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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Expenditure Reviews (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: When the rolling programme for expenditure reviews is being identified, do officials in the Minister's Department look at programmes where there are demographic or other pressures which cause massive increases in spending year on year?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Departmental Information (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: As an addendum to the question, has the Minister provided for funding for the budgetary oversight office itself in 2017?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 19. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on his preparations to publish the capital review alongside the 2017 mid-year expenditure report; the level of capital expenditure necessary by 2021 to upgrade Ireland's infrastructure urgently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3281/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister would agree that the Government has a deplorable record in the provision of capital so going forward with this capital review is urgent. We have heard time and again at the budget committee that we have not even been meeting normal depreciation targets. One only has to go around the country and look at the "R" roads such as those of the Minister of State in east Cork. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: They were in bits.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: That is one item. Has the Minister been on the N32?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: May I ask a question on just one point?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister is going to answer it. We urgently need it. As Members are aware, 40% of our air connection is with the UK. In the context of Brexit, is the Minister going to deliver metro north under this programme?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister wants to answer.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 24. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the Public Service Pay Commission; when he expects to have the first report from the commission; if the commission advised him on recently announced partial restoration in pay for public sector employees earning up to €65,000; if he has a timeframe for the full restoration of FEMPI reductions; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Programme for Government Implementation (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 28. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the provision he has made for inflation in expenditure targets of 2017; if those targets include the provision of all new services promised under the programme for Government to be delivered in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3283/17]

Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (31 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important Bill. Mr. Paddy Connolly, the chief executive of Inclusion Ireland, wrote a moving and impassioned piece in the Irish Examinertoday under the heading "People with disabilities are not a diagnosis, they are human". I presume the Minister of State read the article but if not, I urge him to do so. Some of the words in it struck a chord with...

Bus Éireann: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: As President Trump might say, it is so ironic that the motion has been tabled by Fianna Fáil, given that it played a huge role in the race to the bottom in public transport, beginning with the Public Transport Regulation Act 2009 which the Minister will remember. A number of us argued about the dangers we see today in an incredible and vicious assault on the drivers and other staff of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the agency or Government body that has oversight and responsibility for hospitality and tourism skills development policy here; his plans for this agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4462/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tourism and hospitality skills training positions which were allocated to the Dublin Bay North constituency in 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4458/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding which was allocated to the Dublin Bay North constituency for tourism and hospitality skills training in 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4460/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (31 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of families placed in emergency homeless accommodation that have now received their 24-hour Leap cards, per county; the number of families still awaiting Leap cards, per county; when he expects full roll out of this free travel to be in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4059/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Safety (31 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for improving water safety. [4058/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Marine Safety (31 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 702. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the need for all pleasure craft users regardless of age to wear a lifejacket; and his plans to improve safety in use of pleasure crafts. [4058/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (31 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 746. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has examined payment policies and their impact on employees, for example, when employees are paid monthly and begin a new job they can be up to five weeks without any income; her plans to conduct such a review and reduce this time period to two weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4057/17]