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Business Support Package: Statements (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...back window, there was the financial crisis, followed by the Covid closures, the Ukraine crisis and the impact that has had on supply chains. Businesses have been buffeted repeatedly and, in the longer term, two huge transformations are coming, namely, the move to net zero and the sustainable use of resources, and the impact of digitisation and, in particular, artificial intelligence....

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...capacity to fund cost rental. We need an initiative that allows bridging of the sale of apartments to owner-occupiers. The reality is that those apartments will be sold in fives and tens over a long period, running to months before they are sold, and that is not a model the banks are willing to fund. That is the reality. We need to find a solution if we want to have compact...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (21 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...Affairs and Social Protection whether a person in receipt of disability allowance, who receives a bequest, can have a trust established, which would be administered on their behalf to provide for long-term secure accommodation, instead of being immediately assessed under a means test; and if she will outline the conditions if any which would have to be met. [22808/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (21 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: 416. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a foster carer of more than 20 years, but with less than 520 contributions, can access the new long-term carer's pension route to allow them access to a State pension in their own right and name; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22959/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Draft National Energy and Climate Plan: Discussion (14 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...need to change the habits of a lifetime, not going back to consult about things that might be seen as rather arcane EU requirements on the way we present what we are trying to do. I admit that the long-term perspective is one we need to understand with regard to the direction of travel. It seems that we need to rationalise these issues. I urge that there be no structural changes because...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...opportunities of plentiful green energy involves the ICT sector. We have an effective moratorium even on highly strategic data centres, which is another concern for me because it involves the long-term productive use of offshore energy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...an examinership and it is working well, are there other international examples of things that ought to be done or is it the case that some of these companies flourish for a day but there was not a long-term prospect for them? Given that the Department is considering legislative changes, is it undergoing a consultation with various interests at the moment? Is there a timescale for the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cancer Services (2 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: I ask the Minister to check those waiting times and report back to me and Deputy Staunton because the Irish Cancer Society is signalling quite long waiting times. For a screening test that can reduce long-term healthcare, it is to be hoped that it could be made more prompt.

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

Richard Bruton: ...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 going into a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...accounts for 5% of our global emissions. Half of compostable waste does not find its way to compostable outlets. Excess packaging in the sector accounts for two thirds of all plastic packaging. Long-distance imports are a feature. Premium payments are not adequate for people producing sustainably. There is significant opportunity in this sector to have a better strategy.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: First, I welcome what the Minister of State has said, but so long as there is no clear picture of what a revenue stream from sound environmental farming will mean in ten or 20 years' time, this uncertainty and unease will continue. We know, for example, that raising water levels on certain lands has huge carbon dividends. We know that benchmarking and reducing emissions by sequestration or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...have to be substantial rewards linked to them? Surely, on a no-regrets basis, we should be making those substantial rewards available so that a step change can be considered by people who want a long-term commercial and prosperous family future. We need to take a slight step of imagination in the approach we take to this.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: The Minister knows that farmers worry that their transition to a sustainable model of farming will not sustain prosperous family farms into the long term. There are many in this House and outside it who want to fan the fears of farmers. I believe a clear pathway to a carbon farming approach could reassure many farmers. To date, the detail in that regard is scanty, which creates uncertainty.

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...tragedy ensued. The initial determination of arson was seen as a further slap in the face to the families and victims. The burning sense of injustice has fired these families throughout a very long struggle and we who have represented them in the constituency have failed them; I acknowledge that fully. Often it seemed that the chains and padlocks were being again put in place as they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...needs and various sectors can meet their needs. This is the missing piece in this to some degree. We have the framework. The climate Act is good but Ministers will come in here with one arm as long as the other saying they have not been able to mobilise the change they thought they could. That is the reality. We need to find something. As well as delving into the scientific...

Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...up. The discipline of reporting back annually is important. We need stronger institutional elements. I am disappointed that the Government has not decided that the biodiversity action plan, along with the climate action plan and the circular economy plan, when it comes back, would not be integrated and overseen by the Department of the Taoiseach. That is what we need to actually shift...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: I welcome the introduction of this legislation. It has indeed been a long time in gestation. I suspect it is probably a decade since this was first thought about, if not more.

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...pensions provision. This legislation will begin to address those. It is important to recognise that the legislation will begin to address income inadequacy in retirement but it will be a long time before we see it doing so significantly. People will need to be reassured that the State has a long-term commitment to the development of the contributory old age pension and that there is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Offshore Wind Energy Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...going to go down this route, we have our ducks in a line. Going to the issue of optimal use and what Deputy Stanton was talking about, Mr. Tobin said that reliability of power in the medium to long term is critical to long-term decisions by the FDI sector, which has a huge stake in cloud-based investments. What is the impact of the de facto moratorium in Dublin on that at present? I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Offshore Wind Energy Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: My question concerns the date at which we might have that excess supply. Is it near term, long term or-----