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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (15 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 719. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department collates statistics on the number of children who are or have been in the care of the State who have entered the criminal justice system and are or have been detained in Oberstown or St. Patrick’s Institution. [55581/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Services Provision (15 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 720. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 386 of 3 December 2013, the number of additional staff that will be deployed to the adoption information and tracing service to address the task of organising and storing files transferred from former adoption societies and mother and baby homes to the State; when these appointments will be made; and...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services (15 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 730. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if child protection social workers will operate a service 24 hours a day seven days per week under the remit of the newly established Child and Family Agency. [1676/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (15 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 800. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 484 of 10 December 2013, when a decision will be made on the appropriate strategy to be employed by the Health Service Executive in the provision of orthotics and prosthetics, addressing specific issues of concern which have already been identified by the HSE regarding the provision of such services. [1007/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (15 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 801. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 484 of 10 December 2013, if he intends to initiate regulations or legislation in the area of the provision of orthotics and prosthetic services; the actions that he will take to address potential issues of safety and clinical governance that arise due to the multiplicity of companies now supplying limbs. [1008/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (15 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 909. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the regulation of electronic cigarettes; and if he will provide details of the nature of the regulation that will be proposed. [1749/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly Provision (15 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 898. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a specific timeframe for the transfer of the elderly day care service from Beaumont Hospital to St. Joseph’s, Raheny, Dublin 5; and if he will confirm that the new service in St. Joseph’s will operate five days per week. [1673/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (15 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 899. To ask the Minister for Health further to parliamentary question No. 590 of 17 December 2013 if he will provide details of the various health professionals with a breakdown based on the profession of each person employed, engaged via a company (details supplied) by the Health Service Executive under the heading Allied Health Professionals in 2011, 2012 and 2013. [1675/14]

Order of Business (16 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: Will the proposed foreshore management legislation go through the Oireachtas before any permission is given to the Dublin Array? As the Tánaiste knows, permissions for inshore windmills were given by the former Ministers, Noel Dempsey and Frank Fahey. The Dublin Array profoundly affects the constituency of the Ceann Comhairle and the Tánaiste, as well as my own constituency, due...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Availability (16 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 10. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 147 and 171 of 26 November 2013, if he will provide an up-to-date report on the work of officials in his Department and their counterparts in Germany to progress the establishment of a mechanism so that the German development bank, KfW, can begin lending to businesses here; if a potential value on the level of...

Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I echo Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh's comments about the housing (miscellaneous provisions) Bill. When will the remedial works programme for 2014 be announced? Approximately 30 years ago, Dr. Garrett FitzGerald approved the first tranche of funding to redesign Darndale estate in Dublin Bay North. We are still working on it and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Welfare Service Provision (21 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions being taken by his Department to address the findings and recommendations contained in the recently published investigation by the Ombudsman for Children’s office entitled A statement based on an investigation into provision by the Department of Education and Skills and the HSE for a child in care, particularly the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (21 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 131 of 19 December 2013, if a specific mechanism can be built into the online application system for Student Universal Support Ireland in order that students making an application for a student maintenance grant will be automatically prompted by the system of the third level institutions which are not...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (21 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 187. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in Pakistan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2660/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Bond Issues (21 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 215. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government has provided all required information to his Department on bonds held by local authorities with the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; and if he will indicate the status of these bonds. [2588/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Social Housing Provision (21 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 219. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the way the special purpose vehicle established by the National Asset Management Agency has resulted in expediting the allocation of suitable units to social housing providers; and the number of units that have been transferred to approved housing bodies and local authorities since the NAPRS was established. [2785/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (21 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the position regarding the review of the visiting teacher service for visually impaired children; and to confirm that the service will not be subject to cuts following the review. [2583/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies Numbers (21 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 293. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 22 of 9 October 2013, if he will provide an update on the level of rationalisation that has taken place in State bodies; and the current status of the mergers of the Valuation Office, the Property Registration Authority, Ordnance Survey Ireland, State Laboratory and the Forensic Science...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Assist Scheme (21 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 357. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of participants in the JobBridge scheme for the years 2012 and 2013 based on the eligibility criteria for the scheme detailing the number of participants who were in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance, jobseeker’s benefit, one parent family payment, disability allowance and those signing for social...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Part-Time Job Incentive Scheme (21 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 356. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person is in part-time employment only but is not entitled to claim jobseeker’s benefit, that person may sign for social insurance contribution credits and, therefore, become eligible for the JobBridge scheme. [2584/14]