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Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister is not listening.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Some of us wanted to abolish the Seanad and still do.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister is misleading the House and Deputy Brendan Ryan has shown that clearly.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I would like to express my strong support for the retention of the badly needed amendments Deputy Munster succeeded in making to the Bill on Report Stage in this House. One of the amendments, as set out on page 11 of the Bill that went to the Seanad, sought to evaluate the "projected impact on the well-being and health of local residents". The other amendment, as set out on page 13 of the...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Agreed.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (18 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: It has taken almost two decades.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (18 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I echo Deputy Boyd Barrett's comments. Given that there are super-normal profits in the property industry generally, of which HAP and so on is part, has consideration been given to clawing back some of that money in taxation in order to create sufficient funds to, as suggested by Deputy Boyd Barrett, build more social houses?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (18 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: My question was in regard to the rental sector.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Preparations (18 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 8. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of expenditure set aside in budget 2019 for the additional costs of Brexit preparations; if supplementary funding may be needed in this regard; the cost to date of Brexit preparations for the Office of the Revenue Commissioners and for all other Departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17776/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Preparations (18 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: We have had the Brexit contingency action plan since last December with sectoral analysis and the various costs of mitigation throughout the Government. What other plans has the Minister made in this regard, in particular with regard to Revenue and all other areas where Brexit is already impacting? The uncertainty has been extended to 31 October. At any time we could be dealing with a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Preparations (18 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: This afternoon, the Minister will give the Committee on Budgetary Oversight a briefing on the stability programme update. Last week, Dr. McQuinn and Dr. Bergin from the ESRI appeared before the committee. Their basic figures were a bit shocking. They spoke about trade shock in the three Brexit scenarios of deal, no deal and disorderly. The figures for no deal show a reduction in growth by...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Preparations (18 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: With regard to Revenue and the customs service, does the Minister have ongoing contact with the UK Government on the proposals it seems to speak about in its public discourse regarding ways to preserve having no Border in this country? Has there been any discussion along those lines in respect of the cost of technologies which could ensure that we continue to have the seamless border to which...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Expenditure Reviews (18 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 35. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the spending profile of Departments during the first quarter of 2019; if key spending areas are running behind or ahead of profile; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17778/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Data Protection Regulation (18 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 157. To ask the Minister for Health if Irish genetic data will be fully protected by GDPR legislation and that research using such sensitive data is subject to strict oversight and accountability under GDPR; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18081/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I will have to leave shortly to deal with the Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (17 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the refunding of unused tax credits to persons and couples on lower incomes; if his Department has costed different income levels of such refunds in the preparations for budget 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17650/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a recent presentation to the Oireachtas Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight that the cost of tax expenditures in revenue forgone is approximately €21.4 billion per annum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10482/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection Forecasts (17 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 65. To ask the Minister for Finance the income tax receipts for the first quarter of 2019; the reason the budget 2019 projection for this tax yield was not achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17643/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Yield (17 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 69. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the budget 2019 decision on VAT is reflected in the VAT yield for the Exchequer in the first quarter of 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17644/19]

Greyhound Racing Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (16 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I move amendment No. 1:In page 9, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following:“ “white list” means the annual list prepared by welfare members of the International Greyhound Forum in conjunction with Rásaíocht Con Éireann of countries which, at its sole discretion, meet minimum standards with regard to the welfare of greyhounds, and to which the...