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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Bruton: 13. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress to date with the safe-routes-to-school initiative, the best exemplars which have emerged; and if there shall be a new call for participation. [45647/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Bruton: As people recount their woes in getting here on a wet morning, and I cycled in, which was grand, spare a thought for commuters on the north side of Dublin who are experiencing the growth pangs of BusConnects and the cycle network, which is of course welcome. It will, however, take a year and a half and will be a challenge. Last week, the Taoiseach told me, and it was very welcome, that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Bruton: While I highly commend this programme and believe it is a great move, there is now a mood among the three quarters of schools that have not applied and the 95% of schools not currently in the programme to look seriously at how they can become safer and more sustainable. Could a lighter scheme be brought in as an immediate measure to capitalise on the fact that people are much more conscious...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Bruton: I welcome what the Minister has said but he needs to move this forward in some way. As Rahm Emanuel said, do not waste a crisis; it is a time to do great things. This is such an opportunity. For example, if there was a simple design manual with low-hanging fruit for schools to consider in their own contexts, that would be a step forward that would cost virtually nothing. Another option is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fiscal Policy (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Bruton: 99. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will indicate the relaxed European Union rules that are now available to member states' taxation and public finance ministers in order to assist in confronting the present crisis and if he will indicate the possibilities they open up. [46332/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fiscal Policy (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Bruton: If anyone could be in any doubt about the depth and length of the crisis we are now facing, such doubts were dispelled when war crimes were discovered in areas that President Putin had been forced to abandon. He is now proposing referendums in those occupied territories and is making nuclear threats. In that context, what changes in response are possible in state aid, tax relief, new credit...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fiscal Policy (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Bruton: I think the Minister. Anyone who listened to me will know I am calling for a national energy resilience campaign. I see potential state-aid obstacles standing in the way of such a scheme. In many businesses there are no supports for solar energy. The SME test which is to try to proof small businesses against some changes is not in place in Ireland. I see the potential for tax relief for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fiscal Policy (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Bruton: I urge that consideration be given to short-period tax concessions with limited life to look at things like downsizing, adaptation of homes and vacancy. These two are structural high use of energy. We are not good at occupying effectively. Short-term tax concessions could help people who want to make changes to make those changes. It makes a lot of sense not only because we face housing...

Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Bruton: I welcome this Bill and congratulate the Minister on making this progress. I was Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when we started this journey and it certainly took much innovation and thinking about what other countries had done and what would be most appropriate in Ireland. I know the team put a lot of work into assessing the choices that have led to the Bill...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Bruton: 78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has identified the barriers to adoption of electric modes of travel; and if he is developing measures to address them. [45648/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Bruton: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance the scale of the impact that rising energy prices will have on the balance of international payments in European Union Member States; the implication that this will have on public policy; the strategies that are being debated by the Euro-Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46331/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Bruton: 176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the grant supports that are available for the installation of solar energy features to a home or to a business, indicating the support with or without battery storage; and if the level of support increases if it is part of a wider energy upgrade. [46492/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Bruton: 213. To ask the Minister for Finance the present tax reliefs that are available to employees and to employers to support remote working; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46498/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Policy (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Bruton: 254. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to alter the rate at which money is lent by the Housing Finance Agency to the local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46493/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Schemes (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Bruton: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way that the income threshold for eligibility for housing aid, mobility aid and grants to support the adaptation of a home for a person with a disability are set; when they have last been updated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46494/22]

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

Richard Bruton: 284. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if income of no more than €14,000 earned from renting a room in a home is now excluded from all means tests applied by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46495/22]

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

Richard Bruton: 285. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons who do not have a social welfare pension can qualify for the household benefit under a means test; when the additional amount allowed over and above the corresponding rate of contributory old age pension was last adjusted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46496/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Bruton: 331. To ask the Minister for Health the further work to develop a new national home care support scheme that has been undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46497/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Service (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Bruton: 87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the protocols for emergency responses to incidents on Dublin’s beaches; if the Dublin Fire Brigade is notified of incidents; or if it is solely the Coast Guard that is informed. [47070/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Bruton: 152. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if it has been decided when the next call for funding under the sports capital grant will be made; and if changes are planned in the format of the next call. [46702/22]