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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (26 Sep 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when community employment supervisors will receive their pension entitlements in accordance with Labour Court Recommendation No. 19293 of July 2008 and the Dáil Éireann motion of April 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38653/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (26 Sep 2018)

Tommy Broughan: It is sad and funny to hear the Minister talk about anomalies given the amnesia that affects her and the Fine Gael Party generally, and Fianna Fáil.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (26 Sep 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister changed those bands and inflicted suffering on the women concerned pre-2012. I wish to ask the Minister about another anomaly, namely, the Labour Court Recommendation No. 19293 of July 2008, in respect of pensions for the 1,250 CE supervisors and assistant supervisors who manage 25,000 staff who are carrying out wonderful work in parishes and communities throughout the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (26 Sep 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The final few points the Minister made are reminiscent of a familiar old mantra. When community employment and later, job initiative, JI, schemes were set up - Ruairí Quinn initially set up the social employment scheme, SES, in the mid-1980s - people did not realise they would become such a fundamental part of society in terms of local development, training, caring and childcare. I am...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (26 Sep 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister could make a start with the CE supervisors and assistant supervisors. There is no question. We had this debate. On the IGEES figures I cited earlier, up to €500 million or whatever, that is obviously if we have an immediate big-bang approach. Given that Labour Court Recommendation No. 19293 is sitting there for ten years, whatever excuses could have been made in respect...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Maintenance Payments (26 Sep 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the work his Department is undertaking alongside the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection on establishing a maintenance payment programme to ensure that maintenance is paid to one-parent families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39050/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (26 Sep 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 151. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in training to become forensic collision investigators; when the training will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39052/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (26 Sep 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 152. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if forensic collision investigators in An Garda Síochána receive a special allowance for carrying out such important work in road traffic administration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39053/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Sep 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 195. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the closure of inpatient paediatric services in the National Rehabilitation Hospital due to the lack of specialist staff; the consequences this has for children needing neurology services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39047/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Rare Diseases (26 Sep 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 196. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which his Department is working towards having accessible orphan drugs available to those patients with rare diseases without breaks in their treatment or delay in their treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39055/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (26 Sep 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 197. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance can be provided in the re-opening of the expanded access programme to nusinersen in Temple Street Hospital which closed in March 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39056/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (26 Sep 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 235. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing jobseeker's transitional payment to when the one parent's youngest child turns 18 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39048/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (26 Sep 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 236. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the work her Department is undertaking alongside the Department of Justice and Equality on establishing a maintenance payment programme to ensure that maintenance is paid to one parent families; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39049/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Data (26 Sep 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 257. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of children who have been in emergency homeless accommodation by hubs or hotels and guest houses for fewer than three to six, six to nine, nine to 12, 12 to 24 and for 24 months plus, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37912/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (26 Sep 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 258. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has reconsidered the proposal for a dynamic housing executive for the greater Dublin region, in view of the very low delivery of new social and affordable housing in that region and especially by Dublin City Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38688/18]

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Tommy Broughan: As the Minister is aware, something of the order of 5,000 individuals and families in the Dublin Bay North constituency I represent are on the city council's housing list and a further 2,500 are on the transfer list. When the Fingal part of our constituency is added - I see the Minister of Education and Skills, Deputy Bruton, is in attendance - we have by far the worst housing list in the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Innovation Fund Ireland (25 Sep 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 86. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will report on the work of the social innovation fund; if his Department partakes in the selection and awarding of funds to suitable local projects; if priority areas are outlined for the funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38389/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Public Participation Networks (25 Sep 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 108. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will report on the engagement of public participation networks here; the way in which the opportunity to partake in public participation networks is advertised amongst communities and local authority areas; if changes to the running of the networks are planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38388/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps Equipment (25 Sep 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 122. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there are plans to replace the CASA fixed-wing aircraft in the Air Corps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38667/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Property (25 Sep 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has an interest in a freehold lease of a former school building (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38581/18]