Results 12,461-12,480 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (23 Sep 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the position in Sri Lanka. [31738/09]

Human Rights Issues. (23 Sep 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the assistance he and the international community may be able to offer in order to help in the restoration of democracy in Burma, in particular in view of the fact that there are elections scheduled soon. [31737/09]

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (22 Sep 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when action number 26 of the Road Safety Strategy 2007 to 2012 for the roll out of 6,000 hours per month of speed camera monitoring on roads here will occur; if a company (details supplied) is the preferred bidder to operate the national speed camera programme; if he, the Department of Transport or the Department of...

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (22 Sep 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of drivers who have been tested and prosecuted for suspected drug driving in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28393/09]

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (22 Sep 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Question 78: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if all of the outstanding issues relating to the exploitation of workers by an organisation (details supplied) have been fully addressed and the workers involved have been paid in full including overtime or compensatory payments; if a bank is currently being investigated for its alleged role in the alleged...

Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (17 Sep 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Question 39: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí attached to Coolock, Raheny and Howth Garda stations in Dublin; the number of community gardaí attached to these stations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31822/09]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (17 Sep 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Question 92: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the schools in Dublin 5 and 13 will be affected by cuts to special needs classes; the cuts that will be imposed on each of these schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31821/09]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Sep 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Question 334: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons on the waiting list to see a consultant urologist at Beaumont Hospital; the average waiting time to see a consultant urologist; the steps being taken to reduce waiting times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30286/09]

Written Answers — Rail Safety: Rail Safety (16 Sep 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Question 546: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has ordered a full audit of all railway tracks and infrastructure particularly in coastal areas following the recent collapse of the Broadmeadow railway viaduct in north Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30682/09]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (16 Sep 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Question 550: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason proposals for the alterations of the harbour limits of Drogheda Port Company, in relation to the proposed new deep water port of Bremore, are on display at the superintendent's office at Drogheda Garda station; the arrangements that are in place for the general public to view and assess these proposals including the copying of...

Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (16 Sep 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Question 590: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí stationed at Coolock, Raheny, Howth, Swords, Ballymun and Clontarf Garda stations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30287/09]

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (16 Sep 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Question 619: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on the inclusion of the offence of a learner driver driving without a qualified accompanying driver and L plates on the garda PULSE system; the number of offences of this nature that have been recorded by An Garda Síochána since its inclusion on the PULSE system; the further number of Garda stations...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister sold out.

Taxi Regulations. (9 Jul 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on recent meetings with taxi workers and their representatives; his views on a moratorium and major reform of the taxi regulatory system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28929/09]

Taxi Regulations. (9 Jul 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Is it not time the Minister told us where he stands on a moratorium on the issuing of taxi licences because he is the Minister who has presided over a collapse in standards and a free for all in the taxi industry? Many Deputies, particularly those on the transport committee, have been inundated with complaints about cloned vehicle licences, illegal licences of different kinds, drivers...

Taxi Regulations. (9 Jul 2009)

Tommy Broughan: This is utter nonsense.

Taxi Regulations. (9 Jul 2009)

Tommy Broughan: As has the population.

Taxi Regulations. (9 Jul 2009)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister does not have the required knowledge of how the system works. Is it an offence to sell a licence on a particular number or not? Gardaí tell us it is not. The Joint Committee on Transport has discussed this issue for the past nine months. We have listened to all interests and have consulted with consumers and passengers. We have taken advice from a senior counsel who says...

State Airports. (9 Jul 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Reports suggested that Ryanair was considering a system whereby passengers would carry their main baggage through the check-in area and on to the tarmac and put it into the hold of the plane. Perhaps on landing, a passenger as fit and nimble as the Minister, Deputy Noel Dempsey, might hop into the hold and hand out the bags to the other passengers. This was to be one system. The other that...

State Airports. (9 Jul 2009)

Tommy Broughan: I am broadening the question because it may well be that these kinds of loony proposals for cutting costs are the result of the imposition of unnecessary and counterproductive charges, such as the travel tax. Can we have the cost-benefit analysis of the Department of Finance on the travel tax?