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Other Questions: Child Poverty (14 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 52. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will establish a cross-departmental task force to address the recent finding of a survey on income and living conditions that children in one-parent families are much more likely to live in consistent poverty in comparison to those in two-parent families; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6739/17]

Other Questions: Child Poverty (14 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Of the 800,000 or so of our fellow citizens who live in poverty, approximately 250,000 of them are children. This question refers to the EU-SILC report that we received recently. The at risk of poverty rate for one-parent families was up four points to 36% and the consistent poverty rate for lone-parent families was up from 22% to 26%. The deprivation was also highest for that group of...

Other Questions: Child Poverty (14 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: One of the areas on which the Minister and her colleague, the Minister for Social Protection, may have an influence is the changes the previous Government made to the one-parent allowance in 2012. At the time, many Opposition Deputies predicted that these changes, specifically the change in respect of payments to children when they reach seven years of age, would exacerbate rates of child...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Homeless Persons Supports (14 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 58. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans with the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to monitor and protect the well-being of children experiencing homelessness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6740/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (14 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 260. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he has requested the local authorities to report to him on the reporting mechanisms in place to ensure cleanliness and safety standards in emergency accommodation; the legislation or statutory instruments which govern the standards of emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7264/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Waiting Lists (14 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 416. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering any sanctions to higher tier management structures in the HSE and hospitals for mismanagement of waiting lists, for failure to reduce waiting lists and for failure to improve patient outcomes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6925/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (14 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 417. To ask the Minister for Health the ratio of managers to consultants and managers to nursing staff in each acute hospital; if efficiencies can be made at administrative management level, especially in hospitals with longer than six month waiting lists for procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6926/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 418. To ask the Minister for Health the consultative process that exists within his Department to receive input, feedback, complaints and suggested solutions from health care staff on the improvement and management of health care services; if he will consider creating such a process to ensure that front-line staff can also give honest critique of the way a hospital is managed; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 419. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the HSE have estimated the cost of reducing hospital waiting lists below nine weeks; if he has requested that a review of waiting lists be conducted to ensure that the correct dates are entered into the systems; his views on the need for a mother to access information through freedom of information and advocate on her child's behalf...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (14 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 420. To ask the Minister for Health the number of acute hospital beds in hospitals in 1987, 1997, 2007 and 2017; the number of consultants or specialist doctors per capita in 1987, 1997, 2007 and 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6929/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 421. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a programme (details supplied), which showed a number of children in severe pain due to waiting lists for surgeries; the immediate action he is going to take to address waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6930/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 422. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children here with scoliosis who have been waiting for surgery for between three months and six months, six months and nine months, nine months and 12 months, 12 months and 18 months and more than 18 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6932/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 423. To ask the Minister for Health the number of surgeries for scoliosis taking place each week in hospitals around the country in 2016 and to date in 2017 indicating the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6933/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 424. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the assessment his Department is making of the use of resources by the HSE; the areas that are creating waiting lists of over six months for surgery; the steps he is taking along with the director general of the HSE to immediately remedy and reduce these waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6934/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 425. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost of running the national treatment purchase fund, NTPF; the outcomes of the NTPF; the way in which it is meeting its aim of supporting performance improvement to treat patients faster; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6935/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Data (14 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 426. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, pre-admit procedures list for between three months and six months, six months and nine months, nine months and 12 months, 12 months and 18 months and more than 18 months indicating the procedures where possible; the number of these that are classified as urgent; to report on the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (14 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 449. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional clinical nurse specialist posts in diabetes care for adults approved for recruitment at Beaumont Hospital; if those posts have yet to be advertised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7065/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (14 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 450. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate funding for the recruitment of two full-time consultant geneticists for the HSE National Rare Disease Office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7066/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (14 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 619. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to introduce legislation to ensure that drivers inform the Road Safety Authority of a change of address, along the lines of the UK's legislation which fines drivers £1,000 for not informing the DVLA of their change of address; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6670/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Competitiveness and Economic Growth: National Competitiveness Council (14 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I will be brief as I have to go to the Dáil for a parliamentary question. I welcome the delegation and the benchmarking report and some of the other papers which the secretariat provided for us. It makes for very interesting reading. I wonder about the whole issue of measuring productivity and measuring competitiveness. Was the council concerned about the huge jump in GDP in 2015,...