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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (16 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the contribution anticipated from financial institutions to the various schemes to restore buildings which have suffered from building product defects, in view of the benefit they enjoy in the value of the security of their portfolio of property as a result of the restoration of these properties at the taxpayer's expense....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (16 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 303. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the additional procedures which must be completed for issuing a passport to a child of Irish citizens who are not Irish born; and if there are steps which can be taken to speed up this process. [55582/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: I am concerned at the delay in producing the national retrofitting plan or the retrofitting wave as it is called in Europe. Following the publication of the climate action plan, great interest has been aroused but the fact that people do not know the direction of travel on retrofitting is having a chilling effect. Applications for works are now being postponed. Can we see that retrofitting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of the Withdrawal of Covid-19 Measures on Business: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: I would like to discuss a few of those short-term issues. The work permits and visas seem to be a pinch point. I am hearing stories of it being impossible to get appointments for renewing visas. There are an awful lot of sectors visibly struggling with recruitment. Mr. McDonnell explained that a number of complex issues are coming to bear on this. Is there scope for easing work permit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of the Withdrawal of Covid-19 Measures on Business: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: I thank Mr. Hughes. Would Mr. McDonnell comment on the types of issues that might give rise to business difficulties?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (18 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the role the United Nations can take to protect citizens and their rights in Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55589/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (18 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the role the United Nations can usefully take to protect citizens and their rights in Myanmar; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55588/21]

Climate Action Plan 2021: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: I sympathise with Deputy Whitmore; five or six minutes is too little. Normally, transformative change of the sort we are undertaking is created by some disruptive technology that sweeps everything before it. What is unique about this crisis is that we have to make this transformative change by an act of human or political will. That challenges us all because the task of politicians is to...

Climate Action Plan 2021: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: It is the way to go. We need to build prosperity in rural Ireland on the infrastructure of the future. We also need to help farming to do it. There is a major job to be done in persuading the European Union to change the way it approaches agriculture. It does not value the modifications made in respect of methane emissions nearly enough. Farmers should be well rewarded where they make...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Examinations (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: I am taking Deputy Alan Farrell's question. The question I would like to ask the Minister is just how radical she is willing to be in this area. The reality is that memory retention, which is at the heart of the leaving certificate, is distorting teaching and learning. The OECD has reported it is creating a second-rate qualification for our students. We are more than five years on from the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Examinations (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: I have two short supplementaries. Could I have the assurance of the Minister that it will not take another five years to implement the changes when they do come out because that would be bitterly disappointing for people who want to see change? Does the Minister agree that the ceiling did not fall in when teachers undertook to assess their own students and that we need to be courageous in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: I am grateful to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing this matter to be taken. I congratulate the Minister of State on the progress that has been made on special education, which is truly transformative. We now have four times as many special classes and twice as many special needs assistants, SNAs. We have moved from individual models of assessment and expensive gateways to support to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: I thank the Minister of State and congratulate her on her very accurate appreciation of the benefits of this model. I remember when Eamon Stack, then chair of the NCSE, developed this. He was like a child, so enthusiastic was he about the impact it would have on special education. There is an opportunity to drive this and make it, as the Minister of State said, unique. There is no other...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will put in place arrangements to facilitate a hybrid leaving certificate in 2021 given the education of exam students has been disrupted during the cycle and will continue to be in the foreseeable future. [57045/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to support the provision of segregated bins in public places which have high usage. [57060/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has introduced legislation or protocols to ensure that electric vehicle owners in multiple-unit developments have a right to install a charger in their parking spot; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57052/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the take-up in each local authority in each year since 2016 to date by option (details supplied). [57490/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated number of properties which are vacant for longer than a transitional period which might become the target of policies to tackle vacancy. [57491/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number and aggregate area of vacant sites registered on the vacant sites register in each local authority; and the estimated liability and collection of revenue from the levy. [57492/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the local authorities that have reported that they have a full-time vacant property officer in place. [57493/21]