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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Data (23 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 332. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda public order vans allocated to each Garda division in Dublin as of 1 January 2018 and 15 October 2018; if the additional 15 Garda public order vans due to be purchased in 2018 have come into the fleet; if not, when they will come into the fleet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43756/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (23 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 333. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for a recruitment drive for the Garda Band; the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43757/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Remuneration (23 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 411. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to restore junior consultants' salaries to bring salaries in line with their colleagues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43520/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (23 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 412. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant doctor vacancies here; the actions he is taking to fill these vacancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43521/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (23 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 413. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he is taking to attract and retain medical consultants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43522/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (23 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 414. To ask the Minister for Health when the additional 2,600 hospital beds promised in the National Development Plan 2018-2027 will be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43523/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (23 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 420. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to HSE addiction services in CHO area 9 in each of the years 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43548/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (23 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 421. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE staff and grade employed in CHO area 9 addiction services; the number of positions vacant; the length of time each has been vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43549/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers Funding (23 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 509. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if extra funding will be provided for additional berthage at Dún Laoghaire Harbour and Dublin Port; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43755/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network Safety (23 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 569. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will seek assurances from the chief executive officer of Iarnród Éireann that additional security personnel will be deployed at a station (details supplied) in the run up to Hallowe'en; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43547/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (23 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 699. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the fire stations in Dublin that benefitted from the five year fire services capital programme announced in February 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43758/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 59. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he is taking to address new entrant pay equalisation in the public service; the additional spending being provided in 2018 and in Budget 2019 to achieve pay equality in sectors such as health and education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43875/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: Last night, in the debate on the Finance Bill, we discussed the unwinding of FEMPI. Effectively, the Minister said this will take at least 16 years for 300,000 public servants so that rather than having one decade of austerity, they are heading for two decades. Were there not other options for moving to immediate pay equalisation under section 11 of the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister is the guy who can fix it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I echo the comments of my colleagues. The report we got from the Parliamentary Budget Office in regard to the €190 million showed that the adjustments would be something like €80 million for health, similar for education, €12 million for the justice area and €4 million for the local authorities. 11 o’clock Thus, for a relatively small measure in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on his Department's invigilation of the relationship between Vote 38 and the HSE budget; the efforts being made to provide all necessary expenditures for primary and acute healthcare in view of repeated annual underforecasting of health expenditures; his views on the need for annual Supplementary Estimates; and if he...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: Early this year, following an interesting briefing from Fr. Seán Healy and Social Justice Ireland, the Committee on Budgetary Oversight identified the possibility of a serious discrepancy between voted health expenditure and what the HSE's national service plan was trying to achieve. That has turned out to be the case, with Supplementary Estimates required for the Departments of Health...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The Considine report identified these problems ten years ago, but nothing has happened.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I disagreed with the Taoiseach. Reverting to our discussion about consultants, many of them have told me that they would be prepared to pay a higher personal tax rate if it was hypothecated to health spending. While we need more resources, the nub of the issue is that the Minister is not accounting to the House, as per his remit, for the difference between the national service plan and Vote...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I would.