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

Richard Bruton: 426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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, medtech, information and communications technology and foodtech manufacturing sectors in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

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

Richard Bruton: 427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the acceleration of the National Skills Strategy in Ireland in respect of the digital skills of the national workforce at entry, intermediary and advanced levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36429/21]

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

Richard Bruton: 428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the acceleration of the National Skills Strategy in Ireland in respect of digital skills for persons in general in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36430/21]

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

Richard Bruton: 429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the development of digital skills in the indigenous SME sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36431/21]

Companies (Rescue Process for Small and Micro Companies) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: I thank the Minister of State for bringing forward the Bill so promptly. I know this idea has had a long history and was strongly resisted within the Department over many years. It is a credit to the Minister of State and the Government at large that this was pushed through because we have long seen in Ireland a very expensive and inaccessible system of examinership that has not facilitated...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Registration of Births (7 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the disruption which has occurred to the issuing of a certification of birth, PPS numbers and so on, for newly born children; the steps that are being taken to resolve the issues; and the provision that is being made in cases in which such certification is urgently needed. [36640/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (8 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the local authorities that have applied for funding to the SEAI to roll-out electric vehicle chargers; the number for which they have applied; and the number which have been installed and the grant paid in tabular form. [36936/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (8 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of fast chargers and their capacity put in place by the ESB; and the progress that it has made in installing new electric vehicle chargers under the support scheme from the Climate Action Fund. [36937/21]

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: I welcome this Bill. It is important that a tax like this be updated regularly. We are eight years on from the original evaluation in 2013. There is never a good time to update the valuations but we saw the consequence of not doing that. The revaluation of commercial property caused untold controversy because valuations that had been set years ago on the basis of rental values were...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: Did I concede too soon?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 61. To ask the Minister for Health his latest assessment of trends in the use of illegal drugs in Dublin city and county; and the success of strategies in place. [28089/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 156. To ask the Minister for Health the way the locations will be chosen for a disadvantaged area in which a special health strategy will be implemented; the method which will be adopted in those areas to maximise the impact on health inequalities; and when the first such programme will be put in place. [28088/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the exact details of the way the domestic vaccination pass for travel from 19 July 2021 can be obtained by prospective travellers; when public notices will be issued in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37890/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 291. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is a delay in concluding reviews of civil service pensions as in the case of a person (details supplied) for which the review commenced at the end of 2020 but has not yet concluded. [37894/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Policy (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the recent fires such as that on Howth Hill requires any rethinking of protection measures or the provision of resources to contain such instances when they occur. [37896/21]

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

Richard Bruton: I thank both ICTU and Retail Excellence for their presentations. What strikes me is that we are seeing the dilemma evident in the two presentations in that people are looking at the same set of circumstances through different ends of the binoculars. What I would be interested to know from both sides is what our committee can do to help get this strategy off the ground because we need a...

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

Richard Bruton: I want to return to my original questions, which could only be partially answered. There seems to be a consensus between both sides that we need a strategy and that the five pillars of this revolve around transition problems, pay, conditions, education and training, location, planning, flexibility and support from councils, digital transformation and the circular economy. Those five pillars...

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

Richard Bruton: My other question was whether there is now a consensus between the two sides here such that they could go to the Minister to say a strategy needs to developed under five pillars: transition problems, pay conditions and training, location planning and support from local authorities, digital transformation online and so on, and the circular economy. Those are issues on which everyone is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Postal Voting (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans under consideration to amend Irish arrangements for postal voting. [38366/21]