Results 7,921-7,940 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Proposed Legislation (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 201. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to the statement by the Taoiseach on the Order of Business on 5 March 2014 in relation to the Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill, if he will confirm whether the Bill will contain the fundamental right for employees to collective bargaining in the workplace. [12093/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 263. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the forms of assistance that are being provided to persons affected by flooding and the severe weather in December 2013 and January 2014 from the Department’s humanitarian assistance fund of €25 million which was recently allocated by the Government. [12024/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 334. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when it is expected that the plan on the future of the social housing programme, particularly in the area of building new housing units, will be published. [12094/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 335. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that the Minister of State with responsibility for housing has recently published figures which show that there are approximately 90,000 people on social housing waiting lists, the target for housing construction in 2014 to 2016, inclusive. [12095/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 336. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated number of social housing homes which are required over the next three years to address the ongoing housing crisis. [12096/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan Implementation (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 374. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out the position regarding permission given by his predecessors to wind power developers on the Kish bank, the Bray bank, the Codling bank and the Arklow wind park; and if these consents are subject to the preparation of environmental impact statements or the recently published offshore development renewable...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 402. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there has been an Garda Operation Learner Driver in the first two months of 2014; the number of learner drivers checked during that operation; the number of unaccompanied learner drivers detected; the number of learner drivers detected failing to display L-plates; the number of cautions delivered and the number of proceedings commenced on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Staff (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 403. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the actions that will be taken to redress reported reductions in staff numbers at the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission; the current number of vacancies at the commission; and when these posts will be filled. [11601/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Remit (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 459. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the external review commissioned by his Department on matters relating to Bord na gCon which was recently awarded to consultants (details supplied); and when the report by the company will be finalised. [11762/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Registration (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 460. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the proposal that the function of greyhound registration be transferred from the Irish Coursing Club to Bord na gCon. [11763/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 490. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total number of educational welfare officers here in the years 2011 to 2013, inclusive, and to date in 2014; and the current number of EWOs in the following areas Dublin 3, Dublin 5, Dublin 13 and Dublin 17. [11630/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Legislative Programme (11 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 604. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects to sign commencement orders to enact the Road Traffic Act 2014; and if he will provide a specific timeframe of when he expects to enact the specific provisions in respect of changes to the penalty points system and learner and novice drivers. [12022/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Sites (6 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 165. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the sites that have been selected as potentially suitable to apply for recognition as UNESCO world heritage sites from his Departments tentative list; and following the recent seminar held by his Departmental officials with local authorities, if the Howth Peninsula, Baldoyle Bay and the Velvet Strand will be added to the Irish list...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Social Workers Recruitment (6 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 203. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the current number of social workers posts that are vacant; and when these posts will be filled. [11430/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Work Placement Programmes (6 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 204. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her position on the proposal to put a graduate placement programme in place to fill social worker vacancies in a situation where the proposed graduate recruits could be in receipt of lower salaries than social workers who are not part of the programme. [11431/14]

Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: What is the status of the Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill? Will it include the right to collective bargaining, as the Labour Party insisted it should?

Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: In his long speech yesterday, the Taoiseach announced the construction programme. Can he confirm it will include a social housing programme? A theme common to all the Deputies who have had a chance to speak on the Government programme has been the incredible seriousness of the housing crisis. Even The Irish Times, which was a cheerleader for the abuses in the housing market up to the...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: What people fear is that the appeals process is used as a mechanism to deter them from making applications in the first place and that it is in thrall to wider public economic policy. In the case of the Government, the fact that it has a public policy on social welfare expenditure which the Minister's Fine Gael colleagues insisted on having makes it impossible to have true reform while the...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: More people would be at work if we did not have the national debt.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (5 Mar 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 8. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is satisfied with the current appeals process operated by the Social Welfare Appeals Office; if she will reform the process in order to promote efficiency in having appeals decided and reduce appeal waiting times; and if she would consider putting the office on a statutory basis. [10338/14]