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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the agency or Government body that has oversight and responsibility for hospitality and tourism skills development policy here; his plans for this agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4462/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tourism and hospitality skills training positions which were allocated to the Dublin Bay North constituency in 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4458/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding which was allocated to the Dublin Bay North constituency for tourism and hospitality skills training in 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4460/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (31 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of families placed in emergency homeless accommodation that have now received their 24-hour Leap cards, per county; the number of families still awaiting Leap cards, per county; when he expects full roll out of this free travel to be in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4059/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Safety (31 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for improving water safety. [4058/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Marine Safety (31 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 702. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the need for all pleasure craft users regardless of age to wear a lifejacket; and his plans to improve safety in use of pleasure crafts. [4058/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (31 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 746. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has examined payment policies and their impact on employees, for example, when employees are paid monthly and begin a new job they can be up to five weeks without any income; her plans to conduct such a review and reduce this time period to two weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4057/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister is going to answer it. We urgently need it. As Members are aware, 40% of our air connection is with the UK. In the context of Brexit, is the Minister going to deliver metro north under this programme?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister wants to answer.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 19. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on his preparations to publish the capital review alongside the 2017 mid-year expenditure report; the level of capital expenditure necessary by 2021 to upgrade Ireland's infrastructure urgently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3281/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister would agree that the Government has a deplorable record in the provision of capital so going forward with this capital review is urgent. We have heard time and again at the budget committee that we have not even been meeting normal depreciation targets. One only has to go around the country and look at the "R" roads such as those of the Minister of State in east Cork. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: They were in bits.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: That is one item. Has the Minister been on the N32?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: May I ask a question on just one point?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Departmental Information (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: As an addendum to the question, has the Minister provided for funding for the budgetary oversight office itself in 2017?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Expenditure Reviews (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 9. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the forthcoming comprehensive spending review; if that review includes the costing of current and possible future tax expenditures; if all current spending programmes are reviewed, including the input of special studies carried out by officials of the major spending Departments; and if he will make a statement on...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Expenditure Reviews (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: We had a discussion earlier on the comprehensive spending review, which is, perhaps, the third such review in our recent economic history. The Minister referred earlier to rolling selective reviews. What exactly do such reviews involve? A report from the Department of Social Protection on the free travel scheme that because public recently upset many of our constituents deeply. Is that...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Expenditure Reviews (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I am glad to hear that it is not a continuation of previous reviews and aimed at cutting expenditure on vital services, which, unfortunately, the Government has shamefully done since 2011. I mentioned the report in the Department of Social Protection. Are all Departments compiling reports on certain programmes? Does the Minister nominate which programmes he wants to hear back on, such as,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Expenditure Reviews (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: When the rolling programme for expenditure reviews is being identified, do officials in the Minister's Department look at programmes where there are demographic or other pressures which cause massive increases in spending year on year?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (26 Jan 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 8. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on his recent decision to approve increases in annualised salaries in the public service for the period from 1 April 2017 to August 2017; the way in which he is providing for the reported €120 million cost of the increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3280/17]