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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (22 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider changing the law in order that young persons attending school at senior cycle can retain the entitlement to child benefit until the end of the school year instead of withdrawing it on reaching the age of 18 years of age at a time when they cannot qualify for other support and costs are not reduced in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 678. To ask the Minister for Health if contracted paramedics from outside the HSE who worked on the hospital wards and were exposed to the same daily risk as hospital staff will be entitled to the €1,000 pandemic payment. [9142/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (22 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 825. To ask the Minister for Health if an antigen test confirming that a person had Covid-19 can be used to obtain a recovery certificate recognised for EU travel purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9815/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Facilities (23 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: More flexible use of this infrastructure could release enormous potential in our communities, as Deputy Stanton has said. I can say, as a former Minister for Education who issued those guidelines, they simply have not delivered as we expected. The Department of Education now has to go further. I suggest three things that should be done. First, the education and training boards, which...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Facilities (23 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: Parents are tearing their hair out for childcare facilities. I have a specific case in my area in Sutton where a school is expanding, and a childcare facility is being displaced. The Minister of State should speak to his colleague, the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, as well as the Minister for Education and advance the three proposals I...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: I am sure the Taoiseach, as a former Minister for Education, will agree that efforts to open school facilities for wider community use have not succeeded. I hope he will also agree that we should take immediate action to tap into this potential. I recommend three specific things to the Taoiseach. First, the education and training boards, ETBs, should deliver a best-practice model. Second,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: Is that a "Yes"?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (23 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered the case that the benefit-in-kind regime for cars encourages increased mileage to obtain tax relief which is counterproductive to Ireland’s climate ambitions. [10313/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (23 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider easier methods for remote workers to claim tax allowance in circumstances in which the employer does not make provision such as by using standard allowances rather than requiring a bill to be uploaded. [10322/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (23 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 167. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the adult dependent allowance is disallowed in cases in which a welfare claimant has put savings in joint names for the purpose of ease of transfer in the event of succession and in which the dependent spouse cannot unilaterally withdraw those savings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10339/22]

Town Centre First Policy: Statements (24 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: My few comments will follow on from those of Deputy Leddin without my having planned it. Huge opportunities will arise for rural Ireland and especially our towns and villages if we embrace wholeheartedly the infrastructures of the future. There is a danger that the way we think about rural Ireland is about looking backwards at some of the infrastructure that served us well in the past....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Bodies (24 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 45. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has met with the Future of Media Commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9463/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (24 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 72. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider establishing a ring-fenced part of the sports capital fund in order that rapid-growth areas that have a shortage of both facilities and of clubs could get support to fill the gap in opportunities. [9462/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (24 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way he is approaching the framing of sectoral carbon budgets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9460/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (24 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is making provision for experimentation in the roll-out of the energy upgrade programme so that the impact of different approaches can be tested to find the approach that attracts the maximum level of participation. [9461/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: I thank Mr. Regan for his presentation. One of the areas that interests me is what Mr. Regan had to say about consumer protection. The Commission for Regulation of Utilities was before the committee last week and we discovered that of the 72,000 premises that now have smart meters only 44,000 of those have been offered the opportunity to switch to cheaper off-peak or renewable electricity....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: Could the officials seek to include a requirement that when a customer makes contact about switching they get a rapid response? At the weekend it emerged that half the calls made to some banks are abandoned because no one answers. Could legislation like this make it a requirement that companies report on their responses to calls and have a minimum requirement that customers can contact them...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (1 Mar 2022)

Richard Bruton: 82. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress that has been made in transforming the various public procurement protocols to embrace circular economy principles. [11136/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (1 Mar 2022)

Richard Bruton: 164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered funding deep retrofits for older persons with the recovery of their share of the costs from a later transfer of the property which is the principle underpinning the fair deal scheme in health. [11149/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Mar 2022)

Richard Bruton: 460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the principles underpinning the allocation of SNAs will differ in 2022 from previous years; the way the presentation of new pupils with special needs to a school will be evaluated; and the review mechanisms that will be provided for schools that consider that their needs have not been met. [11017/22]