Results 21-40 of 320 for going forward speaker:Richard Bruton

Irish Corporate Governance (Gender Balance) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...to be complacent and say we are making progress and that Ireland is changing, when we look at the progress in terms of statistical performance, it is small, it is not a case of dramatic strides forward. We have not made the step change that is needed here. To see changes coming from the boardroom down is the optimal way to get the message out. If boards go a step further and make...

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...is being worked on to deliver a right to request remote working. Today, the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment, of which I am a member, published its response to the proposals put forward by the Government in this regard. It is fair to say we would like the Government to be more ambitious in the development of those rights. We are also seeing the development of the...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Second Stage (7 Apr 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...able to see verification that the sick leave claim is valid. We struggled with that. We produced a consensus of words but we recognise that there is a difficulty there. We need to see codes of good practice developed by employers that would recognise some level of flexibility in the way in which people would be certified. At the end of the day, however, there has to be certification....

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...to better manage our supply chains in every sector to better manage fuel, fossil fuel use, resource use and waste. That is particularly true for construction, food, retail, equipment, cars, white goods and so on. We need initiatives to optimise asset use. Our sharing platforms are lamentable. We still have not delivered a platform to allow the new e-scooters to be shared on our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

Richard Bruton: I wish to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. Maher and his staff on bringing forward the Bill. It is important that PIAB becomes more mainstream. As was outlined, cases are settled in half the time and at one-twentieth of the legal costs of other routes. I read reports in yesterday's newspapers that the number of cases being accepted in the PIAB process fell recently from over 50%...

Town Centre First Policy: Statements (24 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...and village renewal scheme and the rural development fund. These programmes are significant. In Munster and Connacht alone, they are funding nearly 1,000 projects worth nearly €300 million. In what the Government is doing today, I welcome the concept of a partnership that is coherent at local level and will add value to the diverse supports for community initiatives. It is...

National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...the climate agenda, this is asking people to change the habits of a lifetime. Many of us are used to the open fire and poor insulation. People are living in poor conditions in some ways and they are going to have to change. It is unfamiliar. One of the things we will have to do is win the hearts and minds of people to recognise that this is a patriotic call to make changes in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...the climate advisory council as wimps would not be very widely held by voters, on whom all of us in this room depend. It struck a chord with me that the Climate Change Advisory Council is putting forward something that is legally binding on Ministers and is the second-most ambitious target in the world. It certainly suggests we are stretching what we can achieve. As I understand it,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Circular Economy Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Oct 2021)

Richard Bruton: ...reuse materials. It could be in making toys from reused materials and they simply will not pass the standard tests. Are the officials looking at that sort of obstacle in any detail to bring forward change? I will go back to Deputy O'Rourke's point in that this is a big project. Whether the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, has the resources is one thing, but does it have the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Retail Sector: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: ...elimination of plastic from our retail chain, more sustainable methods of production, and so on. There are many tricky issues where retail will be at the epicentre for much of the change that is going to happen - for example, in the sharing economy. I can see both sides. I can see the precarious nature of some of the employment and, indeed, the threat of more of that, going by some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Retail Sector: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: ...location, planning, flexibility and support from councils, digital transformation and the circular economy. Those five pillars seem to be agreed. Can the committee simply articulate that as a way forward or are there institutional or structural barriers that either side see to our articulating that or seeking to address those with the Minister of State, Deputy English, who is taking the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reactivation of Economy Following Pandemic Restrictions: Discussion (16 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: ...work? I assume it would be substantially expensive to do that forever. Would it work as a temporary scheme? Should we consider a revival of the back to work allowance, which allowed people to go back to work but retain some supports such as the pandemic unemployment payment? Mr. Neil McDonnell put forward some more permanent tax changes. In the context of the small company...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: This is an important debate, on one level, although we are not going to resolve it here. Deputy Naughten is pointing up a serious issue that is going to arise. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, in its Ag Climatise policy, is envisaging a mitigation of 15% in the agricultural sector. If agriculture accounts for 15% of an overall 51% reduction, that means a 70% reduction is...

National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Statements (2 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: ...a recovery from a crisis the impact of which has not been even. Some, as we have heard, have €12 billion in savings accumulated while others have endured open wounds and seen their life's work go up in smoke. The country does not have the option of getting back to all that existed before now, and those who try to say we can go back to where we were would not only put us on a path...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Richard Bruton: ...that biogenic methane, that is, the methane that comes from livestock, can only be reduced between the ranges of 24% and 47% by 2050. We need to recognise that agriculture in this country is different and is not going to be treated the same as other sectors because of its important contribution to food supply and rural economies. However, it would be blind to pretend that farming cannot...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Richard Bruton: ...from my time in the Department. They need to be fairly radically changed in view of the climate plan. For example, they do not refer to B2 ratings but regard any home that is retrofitted as being good enough. In reality, only about a quarter of what is done is to the standard we need to achieve. I am really interested in the idea of a retrofitting wave. I looked at the homes in...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: ...or developers or whoever. The reality is that Sinn Féin's policy involves blocking rezoning, which is needed for supply. It involves blocking mixed developments, which the Dublin City Council put forward, for example, in my constituency in Santry, as well as freezing rents, which blocks supply in the rental market. It involves opposing shared equity, a scheme before the House to...

Covid-19 (Childcare): Statements (4 Feb 2021)

Richard Bruton: The Ceann Comhairle will remember the old Joni Mitchell song, Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone ... That is certainly true of the case of childcare where we realised during the restrictions that have been imposed in Covid just how important childcare, early childhood education and support are. I refer to the social interaction but also the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Land Development Agency (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Bruton: ...be killed at source if we continue to see the ideological, hard-left policy position that was exposed recently in the refusal of Dublin City Council to allow a development at Oscar Traynor Road to go ahead. That would comprise 853 badly needed homes for the community in that area. The reason they insist on turning that away is they do not want integrated development on public lands. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Bruton: ...and a third issue is collective deals for the future. As for the first, the issue of making it obligatory to have consultation in an insolvency, is there consensus on this being a correct way forward? It seems reasonable to me that there should be consultation in an insolvency. I know there are some things to be tidied up, such as the issue of not trading while insolvent and so on, but...