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Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (28 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Question 297: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will establish a top pay commission to research and review all levels of compensation and remuneration across the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5512/12]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (28 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Question 236: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the delivery of new schools (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11118/12]

Written Answers — County Development Plans: County Development Plans (28 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Question 515: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been confirmed to him by Dublin City Council that DCC has no money to develop lands it owns at a location (details supplied) and other locations in the North Fringe, Dublin 13; if there is therefore any scope for DCC to act as lead public developer itself or perhaps with a PPP to deliver Clare...

Written Answers — County Development Plans: County Development Plans (28 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Question 518: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will now urgently bring forward an SDZ for the North and South Fringe of DCC and Fingal County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11122/12]

Written Answers — Site Resolution Plans: Site Resolution Plans (28 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Question 516: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that a site resolution plan is urgently prepared by Fingal County Council for the site east of an estate (details supplied) in the North Fringe, Dublin 13 in view of its unsightly abandoned and unfinished nature; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11120/12]

Written Answers — Site Resolution Plans: Site Resolution Plans (28 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Question 517: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is considering if a site resolution plan should be prepared by Dublin City Council for Priory Hall, Dublin 13 in view of the current state of this estate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11121/12]

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (28 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Question 783: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will immediately commence Part 5 of the 2010 Road Traffic Act and its associated provisions in Part 3 of the same Act; if he will report on the reason there has been such a delay in commencing this important section of the 2010 Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11112/12]

Fire Safety (28 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Minister of State responsible for housing, Deputy O'Sullivan, for attending. The revelation last week that there are serious fire safety problems at Belmayne, Dublin 13, was absolutely shocking to residents of the estate and to people across the whole Dublin north fringe in Dublin North-East. After the Priory Hall disaster, it is truly incredible that another problem of fire...

Fire Safety (28 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Minister of State for her response. She and the Labour Party leader, the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Eamon Gilmore, who met residents of Priory Hall, are partly responsible for trying to unwind the terrible circumstances, particularly for the 48 families of owner-occupiers. Have any proposals been brought to the Cabinet's economic management...

Fire Safety (28 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Was the Sunday Independent report accurate?

School Curriculum (23 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is reviewing the establishment of computer science as full syllabus subject at primary level and at secondary junior and senior cycle level in view of the ever increasing importance of computer science graduates to the economy here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10011/12]

School Curriculum (23 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: On behalf of the children of Bonnybrook, Priorswood and Darndale in my constituency and those in other areas, I thank the Minister for rowing back on the planned cuts in respect of the DEIS programme. This is a significant and important development for the children to whom I refer. I sometimes feel that in respect of the matter to which I have just referred and in the context of others, the...

School Curriculum (23 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister was well locked in on the previous occasion on which I visited him there. The place was like a fortress.

School Curriculum (23 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Yes.

School Curriculum (23 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Minister for his reply. He will be aware that when he was leader of the Labour Party and I was one of its spokespersons, our ambition was to have a computer at every desk for every child all the way up through the education system. We have now gone beyond that. Those who work in this area have often referred to the example of people learning how to drive cars. In this...

School Curriculum (23 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Computer science graduates would be needed.

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (23 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Question 52: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocation of resources to DEIS schools in the Dublin 17 area including schools (details supplied); if he will report on the review of the funding of DEIS schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10010/12]

Written Answers — EU-IMF Programme: EU-IMF Programme (22 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Question 54: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain the implications under the fiscal compact treaty of the 0.5% structural deficit limit on fiscal and budgetary policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9923/12]

Written Answers — Diplomatic Representation: Diplomatic Representation (22 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Question 66: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he expects to appoint ambassadors to the Irish embassies in Belgium, Estonia and Sweden which are currently without ambassadors; if he is completely reviewing the Swedish Mission in view of the abrupt closure of the Dublin Swedish Embassy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10306/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (22 Feb 2012)

Tommy Broughan: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects to appoint a Secretary General to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10304/12]