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- Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (21 Jul 2011)
Tommy Broughan: Question 465: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of cases that have been taken by the Private Residential Tenancies Board against landlords for breaches of regulations in 2009, 2010, and to date in 2011; the number and the percentage of these cases in which breaches were found to have taken place; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (21 Jul 2011)
Tommy Broughan: Question 466: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on strengthening the powers of the Private Residential Tenancies Board to address the ongoing problem of rogue landlords; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22166/11]
- Written Answers — Fire Services: Fire Services (21 Jul 2011)
Tommy Broughan: Question 467: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has been sent a copy of the Hayes Higgins Partnership report by Dublin City Council, which was commissioned to examine the serious defects and fire safety issues at an area (details supplied) in Dublin 13; if he will publish the report; his views on the report; the steps that will be taken to resolve...
- Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (21 Jul 2011)
Tommy Broughan: Question 468: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons on the homeless list, the housing list, the transfer list, and the priority housing list for area B and the other housing areas of Dublin city; the way these figures compare with similar statistics for 2009 and 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22168/11]
- Written Answers — Homeless Persons: Homeless Persons (21 Jul 2011)
Tommy Broughan: Question 469: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of homeless persons in Dublin in 2008, 2009, 2010 and to date in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22169/11]
- Written Answers — Tribunals of Inquiry: Tribunals of Inquiry (21 Jul 2011)
Tommy Broughan: Question 470: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the final report on the Mahon tribunal will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22170/11]
- Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (21 Jul 2011)
Tommy Broughan: Question 471: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has had any response from developers to his request that they act without delay and address the problems of unfinished so-called ghost estates; if he is disappointed at the response; his views on any other measures to force developers to fulfil all of their responsibilities in terms of any estates...
- Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (21 Jul 2011)
Tommy Broughan: Question 472: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if there will be any more tranches of money available under the Resolving Ireland's Unfinished Housing Developments programme to address the public safety issues associated with unfinished estates; if so, when this money will be allocated and the local authorities that will receive same; the mechanism that...
- Written Answers — Legal Services: Legal Services (21 Jul 2011)
Tommy Broughan: Question 517: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the regulation of the writing of wills here; his views on the training that solicitors receive in the writing of wills, in view of the recent report in the UK by the Legal Services Consumer Panel on the will-writing market which found that 25% of wills drawn up in the study had serious legal defects even when...
- Written Answers — Anti-Social Behaviour: Anti-Social Behaviour (21 Jul 2011)
Tommy Broughan: Question 518: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of anti-social behaviour orders that have been issued under the Criminal Justice Act 2006 each year since 2007 and to date in 2011; the age profile of those that have been issued ASBOs; the type and level of offences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22161/11]
- Written Answers — Anti-Social Behaviour: Anti-Social Behaviour (21 Jul 2011)
Tommy Broughan: Question 519: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider, in liaison with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, new measures to target anti-social behaviour in privately owned and privately rented houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22162/11]
- Written Answers — Prison Sentencing: Prison Sentencing (21 Jul 2011)
Tommy Broughan: Question 520: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he is carrying out a review of sentencing policy; his views on whether adequate sentences are being handed down for those found guilty of serious criminally violent activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22163/11]
- Written Answers — Recidivism Rates: Recidivism Rates (21 Jul 2011)
Tommy Broughan: Question 521: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on monitoring or collecting information at Departmental level on prisoner re-offending rates in view of the fact that the only information available on this matter in the State appears to be a 2006 study of prisoner re-offending rates of 19,955 prisoners that was carried out by the UCD Institute of Criminology; the number...
- Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (21 Jul 2011)
Tommy Broughan: Question 734: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the numbers of drivers and staff at Dublin Bus and Bus Ãireann at the end of the 2010; the numbers of drivers and staff at Dublin Bus and Bus Ãireann at 1 July 2011; the figures for same at the end of December 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22159/11]
- Central Bank and Credit Institutions (Resolution) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)
Tommy Broughan: It is now time to put the question: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Is that agreed?
- Mental Health Services (20 Jul 2011)
Tommy Broughan: Let me first commend Deputy Kathleen Lynch in her new role as Minister of State with for mental health and on her efforts to progress services and facilities for citizens with mental health needs. I am glad to have the opportunity to bring the critical issue of mental health services in the north Dublin area to the Minister's attention. Under the direction of the Mental Health Commission,...
- Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (20 Jul 2011)
Tommy Broughan: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider the abandonment of payment of promissory notes for Anglo Irish-NBS from 2012 onwards; and if this would enable him to abandon most of the projected cuts of â¬4.6 billion plus in the December 2012 budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21700/11]
- Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (20 Jul 2011)
Tommy Broughan: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Finance if he would agree that the ending of promissory note payments for Anglo Irish-NBS would be the best outcome for the Irish persons and to avoid a sovereign default; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21701/11]
- Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (20 Jul 2011)
Tommy Broughan: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to address distressed mortgages and provide security for deeply worried young families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21702/11]
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (20 Jul 2011)
Tommy Broughan: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Finance if he would introduce legislation to promote recourse mortgages and handing back of keys and loans to mortgage companies to avoid the current suffering of young householders and in accordance with the best American practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21703/11]