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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Richard Bruton: I have a couple of questions. I will start with one about climate. I understand the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications is at the heart of negotiating with the other Departments and sectors regarding what should be in their targets. How is it doing that? What are the criteria? Is it cost per tonne abated, which is in the marginal abatement cost curves, MACCs, we see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Richard Bruton: Will Ms Egan be more specific? What is the upper end of the cost per tonne of abating in the sectors the Department is looking at? What are we talking about? Is it €1,000 per tonne in the period to 2030 or less? What sort of range are we in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Richard Bruton: It is important we see the basis of choices that are being made. I will ask specifically about carbon farming. We will hear from Ms Egan later on this, but if it is case we are running to €1,000 per tonne in some of the other sectors where we need to abate carbon, is the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine looking at measures that would see some of that extraordinary high...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Richard Bruton: Are we not a little foolish to wait for Europe? Generally, agriculture may be 3% or 4% of Europe's emissions. For us, it is approximately 40% of the non-emissions trading system, ETS, which is the stuff we have to take responsibility for. We are in a completely different environment than most of Europe. The way Europe has treated the issue of methane has not been helpful to farming like...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Richard Bruton: In answering other questions, the witnesses were clear, and I fully understand it, that new technologies and, in the context of transport, projected behavioural changes will be part of the pathway. I am wondering about our role in monitoring whether we are on track. If those milestones on the pathway are subject to technology performing or not performing or if it is disappointing or not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (5 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 14. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way the environment for a person suffering domestic violence will improve under the third national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. [35976/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artists' Remuneration (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 57. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the scheme of basic income for artists. [36339/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a pathway into the masters programme in primary teaching for graduates whose pass grade in some of the core subjects in the Leaving Certificate, although sufficient at the time their Leaving Certificate was taken, is no longer adequate for entry into primary teaching; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36519/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 209. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received reports of the difficulty of persons in finding a general practitioner to accept them, particularly on the medical card scheme; and if he has discussed with the HSE the possibility of developing a better clearing-house system in order to assist patients in accessing care. [36341/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 303. To ask the Minister for Health if the bodies delivering services to the HSE during Covid-19 will become eligible for the €1,000 pandemic bonus payment, for example section 39 organisations. [36520/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (5 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 63. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on recent crime trends in Dublin; and the reports she is receiving from the Garda Commissioner on changes in operational policing. [35975/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (5 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has acquired a site for a school (details supplied); and if commencement work to service the site has begun. [36123/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 423. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have lost the adult dependent allowance as a result of a fresh means test undertaken in the past 12 months; if she will consider increasing the savings disregard given that the present threshold of €20,000 has not been revised in a long time and does not go very far in meeting the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 10. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of advertising of apprenticeship opportunities posted on the apprenticeship website; and the initiatives to get more sectoral organisations to get their members to advertise in this way. [36446/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: I begin by commending all involved in getting us close to 80 apprenticeships either approved or in the pipeline. How many posts on apprenticeships are actually being advertised on the website, because the real problem for people is finding a sponsor? Has the backing of associations been sought to up that number?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: When we have an all-time shortage of staff, to hear just 66 apprenticeship posts are being advertised on apprenticeship.ieis bizarre. We have scarcities in most of the sectors, including hospitality, finance, engineering, logistics, ICT and biopharma. All these sectors are crying out for new talent. All of them have representatives of significant weight. Why are those bodies not being...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: I ask that the public sector lead by example here. Apart from the ESB, which has traditionally been a pioneer in this area, there are no public sector bodies that are really putting their shoulders to the wheel. If the first central pooling place for apprentices to apply to came from the public sector as a single effort to put up on apprenticeship.iea range of opportunities, that would be a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 91. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has sought reports from the childcare committees in the various Dublin local authority areas on the availability of childcare for children under two years of age; if there are measures which could be taken in the short term to meet supply constraints; if he will request that local authorities undertake...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: I think the Minister will appreciate the desperation of many parents who are looking for childcare for under-twos and, in a constrained supply framework, how prohibitive the costs can be. At the same time, local authorities, with their childcare committees, often see the standard of 20 childcare places per 75 new housing units developed not being properly enforced. I am anxious to see the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: I do not wish to dispute the findings of a survey, but I could bring the Minister to areas in Dublin Bay North where there is not 6% or 14% availability. I suppose it is always the case that there will be areas of acute shortage. A couple of childcare centres in my area closed down, which has provoked this question. There does not seem to be ready capacity to respond to that. What are the...