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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (20 Mar 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 668. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received the interim report from the HSE on pay restoration for section 39 organisations; the next steps for his Department in this regard; when section 39 organisations will be contacted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12897/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (20 Mar 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 669. To ask the Minister for Health the approval process for the drug Kuvan for persons with phenylketonuria; when persons will be informed of the HSE's decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12898/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (20 Mar 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 726. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which a dog (details supplied) has been found in China; if he will order the return of this dog; the steps he is taking to protect the export of Irish greyhounds to countries with little or no animal welfare laws; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12497/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Project Funding (20 Mar 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 839. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount invested in the Ireland's Ancient East initiative to date in terms of overall online and offline marketing and promotion by specific project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12151/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Brexit Negotiations (20 Mar 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 877. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he met his EU counterparts formally in the past six months to discuss transport related issues post-Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12889/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Curriculum (20 Mar 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 897. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cross-departmental work she undertakes with the Department of Education and Skills regarding work experience placements of secondary school students during transition year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12496/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (20 Mar 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 900. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding that was provided to each family resource centre in each of the years 2014 to 2017, and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12888/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mayoral Election (20 Mar 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 1052. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the arrangements he plans to make for the direct election of mayors for Dublin and Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12510/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (20 Mar 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 1053. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will direct local authorities in Dublin to report monthly and quarterly on the pipeline of social housing they are delivering and have delivered in each administrative area including location and opening dates in order that persons and representatives are given a clear picture of actions to address waiting lists; and...

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak on the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018 before us. I thank Ms Justice Mary Laffoy and everyone involved in the Citizens' Assembly, the members of the Oireachtas joint committee and all those who gave their testimonies to both processes. It has not been an easy task, and I have the utmost admiration for all our...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (8 Mar 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 1. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the weekly salary of young privates in the Defence Forces recently passed out; his plans to restore pre-crash pay levels to Defence Forces personnel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11197/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (8 Mar 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 2. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on reports that young privates in the Defence Forces who recently passed out are earning less than the minimum wage; his plans to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11198/18]

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Motion (7 Mar 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I warmly welcome the ratification, at long last, of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Minister of State referred to a number of important developments, including the national disability inclusion strategy and the 100 measurable and time-specific actions to deliver it. I wonder if he could report to the Dáil on what has been achieved. The...

Sustainable Seaweed Harvesting: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I am sharing my time with Deputies Connolly and Pringle. I am delighted to be able to speak briefly on this motion on the preservation of seaweed harvesting rights, brought forward in the name of my Independents 4 Change colleagues Deputies Pringle and Connolly. I congratulate them on this very timely and important motion. My colleagues are calling for a national strategy at last for the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I refer to the criminal procedure Bill. When the Taoiseach was recently in the constituency of my colleague, Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan, I think he told community leaders he was tough on crime and on the causes of crime, which has always been my own policy, even before the Blairites coined the phrase. However, given a recent series of horrendous events during the storm and ongoing serious...

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I have raised a Topical Issue on the matter.

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)

Tommy Broughan: Our constituents, rightly, have been enraged by the proposed sale by Permanent TSB of 18,000 distressed mortgages to unregulated vulture funds. The loans, of course, include 14,000 family homes and are said to be valued at €3.7 billion. The so-called Project Glas reminds us that nearly 49,000 mortgages are now held by non-bank lenders and that more than half of receiverships are now...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Digital Archiving (28 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 36. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the research being conducted to digitally restore the contents of the Irish Public Record Office which was destroyed at the outset of the Civil War; the extent to which such records can be gathered again and restored; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9847/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hare Coursing Data (28 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 71. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of hares that died while in captivity by coursing clubs in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9844/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Safety Authority Data (28 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 125. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the road safety authority strategy 2013 to 2020, page 24 (details supplied); if this data collection has changed due to the updating of the CT68 form on 1 January 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10314/18]