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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (15 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered the policy implications of the ESRI's assessment of the embodied emissions in Irish imports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62746/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (15 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has received any early indications of the trend in emissions during 2022 and the factors influencing those trends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62747/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Funding (15 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 145. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding that was provided by county from his Department in 2022, broken down by project in tabular form. [62872/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (15 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 212. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the risk of flooding in Sutton and Baldoyle has been assessed a part of his nationwide flood assessment; if measures are being considered which would reduce this risk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63092/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (15 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if some members of the Dublin Fire Brigade have been excluded from the €1,000 bonus for front-line workers; if so, the reason for same. [63093/22]

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (17 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: Tairgim: Go n-ainmneoidh Dáil Éireann an Teachta Leo Varadkar chun a cheaptha ag an Uachtarán mar Thaoiseach. I move: That Dáil Éireann nominates Deputy Leo Varadkar for appointment by the President to be Taoiseach. It was Samuel Johnson who said, "The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another." On most measures, this House would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. John Bruton (8 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: I actually said in my presentation that I accept 50% plus one is sufficient. We cannot change that at this stage. An attempt to change it would go nowhere. I do not believe in tilting at windmills for no purpose. That is what we have got to live with. However, we must ask the voters to take a more sophisticated view of the matter and ask, in deciding to vote at a particular time, whether...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: I also thank the witnesses for the presentation. Like Deputy O'Sullivan, I think RTÉ's coverage has improved significantly. I was intrigued by one of the last comments in the presentation which states, "climate change presents a challenge to journalism, where the immediate can crowd out the important". I think that really goes back to the point raised by the Chairman at the start....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: I have some sympathy with RTÉ on this, in that if we have censorship and do not allow political figures to express their views, that is not good either. We have to have engagement with vested interests, as RTÉ says in its document. We cannot be so purest to imagine that all scientists are icons of objectivity and all politicians are climate deniers. There is a need for RTÉ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: I thank the delegates very much for what was a very interesting presentation. The first question is for Ms Costello. The claim that advertising is responsible for an extra 32% of the carbon footprint of every single person in the country is truly stunning. How is that calculated? Is it disputed? It raises very significant issues if it is undisputed. On Mr. White's presentation, I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: Do the witnesses attribute all the SUVs to the advertising?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: Does it attribute it all to the advertising campaign?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: I have a few questions. How many co-operatives does the proposed legislation provide for? What sort of aggregate turnover do they have and what is the prospect of growth in the sector? I am just looking for a rough picture of what we are dealing with here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: I am limited as regards time. Who will be the regulator of these entities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: Will the registrar will have all the similar sort of powers of company law enforcement as-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: In terms of something like the small company administrative rescue process, SCARP, will there be access to it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: I am interested in whether the local enterprise offices are well equipped to promote this. If we are talking about group water schemes and housing co-ops, we can see that a local enterprise office is going to be a more accessible point of contact. What sort of capacity will the local enterprise offices have to deal with the sort of issues that make co-operatives unique? Unlike Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: It sounds as if we may have to consider if there should be a centralised unit developed versus opting for the more dispersed LEADER model. When Mr. Shine looked at other countries, do they have these sort of networks? Some of these networks we have developed would be relatively strong in Ireland compared with those in some other countries. It appears that the Department is holding out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: It would be useful if Mr. Shine could provide us with a little information. It looks like less than 0.5% of such businesses are in operation. We are not talking about something massive as regards the existing base but, if we are to set up a unit of some sort, it is presumably with the prospect that this figure will grow dramatically from 800 to something much more substantial. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: For a layman, will Mr. Shine give us ten key differences between a company and a co-op in terms of oversight, regulation and legal framework?