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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (23 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 426. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will report on the continuing serious allegations of illegal pay and conditions for workers in the fishing industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9355/17]

Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: When we last discussed the Bill I was posing a series of questions on the preparation and implementation of the UN convention to the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath. I will add a couple of other issues to that. Will he outline in his response if there has been any formal structured consultation process with civil society, and specifically with people with disabilities, since the...

Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I am delighted to speak in support of the Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill and congratulate our Sinn Féin colleagues, specifically Deputy David Cullinane, on bringing this timely Bill before us. Deputy Cullinane also held an informative briefing recently at which representatives from some of our major unions were present and showed quite clearly the difference...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications Data (22 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 155. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current processing times for passports through the normal application process and through passport express; the number of passports that have been processed to date in 2017 and that are being processed currently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8985/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (22 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 156. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the passport express ten-day turnaround was increased to a 15-day turnaround; the action he is taking to address the current backlog; if he will embark on an information campaign to ensure that applications are submitted allowing for extra time for processing due to the backlog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8986/17]

National Famine Commemoration Day Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I am delighted to have this brief opportunity to speak in support of Deputy Brophy's National Famine Commemoration Day Bill 2017. The Bill is almost an exact replica of an earlier Sinn Féin Bill, the Famine Memorial Day Bill 2016, which also called for the setting up of a national day of commemoration on the second Sunday of May each year. It is quite shocking, when one thinks about it,...

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (21 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister has said that they do not want people to be using different services to get a job. We have noticed on the north side of Dublin that the local job service of our partnership seems to be used less and less by the Minister's Department, which seems to prefer the route through Seetec, a much more inflexible route. The local job service would know about local job opportunities in...

Other Questions: State Pensions Reform (21 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 36. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures he is taking to gender-proof any changes to the State pension schemes; his views on a universal state pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8371/17]

Other Questions: State Pensions Reform (21 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I asked the Taoiseach about this earlier but I still find the answers supplied to my colleague, Deputy Boyd Barrett, a bit dispiriting. The 43,000 pensioners referenced will still be at a loss as the months and years go on. Has the Minister made any attempt to begin costing and ensuring we can have a gender-proofed universal pensions with a move to a system of caring credits?

Other Questions: State Pensions Reform (21 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: In the summer of 2011, the Minister's Department gave a strong warning on this, according to the Irish Examiner, which did some research in the area. It indicated the Department should not have proceeded with these effectively massive cuts to the cohort of pensioners born from the late 1940s onwards and who had irregular and incomplete contributions. They are now suffering year after year....

Other Questions: State Pensions Reform (21 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Professor Alan Barrett of the Economic and Social Research Institute, to whom I referred earlier, has argued that in 2011, the rules of the game were changed in the middle of the game for the people born from the late 1940s onwards. That was a fundamental and grave injustice and the Minister should make it his business, while he is in the Department, to address that. I also referred earlier...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I ask the Taoiseach to address the shocking losses for the thousands of pensioners involved. The lifetime loss for people with an average life expectancy of 81 years who are in band 3 is nearly €15,000.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: It is €23,000 for those in band 4; it is €18,000 for those in band 5 and over €18,000 for those in band 6. This is an appalling imposition on this very vulnerable group of our fellow citizens who work so hard, not just in the workplace.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: The women pensioners were among the first to go into the workforce and also reared their families and cared for people. I urge the Taoiseach to take the steps I have outlined.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: It is little comfort to the two thirds of workers involved, the women workers and the other people who have been caught in this situation. They are bearing this burden week after week all through the years, perhaps into the next decade. I hope the Taoiseach has read or gets a chance to read the Age Action report, which gives detailed case histories of women who have suffered from this savage...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Over the last few weeks there has been much reflection on the Taoiseach's political career and what happened under his Governments. I wish to focus on a very bad decision by his Government in the brutal budget of 2012, which I strongly opposed. In that budget the pay related social insurance, PRSI, contribution rates, which numbered four down through the decades, were expanded to six....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pensions Payments (21 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 41. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of reversing the changes to PRSI pension bands from 2012; the cost of backdating this change to the 36,000 plus recipients of the State pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8370/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (21 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 100. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank in the serious crime review team; if additional personnel and equipment will be allocated to the team in the short term; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8434/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (21 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 101. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on Garda Operation Respite; the number of persons arrested and charged to date; the number of successful convictions obtained to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8435/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Audiology Services Data (21 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 460. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels within the community audiology service in CHO Area 9; the current vacancies within these services; the total spend in respect of audiology services in CHO Area 9 in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8432/17]