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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 93. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the actions she will take in tandem with the newly established Child and Family Agency to reduce and ultimately eliminate the number of Irish children placed in residential care outside of Ireland who are detained under special care orders and therefore provide the necessary care and supports to these children in this jurisdiction. [53792/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Uniforms (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the completion of the proposed survey of parents on school uniforms; the level of consultation that has taken place with retailers or manufacturers of school uniforms and their employees’ representatives prior to the circular on the matter being published. [53780/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Establishment (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 518. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if public health nurses are excluded from the remit of the Child and Family Agency; if she will be liaising with the Department of Health to introduce reforms in the public health nursing system to support public health nurses in their vital role as the first point of contact with many families and potentially assisting the provision of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Strategy Implementation (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 519. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the Early Years strategy will be compiled following the publication of the report of the expert group on the Early Years strategy. [54040/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 589. To ask the Minister for Health if a national vision strategy will be developed by his Department in view of research which indicates that blindness is preventable for the majority of sufferers. [54064/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 584. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will be liaising with the Health Information and Quality Authority to ensure that a full and thorough investigation is carried out following complaints made about certain incidents of concern in an organisation (details supplied) working with persons with intellectual disabilities. [54037/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 585. To ask the Minister for Health the number of facilities providing services to persons with intellectual disabilities inspected by the Health Information and Quality Authority since the new inspection regime for such facilities became operational in November 2013. [54039/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 590. To ask the Minister for Health the number of temporary employments in the Health Service Executive for which a company (details supplied) has recruited the successful applicants in the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013. [54066/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 592. To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure incurred by the Health Service Executive in engaging the services of a company (details supplied) in the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013. [54069/13]

Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (18 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: The Bill before us has major implications for the thousands of homeowners who have been or may be affected by pyrite damage. I must say at the outset that I am disappointed by the amount of time allocated to debate the Bill in the House, particularly that allocated for the next stage. The approach taken by the Government to the ordering of Dáil business this week is pretty shocking....

Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (18 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: We heard 60,000.

Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (18 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: From the lads who built them.

Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (18 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: What about legislation in the public interest? The Minister could have done it.

Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (18 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: We did it with the banks.

Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (18 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: There was no agreement with the banks. We forced them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (18 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 30. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 178 of 13 November 2013, the actions being taken and that will be taken to ensure that citizens requiring long-term residential care are provided with appropriate care and supports as expediently as possible. [53983/13]

Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I speak on behalf of the others, the social democrats-----

Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: -----and Labour Party Members of this House who are bitterly opposed to the travesty that is taking place today. There are 73 amendments, one of which is in my name.

Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I am not trying to impress anybody but to stop this legislation, this outrage, the intention behind which is to sell off billions of euro worth of assets and tee up the water service for privatisation.