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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Service Provision (19 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 408. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when a decision will be made by RTÉ to move all children’s programming to RTEjr from RTÉ Two. [49393/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Service Provision (19 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 409. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the recent closure of Dublin Community TV. [49398/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Public Broadcasting Charge Introduction (19 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 410. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he will make an announcement on the details of the broadcasting levy consultation process. [49401/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (19 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 474. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the regulatory procedures in place to control private waste operators; if there is any mechanism in place to require private waste operators to seek approval in advance on whether they may increase the price and collection practices for their waste collection services. [49412/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (19 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 536. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if an earned regularisation scheme for undocumented migrants currently living in Ireland, for example, based on a points system, will be included in the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill. [49513/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (19 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 537. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will bring forward a regularisation scheme for undocumented migrants here similar to the undocumented workers scheme bridging visa that was in place from October to December 2009; if there are other schemes planned to address the plight of the estimated 30,000 so called undocumented individuals, including children and families, who have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 691. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of patients waiting for all types of surgery, including elective surgery, based on the following timeframes: one to three months; three to six months; greater than six months; greater than nine months; and more than one year in St. James’s Hospital, Dublin 8. [49387/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 693. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of patients waiting for all types of surgery, including elective surgery, based on the following timeframes: one to three months; three to six months; greater than six months; greater than nine months; and more than one year in Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24. [49391/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 694. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of patients waiting for all types of surgery, including elective surgery, based on the following timeframes: one to three months; three to six months; greater than six months; greater than nine months; and more than one year in the Mater Hospital, Dublin 7 [49392/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 702. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of patients waiting for all types of surgery, including elective surgery, based on the following timeframes: one to three months; three to six months; greater than six months; greater than nine months; and more than one year in St. Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin 4 [49442/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 692. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of patients waiting for all types of surgery, including elective surgery, based on the following timeframes: one to three months; three to six months; greater than six months; greater than nine months; and more than one year in Connolly hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15. [49390/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 701. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of patients waiting for all types of surgery, including elective surgery, based on the following timeframes: one to three months; three to six months; greater than six months; greater than nine months; and more than one year in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9 [49441/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Recruitment (19 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 696. To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of the importance of early diagnosis and timely medical intervention for sufferers of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, he will provide resources to appoint specialists in this field in Dublin and Cork because there is currently no dedicated specialist in the field in the State. [49405/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (19 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 697. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of applications made to the treatment abroad scheme by sufferers of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome for each year from 2003 to date in 2013; the number of those applications approved and refused. [49406/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Rare Diseases Strategy Implementation (19 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 698. To ask the Minister for Health if EU Council recommendation of 8 June 2009 on an action in the field of rare diseases (2009/C 151/02) is being implemented by his Department and the Health Service Executive in regard to Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. [49415/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (19 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 699. To ask the Minister for Health if Ehlers-Danlos syndrome will be recognised, as a long-term illness, as required under a EU Council recommendation of 8 June 2009 on an action in the field of rare diseases 2009/C 151/02. [49416/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 700. To ask the Minister for Health if there were dedicated resources and specialist staff treating patients with Ehlers-Danlos sydrome at Tallaght hospital, Dublin 24 in the past decade or so; and if it is the case that those resources were withdrawn as part of cuts to the health budget in recent years. [49417/13]

Order of Business (20 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: The pyrite levy Bill is still on the clár. Did the Taoiseach inform the House that it would not proceed? On the housing Bill, the Taoiseach may be aware from conversations with Government Deputies that public housing provision in the Dublin City Council area has collapsed and that the rental accommodation scheme is simply not working. We have an increasing number of homeless...

Order of Business (20 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: Will the Taoiseach take a hands-on approach to it?

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Tommy Broughan: Looking at the euphoric faces of some Government Deputies last week when the announcement was made about the exit from the troika programme on 15 December, I was reminded of Martin Luther King's great speech at the Lincoln Memorial in August 1969, when he said "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!". However, we are not free at last. We are not free and will...