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Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: Without casting aspersions on our distinguished colleagues in the bull pen, the Minister of State's contribution is reminiscent of an episode of "Irish Pictorial Weekly", with numbers being plucked from the air. He referred to the definition of a day. It seems we will have to define what is and is not a day. Given the energy the Government is expending on tracking down the €25...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I strongly support Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan's comments. I recognise that the Government has perhaps come a small way towards meeting the grave concerns brought to our attention. Like myself, the Ceann Comhairle has probably received many representations on this issue and the retrograde and disproportionate changes the Minister has introduced in this section. It is felt that this is...

Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: Is it possible that there could be a social welfare (amendment) Bill before the House breaks up? The Tánaiste will be delighted to learn that Deputies Nulty, Halligan, Pringle and I, along with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, Focus Ireland, Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed, INOU, Age Action and One Parent Exchange Network, OPEN, formally launched a campaign for...

Other Questions: Energy Prices (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: No, I was not. The Minister knows I was not.

Other Questions: Energy Prices (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: A Cheann Comhairle, I was the Minister's energy spokesperson.

Other Questions: Energy Prices (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: No; the Minister is the one who has forgotten.

Other Questions: Post Office Network (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister should sing it.

Other Questions: Energy Prices (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 6. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures being taken by his Department to tackle the problem of fuel poverty. [51567/13]

Other Questions: Energy Prices (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: So far this winter we have escaped with relatively mild weather conditions, although it is very cold this morning. Last winter was one of the worst in living memory. The Government has reduced the term during which the fuel allowance is payable and the allowance has effectively been wiped out by the 33% increase in the price of gas. The Minister will be aware that the price of a standard...

Other Questions: Energy Prices (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister has referred to the better energy warmer homes scheme, the target for which is 1 million homes by 2020, of which 102,000 have been insulated thus far. Has the 12,000 target for 2013 been achieved? I acknowledge this work is under way having seen teams of workers moving through local authority estates. The Minister also referred to the pay-as-you-go scheme. He previously gave...

Other Questions: Energy Prices (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister did not address my questions about the roll-out of pay-as-you-go meters or price invigilation. Given the general uselessness of the Commission for Energy Regulation during the years, is there not a strong case to be made for some controls in this regard? In a recent speech the Tánaiste spoke about increasing prices and the sudden appearance of bills which families could...

Other Questions: Energy Prices (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: The damage was done in 2011-12.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Sale of State Assets (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 11. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the current situation regarding the sale of Bord Gáis Energy. [51566/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 122. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on Garda Operation Bambi; the number of persons arrested and charged as part of this operation to date broken down on an annual basis; the number of successful convictions obtained as a result of the operation; and if the operation is still active. [52130/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Missing Children (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 146. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a breakdown of the number of children who have been reported missing from the care system in Dublin and on a national basis in the years 2012 and to date in 2013; the number of these children who were subsequently found and re-entered the care system; and the ages of the children involved. [52125/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 160. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish a primary care centre in Donaghmede, Dublin 13 and the North Fringe [52131/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Training (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 161. To ask the Minister for Health if he will significantly increase the number of general practitioner training places following recent media reports and statements from the Irish College of General Practitioners regarding the shortage in the number of GP training places and the need to educate GPs to staff the new primary care network [52132/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (4 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of bus shelters that have been installed in the Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council administrative areas since January to date in 2013; and if he will provide the location of these new bus shelters. [52126/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (3 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 384. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps that are being taken and will be taken by her Department to incorporate the findings and recommendations of reports published by the national review panel for serious incidents and child deaths into her Department’s child protection policy. [51869/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Provision (3 Dec 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 385. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the current number of children in care who are placed with relative foster carers; and if she will report on the number of these relative foster carers who have received training and support from the Health Service Executive’s children and family services before the children have been placed with them. [51870/13]