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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Equipment (24 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 46. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if funding has been provided in 2019 for the upgrade of the fire detection and firefighting system at the Oil Wharf naval base in Haulbowline; if so, when work will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38778/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (24 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 61. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the input and involvement of Ireland in the draft international treaty on business and human rights to be discussed at the fifth session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group in Geneva in October 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38282/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (24 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 227. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank attached to the Garda stolen vehicle investigation unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38774/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (24 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 316. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the processing time for colposcopy results by hospital; the number of laboratories examining these biopsies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38465/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Data (24 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 356. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time dieticians employed by the HSE in CHO area 9 in 2018 and to date in 2019; if this number will be further increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38768/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Data (24 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 357. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff by job title working in the paediatric eye care team in CHO area 9; the number of vacancies by job title in the team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38769/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (24 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 358. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the new cochlear implant unit at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9 to be fully opened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38770/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Antimicrobial Resistance (24 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 359. To ask the Minister for Health the policy of his Department and the HSE regarding the spread of antibiotic resistant superbugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38771/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Provision (24 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 360. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve services for survivors of cancer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38772/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Waiting Lists (24 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 361. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for a dental appointment at 31 December 2018 and 13 September 2019 in CHO area 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38776/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Contracts (24 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 362. To ask the Minister for Health the reason many consultant doctors in the health system here are not on permanent contracts; the further reason for the large number of consultant vacancies in healthcare here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38777/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Proposed Legislation (24 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 481. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the railway safety (amendment) Bill will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38775/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding (24 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 501. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the budget allocation for the social inclusion and community activation programme in 2017, 2018 and 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38773/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Dublin Chamber of Commerce and Chambers Ireland (24 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: On the issue of taxation, is this the year or the budget to be contemplating introducing tax relief, whether in the form of entrepreneurial relief, capital gains or whatever? We have been having Brexit debates here virtually every week, if not every day, and last week the key issue arose of what the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, did last year with his €300 million and what may have to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Dublin Chamber of Commerce and Chambers Ireland (24 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I urge the chambers to do more about infrastructure and hassle the Government to deliver.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 5. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her preparations for budget 2020, including meetings with stakeholders, reviews of the most recent research on family poverty, and estimates of Brexit impacts on persons and families in receipt of social protection assistance, benefits and pensions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38942/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I am glad the Minister hosted the budget forum and has been meeting all the advocacy groups. We have also met them. I agree with my colleague, Deputy Barry, on pensions. There is a gender gap concerning pensions, in particular, that the Minister said she might address. Among the advocacy groups that impressed us were the Children's Rights Alliance and the No Child 2020 campaign. Many...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Will the Minister have extra money for that?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: To continue on the subject of children, one of the worst statistics we are presented with at pre-budget meetings, bearing in mind I am on the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, is that almost 6,000 young people under 26 have been on jobseeker's allowance for more than a year. The National Youth Council of Ireland, in its pre-budgetary submission, A Fair Share for Young People and Youth Work,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Sep 2019)

Tommy Broughan: In the past few days the prospect of a crash-out Brexit has somewhat receded. In the budget to be announced on 8 October can we expect to see the same of level of support for Irish businesses and jobs which was around €300 million to be continued in 2020? Despite some recent more hopeful signs, has the Minister's Department costed the worst-case scenario of a crash-out Brexit?