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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage Insurance (20 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the parameters for mortgage protection for mortgages granted under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; the mortgage protection options open to these persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8190/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage Insurance (20 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 596. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme and mortgage protection options for mortgages; if a person with a mortgage is open to source appropriate and competitive mortgage protection from providers; his views on whether their consumer rights are being restricted; and if he will make a statement on the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: As regards the proposed building control (construction industry register Ireland) Bill, thousands of homes built during the Celtic Tiger era are defective and may be fire traps, yet developers who allegedly built some of those homes are now building once again and announcing new estates, etc., with the help of NAMA in spite of the particular importance of this issue since the Grenfell Tower...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: That concludes statements on the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution.

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I have always believed in indicative planning. From the time of T.K. Whitaker in the 1950s and the years of Seán Lemass, having objectives for a nation is important even if some or many of those objectives are not achieved, as happened with the last plan from 2002. The scale of Ireland's infrastructure deficit is vast. There was no reference by the Taoiseach and the Minister for...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I move the adjournment.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their work on this issue. The fundamental point is whether this was a political decision. Although the six areas are somewhat valuable, what of apprenticeships? There is a difficulty in getting both genders to undertake apprenticeships, which must change, given that the professions of qualified plumbers, carpenters and other tradespeople are among...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I appreciate the issues of which I am thinking are political decisions but it seems that to have gone after key areas of inequality, to set up channels to do that and to set in train the process in other areas might have been important. I note that a point made in the papers we have been given or in one of the witnesses' contributions is that in terms of cost-benefit analysis it is a huge...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: In the context of the steering group involving other organisations from civil society and so on, will the Department work through the process and then revert to us fairly regularly in respect of our input into budget 2019? We want to see serious impacts coming out of the Department's work and our discussion.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: We will obviously see the results and the delivery.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: Based on the Department's work and research, what are the best two or three exemplar countries? Would it be Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries or New Zealand?

Other Questions: Irish Youth Justice Service (22 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 8. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons employed in the Irish Youth Justice Service of her Department in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the role of each; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8830/18]

Other Questions: Irish Youth Justice Service (22 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: This question was prompted by the recent upsurge of anti-social and criminal behaviour by young people, among others, in my constituency. I know that the Minister has responsibility for part of the Irish Youth Justice Service, which is shared with the Minister for Justice and Equality. There were changes last year relating to the incarceration of children in the adult prison, which are very...

Other Questions: Irish Youth Justice Service (22 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The 2016 report of the Garda juvenile diversion programme made for shocking reading in that 17,500 incidents were referred to the juvenile diversion programme with 9,451 young offenders. On Oberstown itself, I know the Minister has kept in close touch with the campus and developments there. We had the review by Professor Ursula Kilkelly. What is the Minister's current view on the HIQA...

Other Questions: Irish Youth Justice Service (22 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: In the old system, when children were in the adult prison, it used to be said they graduated from St. Patrick's to Mountjoy. Unfortunately, as a result, they lead difficult lives. Has the Minister undertaken any research in tracking people who have been in Oberstown to check all the services are working in ensuring they can live useful and happy lives? Has the Minister received any...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I am delighted to make some concluding remarks. As I was saying last night, we know that every major metropolitan region in Europe is pulled along economically by a dynamic city at its core. Dublin has begun to wear that mantle since the turn of this century but it would be invidious if we now came along with this kind of indicative plan, or legislative plan, which would restrict the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Services Staff Data (22 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 24. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social workers in each region; the number of social worker vacancies in each region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8829/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Loan Books Purchasers (22 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the reported sale of a €4 billion portfolio of home loans and mortgages by a bank (details supplied) to subprime lenders and vulture funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9136/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (22 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on deposit and withdrawal mechanisms if the Government proceeds to establish a rainy day fund. [9137/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Sale of State Assets (22 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the approach to the sale of State assets in the commercial banks; and the purposes for which disposal of State shares will be earmarked. [9138/18]