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Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I am delighted to have a brief opportunity to express my full support for the Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016. I commend Deputy Ó Broin and his Sinn Féin colleagues on their work on it. This Bill provides for the amendment of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to link rent reviews to the consumer price index. I have been calling for such a measure for many years in this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (30 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 137. To ask the Minister for Health the number of high dependency beds that are now provided at Beaumont Hospital, at both the Beaumont and Raheny campuses of the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37848/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (30 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 138. To ask the Minister for Health the number of high dependency beds that are now provided in the public and private nursing homes of the constituency of Dublin Bay North; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37849/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ticket Touting (30 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 558 of 22 November 2016, the examination he is undertaking of the secondary ticket market; the measures he will take to regulate such a market and halt the practice of tickets being resold at greatly inflated higher prices; his views on whether this practice is a gross distortion of the market and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Promotions (29 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 124. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to fill Garda vacancies at the rank of sergeant and inspector; the number of promotions to the rank of sergeant and inspector that were made in 2015 and to date in 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37532/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Driver Safety (29 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 132. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of unaccompanied learner drivers that have been involved in fatal and serious collisions each year since 2012, identifying whether the collision resulted in either fatality or serious injury; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37654/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Driver Safety (29 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 133. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fatalities in each fatal collision each year since 2012 involving an unaccompanied learner driver; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37655/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Convictions Lists (29 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 134. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of unaccompanied learner drivers that have been convicted after being involved in a fatal or serious collision each year since 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37656/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Penalty Points System Offences (29 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 135. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fixed charge penalty notices issued to learner drivers who were not accompanied by a qualified driver each year since 2013; the number of those that paid the fixed charge penalty notice; the number that were summonsed to court for failing to pay the fixed charge penalty notice; the number that resulted in a conviction with...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (29 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 344. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for invalidity pension, partial capacity benefit, family income supplement and domiciliary care allowances his department received in 2015 and to date in 2016; the number of those applications that have been approved, pending or refused in each of those years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37530/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Data (29 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 381. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passports issued in 2015 and to date in 2016; the amount of revenue generated through passports being issued; the amount of revenue generated through issuing the passport cards per month in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37531/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vacancies on State Boards (29 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 546. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies on each board and State agency under the remit of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37174/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (29 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 547. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to make dual energy X-ray absorptiometry, DEXA, scan services available to public patients at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37176/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Vacancies on State Boards (29 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 704. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he will fill the number of vacancies on the board of EirGrid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37529/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test Regulations (29 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 712. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a learner driver arriving at the test centre to take the driving test is unaccompanied by a qualified driver will be permitted to take the test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37658/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Bodies Data (29 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 752. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of vacancies currently on each board and State agency under the remit of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37173/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Bodies Data (29 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 770. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of vacancies currently on each board and State agency under the remit of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37175/16]

Other Questions: Government Expenditure (24 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: The budget came out unscathed from the European Commission, but there was also a comment to the effect that, while across the European Union the medium-term target is 0.5%, there would be greater flexibility in 2017. This was severely criticised by the German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, but will it give the Department more wriggle room in 2017?

Other Questions: Flood Prevention Measures (24 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I hope there was not. I would have balanced the books.

Other Questions: Flood Prevention Measures (24 Nov 2016)

Tommy Broughan: This question is about the ongoing work under the CFRAM programme which started in 2011. I have attended some of the meetings as part of the consultation process in Dublin Bay North. We have had problems with a number of rivers. I have mentioned the River Wad, in particular, with the River Naniken, the Santry River, also known as the River Raheny and the River Moyne, as well as the area of...