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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (2 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: 71. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the merit of a broader mandate for the commission to cover positive ageing in the round instead of the narrow mandate of caring; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19861/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (2 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: 79. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform how his Department assesses demographic needs and the capital investments which it will require to be scheduled over the medium term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19863/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: From the work that I am doing with the Fine Gael policy lab, it is very clear that we need a new vision and a step-change in realising the potential we have from longer lives. To be fair to past strategies and current work, they are trying to break new ground. The real problem is the weakness in implementation across policy silos of Departments. Would the Taoiseach consider leadership in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: I thank Mr. O'Brien for the presentation. To explore a little further the farming side, there seems to be some fairly clear indicators there under vehicles, livestock and falls. Has the HSA ever considered, rather than just the inspection which can potentially be quite a hostile environment, something like an NCT and that every five years things would have to be looked at by some partner?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: Has something like that every been looked at which could be done on a wider scale rather than an inspection regime that essentially the HSA has to fund and staff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: I would be interested to explore a bit more what Mr. O'Brien is referencing with remote working and the broader concept of mental health stress and well-being in the workplace. On remote working, I presume it is quite a change in employers' responsibilities in not having a site that they can see every day and be conscious of the different things. Has the HSA developed codes of practice at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: Is there a test of what is reasonable? If an employer has not visited the site, would they be deemed automatically negligent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: Has the HSA started any sort of an inspection regime in this arena or is it still setting the codes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: It must be tricky enough. We have been talking about employer surveillance and the concerns and red flags that raises, but going into someone's home is a tricky area. Will Dr. Duff speak on the other question, that is, on the wider thing of over one's life course maintaining a sound stress reducing strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: Would these be things like bullying or is it more sophisticated?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 88. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the unmet need for childcare places, the uptake of the new capital scheme which he has published and his future plans for the sector. [19053/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 87. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the work carried out to date on the establishment of the childcare development agency; and if he will set out the milestones remaining to its full establishment. [19054/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: I welcome the work the Minister of State has undertaken since the passage of the Act. I must say, however, that his Department continues to view the circular economy through the very narrow lens of waste and levies on waste materials. That is evidenced in his own presentation but also in the plan which he recently presented, where the ambition is zero growth in waste per head of population...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: Where is the strategy for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: Two years ago we were talking about this Bill that became an Act. We were talking about the EPA. These are the very same things that we are talking about and I worry the scope to do something different is on a long lead. We need to nail down dates for each of these elements. If you go into a building site today, the smaller building sites are not separating their material. Everything is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: Does the Minister of State want to comment on green procurement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: As the Minister of State certainly knows, the practice has been that it is the procurers who decide what it is they are procuring and they create the need for the framework. If they do not embed the need for green principles, it will not make it into the framework and they will not be found to be non-compliant because it was not specified in the first place. The view has always been that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: Will the Minister of State or someone in the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform let us know our baseline, say, in 2023 or whatever it was before this started and how we are progressing? Will there be some measures that will show us that information? I do not imagine than an awful lot of textiles are being procured, and maybe there are in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 233. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the apparent obligation on a care centre to become a registered charity in order to get tax relief for the use of a wheelchair bus, used to transport persons who themselves have primary certificates establishing their severe disability; and if he will devise a simpler route of access to this tax relief. [19040/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: General Register Office (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 434. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that the research room for the general records is now only open one day a week, down from five, which is considerably hampering research; and if she will consider arrangements to make it more accessible. [19415/24]