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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (5 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his paln to change the manner in which special needs assistants are allocated to schools based on the overall schools’ needs rather than on each individual pupil’s diagnosis; and if such changes are put in place, if it can be ensured that the special educational needs of each child in primary schools in the State can be...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Funding (5 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 653. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the timeline for approval of departmental funding to Dublin City Council to enable a regeneration project (details supplied) in Dublin 17 to commence so that new homes can be built in the area. [45718/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (5 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 733. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions No. 1086 of 18 September 2013 and No. 426 of 8 October 2013, the steps he will be taking with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, in view of the information available to him on the rate of enforcement of section 63 of the Road Traffic Act 2010 so that the enforcement rate can be improved on a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (5 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 800. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff working in the National Vetting Bureau at present; the overall number employed by the Bureau last year; when additional staff announced as part of the measures in Budget 2014 will be allocated to the unit. [46585/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Witness Protection Programme (5 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 801. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the budget allocation to the Garda witness programme in the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013. [46586/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (5 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 802. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have applied for asylum in the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the number of asylum applications approved and refused during that period; and if he will provide the number of persons currently residing in the direct provision system. [46591/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (5 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 803. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the rate of enforcement of the speed limit on roads here by An Garda Síochána in the years 2012 and to date in 2013; and if he will provide a breakdown of the number of motorists detected having exceeded the speed limit in each of the Garda districts. [46592/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (5 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 807. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of fireworks seized by gardaí in the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the monetary value of the fireworks seized in each of those years; the number of persons arrested and charged in respect of possession or misuse of fireworks; and the number of convictions obtained in respect of such offences. [46650/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (5 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 825. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the number of non-nationals who have acquired citizenship in the State since the year 2008 on the basis of their entry to the State that is an application for asylum; application for subsidiary protection; application for a stamp 2 visa; application for stamp 4 visa; and any other method of entry into the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on Children's Rights (5 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 985. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the third and fourth State reports have been finalised and sent to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child; and, if not, when the reports will be finalised [45715/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (5 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 1000. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide, in tabular form for the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013, the number of children in the care of the State; and if she will provide a breakdown of the care orders which underpinned the first placement of these children in care in each of those years, including voluntary care orders, emergency care orders, interim...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Social Work Staff (5 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 1001. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social workers employed in the Community Care Area 8 in the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the number of vacant posts in this area at present; and if these vacancies will be filled as soon as possible. [46614/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (5 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 1042. To ask the Minister for Health the health sevices and supports that are in place to support children and adults who have been diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome [45717/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (5 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 1240. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has an upright MRI scanner in its possession to facilitate MRI scans to take place on patients who, due to an underlying medical condition, are unable to lie still to undergo a scan in a regular MRI scanner and who instead would be better suited to using an upright scanner [46985/13]

Retirement of Head Usher (6 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: On behalf of the "others", could I make a few remarks?

Retirement of Head Usher (6 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: On behalf of the "others", and a number of us sitting on the benches here, I would also like to thank Tom warmly for his service over the past 35 years or so. It is fair to say he has always been a good friend of mine. As the Ceann Comhairle knows, Deputies cherish deeply the support system provided by the Oireachtas staff, Oireachtas commission staff and, indeed, the ushers. Very often,...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Operations (6 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 15. To ask the Minister for Defence his views on recent reports that Anders Fogh Rasmussen has called on European countries to step up efforts towards co-operation on defence matters. [46641/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Overseas Missions (6 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 29. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report to Dáil Éireann on the deployment of the 43rd infantry group of the Irish Defence Forces in the Golan Heights in Syria; the missions the Irish Defence Forces have been involved in to date in Syria; and the date on which it is expected that those members of the Defence Forces will return home. [46640/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (6 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who paid the domicile levy in 2012 and to date in 2013; the sum collected for the Exchequer from this levy in those periods; the number of persons who have declared themselves as non-resident in the State for tax purposes during those periods. [47309/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Wind Energy Generation (6 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 106. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources how his Department will encourage and attract businesses to commence operations in respect of building wind turbines in the State, either the key elements or the complete structure, to obviate the need to import materials from outside Ireland for the construction of wind turbines. [47308/13]