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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (16 Jul 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 328. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 623 to 625 of 01 July 2014, if he will clarify what is meant by the waiting time of approximately five weeks for a special care placement; if this period of waiting time relates to the time between a determination having been made by the national special care admission and discharge committee in...

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Housing Provision (17 Jul 2014)

Tommy Broughan: First, I take the opportunity to warmly congratulate the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, on his appointment as Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government and to wish him well. Today, I appeal to him to take all steps necessary to urgently address the severe housing crisis, in this city and in the country, being experienced by more than 100,000 of our fellow citizens and to...

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Housing Provision (17 Jul 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I am glad the Minister has met the county managers. Will he meet at an early date with the 31 directors of housing in all local authorities to explain to them the targets he has in mind? I know there are issues around getting funding off the Government’s balance sheet and that some decision was taken on this at the first new Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Will any building programmes...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Prices (17 Jul 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 21. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures being taken by his Department to tackle the problem of fuel poverty. [31512/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls (17 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 32. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 381 of 10 June 2014, if the report into the private rented sector to be carried out by the Private Residential Tenancies Board has now been completed; the main findings of the report; his views on introducing some form of regulation to control rent levels in private rented...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Insolvency Payments Scheme Eligibility (17 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 50. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the actions she will take to redress the difficulties experienced by employees in situations where their employer goes out of business but has not been formally wound up, particularly the problem in relation to such employees not having access to the State's insolvency fund. [33338/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 75. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has examined the idea of the development of guidelines by her Department for release to general practitioners and other medical professionals in relation to the preparation of medical reports for inclusion in applications submitted by persons seeking certain social protection payments. [33333/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (17 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 132. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made in respect of an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13. [34299/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Training (17 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 133. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will increase training provision for deciding officers working in her Department. [34344/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (17 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 134. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of social welfare appellants who requested an oral hearing of their appeals in the years 2013 and to date in 2014; and the number of these requests which were granted resulting in an oral hearing of the appeals. [34346/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Recruitment (17 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 167. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of new appointments made in her Department and those under her remit since March 2011 to date in 2014, with a breakdown of the grade to which they were appointed during the period. [35126/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Levy (17 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 240. To ask the Minister for Finance the options being considered by his Department in the context of Budget 2015 regarding the complete removal or the reform of the pension levy. [33642/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Appointments (17 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 331. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of new appointments made in his Department and those under his remit from March 2011 to date in 2014, with a breakdown of the grade to which they were appointed during the period. [35121/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (17 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 373. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of administrative officers recruited to the public service since March 2011 on an annual basis, with a breakdown of the Departments in which the AOs have been assigned. [34783/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Appointments (17 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 374. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total number of new appointments made in his Department since March 2011 to date in 2014, with a breakdown of the number of staff appointed and the grade to which they were appointed during the period. [34786/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Appointments (17 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 375. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the grades of public servants who are permitted to apply for the post of private secretary to a Minister. [34788/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Appointments (17 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 431. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total number of new appointments made in his Department and those under his remit since March 2011 to date in 2014, with a breakdown of the grade to which they were appointed during the period. [35124/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff Recruitment (17 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 522. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of new appointments made in his Department and those under his remit since March 2011 to date in 2014, with a breakdown of the grade to which they were appointed during the period. [35114/14]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Appointments (17 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 544. To ask the Minister for Defence the total number of new appointments made in his Department and those under his remit since March 2011 to date in 2014, with a breakdown of the grade to which they were appointed during the period. [35118/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice Working Group (17 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 550. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details of the contents of the first interim report of the Criminal Justice Working Group established to monitor the fixed charge processing system and related matters. [33648/14]