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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Strength (2 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 120. To ask the Minister for Defence if there will be a recruitment drive for the Naval Service this year; if so, if he will provide details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26754/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Staff (2 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 128. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the post of Secretary General in her Department is to be filled; if she will report on the Garda Síochána districts currently without a superintendent; the length of time each post has been vacant; when each post will be filled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26757/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (2 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of revenue generated for the Exchequer through toll plazas in 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26755/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus Services (2 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of routes that Dublin Bus operates as of 22 June 2015; if he will provide the same as of 22 June on each year from 2012 to 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26756/15]

Other Questions: Bovine Disease Controls (1 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister made the point very strongly about feedstuffs but could there have been cross-contamination in 2009 or 2010? Was this ruled out? The farm in question is reported to be an exemplary producer. The report makes clear this is the second time this farm was depopulated as it also occurred approximately a decade ago. Is this of concern to the Minister? He mentioned the grand dam...

Other Questions: Bovine Disease Controls (1 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: I also asked the Minister about the fact that farm was depopulated in the past and about cross-contamination.

Other Questions: Bovine Disease Controls (1 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 7. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the recent bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE, case; the investigative measures his Department is taking to ensure this was an isolated case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25843/15]

Other Questions: Bovine Disease Controls (1 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: The BSE case in County Louth is a very significant event in Irish agriculture. I have been looking quickly at the epidemiological investigation report on the Department's website and it appears to conclude that this is a classical BSE case and, it is hoped, a one-off event. However, the report seems very vague overall. Obviously, the feed from the era in question, 2009 to 2010, has been...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Slaughtering Data (1 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 11. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a report on the number of horses slaughtered in each of the years 2012 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; the number of horses exported for slaughter in the same periods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25844/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (30 Jun 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 158. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to continue using the post office network to administer payments from her Department; the number of years this is guaranteed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25788/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (30 Jun 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 492. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to commemorate the victims of the genocide in Srebrenica in Bosnia Herzegovina; if he will call for an official commemoration of the genocide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25789/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (30 Jun 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 607. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how the much-mentioned €185,000 cost of building a social house has been reached; the measures being taken to reduce this cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25783/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (30 Jun 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 608. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on whether he has personally reviewed the document handed in by the Irish Housing Network on 18 June 2015 during its occupation of his Department; his views on this document; if he will meet personally with representatives from the group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25784/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (30 Jun 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 609. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on Article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which addresses the right to housing and of which we are a member; if his Department has reported to the international covenant on the current housing crisis; if not, his plans to do so as the monitoring mechanism is in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Post Office Network (30 Jun 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 649. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to conduct a commercial review of the post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25787/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax Rates (30 Jun 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 688. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the discussions he has held with the Department of Finance to restructure commercial vehicle road tax in line with comparable costs in Northern Ireland; if his Department has conducted a review into this restructure and the possible positive impacts it would have on the haulage sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Topical Issues: Disability Services Funding (25 Jun 2015)

Tommy Broughan: St. Michael's House is an outstanding organisation that since 1955 has been providing vital services for citizens with intellectual disabilities and their families. These services include clinical and counselling services, educational and vocational services, employment services, residential and respite care services, specialist Alzheimer's disease services for people with intellectual...

Topical Issues: Disability Services Funding (25 Jun 2015)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. I hope her colleague with responsibility in this area will deliver on the undertakings she outlined, to which she also referred in the replies to a number of parliamentary questions I had submitted to the Department of Health. On additional funding for places, what submission has the Department made to the Minister for Public Expenditure and...

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2015)

Tommy Broughan: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on this very important Bill, which I strongly support. I know the Low Pay Commission has been operational since February of this year, and I understand that the first report will be due in the very near future. I welcome the legislation, which provides the constitutional and legislative bulwark for the national minimum wage, and amends the...

Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)

Tommy Broughan: In the spring statement, we were told there would be a statement on the capital budget sometime before the end of June by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin. The month ends next Tuesday, so when can we expect that? Following Deputy Grealish-----