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Other Questions: Child Care Services Inspections (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 78. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if it is planned that residential child care centres run by private operators in which children in the care of the State are cared for will come under the inspection remit of the Health Information and Quality Authority. [53791/13]

Other Questions: Child Care Services Inspections (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister told me that up to August 2013 there were 115 children in the care of the State who were placed in private residential child care centres, at a cost of up to €8,000 a week for some placements in HSE south. On a key point, given that there is a significant lack of public knowledge about the number of children who are placed in private residential care, why, as she stated...

Other Questions: Child Care Services Inspections (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: On 12 March last I asked the Minister to provide a list of private residential child care centres, including the names of providers and owners and numbers of the staff and their levels of training and qualification, and she told me I would get that information by 21 November last. We are still waiting for it. I wonder whether that information could be transmitted. Recent media reports...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 93. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the actions she will take in tandem with the newly established Child and Family Agency to reduce and ultimately eliminate the number of Irish children placed in residential care outside of Ireland who are detained under special care orders and therefore provide the necessary care and supports to these children in this jurisdiction. [53792/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Uniforms (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the completion of the proposed survey of parents on school uniforms; the level of consultation that has taken place with retailers or manufacturers of school uniforms and their employees’ representatives prior to the circular on the matter being published. [53780/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Establishment (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 518. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if public health nurses are excluded from the remit of the Child and Family Agency; if she will be liaising with the Department of Health to introduce reforms in the public health nursing system to support public health nurses in their vital role as the first point of contact with many families and potentially assisting the provision of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Strategy Implementation (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 519. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the Early Years strategy will be compiled following the publication of the report of the expert group on the Early Years strategy. [54040/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 589. To ask the Minister for Health if a national vision strategy will be developed by his Department in view of research which indicates that blindness is preventable for the majority of sufferers. [54064/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 584. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will be liaising with the Health Information and Quality Authority to ensure that a full and thorough investigation is carried out following complaints made about certain incidents of concern in an organisation (details supplied) working with persons with intellectual disabilities. [54037/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 585. To ask the Minister for Health the number of facilities providing services to persons with intellectual disabilities inspected by the Health Information and Quality Authority since the new inspection regime for such facilities became operational in November 2013. [54039/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 590. To ask the Minister for Health the number of temporary employments in the Health Service Executive for which a company (details supplied) has recruited the successful applicants in the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013. [54066/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (17 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 592. To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure incurred by the Health Service Executive in engaging the services of a company (details supplied) in the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013. [54069/13]

Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I support Deputy Stanley. I understand from the Whips that all Stages of the Bill will go through the House on Wednesday and that it will be guillotined. The pyrite legislation will be guillotined on Thursday. We talked earlier about the appalling Fianna Fáil record, and rightly so.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: When the Tánaiste sat beside me on this side of the House, he used to lambaste Fianna Fáil for guillotining major Bills like the Water Services (No. 2) Bill and the pyrite legislation.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I understand both Bills are being guillotined.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Parking Charges (12 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 27. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding his proposal to introduce paid parking at Howth harbour. [52930/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Smuggling (12 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 38. To ask the Minister for Finance the current legal penalties for the sale of contraband cigarettes; and if it is his intention to significantly increase those penalties in line with the United Kingdom and other jurisdictions, in view of the fact that a single large container load of contraband may cost the State up to €3 million in excise revenue foregone. [53512/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Housing Sector (12 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 139. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 27 of 5 December 2013, if he will provide a breakdown, based on each local authority administrative area, of the locations of the 25,731 units of accommodation which were provided by approved housing bodies following approval by his Department under its capital funding schemes up to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (12 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 142. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is intended to extend the estate management powers of local authorities under the Housing Acts 1966 to 2009 to include tenancies supported by rent supplement or housing benefit. [53510/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (12 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 143. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is intended to extend the estate management powers of local authorities under the Housing Acts 1966 to 2009 to include tenancies acquired under the rental accommodation scheme where there is currently no statutory basis for tenant and estate management protocols and programmes of local authorities. [53511/13]