Results 7,221-7,240 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (25 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 194. To ask the Minister for Health the current target for waiting times for patients to be treated in the accident and emergency unit of Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; the waiting times for treatment in the emergency department for the months of July, August and the first three weeks of September 2014 [36219/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Act Review (25 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 195. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 749 of 8 July 2014, the current status of the review of the Mental Health Act 2001 and if the expert group has finished its deliberations and has provided its report to him. [36220/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Decision (25 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 196. To ask the Minister for Health if plans to introduce the new statutory travel payment scheme to replace the motorised transport grant and other transport supports for persons with disabilities are now at an advanced stage; and when the new scheme will be in place. [36221/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters (25 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 258. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Irish Water is working on developing a means of householders being in a position to read their own water meters in order to assist them in monitoring their water usage such that Irish Water would have a similar system in place to the electricity and gas meters installed in households across the country. [36224/14]

Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I was going to ask about the planning legislation also. Has the noise nuisance Bill completely gone off the clár? There are a couple of issues in the Minister's and my constituency and this could be important legislation in respect of them. I refer to an earlier discussion and the proposal by the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, to give families €5 or €10 per week...

Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: This is becoming the straw that broke the camel's back.

Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I am just asking-----

Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: -----if the Government will give consideration to removing this tax.

Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: That could be a proposal for budget 2015.

Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: As Deputy McDonald said earlier, we are crushing-----

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Data (23 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 39. To ask the Taoiseach the number of private secretaries employed by his Department since March 2011 to date in 2014 with a breakdown of the numbers appointed directly for him and those appointed directly to the Ministers of State attached to his Department during that period; if he will provide a breakdown of the manner in which each of these appointments were made, that is through open...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Data (23 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 65. To ask the Taoiseach the total number of new appointments made in his Department and those under his remit since March, 2011 to date in 2014, with a breakdown of the grade to which they were appointed during the period. [35802/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (23 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 332. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 646 of 1 July 2014, if the joint protocol developed between the Child and Family Agency and the Garda National Immigration Bureau to enhance the capacity of both agencies to locate unaccompanied minors who go missing after presenting at Irish ports or during transfer to their place of care is now in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (23 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 490. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the legal provision that permits Irish Water to request and be provided with the PPS numbers of water customers; the reason it is necessary for customers to provide their PPS numbers to Irish Water; and if he will report on the way this personal data will be managed by Irish Water. [35295/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Performance Management Systems (18 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 85. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any new performance management systems have been introduced in the public service since March 2011; if it is envisaged that a new performance management system will be introduced in the public service in 2014 or 2015; and if any new such system introduced would be selected through an open and public tendering competition. [34921/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Trafficking (18 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 135. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on when laws to tackle sex trafficking and prostitution targeting sex buyers will be published. [34920/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (18 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 234. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a full breakdown of all expenditure incurred by his Department on consultancy, legal fees and other costs connected with Irish Water prior to, during and since the establishment of Irish Water. [34919/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls (17 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 32. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 381 of 10 June 2014, if the report into the private rented sector to be carried out by the Private Residential Tenancies Board has now been completed; the main findings of the report; his views on introducing some form of regulation to control rent levels in private rented...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Insolvency Payments Scheme Eligibility (17 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 50. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the actions she will take to redress the difficulties experienced by employees in situations where their employer goes out of business but has not been formally wound up, particularly the problem in relation to such employees not having access to the State's insolvency fund. [33338/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Sep 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 75. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has examined the idea of the development of guidelines by her Department for release to general practitioners and other medical professionals in relation to the preparation of medical reports for inclusion in applications submitted by persons seeking certain social protection payments. [33333/14]