modular housing is the solution.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: I want to ask the Taoiseach about one other point he mentioned concerning the clerk of works scheme and the planning and development (No. 2) Bill. Why does he not just restore the clerk of works scheme? Many of us worked on sites when we were kids and found that the clerk of works system was brilliant, as Deputy Wallace has often said. Why does he not just restore it then? He will not...

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: I really wanted to ask him about the criminal justice (corruption) Bill.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: It is the planning and development (No. 2) Bill, as well. My final point concerns the criminal justice (corruption) Bill. Before the end of the lifetime of this Dáil, would it be possible for us to have a discussion on the Garda investigations into criminality and irregularities that were discovered by the Flood, Mahon and Moriarty tribunals? I have asked the Minister for Justice and...

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Why are people not living in them?

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: They would be better off in a house.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: They are all paralysed.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments Administration (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 8. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of the one-parent family payment who have transitioned to jobseeker's payment since the beginning of July 2015; the number of these who are in receipt of family income supplement or the back-to-work family dividend; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33016/15]

Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments Administration (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Following on from Deputy Durkan's question - I think he voted for these changes, while I voted against them - the Tánaiste has mentioned some of the figures. She told colleagues last week that, since July, approximately 96% of the 25,500 affected recipients of the one-parent family payment have transitioned. Of those, however - as she just indicated to Deputy Durkan - only 8,100...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments Administration (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: I think that is the first time the Tánaiste has mentioned in the House those figures concerning the back-to-work family dividend. Effectively, however, is there not a time limit on that? Obviously, that is useful information but-----

Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments Administration (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: -----we still meet a lot of lone parents who find that the system effectively leaves them worse off. Like most of us in the Chamber, the Tánaiste stood on the picket lines with the Dunnes Stores workers. Despite that fact, however, people on 15-hour contracts still find themselves that much worse off. The overall selling point of these major changes was that women would be encouraged...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 12. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the current number of recipients of rent supplement; the number receiving uplifts in their rent supplement; her plans to increase rent supplement levels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33017/15]

Social Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: I warmly support the motion before the House and thank my Sinn Féin colleagues for giving me a chance to speak briefly on it. I would like to pay my respects to Alan Murphy, his family and friends. Last Friday, Alan died not very far from where we sit tonight. It is another tragic loss of life which can be put down completely to the failures of this Government and the Fianna Fáil...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt (29 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 133. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected interest payments on Irish national debt in 2015 and the projections for the years 2016 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32828/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance Issues (29 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the Lux leaks tax scandal; the inquiries his Department has made in relation to Irish-based account holders in the decade prior to 2010 and in the years since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32827/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Yield (29 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 281. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of raising the universal social charge threshold to €13,500; €14,000; and €14,500; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33304/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Yield (29 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 282. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax expenditure involved in cutting the universal social charge 7%, 1%, 1.5% and 2%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33305/15]