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Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (23 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 495. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the extra €6.8 million allocated to maternity services in 2017 will be spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24402/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Guidelines (23 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 668. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when sections 6 to 17 of the Children First Act 2015 will come into order; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24399/17]

Residential Tenancies (Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I am delighted to have this opportunity to speak briefly on this very important Bill and I thank the members of People Before Profit for the great work they have done on the Bill and for bringing it before us today. The timing of a discussion on this Bill could not be more appropriate or fortuitous. It seems that our housing and homelessness crisis has reached emergency heights. The idea...

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: It does not work for many of my constituents.

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister of State could start a housing programme.

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I am blaming the two previous Governments.

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I was told at the time there were 25,000-----

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Not in our area. It is fantasy.

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: It is not working for a lot of the country.

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister for Finance and the Taoiseach are leaving jobs today. The reality is Fine Gael was involved in the complete cessation of any kind of a reasonable social housing programme. We can go back to one of the Minister of State's predecessors, Mr. Jimmy Tully, who ensured during a very poor time that 25,000 or 30,000 houses were built in this country in the early 1970s. The Minister of...

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I know that.

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Did the Minister of State ever work on site?

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Okay.

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: We had problems before.

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: It is not working for homeless people.

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Tomorrow, it will be 11 months to the day since the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Simon Coveney, launched the Rebuilding Ireland strategy in an attempt to address the spiralling housing and homelessness crisis. While it set out some ambitious goals, it highlighted again the Government's total ideological reliance on the private rented sector as a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Supervision (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 14. To ask the Minister for Finance if section 33AT (1) of Part IIIC of the Central Bank Act 1942 has been amended in subsequent finance legislation; if not, his plans to amend or remove that specific section which related to sanctions for criminal offences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23367/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt Servicing (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 18. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to refinance a quarter of the State's national debt between October 2017 and October 2020; and the steps being taken by the NTMA to minimise the risks to the State in this period of great economic uncertainty. [18352/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 22. To ask the Minister for Finance when he and the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs will bring forward firm proposals for community banking in view of the recent public consultation on such banking models; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23366/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (18 May 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 23. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a report on the large levels of tax expenditures relating to research and development tax credits each year since 2010; if his Department carries out regular cost-benefit analyses on this level of expenditure and revenue foregone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18345/17]