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Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (5 Jul 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 471. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the annual budget allocated from the drugs programmes and policy unit within his Department for each of the ten regional drug and alcohol task forces and each of the 14 local drug and alcohol task forces here in each of the years 2010 to 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19217/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (5 Jul 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 472. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the total of section 38 and section 39 funding for each of the ten regional drug and alcohol task forces and each of the 14 local drug and alcohol task forces here in each of the years 2010 to 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19218/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (5 Jul 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 473. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the total Health Service Executive allocation to each of the ten regional drug and alcohol task forces, DATF, and each of the 14 local drug and alcohol task forces in Ireland in 2014, 2015 and in 2016 and include both DATF and Health Service Executive mainstream funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19219/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (5 Jul 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 474. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the number of Health Service Executive whole-time equivalent addiction services front-line staff based in each of the ten regional drug and alcohol task forces and each of the 14 local drug and alcohol task force areas in each of the years 2013 to 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19220/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (5 Jul 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 475. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a status update on the recently evaluated cross task force community alcohol treatment programme CARE project including resources allocated by the Health Service Executive, HSE, in 2016 and an estimated date for reinstatement in the Ballymun local, Finglas local and north Dublin regional drug and alcohol task force areas; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy (5 Jul 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 476. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that the new national drugs strategy which is currently under development will be one integrated national substance misuse strategy inclusive of all drugs including alcohol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19222/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (30 Jun 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new secondary school for the Malahide and Portmarnock areas of County Dublin, as announced in November, 2015; if he has identified locations for these proposed schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18911/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (30 Jun 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new secondary school for the Swords area of County Dublin, as announced in November 2015; if he has identified a location for this proposed school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18957/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed Circuit Television Systems (28 Jun 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 62. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if funding is available for community closed-circuit television and how a community group can apply for it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18314/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (28 Jun 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 245. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will process an application by a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17922/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (28 Jun 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 291. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will process a decision on an application by a person (details supplied) under the domiciliary care allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18405/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Work Projects Funding (28 Jun 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: 563. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to approve an application by an organisation (details supplied) for a project bus under the special protection for youth scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18393/16]

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: I will take ten minutes and Deputy McGrath will take five, if that is agreeable to the House. I thank the Minister for outlining the position and I thank the Government for recalling the Dáil today to discuss this urgent and important matter. I put it to the Minister that the British exit from the EU and the referendum will dominate the European agenda as well as the agenda in Ireland...

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: I was waiting to hear the Deputy's views about the "Leave" campaign.

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: Who funded the "Leave" campaign?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Business of Select Committee (23 Jun 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: I congratulate the Chairman on his appointment and I look forward to working with everyone on the committee. We should, at the earliest opportunity, see what we can do to address the refugee and migrant crisis. I know that is for another day because today we are dealing with the Revised Estimates. The crisis in Europe and on its borders needs to be the absolute focus of this committee. We...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (23 Jun 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: I welcome the Minister and congratulate him on his appointment. I congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Joe McHugh also on his appointment. I know that we are moving towards an online passport service; will that include a reminder system as well, similar to what applies to road tax and various other services? It would be of interest to note what percentage approximately of...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (23 Jun 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, I wish to put a brief question on missions. The Minister outlined a comparison between Ireland and Denmark, which have similar populations. We have 80 missions and Denmark has 108. Are any plans in place to open up additional missions in the next couple of years and, if so, perhaps the Minister would outline them?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (23 Jun 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: I will be brief. I will revert to the Minister another day on his visit to the Middle East and particularly the situation of Israel and Palestine. Specifically, though, we would all like to commend our troops who are on UN peacekeeping duties across the globe and we welcome the Minister's remarks in that regard. He mentioned the migrant and refugee crisis in his statement, about which I...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (23 Jun 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: Are there any appointments to EU bodies remaining to be made that are within the gift of the Irish Government? If so, how many and to what bodies? I refer in this regard to senior level appointments to agencies such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Court of Auditors and so on. Have all of those vacancies been filled?