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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (18 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 84. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if appointments to the board of the European Consumer Centre, Dublin, made since November 2014 have been made in line with Government guidelines on appointments to State boards, including public advertisement of vacancies on stateboards.ie; if appointments to the board of the ECC Dublin are made in line with section 4.5 of the Code...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (18 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who have commenced an apprenticeship programme in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44153/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (18 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detail of the apprenticeship programmes in operation; the number of participants on each apprenticeship programme, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44154/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (18 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detail of the ten new apprenticeship programmes announced in budget 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44155/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (18 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason junior certificate art examination papers which were released online on 2 October 2017 have not yet been received by all students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44123/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (18 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the marking scheme for the new leaving certificate art course work; if it has been decided that the marking scheme would be devised with the first set of examinations; if so, the way in which teachers will be expected to prepare students for the examinations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44124/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (18 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of teachers, parents and students about the grading process for students of the art leaving certificate examination when only 1.2% of arts students were awarded a H1 grade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44125/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (18 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detail of the proposed measures to provide enhanced postgraduate funding and bursaries to disadvantaged students announced in budget 2018; the additional funding provided; the estimated number of students who will benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44156/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (18 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 147. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work of the national task force on youth mental health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44163/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (18 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 148. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the additional funding announced for mental health services in budget 2018 that will be allocated to the child and adolescent mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44164/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Work Projects Funding (18 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 189. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which the €1.5 million in additional funding for youth work services announced in budget 2018 will be allocated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44150/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Reports (18 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 190. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 1455 of 26 July 2017, if this report has been published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44151/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Youth Strategy (18 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 191. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the LGBTI+ youth strategy; when she expects to receive the final report on the strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44152/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (18 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 202. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of young persons under 26 years of age who are in receipt of jobseeker's allowance, jobseeker's benefit and signing for credits for 12 months or more; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44157/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (18 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 203. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of young persons aged 18 to 25 years of age who have applied for a jobseeker's benefit or jobseeker's allowance and were unsuccessful and-or were ineligible for a payment in each of the years 2013 to 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44158/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Anti-Poverty Strategy (18 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 204. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions she is taking to address the increase in consistent poverty and deprivation among young persons aged 15 to 24 years of age as detailed in the social inclusion monitor report published by her Department (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44160/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Zero-hour Contracts (18 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 205. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions taken and progress made on each of the 14 recommendations in the Study on the Prevalence of Zero Hour Contracts since the publication of this report, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44161/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: National Minimum Wage (18 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 206. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to abolish the sub-minimum rate of the minimum wage in view of its discriminatory impact on the estimated 10,000 young persons on these reduced rates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44162/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (17 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Last Wednesday, my colleague, Deputy Daly, hosted a briefing by members of the Aer Lingus supplementary pension scheme, known as the second scheme, to discuss the serious issues that have emerged relating to the wind-up of the scheme. I attended the briefing. I understand that up to 2,500 workers and pensioners are entitled to a share of the €106 million pension fund, known as Pot B...

Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (17 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome what the Minister has said in respect of the Pensions Authority. The Taoiseach gave a commitment to Deputy Daly that the Minister would organise a meeting with her and the other two interested Deputies as well as others to see what we could do within the current legal situation. Will the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017 address some of the problems which...