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Order of Business (22 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Will the Minister be making a statement in the House in respect of PPPs, particularly as there has been a call for a new tranche of PPPs in the area of transport? Will we be obliged to wait until the budget to discover what is the position?

Climate Change and Energy Security: Statements (22 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: What about the energy conservation programme?

Climate Change and Energy Security: Statements (22 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: I congratulate the Minister on his appointment. This is the first opportunity I have had to face him across the floor of the House. Obviously the general tenor of his speech was an attempt to convince the country of the importance of this issue and it is critically important to our civilisation. An element of his speech defends the purchasing of carbon credits. When he was on this side of...

Climate Change and Energy Security: Statements (22 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: My feeling at the time, certainly in respect of the Minister's party leader, Deputy Gormley, was that he was gravely concerned about it because he felt it would reduce the importance of convincing people of the need to change their habits in regard to energy use. He has significantly modified what was his position in the past.

Climate Change and Energy Security: Statements (22 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: I congratulate the Minister on the introduction of smart metres. The deficiency in his speech is that I do not get a sense, after six months in Government, of somebody laying out a programme of significant actions, for what may well be a short enough Government, across the energy and transport areas which would begin to meet our commitments and lead our people in a way is environmentally...

Farmers' Markets. (22 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her attention has been drawn to a recent Bord Bia report in which it is stated that 29% of respondents to a survey indicated that they source local food from local farmers' markets; her views on the need to ensure local producers will be encouraged to grow their market locally; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (27 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the discussions that have been held within the European Council of Ministers with regard to a prisoner (details supplied) whose case has received the support of European institutions previously; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30898/07]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (27 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the cost in 2008 of reducing the top rate of income tax by 1%. [30717/07]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (27 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Question 153: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the cost in 2008 of delivering commitments he made to the people here on taxation reform during the immediate run-up to the general election 2007. [30718/07]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (27 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the recently appointed community ophthalmologist at Rathdown Road Clinic has not been permitted to take up the post due to the Health Service Executive recruitment embargo. [30719/07]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Question 557: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make a statement on her Departments funding for a rebuilt primary school (details supplied) in Dublin 5 which was due to commence early in 2008. [31208/07]

Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: With regard to No. 14a on the Order Paper, why is there no Supplementary Estimate for health, given the kind of blockages we have in the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire and the lack of packages for seniors who are stroke victims and who have other major problems? Last night we had to listen to a half hour of obfuscation from the Minister for Health and Children who never...

Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: ——on any of these kinds of issues. She does not have any views on key policy matters.

Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: I am asking the Taoiseach. I may have to go to Deputy Cyprian Brady with the matter as he seems to be the only person who can deliver any kind of progress in the health area.

Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: He is not even a Minister.

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (28 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Question 86: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he will bring proposals to Government providing for the regulation of employment agencies, in order to ensure equality of treatment for agency workers; his views on whether this is an urgent matter as Ireland is one of only four EU countries which has failed to provide legislation for equal treatment of such workers...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (28 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the serious concern expressed by SIPTU, at the growing use of labour agencies by employers as a substitute for directly recruiting staff; the steps he is taking to put procedures in place to ensure that such workers receive the full protection of labour law and are not subject to...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (28 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Question 127: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people that are currently employed at chief executive officer grade, assistant CEO grade, general manager grade, assistant general manager grade and grade eight in the Health Service Executive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31382/07]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Question 163: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the availability of home care packages, especially in area 8. [31611/07]

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (28 Nov 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Question 260: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of warrants that are outstanding in each Garda division; the breakdown on the outstanding warrants for each division in terms of bench warrants, committal warrants and penal warrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31381/07]