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Other Questions: Commemorative Events (29 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: On the remembrance of the individual men who died, we have known this information since 1923 and the digital archive was published recently. Are there any plans to have a digital archive of all the 203,000 who served? I note that the first big British commemoration is based in Glasgow. Some interpret this as being a political device to use the commemoration of the First World War to...

Other Questions: Commemorative Events (29 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 9. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the commemorative events that will be taking place in 2014 to acknowledge the centenary of the First World War and to remember the large number of Irish citizens who fought and died in the war. [3951/14]

Other Questions: Commemorative Events (29 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I think this question was originally addressed to the Taoiseach. We are well into the decade of commemorations and there have been initiatives in respect of the digital archive, developed by Google and the In Flanders Field Museum. There are intense discussions, particularly in the United Kingdom, about this commemoration. Many would like the emphasis to be on the 49,000 young Irishmen who...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (28 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 134. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding reforms to rent supplement payments; and when the housing assistance payment system will be in place. [3519/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (28 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 140. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the waiting times for social welfare appeals to be decided in the years 2011, 2012 and 2013, including the key social protection benefits and allowances. [3520/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Social Housing Provision (28 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 219. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 219 of 21 January 2014, if he will provide a breakdown of the 132 properties acquired by NARPS for lease to approved housing bodies; the names of the approved housing bodies; the location and number of properties leased to each approved housing body; and of the total 596 properties delivered for social housing, a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (28 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 510. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of expenditure provided directly to Irish Water in 2013 from the local government fund; and the projected amount from the fund to be allocated to Irish Water in 2014. [3715/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Administration (28 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 508. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the local adjustment factor contained in the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 in relation to collection of the local property tax and its redistribution to local authorities; if he will be introducing regulations in respect of the local adjustment factor; and when the local adjustment factor...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (28 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 509. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount provided to local authorities in 2013; the breakdown of the expenditure allocated to each local authority from the fund; the total projected allocation from the fund for 2014; and a breakdown of the allocation for each local authority. [3714/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (28 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 512. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the expenditure projected for the Local Government Fund in 2014; the level of input to the fund from the local property tax and the road tax. [3718/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Administration (28 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 511. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will be in a position to restore his previous commitment of ensuring that 80% of the receipts from the local property tax collected in a local authority administrative area will be redistributed back to that local authority. [3716/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Amendments (28 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 544. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the submissions from a group (details supplied) regarding the certification requirements contained in the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2014; and if the regulations will be amended to reflect the concerns outlined by the group in question. [3932/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Service Staff (28 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 557. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 430 of 21 January 2014, the number of external candidates for which sanction has been granted by his Department to Dublin City Council to hold a new recruitment drive for Dublin Fire Brigade in 2014. [4181/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Inter-Country Adoptions (28 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 667. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding negotiations between officials in her Department and their counterparts in Russia to conclude a bilateral agreement in respect of adoption between Ireland and Russia. [4179/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (28 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 738. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements his Department will be making to provide for the establishment of free general practitioner care for children under six years of age as announced in budget 2014; and if he will indicate the timeframe for same. [3933/14]

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: The Ceann Comhairle could use his discretion.

Other Questions: Freedom of Information Remit (22 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 7. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when and if the freedom of information legislation will be extended to include Irish Water within its remit. [2667/14]

Other Questions: Freedom of Information Remit (22 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: As the Minister knows, the Opposition in this House refused to take part in the debate on the establishment of Irish Water because of the absolute dearth of information on this Government initiative. We found out a few days ago that as part of the expenditure of more than €200 million on the establishment of Irish Water, some 300 workers at Irish Water had been taken to a yoga...

Other Questions: Freedom of Information Remit (22 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome this announcement by the Minister. There is a sense of tremendous outrage. People feel that when the Government was deciding on the road it was going to go down, it adopted the wrong model by choosing Bord Gáis as the lead organisation in this regard. It is a question of a certain kind of semi-State culture. In fairly recent times we saw Pádraig McManus and other...

Other Questions: Freedom of Information Remit (22 Jan 2014)

Tommy Broughan: On the related matter of parliamentary questions in this House, we are familiar with the very unsatisfactory performance of Departments like the Department of Health when we inquire about HSE matters and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport when we inquire about Irish Rail matters. Deputies who inquire about matters related to State or semi-state bodies, such as the Health Service...