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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Imports (13 Feb 2013)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of beef, poultry, lamb and other meat products that were imported into Ireland in 2008, 2009, 2010; 2011, and 2012; if he will also indicate the reason for these level of imports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7695/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Exports (13 Feb 2013)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses and ponies including thoroughbreds that were exported in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7697/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Feedstuffs (13 Feb 2013)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proportion of horse meat goes into the production of prepared meat dishes and nuts for dogs and other prepared foods sold for dogs through supermarkets and shops; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7698/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horsemeat Issues (13 Feb 2013)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that no thoroughbred or champion racehorses and jumpers or other Irish horses and ponies entered the Irish foodchain or were exported as horse meat;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7699/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Policy (13 Feb 2013)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the manner in which checks are carried out by social workers to ensure that individuals nominated as referees for foster parent applicants are persons of good character and that they in fact themselves are in a position to provide references as to the good character of the applicant foster parents; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Crèche Facilities (13 Feb 2013)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide details of any Health Service Executive correspondence with creche facilities in the Dublin north east area related to payment of subsidised creche places and any alterations to the funding arrangement for HSE places in local facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7689/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation (13 Feb 2013)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Health the planned dates for the opening of four monitoring beds for epilepsy patients in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin and the opening of a two bed epilepsy monitoring unit in Cork University Hospital in consideration of the estimate spend of €900,000 to provide these units which are currently not available to treat epilepsy sufferers. [7646/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Goods Regulation (13 Feb 2013)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to designate branded drugs to treat epilepsy, anti-epileptic drugs, as exempted drugs for generic substitution in the forthcoming Health (Pricing & Supply of Medical Goods) Bill in view of the benefits for epilepsy sufferers of continuing to take the branded drugs that have been prescribed to them. [7647/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (13 Feb 2013)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the impact on both the Exchequer and private highway operators of reduced traffic volumes on tolled sections of the national road network; his views that high traffic volumes on these sections are preferable, from a financial standpoint, to both the Exchequer and private highway operators; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (13 Feb 2013)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the working group that has been established to review speed limits has received any representation from civic society and community groups, for example, cyclist or pedestrian groups and road safety campaigners; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7643/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Television Reception (14 Feb 2013)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when TG4 HD will begin airing on Saorview and Sky; the reason there has not been a public review of TG4 HD which TG4 SD will continue to exist on satellite and cable platforms; if he will report on the amount of content TG4 intends to aid in HD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7997/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Value for Money Reviews (14 Feb 2013)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he will carry out the next value for money reviews of all semi-State bodies under his remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7999/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Stardust Fire Issues (14 Feb 2013)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm that there were earlier versions of the 2009 Coffey Report that was prepared by Mr Paul Coffey S.C. into the Stardust Disaster of 1981; the reason the earlier report was not published; if that earlier report made different inferences or findings to the published report which was placed before Dáil Éireann; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Stardust Fire Issues (14 Feb 2013)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to whether any key evidence in the 1982 Keane Tribunal Report was subsequently withdrawn in the years leading to the 2009 Coffey Report or the Stardust Disaster of February 1981; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7868/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Graduate Medicine Programme Places (14 Feb 2013)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the issue of a lack of an adequate number of places for medical school graduates to undertake internships in hospitals here in order that graduates will be in line with the legal requirement of Irish medical schools that graduates have practised here; and if he will be providing for an adequate number of intern places to be made available...

Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)

Tommy Broughan: On the horse racing Bill, which is due this year, has the Taoiseach spoken to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Coveney, about the welfare of horses-----

Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)

Tommy Broughan: -----given that the Minister does not have fundamental basic statistics, for example, on the number of horses slaughtered and exported?

Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)

Tommy Broughan: This is an important issue.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Legislation (19 Feb 2013)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has had discussions with the Department of Justice and Equality on the implementation of section 63 of the 2010 Road Traffic Act in District Courts; if he is considering any other measures to ensure the robustness of the system to endorse the licences of motorists who have incurred penalty points for driving offences; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: EU Transport Network (19 Feb 2013)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the recent cutting of the EU transport networks budget; if he will outline the impact on transport projects here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8392/13]