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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: The Covid crisis has demonstrated the need and opportunity for radical reform in education, further education and higher education. I ask the Tánaiste to make a world-class apprenticeship platform a key part of the recovery plan post Covid. We need to stop blaming parents as hampering the development of apprenticeships. As Gaeilge, cá bhfuil an fhís chomhpháirteach le...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: I commend the Irish people on the progress that has been made in this crisis. The number of cases since the peak is down 90%. The hospitalisation numbers are down more than 75% and ICU admissions are down more than 50%. That is the result of people up and down the country observing the obligations that arise during this crisis. Despite the frustration with the stop-go progress on...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: Will the Minister provide a written answer to my second question?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (11 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: 82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered the proposals in the report by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government entitled Safe as Houses; if he has adopted its recommendations; and if he plans to implement reforms. [13656/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Meetings (11 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: 92. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on his Department’s engagement with an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13671/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Climate Change Policy (11 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: 93. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the role the new climate unit in his Department will play in addressing the global climate crisis and devising a strategy to scale up Ireland’s climate finance contributions as outlined in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13672/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (11 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: 94. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a detailed response will be provided on the way his Department approaches development education in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13673/21]

Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: The Minister, Deputy Harris, and the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, are the right people to undertake the radical reform that is badly needed in this sector. The Covid crisis has underpinned some of the notable failings that exist and the need for accelerated reform in the area. I want to focus on four issues that strike me in this regard. First, five years on from the start...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: 57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider promoting a scheme to have on-street compostable bins put in place as the value of compostable beverage cups is being lost when they go into the normal litter stream for incineration. [1493/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: 104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has identified the main categories for new ambition beyond the existing Climate Action Plan in order to achieve the enhanced target of 51% greenhouse gas reduction by 2030. [12893/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: 252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of real-time systems used by public transport operators (details supplied). [13217/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Measures (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: 292. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to defects in sections of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Act 2017 whereby banks can initiate proceedings to avoid adjudication in defects in their treatment of a customer; and if there are plans to consult the Ombudsman regarding the need to amend the Act to make it more fit for purpose in this respect or in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: 369. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if adoption of a home to permit homeworking is deemed essential work during level 5 restrictions. [12566/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration Authority (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: 399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address the delays in registrations with the Property Registration Authority, PRA, which are now causing sales to fall through. [13180/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: 811. To ask the Minister for Health if persons with underlying health conditions who are now to get higher priority in access to vaccines will be selected based on specific categories of condition or selected by general practitioners based on assessed vulnerability; and if younger persons for whom most of the vaccines have not been explicitly approved will be prioritised for protection....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: 883. To ask the Minister for Health if there is data to track the extent to which persons who flew into Ireland during January 2021 were associated with the spread of Covid-19 and the import of new variants of Covid-19 from Brazil or South Africa. [13052/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: I welcome our speakers. I know Dr. McGann, Mr. Berney and Ms Redmond and my first experience in politics was an industrial closure when Mr. Berney was representing the workers and it is great to see him here. What is the evidence of what has happened during the Covid pandemic to people with work permits? Have we seen people with work permits returning? Will there be an expectation of many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: I thank Mr. Berney. I have two quick follow-up questions. The perception of apprenticeships is largely dictated by the opportunities that exist. It is not that the mammies of Ireland do not want people to be in a skilled work force or skilled trades or whatever. It is the lack of opportunities. It is a person not having a CAO place or, as Mr. Berney said, needing an individual sponsor....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: Would IBEC care to comment on whether it could drive an apprenticeship? IBEC said its member companies will commit to the present level of apprenticeships trebling over the next four years or whatever.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2021)

Richard Bruton: I am finished