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Order of Business (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: Given that we have so much time that the Chief Whip does not bother to fill, will we have a chance to discuss the Minister's plans for the junior certificate, the way he has tried to change it and the general unhappiness of the teaching profession?

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: As stated, there is an over-reliance by the Minister of State, Deputy O'Sullivan, and her Department on the private sector to plug the incredible gap in the lack of supply of social housing. This problem is particularly acute in the context of the rental accommodation scheme, RAS. For example, as the Minister of State will be aware, in Dublin city the RAS has collapsed. I have been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Procurement Contracts Social Clause (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of long-term unemployed persons who have been employed as part of the initiative led by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform under the devolved schools building programme, design and build framework, administered by the National Development Finance Agency on behalf of his Department. [15782/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Procurement Contracts Social Clause (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projects under the devolved schools building programme, design and build framework, administered by the National Development Finance Agency on behalf of the Department of Education and Skills, that are hiring a certain percentage of construction workers from the cohort of persons on the live register who are long-term unemployed; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Social Clause (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 93. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when it is expected that the pilot project of hiring a certain percentage of long term unemployed persons and apprentices in public projects, which is currently taking place under the devolved schools build programme design and build framework, administered by the National Development Finance Agency on behalf of the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Procurement Contracts Social Clause (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 102. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has been liaising with the Departments of Public Expenditure and Reform and Social Protection to develop opportunities for long-term unemployed persons and apprentices to work on public construction projects. [15783/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Procurement Contracts Social Clause (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 114. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has been liaising with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to increase the number of unemployed construction workers and apprentices who could benefit from having a social clause in public procurement contracts. [15782/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 248. To ask the Minister for Health of the proposed additional 30 early intervention teams to be reconfigured this year for children with special educational needs requiring assessments by speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and other professionals; where and when these new reconfigured teams will be put in place. [15784/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 249. To ask the Minister for Health when an early intervention team will be put in place for the Dublin region, particularly in north Dublin; the number of staff that will be working under this team or teams. [15785/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 250. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that will be taken to assess children with special educational needs, including speech difficulties, who have been subject to lengthy delays in receiving assessments by early intervention teams due to the absence of such teams in some areas, including Dublin; and if there will be additional personnel employed in the medium term to deal with the...

Wind Turbine Regulation Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I warmly welcome the Wind Turbine Regulation Bill 2014 and commend Deputies Colreavy, Stanley and Ferris of the Sinn Féin Party for initiating the Bill. I strongly agree with the Bill's general principles and particularly the proposed set-back distance for the construction of wind turbines contained in section 6 and the enhanced role of county development plans. Section 2 is an...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Ombudsman Issues (8 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 17. To ask the Minister for Finance his proposals for legislative reform of the manner in which the Financial Services Ombudsman operates, including an increased levy on industry to fund a more comprehensive FSO which can respond to consumer needs. [15983/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Banking Sector (8 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 39. To ask the Minister for Finance his position on retaining the State's shares in Bank of Ireland, Allied Irish Bank and Permanent TSB. [15984/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Funding (8 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons affected by the abolition of the additional training allowance of €20 per week under Budget 2014 for those participating in SOLAS and Youthreach training programmes and VTOS training and education courses. [16374/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Funding (8 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has assessed the impact of the abolition of the additional training allowance of €20 per week under Budget 2014 for those participating in SOLAS and Youthreach training programmes and VTOS training and education courses on those affected by this measure, particularly on their ability to continue to participate in these...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (8 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 299. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out her position on the ongoing difficulties with the Irish aviation superannuation scheme; and if her Department has been examining any proposals to address these difficulties. [16376/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Accommodation Provision (8 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 422. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 751 of 25 March 2014, if prisoners on remand under 18 years of age will continue to be detained in St. Patrick’s Institution pending the completion of building works at Oberstown House, Lusk, County Dublin; or if arrangements are being made to detain prisoners on remand under 18 years of age in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Residential Institutions Issues (8 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 524. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 12 of 27 March 2014, when the national review of residential care currently being undertaken by the Child and Family Agency is due to be completed. [16089/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (8 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 525. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 15 of 27 March 2014, the amount of expenditure incurred for commercial storage facilities to store adoption records transferred from adoption agencies to the Health Service Executive and the Child Family Agency in the years 2010 to 2013, inclusive, and to date in 2014. [16090/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (8 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 526. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 15 of 27 March 2014, the assistance sought by the Child and Family Agency from the National Archive; if this assistance was in the form of staff secondment or otherwise from the National Archive; and if these services which have been provided or are being provided involve a cost being incurred by the...