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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (7 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the application (details supplied) to provide preschool services for children with autism in September 2015; if she will expedite a decision given the very short timeframe to report on the delay in making this decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27244/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Professional Fees (7 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the concerns of community and voluntary training providers at the proposed fees for engagement and validation of qualifications by Quality and Qualifications Ireland, in particular the impact of such fees on the capacity of organisations to provide education and training programmes for disadvantaged groups; her plans to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Participation (7 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions her Department is taking to address the non-progression of up to 7,000 students from first year to second year at third level, as reported by the Higher Education Authority last year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27285/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (7 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 527. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the number of families who have not previously been involved with any social services and are now experiencing homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27245/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (7 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 539. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will meet the Irish Housing Network as requested by this Deputy in an e-mail on 22 June 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27246/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (7 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 541. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the basis for the allocation to each local authority of €4.84 million for register of electors costs in 2014; if it is allocated on a per capita basis, or in relation to vouched staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27288/15]

Other Questions: UN Convention on Children's Rights (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 7. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the preparations he is making for the upcoming review with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27090/15]

Other Questions: UN Convention on Children's Rights (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister's predecessor, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, submitted the third and fourth reports to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. If the Government survives, I understand the Minister will represent us in January at an examination of those reports. Some of the subjects he will obviously deal with will be child poverty, which he just discussed, child protection, services for...

Other Questions: UN Convention on Children's Rights (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Will the list of issues include the impact of homelessness on children, the children of those families - almost 3,500 - who are homeless in this city and county as well as other urban areas around the country? On 28 June, 1,122 children were in emergency accommodation. I represent dozens of families in that situation, as would the Minister and other Deputies present today. We know from...

Other Questions: UN Convention on Children's Rights (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister has said he was working with other Departments. Is he meeting the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Kelly? Is he bringing bring to his attention the very real distress and suffering of our children in this city this very minute regarding homelessness?

Other Questions: UN Convention on Children's Rights (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: What has the Minister done in this regard? He has said-----

Other Questions: UN Convention on Children's Rights (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: -----that he is the Minister for all our children. What is he doing right now to protect our homeless children?

Other Questions: UN Convention on Children's Rights (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: In this region, has the Minister met the city manager, Mr. Owen Keegan, the Fingal county manager, Mr. Paul Reid? Has he or his officials met Mr. Dick Brady or members of the Dublin Region Homeless Executive? Does he have any plans to inspect the conditions in which these homeless families are forced to live for nine or ten months and in some cases more than a year? Has the Minister...

Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Is it intended to have a Supplementary Estimate for health over the next week or so, or will we have to wait for the Minister for Finance to bring in a formal budget? The Minister, Deputy Varadkar, speculated in his usual way, as if he were the health correspondent for RTE or The Irish Times or a hurler on the ditch, rather than the Minister with day-to-day responsibility for health. Will...

Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Poverty (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 32. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the current levels of child poverty; the role his Department is taking to alleviate these growing numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27091/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance the additional revenue that would be generated if the stamp duty on conveyances and transfers of properties valued at over €1million was increased to 3%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27872/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 124. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 112 of 27 May 2015 regarding the offence of holding a mobile telephone while driving; if she has this information to hand; if it will be made available to this Deputy prior to the Summer recess; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27875/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 125. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 108 of 27 May 2015 regarding Operation Learner Driver; if she has this information to hand; if it will be made available to this Deputy prior to the Summer recess; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27876/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Accidents Data (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 126. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 255 of 6 May 2015 regarding the Garda Síochána CT68 form, if she has this information to hand; if it will be made available to this Deputy prior to the Summer recess; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27877/15]