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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (27 Feb 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 287 of 5 November 2013, if applied behavioural analysis is used in the 76 early intervention classes for children with autism provided in recognised primary and special schools; and if ABA is used in some of these classes, if he will specify the number of schools using this method. [10081/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Provision (27 Feb 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 287 of 5 November 2013, the number of children with autism between the ages of two and a half and four years receiving a home tuition grant for early intervention services in the years 2011, 2012 and 2013; and the amount spent on this specific scheme in each of those years. [10082/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (27 Feb 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has reviewed recent correspondence from an organisation (details supplied); and if a reply will be issuing to the organisation to address the issues outlined in the correspondence. [10083/14]

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: On a point of order, is the script of this speech available?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (4 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 346. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his position on the potential role the horse racing industry could have in supporting equine welfare; and his views on imposing a levy on the industry to support organisations working with abandoned and mistreated horses. [10663/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Penalty Points Working Group (4 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 516. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 18 February 2014, if he will confirm that his Department will be taking the lead on the work of the penalty points working group; if he will provide details of the further issues to be examined by the group in the next phase of its work; when the next phase of the group's work is due to be...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 8. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is satisfied with the current appeals process operated by the Social Welfare Appeals Office; if she will reform the process in order to promote efficiency in having appeals decided and reduce appeal waiting times; and if she would consider putting the office on a statutory basis. [10338/14]

Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: In January, the Minister supplied me with detailed figures on the appeals process. I noted that it is a quasi-judicial process and that she had increased the staff to 41 to address the 38,000 appeals last year. Is there not still grave dissatisfaction with the appeals process? As her predecessor as social welfare spokesperson, I urged that the system be put on a statutory basis and given...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: They are the Minister's policies.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: Some of the others.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: The fact remains that we are talking about an average time of more than six months for a summary decision and eight or nine months for a decision after an oral hearing. I acknowledge that it used to take longer than a year. To take one of the headings under which the Minister answered me in January, domiciliary care allowance, DCA, for 2012 and 2013, I note that just over half were granted...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: What people fear is that the appeals process is used as a mechanism to deter them from making applications in the first place and that it is in thrall to wider public economic policy. In the case of the Government, the fact that it has a public policy on social welfare expenditure which the Minister's Fine Gael colleagues insisted on having makes it impossible to have true reform while the...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: More people would be at work if we did not have the national debt.

Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: What is the status of the Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill? Will it include the right to collective bargaining, as the Labour Party insisted it should?

Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: In his long speech yesterday, the Taoiseach announced the construction programme. Can he confirm it will include a social housing programme? A theme common to all the Deputies who have had a chance to speak on the Government programme has been the incredible seriousness of the housing crisis. Even The Irish Times, which was a cheerleader for the abuses in the housing market up to the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 18. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding proposals to introduce a housing assistance payment and thereby transfer recipients of rent supplement from her Department to local authorities. [10339/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount the Revenue Commissioners spent on external specialist advice in the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will provide a list of the companies that provided such services to the Revenue Commissioners in those years [11162/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount his Department spent on external specialist advice in 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will list the companies that provided such services to his Department in those years. [11163/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Applications (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 82. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the applications received by his Department from Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council in respect of flooding damage including the amount requested; if he will further provide a list of the proposed remedial works and details of the damage done to the areas for which funding was...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Data (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 152. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of additional vehicles in the fleet of An Garda Síochána fitted with automatic number plate recognition in the years 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014. [11165/14]