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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (16 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 400. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount it would cost to provide 3,000 extra home care packages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22935/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (16 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 401. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children's disability network teams currently in CHO area 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22936/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (16 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 447. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for an assessment of need for children and adolescents in north Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23129/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Procedures (17 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 86. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 40 of 15 November 2016, the number of those summonses not served in 2015 and 2016 that were re-issued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23380/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Procedures (17 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 87. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 40 of 15 November 2016 in which she stated that a summons struck out not served can be re-issued at the request of An Garda Síochána, if she will clarify same; if this is normal practice; the policies in place to enable a Garda to decide whether or not to have a summons...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Retirements (17 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 188. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will meet with representatives of a group (details supplied) to discuss the restoration of pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23564/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (17 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 234. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include persons with asthma in the long-term illness scheme or in a targeted scheme such as a chronic disease card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23523/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 235. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the commitment in the national clinical programme for asthma to a free structural asthma management programme for every person with asthma; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23524/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (17 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 236. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide core funding for supporting educational programmes by a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23525/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submission: Age Action Ireland (17 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome the witnesses from Age Action Ireland. The report compiled by Maureen Bassett, Towards A Fair State Pension for Women Pensioners, was very helpful. When I raised this issue with the Taoiseach on 21 February 2017, he indicated that he would give this committee a remit to examine the recommendations made by Age Action Ireland. I apologise for missing the start of the meeting. The...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submission: Age Action Ireland (17 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I note Age Action Ireland research quoted Professor Alan Barrett, director of the Economic and Social Research Institute, as stating that the rules of the game were changed in the middle of the game, which is outrageously unfair to women in particular. The second recommendation is to examine ways in which the Committee on Budgetary Oversight could contribute to eliminating the gender pay...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submission: Age Action Ireland (17 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: The Government led by former Taoiseach, Mr. Bertie Ahern - possibly while Mr. Dermot Ahern was Minister for Social Protection - gave a half pension to pensioners who had worked in the State before the early 1950s and who had then emigrated and returned to Ireland. That was before PRSI was brought in. It was an important gesture. There are precedents for the committee to backdate the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submission: Age Action Ireland (17 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Do the witnesses have statistics in respect of people who are working past retirement age or the cohort of the population who do not reach retirement age but contributed significantly nonetheless? The narrowing of population numbers in statistics as one ascends age bands is familiar to all. Many Members have attended funerals of people who were in their 50s or early 60s when they died, be...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submission: Age Action Ireland (17 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: One encounters many self-employed people over the age of 65.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submission: Age Action Ireland (17 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: The witnesses discussed the Social Insurance Fund with Deputy Boyd Barrett in regard to additional funding and so on. The Social Insurance Fund is in surplus once again and provides a huge chunk of social protection spending every year. Was an increase in employers' PRSI important? There was a stage during the recession when there was a deficit in the Social Insurance Fund and we want to...

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Tomorrow, it will be 11 months to the day since the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Simon Coveney, launched the Rebuilding Ireland strategy in an attempt to address the spiralling housing and homelessness crisis. While it set out some ambitious goals, it highlighted again the Government's total ideological reliance on the private rented sector as a...

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister of State could start a housing programme.

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I am blaming the two previous Governments.

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I was told at the time there were 25,000-----

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Not in our area. It is fantasy.