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

Richard Bruton: 701. To ask the Minister for Health if an evaluation has been carried out of the procurement of supplies during the Covid pandemic to establish the successes and the disappointments of the emergency arrangements used to establish the lessons that can be learnt for the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60985/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Legislative Proposal on Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: I thank the witnesses for coming in and for their presentation. Yesterday we saw the opening of the global summit on biodiversity. It is probably worth reminding ourselves of what the UN Secretary General said in that our land, water and air are being poisoned by chemicals and choked by plastics. We all know our planet is burning, one third of all land is degraded which makes it harder to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Legislative Proposal on Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: When Ms Hennessy says it is a market-based measure, is there an expectation that a new profession will grow of sustainability compliance experts, who would be similar to architects or accountants and undertake these audits? Is it intended that this area will become one where small businesses will be able to outsource to bring in the required expertise and then have a fair level of confidence...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (8 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 78. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the improvements in the context of early intervention with children who have need for assessments and for therapeutic intervention. [60832/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 153. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a land use strategy is being developed within which aspirations for forestry for the protection of biodiversity, climate, renewables and for the bioeconomy could be evolved in a coherent manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60852/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 158. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the anticipated steps needed in order to implement carbon farming as a reliable source of income for farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60853/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (8 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 198. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department can facilitate a hybrid application involving a partnership between a community group and a State enterprise in a renewable energy project, in view of the fact that such models are in place elsewhere in Europe, and the concern that there has been a high failure rate in community projects seeking to...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Policy (8 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to increase the means threshold for cost rental, in view of the recent increase in the threshold for social housing. [61461/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: The debate around agriculture, in particular seems to be the increasingly most intense debate, where there is quite considerable argument about the impact on social life of changes that may be expected from a climate perspective. Does the BAI have protocols in place to guide local broadcasters in the conduct of debate around that sort of issue or is there good international practice to guide...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: However, the BAI is still working on the basis of complaints. It is not at the point where it will start to enunciate goals.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: Mr. McLoughlin talked of asking broadcasters to indicate their scale of coverage in their new licence. Is the BAI considering a minimum programming requirement in respect of climate coverage? In that context, are broadcasters willing to provide climate coverage without financial support on the science of it as opposed to a row between two advocates? Where is that heading in the medium...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: My last question is on the difference between online treatment of content and the regulated sector that the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland covers. Where will that go in the medium term? During the Covid pandemic, we sometimes felt that science was battling with an online arena where anything goes. Is there a role for a body like the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, which is now moving...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: Does Ms Craig know Gresham's law in economics? Bad currency eventually drives out good currency. If the bad currency is allowed free reign, the good currency just dies out.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: Last week, the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, showed that spending in Ireland is generating 75% more emissions than the conventional measure. I want to ask the Minister about his green procurement strategy. The only data I have seen are a couple of years old and show that Ireland is well behind other European countries. I would be interested to know whether the Minister can...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 90. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which the new mandate for local enterprise offices will improve services to small business and enhance enterprise sustainability; and his estimate of the job potential of the initiative. [62030/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Schemes (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 96. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the early experience with the small company rescue scheme is demonstrating that it has the capacity to allow viable businesses restructure arrangements in order that jobs and livelihoods can be sustained. [62031/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Sector Pensions (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 32. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has a role in deciding whether the pension fund in the State bodies under his authority are providing sufficient increases to their members to match rising costs of living, where the fund has adequate resources to pay more; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62550/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the risk to public health caused by blockages on private drains which are no longer addressed as an environmental health hazard by the environmental health officers attached to the HSE, and which are not addressed by the councils or by Irish Water; and his views on whether this lacuna should...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Broadband Infrastructure (15 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 50. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has assessed the potential of the high-speed broadband network to create potential for rural development; and the number of projects emerging for support from her Department's programmes which utilise its potential. [62743/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 67. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has an early indication of the uptake of connected hubs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62744/22]