Results 8,541-8,560 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 172. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 569 of 26 November 2013, the progress of the negotiations taking place between the Health Service Executive and Holles Street, St. Brigid’s and St. Patrick Guild on the transfer of adoption files; and when these files will be released to the Health Service Executive. [11168/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Staffing (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 188. To ask the Minister for Health the number of posts currently vacant in the accident and emergency department of Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9. [11156/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 189. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to refurbish Edenmore Health Centre, Dublin 5. [11160/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Sites (6 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 165. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the sites that have been selected as potentially suitable to apply for recognition as UNESCO world heritage sites from his Departments tentative list; and following the recent seminar held by his Departmental officials with local authorities, if the Howth Peninsula, Baldoyle Bay and the Velvet Strand will be added to the Irish list...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Social Workers Recruitment (6 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 203. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the current number of social workers posts that are vacant; and when these posts will be filled. [11430/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Work Placement Programmes (6 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 204. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her position on the proposal to put a graduate placement programme in place to fill social worker vacancies in a situation where the proposed graduate recruits could be in receipt of lower salaries than social workers who are not part of the programme. [11431/14]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Construction Sector Strategy (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 43. To ask the Taoiseach when it is expected that the plan on the future of construction, particularly in the area of building new housing units, will be published. [12094/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Construction Sector Strategy (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the fact that only approximately 8,000 housing units were built here in 2012 and only a further 8,000 housing units were built in 2013 and that he has cited that an estimated minimum of 25,000 housing units per annum are required this year and in the coming years, the target for housing construction in 2014, 2015 and 2016. [12095/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Construction Sector Strategy (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of homes in the private sector which are required over the next three years to address the ongoing housing crisis. [12096/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 94 of 27 February 2014, if he will reconcile his reply that it is a matter for schools to determine the approach or mix of approaches which they will use with the Department’s policy document entitled Model A which includes the requirement that the class teacher would receive ABA training prior to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 94 of 27 February 2014, if he will clarify the reason information is not available on whether ABA is used in early intervention classes for children with autism and the extent to which it is used in view of the fact that schools providing these classes are in receipt of departmental funding and would be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 94 of 27 February 2014, if he will clarify his reply that it is a matter for schools to determine the approach or mix of approaches which they will use and explain whether it is the board of management, the principal or the class teacher in a given school that ultimately has legal responsibility for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the requirement detailed in his Department’s policy document entitled Model A, that there would be advice and supervision from an ABA specialist made available to the class teacher, is actually in place and operational in schools educating children with autism. [12045/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that he has read the report dated 5 September 2005 prepared by an international expert and selected by his Department and if he has specifically read the specific extracts from experts (details supplied) included in that report that relate to two pieces of research; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12046/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 93 of 27 February 2014, if he will clarify if professionals, other than teachers, registering with the Teaching Council to comply with Circular 0006/2013 on the home tuition scheme for 2013 to 2014 are only permitted to be registered for a limited period of time, for example, a period of three years....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Expenditure (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 195. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the €70 million fund to assist persons affected by the severe weather from 13 December 2013 to 6 January 2014 is exclusively for local authorities; if he has examined the problem of incidences of spot flooding whereby there are some incidences of flooding affecting a small number of homes in a particular area and if it has...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Proposed Legislation (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 201. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to the statement by the Taoiseach on the Order of Business on 5 March 2014 in relation to the Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill, if he will confirm whether the Bill will contain the fundamental right for employees to collective bargaining in the workplace. [12093/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 263. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the forms of assistance that are being provided to persons affected by flooding and the severe weather in December 2013 and January 2014 from the Department’s humanitarian assistance fund of €25 million which was recently allocated by the Government. [12024/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 334. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when it is expected that the plan on the future of the social housing programme, particularly in the area of building new housing units, will be published. [12094/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 335. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that the Minister of State with responsibility for housing has recently published figures which show that there are approximately 90,000 people on social housing waiting lists, the target for housing construction in 2014 to 2016, inclusive. [12095/14]