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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 119. To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek funding in budget 2020 to provide resources for the establishment of a dedicated department at a university hospital here to treat persons with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and hypermobility spectrum disorders to be led by a specialist consultant on the conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22975/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Conditions (29 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 120. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the needs of persons with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and hypermobility spectrum disorders; his plans to improve services for persons with the conditions in 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22976/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (30 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 9. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 481 of 14 May 2019, the reason the average number of weeks taken to award payments (details supplied) are between nine and 13; the measures she is taking to reduce the waiting times for the award of these payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22787/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (30 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: It is welcome that many welfare payments and supports are awarded in a week or two, but the Minister told me a couple of weeks ago, I think, about the waiting times for some important pensions and allowances. The average waiting time for a non-contributory State pension, for example, is still ten weeks; for carer's allowance, 13 weeks, or three months; for carer's benefit, 12 weeks; for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (30 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: We have all been on the doorsteps, around DART stations and so on in recent weeks. We hear many horror stories in particular about waiting times for carer's allowance and even at times for carer's benefit, which Deputy Penrose and I worked on in earlier Dáileanna to get it introduced. I think the Minister told us there is a very high number of applications for carer's allowance. I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (30 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: -----but, generally speaking, that does not happen.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (30 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Staffing levels for hard-pressed staff in social protection offices are critical. That is a very important aspect of this matter. Earlier this year, I asked the Minister about vacancies in social welfare offices in Kilbarrack and Coolock in the constituency of Dublin Bay North. She informed me that the Department was actively working to fill one executive officer post in Kilbarrack and one...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (30 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Is the Minister going to introduce any new support?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (30 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Will she seek additional resources?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (30 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Maybe we need a few more of them.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: On the same subject, as the Minister knows, earlier this month there was another Supreme Court judgment in respect of our decisions in mandatory sentencing for the possession of guns under the 1964 Act. We have had murderous mayhem in our constituency in the past couple of weeks. I am a member of the Committee on Procedure, to which Deputy Howlin referred in the context of our response and...

Report on Development and Working Conditions in the Irish Film Industry: Motion (30 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta. The Deputy was referring to industrial relations law in his contribution. In regard to law breaking, the reference in this case was to-----

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Data (30 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 39. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on youth unemployment figures remaining in double digits despite a number of initiatives and schemes to support young persons in training and employment; if she is considering new measures or schemes for 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22788/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (30 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 96. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of 40% budget cuts to an organisation (details supplied) from 1 July 2019; the background to such large cuts; if this decision will be urgently reviewed and full funding restored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23109/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: This morning, we had another homicide on O'Connell Street. That follows a string of terrible murders in my constituency, the Taoiseach's constituency and across the northside generally. Nearly two weeks ago I wrote to the Taoiseach, the Minister for Justice and Equality and the Minister with responsibility for communities asking if they were prepared to set up some kind of interdepartmental...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: That is the problem we have and the sooner you are gone the better.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I was not invited. Nobody outside of Fine Gael on the political side was invited.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Shared Accommodation Provision (11 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expected rental price of the co-living accommodation units; the discussions that took place in relation to co-living accommodation proposals; if he arranged consultations on the proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23191/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Shared Accommodation Provision (11 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister and I are former Dublin City Council members. He might recall that when I led the Rainbow Civic Alliance on the council, we abolished bedsits for our senior citizens and prescribed a basic one-bedroom apartment. The Minister now seems to be rushing back to an even tinier concept of living with this co-living plan, which I think appeared in Rebuilding Ireland. What...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Shared Accommodation Provision (11 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: This is again confusing and difficult to understand. I believe Niall Cussen drafted the specific planning policy requirements - Nos. 8 and 9. The Minister is talking about single shared accommodation of 12 sq. m, which would be smaller than his office, a double or twin accommodation of 18 sq. m - a parking space for a person with a disability is 17 sq. m - and bedrooms of 8 sq. m per...