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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (18 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 238. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to work to make orphan drugs more affordable and accessible for those who urgently need them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43141/18]

Road Traffic (Quads and Scramblers) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on the Bill. I commend Deputies Dessie Ellis and Imelda Munster on bringing the Bill forward and I will, of course, support it. Figures recently released to me by the HSE showed that, on average, at least one person per week is injured by an “all-terrain or other motor vehicle designed primarily for off-road use”. In fact, the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drugs Crime (17 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I wish to return to the point that was ably raised by Deputy Bobby Aylward about Garda resources. We recently had a joint policing committee meeting in the Dublin north-central area, at which meetings issues frequently arise about Garda resources. The Minister always tells me that it is a matter for the Commissioner, Mr. Harris, but if we are to return to a level of mandatory impairment...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drugs Crime (17 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 14. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of mandatory intoxicant tests per county in 2017 and to date in 2018; the number of positive tests per county in 2017 and to date in 2018; the types of drugs detected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42195/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drugs Crime (17 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister is aware that since the revelations of the breath testing scandal at the start of 2017, An Garda Síochána is still not publishing full statistics on the website around mandatory intoxicant testing checkpoints, MITS. The respective number of checkpoints and breath tests are not displayed. Since April 2017 I have been asking the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, about this...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drugs Crime (17 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister has not been able to give me a breakdown by county. I asked the Minister in 2017. That was in the Dublin metropolitan region, but the Minister did not give me any indication of the numbers of drug tests that had taken place outside that area. The point made by the Minister from the Garda report is very valid, that policing must be information and statistics led. The other...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drugs Crime (17 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: -----if we are to have clear road traffic law?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 41. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures he is taking to curb the sale or gifting of scramblers and other off-road vehicles to youths under 16 years of age; the number of such vehicles that were seized in each of the years 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42194/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (17 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 143. To ask the Minister for Health the addiction supports available to persons under 18 years of age across the country; the number of persons under 18 years of age accessing these supports; if there are waiting lists to access supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42611/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (17 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 152. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of the HSE's national clinical programme for dual diagnosis; the number of patients who have been assessed and are being managed through the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42607/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (17 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 153. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the roll-out of the HSE's national clinical programme for dual diagnosis; the locations in which dual diagnosis assessment and management are available across the country; if there are waiting lists to be assessed; if so, the length of these waiting lists; if this service is available to persons under 18 years of age; the details of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (17 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 154. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to ensure that agencies providing vital mental health supports to persons and in receipt of State funding are accessible to all persons in need, including those with dual diagnosis needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42609/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (17 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 155. To ask the Minister for Health when the first medically supervised injecting centre will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42610/18]

Nomination of Member of the Government: Motion (16 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: At this stage in the history of this Dáil, many of our constituents might think we are just rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, especially given the stream of bad news from Brussels and Westminster in recent days. Last Thursday, in a brief intervention in which I called on the Taoiseach to come before the House, I did not get an opportunity to comment on the outgoing Minister for...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel Data (16 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 117. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and dentists in the Defence Forces medical corps; the number of vacancies in these areas in the medical corps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42465/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (16 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 131. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the disappearance and possible assassination of a person (details supplied) in Turkey; the steps Ireland is taking to ensure the Saudi Arabian and Turkish authorities carry out a transparent investigation of the disappearance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42343/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 497. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list to see a consultant urologist at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; the average waiting time to see a consultant; the steps being taken to reduce the waiting time to see the consultant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42463/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charities Regulation (16 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 603. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the remaining sections of the Charities Act 2009 will come into effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42464/18]

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I agree with my colleague, Deputy Pringle. The Taoiseach should come into this House to answer questions about the incredibly poor attempt made to roll out broadband to the 540,000 households that have been left down very badly over the past eight years. That is the real issue today. It seems, from the former Minister's comments, that the Taoiseach has thrown Deputy Naughten under the bus...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (11 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 25. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the organisations he and his officials have met in relation to the export of greyhounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41389/18]