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Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Process (13 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 237. To ask the Minister for Health his Department’s preparation for legislation to be brought forward relating to a proposed repeal of the eighth amendment of the Constitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35227/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Agreements (13 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 346. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the current trade status with Japan; if this trade continues to grow; if Japanese companies are, or will be, involved in any public private partnership projects in the new capital programme; the value of this trade to the Irish economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35228/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Expenditure (13 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 347. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the cost of the new credit-card-sized passport for European travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35229/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (13 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 418. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to recent proceedings of the Committee of Public Accounts, at which it was stated that 4,000 housing units which were offered in recent years to local authorities were subsequently refused by those authorities, if he will confirm the number of those houses in each of the four Dublin local authorities; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (13 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 418. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to recent proceedings at the Committee of Public Accounts, at which it was stated that 4,000 housing units which were offered in recent years to local authorities were subsequently refused by those authorities, if he will confirm the number of those houses in each of the four Dublin local authorities; and if...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: With the impending general election the long suffering people finally got some respite yesterday from the implacable austerity forced on them since late 2008. In my own submission a few weeks to the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, I called again for many of the positive social expenditure measures that have...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Smuggling (14 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 12. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons prosecuted for cigarette and tobacco smuggling at Dublin Port and Dublin Airport in 2014, and in 2015 to date; the number of successful convictions and prosecutions ongoing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35853/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 61. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list to see a consultant neurologist at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9; the average waiting times; the steps being taken to reduce these; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35852/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (20 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 134. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on her Department's collaboration with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, An Garda Síochána, the Road Safety Authority and the Courts Service on rectifying the many discrepancies in the enforcement of our road safety laws, given the continuing number of loopholes discovered in summer 2015, along with...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Tribunals of Inquiry Reports (20 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 144. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of the Garda Commissioner's examination of the Moriarty report, the Flood report and the Mahon report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31710/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (20 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 373. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will bring the criminal justice (victims of crime) Bill before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36285/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (20 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 652. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to request lower emission reduction targets than those of our European Union counterparts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36284/15]

Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Can we expect a decision on rent certainty, which has been the subject of long-standing discussions, to be made as a matter of urgency? Will legislation be introduced? When will an announcement be made? Is the Taoiseach aware that the vast bulk of the 79 families who became homeless the month before last were evicted by landlords after massive rent increases were imposed? Can we expect...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Eighty families have been evicted.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 17. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action he will take to ensure the vital services of a refuge (details supplied) in Dublin 24 are not closed before Christmas 2015; what he will do to prevent this service from closing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35331/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 37. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the current number of cases where a social worker has not been allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35330/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 46. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the measures she is taking to restore moneys to Irish airlines (general employees) superannuation scheme pensions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36708/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance the negotiations that have taken place or are taking place around restructuring Ireland's debt repayments, especially the large portion resulting from the blanket bank guarantee as identified by the Comptroller and Auditor General; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36710/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Retention (21 Oct 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 62. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the communications he has had with the company Twitter concerning its Irish operations and on the recently announced 336 job losses at the company; if all the Irish jobs in the company are safe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36711/15]