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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (4 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider grant aiding the conversion of fossil-fuelled cars to electric as a way of acceleration of the conversion of the fleet to electric. [21714/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (4 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 161. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if persons who are paying into public service pension schemes have to continue making contributions after they have reached the maximum 40 years' service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22070/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry (4 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 175. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if steps are being taken to adopt modular building material methods with off-site manufacture of modules in order to speed up the construction time of needed housing. [21698/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Animal Culls (4 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 178. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the scheme undertaken on a pilot basis to carry out a cull of seagulls has been assessed; and if there are plans to consider extending that approach elsewhere. [21771/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (4 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a permanent site for a school (details supplied) has been identified; and construction of a permanent building is scheduled. [21700/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (4 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has completed the assessment of the starting date for the new secondary school (details supplied) taking into account the very large number of new homes completed or under construction in the area. [21703/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (4 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 294. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is considering allowing contributions to be made for pensions from rental income given the move to auto-enrolment. [21702/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Drug Rehabilitation Projects (4 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 320. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the acute problems in reinstating important services for rehabilitating drug dependent young person's due to the lack of community employment youth workers such as in a case (details supplied); and if she will consider changing current community employment regulations to allow key support...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (5 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: I understand that part of Croí Cónaithe involves looking at higher-density urban developments and introducing an intervention to make them affordable for first-time buyers. What progress has been made on that scheme? I do not know whether that question was answered in reply to Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan. There is much high-density development. In constituencies such as mine,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ukraine War (5 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he proposes to introduce to address the needs of people arriving from Ukraine. [22142/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ukraine War (5 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: I strongly support the Government's policy in accommodating Ukrainian refugees. I am concerned about the continuing use of community halls and Army camps. I have two basic questions. One is to get assurance that the emergency response will have the budget and the authority to quickly change schemes - for example, for holiday homes and vacant properties. Second, I would like an assurance...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ukraine War (5 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. I will ask the Minister of State a number of specific questions. There are 62,000 holiday homes and there is a window of opportunity to potentially bring them into use. It probably would need some level of payment though, to attract some of those 62,000 into use. They would be really valuable. I welcome the fact that the Minister of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ukraine War (5 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: Where the Minister of State is looking at State lands for potential modular use, will a material contravention process, which can be lengthy, still be required? How will the Minister of State get temporary use of lands for modular building that would not be too long delayed?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: Deputy Stanton is very anxious to break the logjam on the Midleton Water Rock project, which has the potential for 2,500 homes. The local infrastructure housing activation fund would contribute just over €2,000 per unit to trigger it. It seems that it is stuck. The latest problem is that Transport Infrastructure Ireland has said the major road is not up to scratch to allow it to go...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: The frustration arises because this is very good value from money from a LIHAF point of view. For €2,000 each there would be 2,500 homes. It seems one hand of government is trying to push it along and another is trying to block it. Funding for the proposed upgrade of the N25 was dropped and now TII is saying it is inappropriate to go ahead with the development. We now have a real...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: Is there a copy of the groupings?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: My amendments Nos. 15 and 17 have been included in this grouping although they are on slightly different topics. Amendment No. 15 seeks to insert that where targets are being set that we would have, as a minimum targets set “in Construction, Food, Clothing and Textiles, Equipment, and other relevant sectors”. Leaving it that targets would be set on a sectoral basis without...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: Is it grouped with other amendments?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 3: In page 7, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “(a) the supply chain and processes of production and distribution of products and services are redesigned in order to minimise the environmental damage,”. This is a fairly important point. The way the Minister is defining "circular economy" is quite limited. It is about...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: I do not agree with the Minister of State but I reserve the opportunity to submit an amendment on Report Stage. The Minister of State needs to reflect on whether, if the sole objective of "policies and practices" is keeping materials in use and extracting the most value from them, this will not embrace the wrong choice of materials in the first place. It is important a circular economy...