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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (29 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: 573. To ask the Minister for Health if supports are available without household income means tests for a severely disabled person to install equipment such as a full lift in cases in which the only way in which they can live independently is by being with a member of their wider family and in which a means test on other household income would be unfairly restricting their options. [34068/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to extend the arrangements for the leaving certificate assessment 2021 to apply also for the students to sit the exam in 2022 given their study has also been disrupted. [35051/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: 138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to adjusting the term of short-term working support to ensure that workers in sectors which continue to be seriously reduced in activity due to continuing Covid-19 restrictions will be able to continue to receive this important supplement to their income which would otherwise expire due to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Reduction of Carbon Emissions of 51% by 2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: I thank the representatives for the two presentations. I will get straight into it since we have only two minutes. I wonder could Dr. Moore give us some simple numbers. For example, if a hectare switches to non-organic farming to organic, what sort of a gain in methane and nitrous oxides, that is, in greenhouse gases can we expect? That would give us some sort of indicator of the scale of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Reduction of Carbon Emissions of 51% by 2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: I thank the Chairman. To take up the last point and to plug my own view of this world, we need to move from looking at farming and climate to looking at the entire food sector and what is called the circular economy. In other words, we need to examine all of the impacts, including biodiversity and the entire supply chain from start to finish. I was very taken with the point Mr. Keane...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (1 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the scale of programmes supported by the education excellence fund; and if she has plans to expand this method of funding of innovation. [34507/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (1 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has plans to accelerate the delivery of senior cycle reform. [34506/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (1 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the capacity the social insurance fund has to support workers in the face of new challenges in the work, life environment; and the way this can best be harnessed. [34509/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Workplace Relations Commission (1 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the scale of developmental interventions which she views will be necessary in the post-Covid-19 environment; and the innovations she is considering in their delivery. [34508/21]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Further Revised) (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: I welcome the Tánaiste and congratulate him and his Department on their response to gaps exposed by Covid. The supports to business have been significant, as have the changes in sick pay, remote working, the living wage and small company rescue. The Department is showing signs of a real capacity to respond. Many people were quite winded by reports on Monday that the Delta variant...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Further Revised) (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: I would like to return to some of the points I raised before asking another couple of questions. Would the Tánaiste consider establishing a climate and circular economy unit in his own Department? If the sectors do not drive change, it will not happen, and I can give an example. Food waste is equivalent to million extra cars on the road and two thirds of plastic is not recyclable,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: At this point, we have completed a series of pilots, which to my knowledge have generated no Covid cases, at sporting events, entertainment events and so on. The last of the pilot events is occurring this week. Are we now in a position to make decisions about a more permanent approach to these open-air events, where it would appear people can safely assemble, having had tests or having been...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (6 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 61. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in after-school care that are supported by schemes operated by his Department; and the distribution of these children between community facilities, private facilities, and public facilities such as schools. [36204/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: State Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 63. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress made in developing the concept of a childcare development agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36205/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Functions (6 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 103. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of work by his Department in providing research and analysis support to the expert group on future skills needs in respect to the future needs of each of the highly successful biopharma, med tech, information and communications technology and food tech manufacturing sectors in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (6 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 104. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to address and manage the digital transformation of Ireland’s manufacturing sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36424/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (6 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 179. To ask the Minister for Finance if the rules governing restricted access to pension funds until age 75 years even in the face of serious illness will be reviewed as part of the proposed Commission on Taxation and Welfare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36237/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (6 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 339. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a delay in issuing PPSNs to new born babies as in a case of a child (details supplied); and if cases will be fast tracked in cases in which there is a need to obtain a passport for essential travel. [35905/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (6 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 365. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the job activation measures being considered by her Department in order to facilitate persons going back to work; the work she is focussing on to optimise the opportunity to transition persons from a position of unemployment over to the highly successful biopharma, medtech, information and communications technology and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (6 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reskilling initiatives being considered in order to activate persons to transition from at-risk sectors and unemployment over to the highly successful biopharma, medtech, information and communications technology and foodtech sectors in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36426/21]