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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 154. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the audits or examinations that have taken place to determine the impact the implementation of carbon tax has had on improving air quality here. [52292/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Council Legislation (5 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 174. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will bring forward plans to establish an office of a judicial council, in view of concerns on the appointment of judges and the lack of transparency in appointing same. [49516/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations (5 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 177. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the CT68 forms used by An Garda Síochána are not made available to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, in the event of a subsequent investigation by GSOC, and the families of persons killed or seriously injured in road traffic collisions. [52282/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (5 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 178. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of personal injury cases decided by the High Court in the years 2012 and to date in 2013 which relate to actions for personal injury arising out of road traffic collisions, in circumstances where the applicant had refused the award recommended by the Personal Injuries Assessment Board. [52294/13]

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: The same number of people emigrated. That is more than it takes to fill the Aviva Stadium.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: They are asking those in government to close the gate behind them as they leave.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: They will be back in February. From now on they will be visiting us twice rather than four times each year.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: The thing about the Government is that we have paralysis but not analysis on many issues such as housing. We are mired and nothing is happening, and there is not much analysis either. I know of the Minister of State's distinguished career; we were both spokespersons on energy.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I did not realise the Minister of State also had responsibility for finance. I have been here for many hours and I wonder why neither the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, nor the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, is here at the ultimate Stage of the Bill in the House. I would have thought it was the responsibility of at least one of them, without belittling the...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I warmly support the amendment put forward by Deputy Doherty. It is clearly a huge lacuna in budgetary strategy and policy that we do not have the serious equality proofing he talks about. For about ten years we have inserted a couple of pages in the budget documents which give a rudimentary Department of Finance type of analysis of the impact each tax change will have. I have been calling...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister has not addressed the central concerns. Those in his party sometimes portrays themselves as representatives of the squeezed middle. On this matter the Minister is not representing the people he hopes to represent. Maybe the squeezed middle is better represented by this side of the House. Why did the Minister not go in a different direction and examine capping the overall...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: Thank you, a Chathaoirligh. I have listened carefully to the Minister of State, but I think the proportion of people affected, at 57%, is not an insignificant percentage. I know some of the estimates we got after the budget were around €200 per family, and that is a significant additional cost. I am ad idem with Deputy Boyd Barrett. Deputy Shortall, Deputy Boyd Barrett and I all...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I mentioned already that the VHI and the Government are under serious constraints due to new rules at a European level. I do not think the Minister has really addressed-----

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I want to make a final point.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: The final point I want to make is that the Minister has not ordered his officials to do a cost-benefit analysis with regard to the huge numbers leaving the private insurance system to go into public care. Can the Minister of State give me figures from a cost-benefit analysis that show which situation is more expensive for the State?

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I appreciate that. I did that job in the Chair for many years before you appeared in this House.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: We are discussing the Finance Bill in the House with a Government which has a huge majority-----

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: -----and which has done outrageous things.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: Maybe you would like to display a sense of fairness to the Opposition, which has very limited time today and tomorrow to discuss this most important Bill.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I move amendment No. 15:In page 21, to delete lines 18 to 39, and in page 22, to delete lines 1 to 25.This is the section dealing with relief for insurance against the expense of illness. As the Minister of State may remember, on Second Stage I strongly opposed this provision for a reduction in the relief available to those with medical insurance premiums above €1,000 for adults and...