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Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Applications (18 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 540. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on whether his Department has received an application for a National Lottery grant from an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 17; and if he will report on when a decision will be made in respect of this application. [29019/13]

Access to the Countryside Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I warmly congratulate Deputy Dowds on producing this fine legislation. It contains innovative measures which, if enacted, would bring a new dimension to access to land in this country. I commend him on the work he carried out to produce the Bill and on the valuable briefing he sent to Deputies outlining the case for reform of the law relating to access to land. As a walker and a resident...

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Charges Review (13 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: The next two Topical Issues are for the Minister for Health, but we do not have the Minister for Health.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Charges Review (13 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: It is unacceptable that the Minister for Health is not here. We are expected to argue for the abolition of Seanad Éireann yet Ministers are not prepared to attend a Topical Issues debate. That is absolutely unacceptable. It is something we must take up with the Ceann Comhairle and with the House. I will suspend the sitting for five minutes to get the Minister for Health.

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Home Services (13 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: I expected to have the Minister for Health here in view of recent discussions we had on the Order of Business and elsewhere. However, I thank the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Brian Hayes, for being prepared to respond to these debates. I call Deputy Eamonn Maloney.

Topical Issue Debate: Sale of Strategic Energy Assets (13 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: The most coherent opposition.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Restorative Justice (13 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 15. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the current operation of the Garda Diversion Programme; the current level of funding provided to the programme; his views on whether the use of restorative justice processes are being expanded in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28220/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (13 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 34. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide, in tabular form on an annual basis for the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013, the number of applications that have been made to his Department for working student visas; the number of these applications that have been successful; if he is concerned that individuals employed on working student visas may be displacing other...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 29. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the level of funding provided by his Department to local authorities to maintain water services, including the National Drinking Water Monitoring Programme; and if he will outline the cost of the water assets and liabilities being transferred by Dublin City Council and other local authorities to Irish Water. [27068/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Priory Hall Development (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 32. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which Justice Finnegan will furnish his report to him on all outstanding issues connected with Priory Hall, Dublin; and if he will confirm that his Department will continue to provide all available assistance to displaced former residents of Priory Hall. [27067/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Numbers (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 127. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of appeals adjudicated upon by the Social Welfare Appeals Office and the average waiting time for an appeal in respect of applications for rent supplement in the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013. [28347/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Consultations (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 128. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on her Department's consultations with the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government on the plans contained in the Programme for Government to move the payment of rent supplement to a housing assistance payment which would be administered by local authorities. [28348/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Recreational Angling Sector Data (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a detailed breakdown between sea angling, coarse angling and game angling in terms of the number of the general public and visitors who have taken part in these activities in each of the past five years; and if he will report on the amount of revenue generated for the Exchequer from each activity....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Warmer Homes Scheme Data (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of applicants who have applied for the warmer homes schemes to date in 2013; if he will provide a breakdown of the number of applications which have been approved, refused and those which are pending. [28343/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Order Offences (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 171. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will request a report from the Garda Commissioner regarding riots (details supplied) in County Dublin; the number of persons arrested; the amount of alcohol seized; and the number of juveniles who came to the Garda Síochána's attention. [28336/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 172. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he is satisfied that the law is sufficiently robust to deal with gangs who are involved in the theft of clothes from charity clothes banks and who have caused damage to the clothes banks; the number of prosecutions, if any, that have taken place in each of the past three years against persons apprehended for theft or damage of this kind....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 173. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the Garda Operation Headrest; the number of persons arrested and charged in line with this operation; the number of successful convictions secured to date; if the operation is still ongoing. [28338/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 174. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the full cost to the Exchequer of training an additional 250, 500, 750 and 1000 members of An Garda Síochána. [28339/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Divisional Policing Plans (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 175. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Garda divisional policing plans for 2013 will be published on the website of An Garda Síochána, particularly the Policing Plan for the Dublin Metropolitan Region Northern Division; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28340/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Stardust Fire Issues (12 Jun 2013)

Tommy Broughan: 176. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will lay the Report of the Independent Examination of the Stardust Victims Committee's Case for a Reopened Inquiry into the Stardust Fire Disaster as originally drafted and submitted to his Department by Mr. Paul Coffey S.C. before Dail Éireann [28341/13]