Results 2,401-2,420 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Seniors Alert Scheme (23 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 181. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated cost in 2019 if the budget for the senior alert scheme was increased by 15%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22796/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the reported 60 Palestinians who have been killed and the 2,200 injured during the US embassy opening in Jerusalem on 14 May 2018; if he will raise this matter with his EU colleagues and with the United Nations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22321/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 124. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions being taken to condemn Israeli forces which are reported to have killed 60 Palestinians and injured 2,200 during the US embassy opening in Jerusalem on 14 May 2018; his plans to call in the Israeli Ambassador and impose diplomatic sanctions in response to this outrage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22322/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Order Offences (22 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 264. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the number of persons arrested and charged under section 7 of the Public Order Act 1994 in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in the Dublin metropolitan region of An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22301/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (22 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 573. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount it would cost in 2019 if the budget for the school meals programme was increased by 10%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22303/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commencement of Legislation (22 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all sections of the Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006 are in effect; if not, the sections that have yet to be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22302/18]

Palestine: Statements (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: President Trump tweeted on Monday last that it was a "great day for Israel". The Israeli Prime Minister, Mr. Netanyahu, declared several times that "we will remember this day". Indeed we will, but not for the crass and inappropriate moving of the American embassy to Jerusalem. As Israeli and American dignitaries openly celebrated the transfer of the US embassy as a "step towards peace",...

Other Questions: Budget Targets (17 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 9. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on his Department's interaction with the main spending Departments; the Departments that are close to profile in 2018; the Departments that are below or above their budget 2018 expenditure profiles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21623/18]

Other Questions: Budget Targets (17 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: Given the issues with the weather this year, the cervical cancer screening scandal, the forthcoming visit of the Pope and ongoing problems in the Departments of Health and Justice and Equality, among others, are Departments constantly in contact with the Minister to seek more money? I notice that in their Votes Departments have less of a buffer this year than in previous years. Are they...

Other Questions: Budget Targets (17 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Minister. I asked him yesterday about the summer economic statement, but we did not have time to discuss it. Will we have the statement at the end of June in order that the committees of the House will be able to have a proper chance to have an input into the budget? The Minister mentioned expenditure on housing as being below profile and that the delay in the draw-down for...

Other Questions: Budget Targets (17 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome the Minister's comments on the UN convention, but will there be additional funding this year to begin the implementation of ideas that civic society and disability groups have put to committees of the House? The problem in the health service is that acute waiting lists are growing. Yesterday the leader of the Labour Party spoke about the waiting lists for cataract operations....

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships (17 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 6. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimates of public private partnership, PPP, expenditure in the context of the multi-annual capital allocations in respect of the period 2018 to 2021; the major PPP projects in the water supply sector; the costs of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21624/18]

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships (17 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: As the Minister knows, there has been much criticism and two major debates about public private partnerships, PPPs, in this House. Our parliamentary budget office has carried out an overview of PPPs in Ireland, asking that we address the pretty opaque nature and the lack of transparency in the whole area of PPPs. There is a difficulty in measuring true value for money down to the 2040s or...

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships (17 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome the Minister's point on greater transparency or information but he was to publish a major review of PPPs going over the past couple of decades and into the future. I do not know if his Department has done that yet. He mentioned a central expenditure evaluation unit and that clearly has a key role along with the National Development Finance Agency in evaluating PPPs. There still...

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships (17 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome the news that we will get more full information. The point made about commercial sensitivity and so on reminds me of the spurious reasons that were given. We are spending the people's money and it is a mortgage for the people. I note some projects going to the 2060s. There is the 10% figure in the investment policy framework and the rule relating to the capital budgets of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (17 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 23. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated levels of pre-committed Government expenditure in 2018 and 2019 for demographic-related costs and pay equalisation in the public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21621/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: House Prices (17 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance if his officials are examining the practice of developers advertising residential units as price on application; the effect it has on house prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21801/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in Dublin 13 will continue to have an administrative principal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21836/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Delays (17 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 250. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that persons are waiting approximately 19 weeks for a decision to be made on their carer's allowance application; her target time for decisions on applications for carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21856/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Advertising Regulation (17 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to curb the practice of developers advertising residential units as price on application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21800/18]