Results 7,701-7,720 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Warmer Homes Scheme Data (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of applicants who have applied for the warmer homes schemes to date in 2013; if he will provide a breakdown of the number of applications which have been approved, refused and those which are pending. [28343/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Order Offences (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 171. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will request a report from the Garda Commissioner regarding riots (details supplied) in County Dublin; the number of persons arrested; the amount of alcohol seized; and the number of juveniles who came to the Garda Síochána's attention. [28336/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 172. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he is satisfied that the law is sufficiently robust to deal with gangs who are involved in the theft of clothes from charity clothes banks and who have caused damage to the clothes banks; the number of prosecutions, if any, that have taken place in each of the past three years against persons apprehended for theft or damage of this kind....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 173. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the Garda Operation Headrest; the number of persons arrested and charged in line with this operation; the number of successful convictions secured to date; if the operation is still ongoing. [28338/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 174. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the full cost to the Exchequer of training an additional 250, 500, 750 and 1000 members of An Garda Síochána. [28339/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Divisional Policing Plans (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 175. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Garda divisional policing plans for 2013 will be published on the website of An Garda Síochána, particularly the Policing Plan for the Dublin Metropolitan Region Northern Division; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28340/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Stardust Fire Issues (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 176. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will lay the Report of the Independent Examination of the Stardust Victims Committee's Case for a Reopened Inquiry into the Stardust Fire Disaster as originally drafted and submitted to his Department by Mr. Paul Coffey S.C. before Dail Éireann [28341/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 198. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in Dublin currently availing of the free pre-school year; and the number of children availing of the scheme in each year since the establishment of the scheme. [28344/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 199. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is satisfied with the level of security measures in place at the children detention schools in view of recent reports that a number of children have absconded from the Oberstown complex. [28345/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Services Provision (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 200. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on her Department's progress in establishing the National Assessment Consultation and Therapy Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28346/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Sale of Strategic Energy Assets (13 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: The most coherent opposition.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Charges Review (13 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: The next two Topical Issues are for the Minister for Health, but we do not have the Minister for Health.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Charges Review (13 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: It is unacceptable that the Minister for Health is not here. We are expected to argue for the abolition of Seanad Éireann yet Ministers are not prepared to attend a Topical Issues debate. That is absolutely unacceptable. It is something we must take up with the Ceann Comhairle and with the House. I will suspend the sitting for five minutes to get the Minister for Health.

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Home Services (13 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I expected to have the Minister for Health here in view of recent discussions we had on the Order of Business and elsewhere. However, I thank the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Brian Hayes, for being prepared to respond to these debates. I call Deputy Eamonn Maloney.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Restorative Justice (13 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 15. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the current operation of the Garda Diversion Programme; the current level of funding provided to the programme; his views on whether the use of restorative justice processes are being expanded in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28220/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (13 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 34. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide, in tabular form on an annual basis for the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013, the number of applications that have been made to his Department for working student visas; the number of these applications that have been successful; if he is concerned that individuals employed on working student visas may be displacing other...

Access to the Countryside Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I warmly congratulate Deputy Dowds on producing this fine legislation. It contains innovative measures which, if enacted, would bring a new dimension to access to land in this country. I commend him on the work he carried out to produce the Bill and on the valuable briefing he sent to Deputies outlining the case for reform of the law relating to access to land. As a walker and a resident...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Operations (18 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 16. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of incidents for which the services of the army bomb disposal unit were required in the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; if he will provide examples of incidents that the unit have dealt with in the first half of this year. [28709/13]

Other Questions: Defence Forces Operations (18 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive report. I believe he would join with me in commending the explosive ordnance disposal teams of the Defence Forces on their outstanding courage and bravery, as well as their technical ability as outlined by the Minister. I presume that in recent days those teams have been standing by. The Minister has mentioned what the teams deal with and in my...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Representation (18 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I strongly agree with Deputy Ó Fearghaíl. The request for associate membership of ICTU is a reasonable one. In the recent Croke Park II and Haddington Road negotiations, there was a disquiet among members of the security forces regarding the State's major economic developments and the fact that such important servants of the State were not given a direct input into the decisions...