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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: How do the metrics that have been chosen line up with the strategic plans of the Department? On first reading, it seems that some of the metrics are very basic. We spend a great deal of time in the Chamber discussing the health and justice and equality budgets in particular. The Government spends a great deal of time reacting to all kinds of crisis in those two budget areas. When one...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: Through the Chair, would it be better if the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform selected the metrics based on policy debates and so forth and what the public expects our national expenditure to address. Would that not be a better approach to hold Departments to account?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: A final point on the performance of Departments, many of the front-line services are carried out by agencies operating under them, which are virtually independent but heavily publicly funded. Do these metrics help us in any way to evaluate for example the performance of the National Transport Authority or whatever in delivering the aims of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport?

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding (2 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 48. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of the recently announced €190 million SICAP 2018-2022 fund that will be made available to local community development committee projects in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18908/18]

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I am delighted to be able to contribute briefly to the debate on this important Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2018, brought forward by my colleague, Deputy Maureen O’Sullivan. I commend Deputy O’Sullivan and her staff, as well as the Oireachtas staff, on the work they have done on this Bill and on highlighting the issue and the need for such a Bill. The Bill before us...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (1 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 38. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social work vacancies in Tusla by title; the number of children classified as high priority awaiting allocation of a social worker; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18546/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (1 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 45. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the work she is undertaking alongside Tusla to address staff recruitment and retention issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18545/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) will no longer meet the threshold for an administrative principal from September 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18773/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences Data (1 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 355. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of written notifications sent by the Road Safety Authority in 2015 to learner drivers for the offence of driving while unaccompanied informing them of the number of penalty points being added to their learner permit; the number of those notices that confirmed that the fixed charge notices was paid within the time...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences Data (1 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 356. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of written notifications sent by the Road Safety Authority in 2016 to learner drivers for the offence of driving while unaccompanied informing them of the number of penalty points being added to their learner permit; the number of those notices that confirmed that the fixed charge notices was paid within the time...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences Data (1 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 357. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of written notifications sent by the Road Safety Authority in 2017 to learner drivers for the offence of driving while unaccompanied informing them of the number of penalty points being added to their learner permit; the number of those notices that confirmed that the fixed charge notices was paid within the time...

Public Private Partnership on Capital Infrastructure: Statements (26 Apr 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The UK started its private finance initiative, PFI, programme in 1990 and the total estimated value of its public private partnerships is approximately £32 billion, whereas in Ireland so far it is €2.3 billion. Over the existence of previous Governments and the current Government, we have been used to school bundles and other proposals on housing and critical infrastructure. The...

Other Questions: Greyhound Industry (26 Apr 2018)

Tommy Broughan: When can we expect the legislation to be published?

Other Questions: Greyhound Industry (26 Apr 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 10. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of his deliberations on the Welfare of Greyhounds (Amendment) Bill 2017; the way in which he will improve the welfare of greyhounds being exported in the interim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16267/18]

Other Questions: Greyhound Industry (26 Apr 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister and Minister of State are hoping to introduce the greyhound industry (amendment) Bill shortly. It has undergone pre-legislative scrutiny and so forth, but there are rumours within the animal welfare community, including among the ISPCA, Dogs Trust and other organisations, that there will not be a white list of countries with low welfare standards to which the export of...

Other Questions: Greyhound Industry (26 Apr 2018)

Tommy Broughan: He cannot hear you.

Other Questions: Greyhound Industry (26 Apr 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Minister of State, but he still has not told me whether he will agree to including a white list in the legislation, which is what the welfare agencies want. He and his predecessors have told me that dogs have been exported to Argentina, Pakistan and China. I am always given the mantra that 80% of racing dogs in the UK are Irish, but they end up going from there to other...

Other Questions: Greyhound Industry (26 Apr 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The Government needs to work closely with the EU on this matter.

Other Questions: Greyhound Industry (26 Apr 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The Greyhound Rescue Association told us that, between 2010 and 2015, almost 3,000 of our greyhounds were surrendered to dog pounds, of which 2,500 were destroyed and 400 were, thankfully, homed or collected by welfare organisations. These are bad figures. In 2016, 284 greyhounds entered pounds, of which half were euthanised. The Government needs to address what is a major welfare issue. ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Negotiations (26 Apr 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 22. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the Common Fisheries Policy and the challenges facing the fishing industry from March 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16268/18]