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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Sector (6 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will list the State aid granted to community radio and television stations over the past five years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; and the amounts granted in supports for each individual station. [54902/12]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Sector (6 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will include the amount of broadcasting time and other requirements in terms of production of local news and current affairs programmes by local community radio and television station; if he will set out the way those requirements have been fulfilled each year since 2008 by the community radio and television stations...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (6 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on Garda Operation Advisor; the number of persons arrested and charged to date in 2012; the number of successful convictions obtained to date in 2012. [54947/12]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel (6 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of women at each rank above the rank of second lieutenant in the Defence Forces. [54945/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Support Agency (6 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Family Resource Centre National Forum will be represented at board level in the new Child and Family Support Agency. [54948/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Support Agency (6 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that the budget for the Family Resource Centre programme will be ring fenced and protected in her Department's budget and under the new Child and Family Support Agency. [54949/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Support Agency (6 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs If she will ensure that the ethos, culture and role of the Family Resource Centre network in the delivery of community-based universal services and early intervention services will be fully maintained when the Family Resource Centres move to the new Child and Family Support Agency. [54950/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (6 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies in the community mental health teams at present; and the locations and grades where each vacancy occurs. [54946/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: EU Funding (6 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent of EU financial aid that has been received for major or minor rail or bus services or installations in each of the past three years to date. [54943/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: EU Funding (6 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent of EU funding received for the provision of road, air and sea port transport facilities or installations in each of the past three years to date. [54944/12]

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Yes.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: I concur with some of the comments Deputies have made on the resolutions. What does the Minister expect the measures in Financial Resolution No. 10 to yield? He indicated that Financial Resolution No. 11 would yield €47 million. Will he also elaborate on the reference to credit unions? I concur with colleagues that since the introduction by the former Minister for Finance, Mr....

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Some time ago, I suggested to the Minister for Finance that he establish a commission on top pay, similar to that which the Miliband brothers are seeking to establish in the United Kingdom. The Minister responded by rubbishing my proposal. He does not want to know where the wealth is in this country and why would he given that his party and Fianna Fáil have for decades represented that...

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: It is not rubbish. The Minister of State, Deputy White, is only a wet day in this House.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: I and the Minister were fighting elections 30 years ago when Deputy White was with another party.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: He was. The cuts announced in social welfare are a grave error and one which should be remedied before next week. As anyone who has been unemployed will agree, cutting jobseeker's benefit when people are vulnerable as they desperately try to return to work is reprehensible. The mean cuts in the back-to-school allowance and household benefits package do not have anything to do with the...

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: I am steering around to the fact that a section of the Labour Party-----

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: I am speaking to the resolution on capital taxation.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Tommy Broughan: The hard road for Labour Party Deputies to take is to walk beside me but they have chosen to take the easy way out. The hard way is to stand up and be counted and to seek to form a Government led by the Labour Party.