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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Data (26 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 256. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the data she has available on the family make-up of those accessing the CCS and CETS programmes; if the number of lone parents using these childcare schemes is known; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27136/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Expenditure (26 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 257. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the projected cost of the proposed national childcare scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27137/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Data (26 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 269. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of the one-parent family payment each year since 2016 to date; the number of recipients that moved to the jobseeker's transition payment in each of the years since 2016 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27138/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Data (26 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 270. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of the working family payment in 2018 and to date in 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27139/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I join colleagues in sending our best wishes to Deputies Kelleher, Fitzgerald, Clare Daly and Wallace. All four made a distinguished contribution to this House. Our technical group in particular will miss the contributions of Deputies Clare Daly and Mick Wallace, in particular, during the remaining period of this Dáil. I wish to briefly ask the Tánaiste about a matter that was...

European Union Battle Group: Motion (27 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I am sharing time with Deputy Wallace, soon to be a Member of the European Parliament. I fully support a very strong Army, Navy and Air Force defending our country and taking part in UN operations, which Óglaigh na hÉireann has done with great distinction over the past number of decades. Like colleagues, I was worried when I read about the Franco-German treaty, which seems to be...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Applications Data (27 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 35. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications for employment permits received in each month to date in 2019; if the applications are from trusted partners or standard; the number of reviews carried out in each month for both categories; the numbers approved and refused each month; the waiting list for processing applications; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Corporate Governance (27 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 37. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measurable outputs and targets there are for corporate social responsibility for businesses operating here; the way in which these are monitored and encouraged; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26956/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Measures (27 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 44. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to utilise expanded economic and social metrics in the calculation of national income for fiscal and budgetary purposes and for fiscal policy from 2020 to indicate all aspects of the well-being of citizens along the lines followed in New Zealand and increasingly in other jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27299/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Currency Regulation (27 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 45. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the proposed introduction of a cryptocurrency (details supplied); if his Department and the Central Bank are monitoring developments in cryptocurrency and possible impacts on the euro and monetary regulation and security for citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27300/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (27 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for financial buffers in respect of departmental Votes and his views on the suggestion in the recent Irish Fiscal Advisory Council financial assessment report that some corporation tax revenues be retained in a national budget prudential buffer account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27301/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (27 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 85. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to legislate to enhance the safety of communities following serious crimes and anti-social behaviour at many locations to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27297/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Online Safety (27 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 222. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to protect children online; when major proposals for reform and legislation will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27298/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (27 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects equilibrium between supply and demand to be reached in the housing market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27302/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rights of People with Disabilities (2 Jul 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 47. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the right of persons with disabilities to a personal assistant; the steps he is taking to introduce same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27558/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rights of People with Disabilities (2 Jul 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister will be aware that in 2018, 2,535 people were in receipt of a personal assistance service. In this regard, the total number of hours was 1.6 million, which is an average of 1.73 hours per day per person in receipt of personal assistance. The Minister will also be aware that we have received extensive briefings in the past number of months from Independent Living Movement...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rights of People with Disabilities (2 Jul 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Minister of State for his response but he did not say whether or not he believes in the right to personal assistance. As the Minister of State is aware, in 2017 almost 85% of people in receipt of personal assistance services received less than three hours service per day. We have heard that some people receive as little as 40 minutes assistance per day, such that there is hardly...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rights of People with Disabilities (2 Jul 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The protocol has not been ratified.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rights of People with Disabilities (2 Jul 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The protocol has not been ratified.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rights of People with Disabilities (2 Jul 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister of State does not seem to accept the figures provided by the Independent Living Movement Ireland. The reality is that the Minister of State did not legislate for the optional protocol. If he was serious about the convention, he would have legislated for that and article 19, which gives the right to a personal assistant. He did not do that because his Fine Gael masters would...