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Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: The course dealt with the use of intoxilysers but no gardaí attended. Will there be further legislation relating to the traffic corps? Is it intended to have further legislation relating to the social insurance fund?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: State Visits (17 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the recent visit of the President and the Minister of State to South America and the estimated impact on relations and trade between Ireland and Chile, Brazil and Argentina; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44910/12]

Topical Issue Debate: Priory Hall Development (16 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: We outlined a few ways in which the Government could get money.

Topical Issue Debate: Priory Hall Development (16 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: It was a good suggestion.

Topical Issue Debate: Priory Hall Development (16 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Has a cost-benefit analysis been carried out on rebuilding and refurbishing?

Topical Issue Debate: Priory Hall Development (16 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: It is disappointing that the Minister of State does not have a timeframe and there is no framework. When this Dáil asks tribunals and other bodies to report, we usually give them a timeframe or ask for an interim report. People feel desolate at this stage. It is very hard to get across the sense of desolation people feel about being homeless. It is almost like something that would...

Topical Issue Debate: Priory Hall Development (16 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Is the Minister of State concerned by that? Has her Department and Dublin City Council liaised at all in respect of a cost-benefit analysis of either refurbishment or demolition? Martin Schulz, the President of the European Parliament and the leader of our party at European level, visited the Dáil last week.

Topical Issue Debate: Priory Hall Development (16 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: He mentioned how important it is for architects, and an architect is in the Chamber right now, to be accompanied by psychologists. I note the comments made by Deputy Wallace because we did build many buildings that were grossly unsuitable, not just at Priory Hall but in other places as well. Will the Minister of State be coming forward with major legislation and a social housing programme...

Topical Issue Debate: Priory Hall Development (16 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Last Saturday, I walked with more than 1,000 citizens in Donaghmede, Dublin 13, which is in my constituency to mark the first anniversary of the traumatic evacuation of Priory Hall residents from their homes in October 2011 owing to the profound fire safety and other defects discovered in that complex. I again pay tribute to the Priory Hall residents and their families for their ongoing,...

Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: On the promised local government Bills, there will be grave disappointment in the four Dublin county council areas and the Dublin region generally-----

Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: I am expressing them now to the Taoiseach. We are not getting a real mayor for this city. People were looking forward to some autonomy.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: I am slightly out of order but the people are looking forward to some autonomy. One or two people in my party will be very disappointed with the decision, if what I have outlined is the decision.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: I am thankful that time has been kindly allowed for a Topical Issue debate on Priory Hall. However, some 1,000 people are asking me to give the Taoiseach a message. They have had sympathy and now want some action. They want to know when they will receive Mr. Justice Finnegan's report. People are in dire straits.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: The Taoiseach knows what I am implying.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Presidency Expenditure (16 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will estimate the cost of Ireland's hosting of the EU Presidency in 2013; if he will indicate the total cost of the previous Irish EU presidency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44253/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (16 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will estimate the impact of the changes to child benefit payment under Budget 2012 on the budget of her Department in 2013 and 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44784/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Panel Report Implementation (16 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether there may be more than 850 pyrite affected homes in the State in need of urgent remediation in view of the fact that this figure of 850 only refers to the proposed red category on the report of the Pyrite Panel and that more than 190 homeowners from an area (details supplied) in County Dublin have sent a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Panel Report Implementation (16 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will clarify the definition of significant damage referred to in the red and amber designations in the report of the Pyrite Panel, Section 8.2; if he will also indicate the system that will be put in place in the proposed amber category to conduct the monitoring on an ongoing basis; the way in which this will be paid...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Panel Report Implementation (16 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way he intends to continue to identify pyrite affected homes; the person that homeowners should contact if they suspect that their home or development is affected by pyrite now that the Pyrite Panel has completed its work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44534/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues (16 Oct 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the apparent refusal of Homebond to appear before the Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Transport, Culture and the Gaeltacht to discuss the ongoing serious issues which impact on pyrite affected home owners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44530/12]