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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: It moved towards it very fast.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I would say the Minister was being prudent, something he has ceased to be.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: As the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Bruton, knows, we in the Dublin Bay North constituency also have large studio-type apartment developments being brought to An Bord Pleanála. I understand that the Taoiseach will next week meet the Stardust relatives and victims committee. I wonder whether the Taoiseach will be in a position to give them the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Safety (22 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister is responsible for speed limits. When the current speed limits were introduced in 2004, one of his predecessors, the late Seamus Brennan, raised the question of whether we should have opted for an upper limit of 110 km/h rather than 120 km/h. Is it now time to re-examine sections 5 to 9, inclusive, of the 2004 Act with which the Minister is familiar? According to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Safety (22 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: There have been 58 fatalities in the year to date on our roads, including nine pedestrians and four cyclists. That is an increase of three on the same period last year and we had a few bad months at the start of the year. Is it now necessary for the RSA to run ongoing, strong, pervasive campaigns to tell us all to slow down a little? There is also a movement in Europe. The carmaker,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Safety (22 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 46. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reduce speeding and aggressive driving on roads and streets here and to legislate for home zones or slow zones in residential estates and built-up areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21728/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Safety (22 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: As the Minister knows, the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety identifies inappropriate speed as a factor in virtually all crashes. Some 1.25 million people tragically die on roads throughout the world every year. Many people think that there has recently been an upsurge in aggressive behaviour and speeding by many drivers. We need to take action to combat it. We have had the debate...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (22 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will seek additional resources for traffic policing in budget 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22210/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (22 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 147. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists for assessments of needs under the Disability Act 2005 by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22178/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (22 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 148. To ask the Minister for Health if assessments of needs under the Disability Act 2005 are dealt with on a national chronological order or otherwise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22179/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Illegal Dumping (21 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Does the Minister expect any prosecutions?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Illegal Dumping (21 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to address the issue of illegal household dumping and of alleged highly organised illegal dumping of industrial and soil waste in areas of north County Dublin and Fingal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15749/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Illegal Dumping (21 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: This question was submitted some time ago. It is about the serious problem of littering in our constituency of Dublin Bay North and the general problem of illegal dumping across north Dublin, especially in an area I indicated to the Minister. He has provided additional funding of €3 million for the 2019 anti-dumping initiative but constituents are still very anxious that the problem...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Illegal Dumping (21 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The key concern was the emergence of a huge, illegal dump beside residents' homes. It was illegal under the 1996 Act and regulations. As I said previously, a mountain of rubbish has begun to move across an amenity open space towards dozens of houses. People are very distressed by this. It has been a problem across the north fringe of Dublin city and the south fringe of Fingal, which the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (21 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: On legislation, will it be similar to the Brexit legislation in terms of the provisions for the various sectors in the case of a bad Brexit? The report refers to a review to be carried out this year on the area of fuel poverty and the potential impacts of an increase in carbon tax. Will that happen? The Department of Finance was asked to look at the possible impact of a carbon tax on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (21 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he will take to implement the decision of Dáil Éireann to declare a climate emergency following the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21343/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (21 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Our colleagues moved the motion to declare a climate emergency a couple of weeks ago based on the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Action which, the Minister will agree, was a fine effort and one of the achievements of this 32nd Dáil. The question now is what the Government is going to do to implement it. Fine Gael has had eight years of budgets, following five or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (21 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The concern among constituents is that the most vulnerable households are affected. The report notes from its own research that 28% of households suffer energy poverty. How can we decarbonise energy if it is to be left to ordinary individuals? The Taoiseach has been flinging around figures such as €50 billion for what the decarbonisation effort will cost. Nobody seems to know. ...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel Data (21 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 111. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of personnel who entered and left, respectively, the Permanent Defence Force in each of the years 2017 and 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21994/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Policing of Events (21 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 321. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount An Garda Síochána received from organisations (details supplied) in 2018 and to date in 2019 towards policing their events; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21992/19]