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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (8 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 526. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 15 of 27 March 2014, the assistance sought by the Child and Family Agency from the National Archive; if this assistance was in the form of staff secondment or otherwise from the National Archive; and if these services which have been provided or are being provided involve a cost being incurred by the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (8 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 527. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a breakdown in tabular form of the number of children detained in Oberstown boys' and girls' schools and Trinity House, Lusk, County Dublin on a monthly basis in 2013 and to date in 2014 including the gender and the ages of the children detained. [16092/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (8 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 586. To ask the Minister for Health the budget for the National Office for Suicide Prevention in the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and the projected budget for 2014. [16093/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (8 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 681. To ask the Minister for Health if provision will be made for a home invasive ventilation for a person who has been diagnosed with motor neurone disease (details supplied). [16711/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure (8 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 697. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the planned transport infrastructural spending by his Department for the period from 2014 to 2020 outside the greater Dublin area under the following headings: national heavy rail infrastructure; national light rail infrastructure; and national roads infrastructure. [16086/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Bodies Mergers (8 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 698. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied there will be an appropriate level of modal choice in terms of public transport options for the public following the merger of the Railway Procurement Agency and the National Roads Authority; and the way the new merged body will continue to promote light rail projects. [16087/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Legislation (8 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 699. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason section 10 of the Road Traffic Act 2014 was not included in the commencement order SI 147 of 2014 recently signed by him; when he expects to be in a position to commence section 10 and the remaining sections; and the actions that need to be taken to commence the remaining provisions of the 2014 Act. [16088/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (8 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 710. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if every effort is being made by his Department to support Aer Lingus workers and pensioners affected by the ongoing dispute in relation to the Irish aviation superannuation scheme. [16377/14]

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: As stated, there is an over-reliance by the Minister of State, Deputy O'Sullivan, and her Department on the private sector to plug the incredible gap in the lack of supply of social housing. This problem is particularly acute in the context of the rental accommodation scheme, RAS. For example, as the Minister of State will be aware, in Dublin city the RAS has collapsed. I have been...

Order of Business (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: Yesterday we had no business in the Dáil for more than three hours. It seems to have become a characteristic of this Government in recent months where we have long stretches when business collapses. It may be the responsibility of the Chief Whip, and of the other Whips, that for some reason he is not able to manage the business of the House in such a way as to keep the business flowing.

Order of Business (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: Is there a problem here? It is it a problem with draftspeople in the Office of the Attorney General? What is happening to the Government on this issue? It seems to be in the process of closing down the Dáil and its input. I would like to ask the Minister a question about his own portfolio.

Order of Business (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: Given that we have so much time that the Chief Whip does not bother to fill, will we have a chance to discuss the Minister's plans for the junior certificate, the way he has tried to change it and the general unhappiness of the teaching profession?

Order of Business (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: The next Dáil will take care of it.

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I recently had an opportunity to speak briefly on television about the housing crisis. At that time I mentioned that, in the 1920s, 1930s and early 1940s, when we were really poor, 50,000 to 60,000 social housing units were constructed. At a time when this country had no money we had a major social housing programme. Despite what happened to this country in 2008-09, and the policies which...

Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 18. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a further update on his engagements with counterparts at European Union level in relation to the ongoing political crisis in Ukraine; and if he will indicate his position on the recent actions of Russia in the Crimea region. [15174/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Procurement Contracts Social Clause (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of long-term unemployed persons who have been employed as part of the initiative led by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform under the devolved schools building programme, design and build framework, administered by the National Development Finance Agency on behalf of his Department. [15782/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Procurement Contracts Social Clause (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projects under the devolved schools building programme, design and build framework, administered by the National Development Finance Agency on behalf of the Department of Education and Skills, that are hiring a certain percentage of construction workers from the cohort of persons on the live register who are long-term unemployed; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Social Clause (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 93. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when it is expected that the pilot project of hiring a certain percentage of long term unemployed persons and apprentices in public projects, which is currently taking place under the devolved schools build programme design and build framework, administered by the National Development Finance Agency on behalf of the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Procurement Contracts Social Clause (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 102. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has been liaising with the Departments of Public Expenditure and Reform and Social Protection to develop opportunities for long-term unemployed persons and apprentices to work on public construction projects. [15783/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Procurement Contracts Social Clause (3 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 114. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has been liaising with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to increase the number of unemployed construction workers and apprentices who could benefit from having a social clause in public procurement contracts. [15782/14]