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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (3 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to increase the number of ASD places at secondary school level; the further steps he is taking to ensure secondary schools have enough ASD places; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15563/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Administration (2 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 13. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will recommend that responsibility for the application and assessment of all sports capital grants be allocated to a fully independent body in the interests of transparency and efficiency and to build the best national sports infrastructure for all persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14772/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (2 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 27. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his officials have costed the implementation of a programme making all public transport fully accessible for persons with disabilities in the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10481/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (2 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on discussions with the EU in relation to the Irish Border following a no-deal Brexit. [14909/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 276. To ask the Minister for Health his views on reports that almost all the available funding allocated to the HSE for new medicines in 2019 has already been used; the steps he is taking to address inflated prices for lifesaving new drugs from major drug companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14910/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licences (2 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 390. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the legislation in place to protect trees and to cease tree felling on private lands during bird nesting periods; if the removal of trees during redevelopment requires planning permission; the steps he is taking to greatly increase tree cover in rural and urban areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15277/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Light Rail Projects Status (2 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 438. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the report on the revised MetroLink route will be published; the expected timetable to complete a metro from Swords and Dublin Airport to O’Connell Street; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14905/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Legislation (2 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 439. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the key road traffic legislation apart from section 9 of the Road Traffic Act 2004 and statutory instruments which indicate the speed limits which may be specified currently in by-laws; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14906/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Data (2 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 535. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for legislation to outlaw bogus self-employment practices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14896/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (2 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 584. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the drawdown of local authority home improvement loans; his views on whether supplementary funding should be provided for this purpose in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14907/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (2 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 585. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if emergency legislation will be introduced to enable Dublin City Council meet even its modest social housing targets in view of the numbers in council homeless accommodation and on housing lists in early 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14908/19]

Residential Tenancies (Prevention of Family Homelessness) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: It is the Minister's job to ensure there are enough places and that people are not on the street.

Residential Tenancies (Prevention of Family Homelessness) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: He should ensure that when we walk out the gates tonight, we do not pass three or four people in distress on the streets. That is the Minister's job but it is one he has not been doing. Clearly, there will always be homeless citizens and families while Fine Gael remains in power. We are now entering the ninth year of this miserable austerity Government. The fundamental reason is the...

Residential Tenancies (Prevention of Family Homelessness) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Having listened to the Minister, I think he has a wonderful imagination. When he thinks of a future career, perhaps it could be as a screenwriter or a novelist because he seems to be imagining a world that we simply cannot see and which absolutely does not exist: a world where the landlord class is facilitating the housing of our people. The reality is that every weekend - I am sure it is...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: On behalf of my Independent colleagues I would also like to associated with the good wishes to our colleague, Mr. Hickey. I again appeal to the Tánaiste to accept Deputy Ó Broin's very reasonable Bill which we will discuss later on this evening. I want to ask the Tánaiste about a programme in his Department for the Uighur nation in China. I have asked the Tánaiste...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Staff (28 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Minister. She told me last month that at that stage, Tusla had 499 agency staff and that 226 of those were social workers. What percentage of the total social worker staff are agency staff? It is welcome to hear that the turnover rate is beginning to fall. The Minister told me previously that the overall rate for Tusla was reducing to 5% or 6%, which is the normal rate one...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Staff (28 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Yes.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Staff (28 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Tusla told us that at the end of the second quarter last year, approximately 515 children were awaiting an allocation of a social worker, which is 130 more than in the previous quarter, and approximately 546 children did not have an up-to-date care plan. Those figures are disturbing. Recommendation 8 in our joint committee's report on the provision of foster care services in Ireland...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Staff (28 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 10. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social workers needed to fill all vacant posts in Tusla; the number required to have all cases investigated by a social worker within six weeks of referral; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14280/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Staff (28 Mar 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I have raised the issue of social worker vacancies in Tusla a couple of times with the Minister in recent months. All Members were struck by the comments of the new chairperson of Tusla and former Deputy, Mr. Pat Rabbitte, at the Committee on Children and Youth Affairs, where he stated that Tusla is running to stand still in regard to recruitment and retention. Although 142 social workers...