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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Provision (16 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 471 to 475, inclusive, of 7 October 2014, in view of her reply that her Department has facilitated parents who have sought alternative arrangements by putting such arrangements in place, the reason there is no mention of this option within her Department’s circular 0048/2014, dated June 2014; and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Provision (16 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 471 to 475, inclusive, of 7 October 2014, in view of her confirmation that her Department was aware of other groups of parents of children receiving home tuition who were seeking similar arrangements at the same time as the exception was made for the one private commercial organisation over five years...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Provision (16 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 471 to 475, inclusive, of 7 October 2014, if she will confirm that the agreement with the one private commercial provider was made over five years ago and renewed annually thereafter; if she will further confirm that for over five years up until 1 July 2013 no other organisation was offered a similar...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Provision (16 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 471 to 475, inclusive, of 7 October 2014, the statutory basis for engaging the services of one private commercial provider over the past five years in view of the reply that her Department has no contract in place with the provider and in view of the fact that the terms of the agreement with that private...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (16 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the status of research commissioned by her Department in relation to DEIS policy; and her position on whether this will result in the allocation of additional resources for DEIS schools. [39612/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (16 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 216. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to detail the number of citizens who were housed in social housing from county and city council housing, homeless and transfer lists on an annual basis for each year since 2009. [39628/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (16 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 217. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will set out the targets he is putting in place for the provision of social housing to citizens and households on county and city council housing, homeless and transfer lists for the remainder of 2014, 2015 and 2016; and if he will indicate the social housing targets he is setting for each of the 31 local...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (16 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied with the nature of the information contained on the online SPSV register maintained by the National Transport Authority in accordance with the Taxi Regulation Act; and if he is concerned that the home addresses of taxi drivers are available to requesters for a relatively nominal fee. [39610/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (16 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form on a monthly basis, the number of requests made to view the details of taxi drivers via the online SPSV register in 2013 and to date in 2014. [39615/14]

Social Clauses in Public Procurement Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I warmly congratulate Deputy McDonald and her Sinn Féin colleagues on their introduction of the Social Clauses in Public Procurement Bill 2013. I agree strongly with its basic principle in providing specific recognition of the need to hire unemployed persons and apprentices on publicly funded contracts through the use of social clauses. This is an issue I have raised before with the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Data (21 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 117. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the social welfare appeals office will collate statistics on the number of requests made by appellants for oral hearings to take place in respect of their appeals; if her Department carries out an analysis of the impact of oral hearings on the outcome of social welfare appeals. [39799/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Social Clauses (21 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 259. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 93 of 3 April 2014, if the use of social clauses in public procurement contracts applies to construction contracts entered into by local authorities. [39990/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Social Clauses (21 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 260. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 93 of 3 April 2014, if he will provide an up-to-date report on the pilot initiative to be included in the NDFA, National Development Finance Agency, devolved schools programme approved by the Government contracts committee for construction. [39992/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drug Rehabilitation Clinics (21 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 324. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of referrals made by the probation service to alcohol and drugs addiction services in 2013 and to date in 2014; and the number of persons engaging with the probation service during this period who also participated in detoxification residential programmes. [40015/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (21 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 325. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons prosecuted for the offence of forging a prescription in the years 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014. [40016/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drugs Seizures (21 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 326. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the amount of methadone seized by members of An Garda Síochána in the years 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and the value of the seizures for each of those years. [40018/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy Implementation (21 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 358. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the creation of a separate Minister of State portfolio with responsibility for drugs and alcohol addiction for the remainder of the Government’s term of office, in view of the seriousness of this problem and the number of lives lost due to addiction. [40073/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Regulations (21 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 411. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 427 of 12 November 2013, the sanctions in place for pharmacies which failed to record or properly record the running balance in respect of one or more schedule 2 controlled drugs in the CD register and for pharmacies which were found to have physical inventories which did not agree with the balance specified in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Regulations (21 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 412. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 427 of 12 November 2013, if he will provide up to date figures on the number of pharmacies dispensing methadone which have been inspected by the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland in November and December 2013 and to date in 2014; and the number of those pharmacies inspected which had an incorrect register balance or no...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Places (21 Oct 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 413. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form on the basis of each Health Service Executive region, the number of detoxification residential programmes provided directly by the HSE; and the number of such programmes provided by private and voluntary organisations with the support of funding from the HSE. [40008/14]