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Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (22 Apr 2015)

Tommy Broughan: The process outlined by the Minister of State, Deputy English, is incredibly roundabout, slow and cumbersome. When we walked down the steps of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation almost seven weeks ago our expectation was that this process would be up and running soon and that the enterprise agencies, including the local enterprise offices and so on, would have made contact...

Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (22 Apr 2015)

Tommy Broughan: It is astonishing that the Minister, Deputy Richard Bruton, is not in the House, since this so deeply affects the constituency of Dublin bay north as well as the other 40 or so constituencies.

Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (22 Apr 2015)

Tommy Broughan: Six weeks ago there was a welcome meeting in the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation on the serious matter of the loss of 160 jobs in Cadbury-Mondelez in Coolock. We heard about an interagency group comprising IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, the workforce and their representatives SIPTU, Unite, the TEEU and other trade unions and, crucially, the management. It is astonishing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools (22 Apr 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 17. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to introduce the yellow flag anti-racism programme to all schools nationally; the cost of doing this; if she has liaised with the Minister for Justice and Equality, in view of the success of this programme in the schools that it is currently run in; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15325/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (22 Apr 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 70. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, the funds he has allocated to each of the 16 Departments per Department in the years 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date. [15854/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (21 Apr 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 184. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the basis on which he reported that the 27 ministerial trips abroad for St. Patrick's Day yielded an immediate €5 million, as against a cost of more than €300,000; his views that the official trips of Ministers on business promotion trips abroad is financially justified, especially to countries which do very little trade...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (21 Apr 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 190. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on any contact or supports from Ireland to the autonomous provinces of Kurdistan in Iraq; and his views on Ireland's approach to the full recognition of Kurdistan's nationhood. [15189/15]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Dáil Reform (21 Apr 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 228. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his progress on reform of Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15165/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (21 Apr 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 398. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of persons convicted in court of road traffic offences in 2013 and 2014 and in 2015 to date, with a breakdown based on each District Court; of those convicted, the number who produced their licence in court; and the number of driving licence numbers which were then forwarded by the Courts...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (21 Apr 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 399. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 385 of 1 July 2014, if she will report on her statement that the non-production of the driving licence is recorded by the court registrar, whether or not the accused appears before the court; the number of driving licences recorded in court, per county; if the courts' computer system has been updated to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (21 Apr 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 448. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with illnesses who are awaiting a medical card; the number who were refused medical cards in 2012 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15312/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (21 Apr 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 615. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to explain the reason there were 40 families awaiting access to emergency family accommodation at the beginning of March 2015 and why on 30 March 2015 there were still 40 families awaiting access to emergency family accommodation; and the action he is taking, in April 2015, to allocate appropriate provisions to Dublin...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (16 Apr 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 19. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No.725 of 24 March 2015, if he will outline the business case put by Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9 for the cystic fibrosis service, which includes a 20-bed unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14636/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs-related Deaths (16 Apr 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 43. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the standard operating procedures on dispensing methadone in Garda Stations; if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount of methadone dispensed in Garda Stations; and the number of drug-related deaths recorded, in the years 2012 to 2014 and in 2015 to date. [14635/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (16 Apr 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 92. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; the next steps for Ireland with regards to this partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15033/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (16 Apr 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 186. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount that has been spent on consultants relating to Government homeless strategies in the years 2011 to 2014 and to date in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15031/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (16 Apr 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 187. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures in place to end long-term homelessness by 2016; the investigations that took place in respect of missing the previous targets to end rough sleeping by 2010; if there are recommendations to learn from previous measures; if he will provide moneys to support community organisations offering family and...

Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)

Tommy Broughan: So what?

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services (15 Apr 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 17. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will report on the measures his Department is putting in place to monitor the wellbeing of children currently residing in emergency homeless accommodation; the family supports his Department is providing to these children; the collaborative measures he and the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government are...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (15 Apr 2015)

Tommy Broughan: 36. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of increasing the basic weekly social welfare rate of €188 back to €196. [13916/15]