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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Light Rail Projects Status (29 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 626. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the decision to restore Metro North to the 2016 capital programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33306/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Light Rail Projects Expenditure (29 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 627. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of Metro North to date; the anticipated final cost of Metro North by 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33307/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Museum Projects (29 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 644. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the financial and other supports her Department provides to the proposed establishment of a maritime museum in Howth, Dublin 13; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33301/15]

Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments Administration (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 8. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of the one-parent family payment who have transitioned to jobseeker's payment since the beginning of July 2015; the number of these who are in receipt of family income supplement or the back-to-work family dividend; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33016/15]

Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments Administration (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Following on from Deputy Durkan's question - I think he voted for these changes, while I voted against them - the Tánaiste has mentioned some of the figures. She told colleagues last week that, since July, approximately 96% of the 25,500 affected recipients of the one-parent family payment have transitioned. Of those, however - as she just indicated to Deputy Durkan - only 8,100...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments Administration (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: I think that is the first time the Tánaiste has mentioned in the House those figures concerning the back-to-work family dividend. Effectively, however, is there not a time limit on that? Obviously, that is useful information but-----

Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments Administration (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: -----we still meet a lot of lone parents who find that the system effectively leaves them worse off. Like most of us in the Chamber, the Tánaiste stood on the picket lines with the Dunnes Stores workers. Despite that fact, however, people on 15-hour contracts still find themselves that much worse off. The overall selling point of these major changes was that women would be encouraged...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: They would be better off in a house.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: They are all paralysed.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: There was modular housing in my constituency when I started out in politics and people had been living in it for ten or 15 years. They had to be rehoused. Like other Deputies, I visited the display of modular housing and I honestly do not think the Taoiseach-----

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: For the Taoiseach's information, at €70,000 or €80,000 a pop, I do not think modular housing is the solution.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: I want to ask the Taoiseach about one other point he mentioned concerning the clerk of works scheme and the planning and development (No. 2) Bill. Why does he not just restore the clerk of works scheme? Many of us worked on sites when we were kids and found that the clerk of works system was brilliant, as Deputy Wallace has often said. Why does he not just restore it then? He will not...

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: I really wanted to ask him about the criminal justice (corruption) Bill.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: It is the planning and development (No. 2) Bill, as well. My final point concerns the criminal justice (corruption) Bill. Before the end of the lifetime of this Dáil, would it be possible for us to have a discussion on the Garda investigations into criminality and irregularities that were discovered by the Flood, Mahon and Moriarty tribunals? I have asked the Minister for Justice and...

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Why are people not living in them?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (30 Sep 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 12. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the current number of recipients of rent supplement; the number receiving uplifts in their rent supplement; her plans to increase rent supplement levels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33017/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (1 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 16. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the priorities in his capital expenditure statement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33081/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Register of Lobbying (1 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 25. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of lobbyists who have registered on lobbying.ie during the first month of the operation of the new legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33080/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Data (1 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 29. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to increase disability allowance, given the major additional living costs of citizens with disabilities, and given that this proposal was a long-term objective of her own political party while in opposition; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33650/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (1 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 101. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the recent lettings in Howth Harbour in 2014 and in 2015 to date; if he will indicate how upcoming vacancies and tenders were advertised and how the competition for rental of these premises was conducted by his Department and by the Office of Public Works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33652/15]