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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 119. To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek funding in budget 2020 to provide resources for the establishment of a dedicated department at a university hospital here to treat persons with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and hypermobility spectrum disorders to be led by a specialist consultant on the conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22975/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Conditions (29 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 120. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the needs of persons with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and hypermobility spectrum disorders; his plans to improve services for persons with the conditions in 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22976/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Garda Resources (28 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister of State referred to Operation Hybrid. A few months ago, the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, outlined the successes of the operation, with 86 arrests and 11 people charged in relation to organised crime and gang murder investigations. There were three convictions for murder following the operation. However, only 37 firearms were seized, which seemed low given the number of reported...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Garda Resources (28 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: As the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, knows, I sought yesterday to adjourn Dáil Éireann to address the subject matter of this Topical Issue, which is for the Government to take all urgent steps to resource An Garda Síochána and to introduce any necessary legislation to end the appalling series of murders on the north side of Dublin in recent months. Last week,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (28 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 32. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to refer the final report of the commission of investigation into mother and baby institutions to An Garda Síochána; if her officials are liaising with officials in the Department of Justice and Equality on the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21737/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (28 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 168. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on Garda Operation Coatee; the number of persons arrested and charged to date; the number of successful convictions obtained to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22630/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (28 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 216. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the current service for primary care mental health services in Raheny, Donaghmede, Edenmore and Kilbarrack, Dublin; if referrals have been suspended until later in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22350/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (28 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 275. To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocation to the national counselling services in each of the years 2017 to 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22628/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Data (28 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 276. To ask the Minister for Health the number of companies contracted to provide personal assistance care on behalf of the HSE in CHO9 in each of the years 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22629/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (28 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 383. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if legislation is needed for the issuing of fixed charge notices on the roadside via the new roads policing mobile app; if so, when such legislation or statutory instrument will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22513/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Eligibility (28 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 505. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the income limits that are used to determine if an applicant is eligible for HAP; the discretion allowed regarding previously owned homes or existing co-owned properties that the applicant can no longer inhabit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22840/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (28 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 506. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of EU nationals refused social housing support due to owning a property in their country of origin, in each of the years 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the avenues that exist for those who have properties that have little or no value; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22841/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I believe in universal services. We have all had experience around the country, with friends and relatives or on holidays in different places, of running upstairs to get a signal for the phone or the iPad or to try to access broadband. We are sympathetic to the objective of 100% coverage. I questioned some of the Minister's colleagues, such as the Minister for Communications, Climate...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Does the Minister have any idea of the percentage of homes in urban areas that have a direct fibre optic connection into the home?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Eir has stated, more or less, that it brings fibre optic cable to the street or the entrance of an estate. I am not sure but I believe it is still copper wire technology that goes into the household. Is that the case?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Therefore this programme would give better coverage than what rest of the country has to those who I admit are hard done by currently.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: There is also the development of the 5G platform. I know I am straying into the territory of the Minister, Deputy Bruton, and I asked him about this as well. There are parts of the spectrum that may be used a few decades down the line as well. We are going with a plan but the Minister does not seem to know exactly what we are doing in a technical sense. The person who will spend this...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: If he knew what he was doing, Deputy Bruton would have been the leader of Fine Gael.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Again, is it going to the household?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Tommy Broughan: The reason I am asking this is that both the Minister's own Secretary General, Mr. Robert Watt, who has spoken before this committee on a number of occasions, and not on some occasions when we wanted to see him, and his colleagues put forward what is referred to as plan Z. Those of us who are now backbenchers but who might like to be Ministers see that as a fairly fast incremental process to...