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Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (13 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: ...will put in place a facility regarding the new house tax, which is having an impact on them, and whether the deadline has been reached. The current social housing capital budget is €333.7 million, a very disappointing sum. The Government is supposed to be getting €400 million plus for the 4G communications auction. Could at least part of this not be hypothecated to address...

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (13 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: ...will put in place a facility regarding the new house tax, which is having an impact on them, and whether the deadline has been reached. The current social housing capital budget is €333.7 million, a very disappointing sum. The Government is supposed to be getting €400 million plus for the 4G communications auction. Could at least part of this not be hypothecated to address...

Credit Union Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (28 Nov 2012)

Tommy Broughan: ...Doherty and Boyd Barrett regarding amendments Nos. 6 and 8, which are being discussed with related amendments Nos. 9 and 10 in my name. Amendment No. 9 reads as follows:In page 10, between lines 45 and 46, to insert the following: “(5) A credit union may lend to State guaranteed projects which are in keeping with the objects for which credit unions are formed as stated at section 6...

Burial and Cremation Regulation 2011: Second Stage (20 Apr 2012)

Tommy Broughan: ...greeted with a quote of Leopard Bloom from James Joyce's Ulysses: How many! All these here once walked round Dublin. Faithful departed. As you are now so once were we. Incredibly more than 1.1 million Dubliners and non-Dubliners have been buried in the historic Glasnevin Cemetery since it opened in 1832 under the direction of the great Daniel O'Connell. The 124 acres of Glasnevin...

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Tommy Broughan: ...he will not accept the Bill. Metal theft is not a victimless crime. The Association of Chief Police Officers in the UK estimated in 2010 that metal theft cost the UK economy approximately £770 million per year. The Transport Committee of the House of Commons held an inquiry into the explosion in incidents involving theft of railway cables across the British rail system. The committee's...

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (1 Dec 2011)

Tommy Broughan: Question 54: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that €520 million revenue would be raised per annum through the application of a 5% levy on the gross income of earners earning more than €120,000 per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38133/11]

Services for People with Disabilities (20 Oct 2011)

Tommy Broughan: ...the southern side in the HSE Dublin mid-Leinster region. Day services are provided on average to 1,616 citizens per day and residential services, with dedicated full-time care, are provided for 450 citizens in homes across the north side. Although there are 114 additional people receiving day services and 44 additional people in St. Michael's House residential services than in 2008, the...

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)

Tommy Broughan: .... It therefore beggars belief that the Department of Transport, Energy and Communications and the rainbow coalition Government decided to issue a second GSM licence for derisory sums of between £5 million and £15 million. The system that was designed to sell off the second GSM licence is described by Mr. Justice Moriarty on page 1,062 of Volume 1 of the report as a "hybrid auction and...

Road Traffic Bill 2011: Second Stage (23 Mar 2011)

Tommy Broughan: ...for this legislative mess that we received from the former Minister is that the mandatory breath testing provision was inextricably linked to the introduction of the lower drink driving limit to 50 mg in Sections 9 and 14 of the Road Traffic Act 2010, which will not come into effect until September 2011. This delay in implementing the lower drink driving limit means that the mandatory...

Macro-Economic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (27 Oct 2010)

Tommy Broughan: ...a decade. We will be obliged to spend billions, year on year, to pay just the interest bill for the zombie banks that acted in such a criminally dangerous manner during the past ten years. Almost 450,000 of our citizens are unemployed and thousands of our younger citizens are once again emigrating. Canada, Australia, the US and the UK, among other countries, are again benefiting from the...

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (Resumed). (14 Oct 2010)

Tommy Broughan: ...were not and are not of systemic importance to the Irish banking system and as institutions they behaved recklessly and criminally for the benefit of a small nexus of cronies. The approximate €50 billion bank bailout figure announced by the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, last Thursday week was horrific. Many people are still trying to understand how the toxic triangle of...

Public Transport (23 Jun 2010)

Tommy Broughan: I noticed in the 2010 Estimates that a payment of approximately €66 million is being made in respect of PPPs. The Minister's civil servants told us when considering the Estimates that it is expected the payment will rise to approximately €600 million per annum as the big projects are developed over the years until 2015. Given that PPPs will be involved in some of the major public...

Planning and Construction Investigation (6 May 2010)

Tommy Broughan: ...of the builders of their estate, Killoe Developments, for the repair of their pyrite-damaged homes on less favourable terms than were previously on offer. Killoe Developments has yet to repair 156 out the 157 pyrite affected homes and apartments built by it in Clongriffin. Members will recall, from approximately six earlier debates in the 30th Dáil initiated by me in regard to this...

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Feb 2010)

Tommy Broughan: ...who should now perhaps be referred to as Deputy Mattie "U-turn" McGrath. One road death is one too many and an annual road death toll of 239 is an unacceptable level of carnage. If we had 250 deaths a year on the rail or bus network, people would rightly find that extraordinary and absolutely intolerable. Behind the figure of 239 road deaths in 2009 are the hundreds of families and...

Aviation (Preclearance) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jun 2009)

Tommy Broughan: ...of preclearance at eight Canadian airports, including Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax. The Canadian Government reports that approximately 11.7 million travellers have since the first preclearance facility commenced in 1952 enjoyed the benefits of preclearance through Canadian airports. I note that all of the preclearance facilities in Canada...

Merchant Shipping Bill 2009: Second Stage (28 May 2009)

Tommy Broughan: That would be good. Some 1.2 million to 1.5 million seafarers and marine workers are out on the seas around our country and across the oceans of the world, with many of them living in appalling conditions, perhaps working for months on end without pay and very often without proper fresh water or food. Obviously, when they come into ports which adhere to reasonable civilised standards,...

Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 May 2009)

Tommy Broughan: ...flexibility to operate as successfully and dynamically as possible. I therefore welcome these changes to enhance the borrowing powers of national ports, with reference to the figure of €200 million with the consent of the Minister and that 50% of the company or subsidiary assets can be treated as fixed assets. These financial changes are also necessary for the Drogheda-Bremore...

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (22 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: ...access to public transport and taxis in view of the decision in the supplementary budget on 7 April 2009 to cut a programme to improve accessibility for disabled persons to public transport by €5 million; his position on the commitment in the programme for Government 2007 to have 100% wheelchair accessible taxis in all cities by 2010 in view of the fact that wheelchair accessible taxis...

Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: ...is something the Tánaiste should be profoundly aware of because the tumbril is coming for her and the Government. This budget marks a watershed and the public will feel the need for vengeance on 5 June and on any other date the Government decides to seek a mandate. I did not have the opportunity over the six or seven months of this intense financial crisis to make the point that this...

Strategic Development Zones. (5 Mar 2009)

Tommy Broughan: ...I proposed the local informal stakeholders' body, the North Fringe Forum, which tries to invigilate the vast new north fringe development. The forum is concerned with a development of potentially 25,000 to 30,000 housing units and ancillary commercial development which is easily the largest such development in the history of the State. However, unlike much smaller areas like Adamstown,...