Results 6,061-6,080 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lease Agreements (9 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 128. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will indicate any current Government leasehold interest in Carrisbrook House in Ballsbridge in Dublin 4; if the reported 65 year upward only rent review lease on this property was sanctioned by the then Minister for Finance (details supplied) and by the Lynch Government in 1968; the annual rent on this building; the total...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Data (9 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 136. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses in the country during the years 2011 to 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28074/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Data (9 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 138. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the central equine database collects information on the unregulated sector of horse breeding; if he has information on the number of such equine animals each year from 2011 to date in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28076/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Data (9 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 137. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of thoroughbred foals born each year since 2011; the number that enter the racing industry each year; the number of thoroughbreds that leave the industry each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28075/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Identification Scheme (9 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 139. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the horse passport and chipping programme for each year from 2009 and for 2015 to date; if he will bring in legislation or a statutory instrument to ensure that each change of ownership is recorded on the horse passport or chip; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28077/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Horses (9 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 140. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on current funding for horse control measures to avoid the terrible suffering of animals revealed in the ongoing round-up of distressed equines by the local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28078/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Slaughtering Data (9 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 141. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is conducting any studies on the ongoing slaughtering of horses for meat exports, given the great suffering involved for these companion animals, and the dangers to human health from this practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28079/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Decision (9 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 178. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to restoring the mobility allowance in budget 2016; the amount it cost in the years 2008 to 2013; the number of persons who benefitted from the allowance in each of these years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28084/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (9 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 273. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if drivers disqualified in court who fail to produce their licences are guilty of an offence; the section of legislation that provides for this offence; if this has been communicated to the Courts Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28070/15]

Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.

Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Is it intended to have a Supplementary Estimate for health over the next week or so, or will we have to wait for the Minister for Finance to bring in a formal budget? The Minister, Deputy Varadkar, speculated in his usual way, as if he were the health correspondent for RTE or The Irish Times or a hurler on the ditch, rather than the Minister with day-to-day responsibility for health. Will...

Other Questions: UN Convention on Children's Rights (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 7. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the preparations he is making for the upcoming review with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27090/15]

Other Questions: UN Convention on Children's Rights (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister's predecessor, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, submitted the third and fourth reports to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. If the Government survives, I understand the Minister will represent us in January at an examination of those reports. Some of the subjects he will obviously deal with will be child poverty, which he just discussed, child protection, services for...

Other Questions: UN Convention on Children's Rights (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Will the list of issues include the impact of homelessness on children, the children of those families - almost 3,500 - who are homeless in this city and county as well as other urban areas around the country? On 28 June, 1,122 children were in emergency accommodation. I represent dozens of families in that situation, as would the Minister and other Deputies present today. We know from...

Other Questions: UN Convention on Children's Rights (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister has said he was working with other Departments. Is he meeting the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Kelly? Is he bringing bring to his attention the very real distress and suffering of our children in this city this very minute regarding homelessness?

Other Questions: UN Convention on Children's Rights (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: What has the Minister done in this regard? He has said-----

Other Questions: UN Convention on Children's Rights (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: -----that he is the Minister for all our children. What is he doing right now to protect our homeless children?

Other Questions: UN Convention on Children's Rights (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: In this region, has the Minister met the city manager, Mr. Owen Keegan, the Fingal county manager, Mr. Paul Reid? Has he or his officials met Mr. Dick Brady or members of the Dublin Region Homeless Executive? Does he have any plans to inspect the conditions in which these homeless families are forced to live for nine or ten months and in some cases more than a year? Has the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Poverty (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 32. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the current levels of child poverty; the role his Department is taking to alleviate these growing numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27091/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (8 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance the additional revenue that would be generated if the stamp duty on conveyances and transfers of properties valued at over €1million was increased to 3%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27872/15]