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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 476.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the economic clusters which his Department and its agencies currently support; the location of the main hub for each; and if he will outline his plans for developing a more comprehensive clustering strategy to develop opportunities, and to accelerate the adoption of sustainable circular principles and appropriate digital...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 477.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has considered how remote working might play a role in achieving the balanced population growth envisaged by the National Planning Framework; if he is developing innovative policies to make remote working more productive within the public service; and if he sees opportunities to develop systems collaboratively with...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 488.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the proportion of new jobs in Enterprise Ireland-supported firms from Q1 2021 to Q2 2024 that occurred in each of the five cities and outside the five cities; if the target he is setting for the regional spread of employment growth will change in light of the updated National Planning Framework’s projection that 50% of job...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 489.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has identified any priority sectors when developing the National Clustering Programme due to be published in Q3 2024; the factors that contributed to the identification of particular sectors as ‘priority’; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35602/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 490.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of increasing concern among international investors that the biggest barrier to the development of AI and other industries of the future is the inability of states to quickly build adequate digital infrastructure that is, data centres, grid expansion and electrification; if he is developing a plan to address these...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 491.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of the updated National Planning Framework’s projection that 50% of future job growth will occur outside the five cities and their suburbs; if his Department is exploring how international investment flows might be reoriented to better reflect this geographical shift; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Consumer Prices (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 492.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are regulations in Ireland governing the use of dynamic pricing of tickets; and if he has sought advice from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission on its use in the recent sale of concert tickets (details supplied).[35609/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Minimum Wage (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 496.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the various levels of minimum wage which have been recommended to the Government to take effect from 1 January 2025; whether the Government has completed its assessment of the legal provisions necessary before they can be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35856/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 497.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of sick days which the employer-funded sick pay scheme will cover during 2025; and the date on which any change will take effect.[35857/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 590.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funds will be released this year to schools for summer works; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34749/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 611.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34886/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 622.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if work on revisions will be necessary in the present school planning process operated by her Department in light of the new National Planning Framework and the Planning and Development Bill 2023, which envisage accelerated areas of development being designated; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35012/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 646.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the shortage of primary teachers, if initiatives have been considered to make it easier to attract suitable people from other professions, i.e., supporting the fees for the PME or by establishing special bridging courses under Springboard or under the human capital initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35369/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 701.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provision being made to provide free schoolbooks at primary and secondary schools during the coming academic year; the arrangements and payments involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35881/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Television Licence Fee (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 763.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the new arrangements which will apply for the setting of the charge for a TV licence; the range of equipment to which it shall apply; the changes proposed to improve collection rates during the coming year; how it will impact on those who are currently entitled to free TV licence, and on the estimated shortfall of the projected...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 766.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the growth in population and in the housing stock from 2016 to 2022 across the regional categories identified in the National Planning Framework 2018, across Dublin and its suburbs, across each of the four other cities and their suburbs, and across each of the three regions (East and Midlands, North and Western,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 891.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current caps on grant payments and the current caps on income which apply to housing aid for older people, to mobility aids, and to housing adaptation grants; when these caps were last raised; the level these caps would reach if grants had been indexed to the average cost of works undertaken under the scheme, and the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 839.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how the updated National Planning Framework envisages the future split in house building across the categories of: rural one-off housing; village growth; town growth; growth in satellite areas of the five cities and in the five cities themselves; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35025/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Development Plan (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 840.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how he envisages that the investment plans developed in the new ten-year county development plans will interact with the national planning of infrastructure under the National Development Plan; and if it will be necessary for the various Government Departments to align their investment approaches to this new process of having...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Prices (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 841.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has undertaken work to establish how the price of a second-hand residence compares with the price of a new build in each county; if so, the findings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35027/24]