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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (25 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has undertaken a review of the manner in which schools with religious patrons have delivered on the obligations to children for whom it has been indicated that they do not wish to participate in religious arrangements; and if she is considering issuing guidelines on the matter. [26888/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (25 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to initiate a programme of transfer of patronage at second level in areas in which there is substantial demand for non-denominational patronage, but no schools are serving that need. [26889/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (25 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the authority, the budget and the mandate of the facilitators who seek to achieve the transfer of patronage in eight pilot areas; if their new role has taken learnings from the previous initiative by the education and training boards which have had limited success; the form that the consultation with parents will take in the eight areas; and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: At a time when our nearest neighbour is experiencing economic stagnation, it is worth emphasising the importance of good political and economic leadership that has delivered, as of today, 2.5 million people at work. That is an increase of 700,000 since the economic crash and an increase of 150,000 since the onset of Covid. Will the Tánaiste indicate the progress being made on the...

Irish Apprenticeship System: Statements (26 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: I welcome this debate. We have made huge progress in apprenticeships in recent years. Back in 2015, there were just 8,000 people in apprenticeships. By 2019, this had risen to 16,000 and today the figure is 23,000. This is a dramatic transformation. Contrary to what the two Deputies now leaving the Chamber have just said, the quality of the apprenticeships is increasingly being...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (26 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 25. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Treatment Purchase Fund has informed him of its strategy for 2022 in terms of planned procedures and planned outpatient visits for persons who have been waiting for a long-time; if so, the specialties; the targets for each specialty; the waiting time threshold at which the respective interventions would occur; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (26 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 92. To ask the Minister for Health if the concession of a €14,000 disregard on rental income for social welfare purposes will be extended to a disregard of rental income for the fair deal scheme. [26878/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (26 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 163. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the latest estimates of the margins per hectare in terms of family farm income generated from the different main forms of farming that is, dairy, beef herds, grain and so on. [26876/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (26 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 171. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has assessed the value of greenhouse gas savings over a twenty-year timeframe, calculated at the carbon price used in capital project evaluation under the public spending codes of diversification initiatives (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26875/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: First of all, I do not agree with the disparaging remarks made by Deputy O'Reilly about the Tánaiste, who is not here to defend himself. These remarks should not have been put to an official to comment upon. Regarding head 12, a lot of attention is being paid to what or should not be on the list. The reality is that whether or not the employer picks one of these is entirely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: If it is an offence not to have a policy, is it an offence to have a policy that ignores half the code of practice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: Is there any method short of stating that somebody is guilty of an offence? Is it possible to develop some process of change over time so that if someone declares it is reasonable not to accept a person's request now, they would be under some obligation to remove the vulnerability of the data protection system if that was the ground? Can we get to something that is more a case of evolving...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: Three years on none are installed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: Can SEAI say, for instance, 650 SECs delivered X in 2021? Do we have that sort of hard data to drive the thing forward?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: There are 1.5 million homes that we are not talking about reaching at all in the retrofit scheme for the next ten years. Is there data to show that a significant majority of those have heat controls in there? The impression I have is that they do not and that the 1.5 million late movers, as it were, have very little in the way of management. What if we got them, the laggards, to be able to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: Only if they are packaged by some very deep measure, as I understand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: And heating controls?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: The Department of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: To confirm a point, it is the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage that will be accountable for evaluating the local authority climate plans, not the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. Is that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: Therefore, we do not look to Ms Corcoran's Department but to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.