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Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: This is the Chamber for rhetoric.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I am very sympathetic to the viewpoint expressed by my colleague, Deputy Clare Daly, in regard to the designation of the CAR as the competent authority. When I first reviewed this Bill I felt that a truly independent regulator would be the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. As the Minister knows, the EPA already has a very strong role in regard to noise regulation and powers in regard to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Last week we had another brutal assassination on our streets, one of a litany of serious gun crimes that have happened while Deputy Varadkar has been Taoiseach. In this case it involved a person going to work at 6.30 in the morning – one of the people whom the Taoiseach is supposed to admire - who was gunned down in cold blood. Can further legislative or security steps be taken to...

Death of Former Members: Expressions of Sympathy (13 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: On my own behalf and that of my Independent colleagues, I join in the expressions of sympathy to the McGahon and Crawford families as we remember former Members Brendan McGahon and Seymour Crawford. I served with both of them. They were dedicated workers for their constituencies in this House. Obviously, the broad left in this Chamber would have disagreed with many of the views of Brendan...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (13 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 48. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures she is taking to address the recruitment and retention issues in Tusla in cases in which qualified staff are taking agency roles in place of taking full-time contracts with Tusla; the number of unfilled vacant posts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6783/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (13 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 65. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of child protection and welfare concerns reported via the web portal child protection and welfare report form on a monthly basis since the operation of the web portal; the number of these reports assigned to social workers; the number of reports that have been investigated; the number awaiting allocation of a social worker...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Nuclear Waste (13 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the British Government is reportedly investigating the possibility of installing a radioactive waste facility in Newry, County Down, and the surrounding area of the Mourne Mountains; the steps he is taking to prevent same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Nuclear Waste (13 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the British Government is reportedly investigating the possibility of installing a radioactive waste facility at sites (details supplied) in Northern Ireland; the steps he is taking to prevent same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7168/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (12 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the categories in which large vehicles are required to be equipped with a tachograph; the categories of such vehicles that are exempt; the road safety measures that will be introduced to improve safety regarding heavy goods and public service vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6260/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Expenditure (12 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 309. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the capital expenditure proposed by An Garda Síochána in the north Dublin Garda division in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6775/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (12 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 310. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on Garda operation disruption; the number of persons arrested and charged to date; the number of successful convictions obtained to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6776/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (12 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 457. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on the community ophthalmic services scheme in 2016, 2017 and 2018; the budget allocation for same in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6773/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (12 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 458. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the €3.1 million will be spent in 2019 for the national women and infants health programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6774/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff Data (12 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 776. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of district conservation officers, wildlife inspectors, conservation rangers and ecologists recruited by her Department in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6778/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (7 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister was asked how he monitors major procurement contracts. I looked at the agendas for the management board meetings and it appears that every quarter, there is an agenda item for high-level risks. During all the time the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, has been the Minister, surely there was feedback through the Department of Health that there was a high-level risk with the escalation...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (7 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister never told us about this risk when he must have known that it was ongoing and that it was happening.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (7 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Has this not been a failure for the Minister? It has been a grotesque failure by him and by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (7 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Is it not the case that the Department of Health and the HSE knew in April 2018 at the latest that there was no figure for the guaranteed maximum price for the second stage of this procurement project? There was no figure and we did not know what figure we were facing. There seems to have been total disagreement between the national paediatric hospital's quantity surveyors and the building...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (7 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: -----which is to monitor our spending and not to spend €1 billion of the people's money in the way he has done?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (7 Feb 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Other trouble in other contracts also.