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Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Meetings (7 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 447. To ask the Minister for Health when he will next meet a person (details supplied); the issues that will be discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5875/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Data (7 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 448. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time nursing positions at Beaumont Hospital for each of the years 2013 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the number of agency staff at the hospital in 2016 and to date in 2017; the number of full-time nursing vacancies at Beaumont Hospital in 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5876/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Midwifery Services (7 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 449. To ask the Minister for Health when the six posts of director of midwifery that are currently vacant will be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5877/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Issues (7 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 539. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the assessments his Department is undertaking regarding the impact of Brexit on the industry of thoroughbred breeding here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5872/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (7 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 540. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his position on possible changes to the Common Fisheries Policy during Brexit negotiations; the role he will have in protecting Irish fisheries in those negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5873/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: International Agreements (7 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 616. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if measures can be taken to ensure that unlawful discrimination is not being undertaken or facilitated at Irish airports through the application of President Trump's policy in preclearance areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5922/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: International Agreements (7 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 617. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures the Government is taking to ensure international refugee law is not subverted through the application of President Trump's policy in preclearance areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5923/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: International Agreements (7 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 618. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the mechanisms in place to ensure Ireland's obligation under the TFEU, the ECHR and other applicable international law are fully complied with in preclearance areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5924/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: EU Programmes (7 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 652. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the next round of funding for projects under the connecting Europe facility programme will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5878/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Legislation (7 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 659. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on his meetings with a person (details supplied) and the National Transport Authority (NTA) on the implementation of the recent legislation on the regulation of rickshaws; the further amendments that are urgently needed to enable the implementation of this legislation; when he was informed that the NTA would not be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fishery Harbour Centres (2 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 15. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if funding will be provided to carry out a dredging programme at Howth Harbour, County Dublin in 2017; if he will provide an update on the draft report from a €150,000 site investigation project which was commissioned in 2015, received in March 2016 and assessed by his department’s engineers in quarter 2 of 2016; and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fishery Harbour Centres (2 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I have asked the Minister and his predecessor about Howth Fishery Harbour Centre for the past two or three years. Silting of over two metres has occurred. The former Minister made some plans and €150,000 was made available for the site investigation works as part of the development programme. We heard that these were finished at the end of March. I remember asking the former...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fishery Harbour Centres (2 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: Is it possible to include it in the 2017 capital programme? It is badly needed. It has not been dredged since 1981 or 1982 so we are talking about nearly four decades. I remember showing the former Minister's father around when he was a Minister. It came up even then as one of the issues nearly 20 years ago. Howth Harbour users action group has been in contact with the Department over...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Issues (2 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 19. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to protect the agri-food market in view of Brexit and in view of the fact that recent reports stated that exchange rates have already cost exporters approximately €570 million in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4845/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (2 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 234. To ask the Minister for Health the full year cost of increasing the number of day respite sessions from 41,000 to 51,000 and from 182,000 to 205,000 respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4955/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (2 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 362. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the national child care information system will be fully rolled out in the Dublin region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4954/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (1 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 88. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently in receipt of home help hours and home care packages in community healthcare organisation, CHO, area 9; the number on waiting lists and the length of time waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4252/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (1 Feb 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 108. To ask the Minister for Health the number of school leaver day service places that are available for young adults over 18 years of age on the autism spectrum in September 2017; if all young adults on the autism spectrum requiring localised day services currently are in appropriate placements; if any 18 year olds will not be offered day service placements in September 2017 and the...

Bus Éireann: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: As President Trump might say, it is so ironic that the motion has been tabled by Fianna Fáil, given that it played a huge role in the race to the bottom in public transport, beginning with the Public Transport Regulation Act 2009 which the Minister will remember. A number of us argued about the dangers we see today in an incredible and vicious assault on the drivers and other staff of...

Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (31 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important Bill. Mr. Paddy Connolly, the chief executive of Inclusion Ireland, wrote a moving and impassioned piece in the Irish Examinertoday under the heading "People with disabilities are not a diagnosis, they are human". I presume the Minister of State read the article but if not, I urge him to do so. Some of the words in it struck a chord with...