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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: No, just send them to us.

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: I welcome this plan. We spend far too much time in this House arguing about targets, mostly with the Opposition demanding higher targets than the Government has committed to, and not enough time looking at the innovative policy tools that we need to bring in to make a difference. I listened to the Opposition and, by and large, their contribution is finding fault with the measures that are...

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: We have to look at ways of leveraging private investment as well as public investment. I know this is close to the heart of the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth. There are two areas with opportunities for fresh thinking. One is carbon farming, where we pay farmers for the sort of thing we need to do, such as rewetting and reducing livestock herding on some of these drained organic...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: I want to ask about the 2,000 community pharmacies across the country. They are playing a massive role at the moment in the current health crisis and they played a huge role during Covid. They are under real pressure but are still bearing the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, cuts and there is still no long-term strategy for the new role they could play. It is...

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I did not think I would get in so early in the debate. I welcome the Minister’s initiative in this area. A supply chain that is fair to primary producers is essential. This has dogged the sector for a long period with the sense of unfairness, rapid changes and an imbalance of power out there. The Minister is taking the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (19 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: 43. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he receives regular reports on the performance of public transport services; if he will outline the successes, the challenges and the way further progress can be made. [2217/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (19 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: 51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has specific initiatives in place to facilitate vehicle-sharing platforms; and the role he envisages they can play in a more sustainable transport strategy. [2216/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (19 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: 151. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has undertaken any cross-cutting work on the operation of means tests across Government and, in particular, the fairness and appropriateness of the diverse approaches. [2208/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: 661. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered the possibility of setting up a panel through which second level teachers could seek to apply to swap positions where they had a need to move, as has been suggested by an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63209/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: 749. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there are many Irish students who have completed teacher training in the UK, but are prevented from returning home to assist with the present teacher shortage given that they have not yet completed a UK based probation; and if she has considered measures which would allow them to work in Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: 1366. To ask the Minister for Health the provision that is being made in 2023 to fund waiting list initiatives for child orthodontic work; and if new categories will gain access to the option of private treatment. [63948/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: 1420. To ask the Minister for Health if the indexation-up of outstanding amounts under the fair deal scheme is being reviewed in view of the fact that the rate of inflation is now far in excess of interest rates and the cost to the State of funding the outstanding amounts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1181/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: 1423. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to extend the enhanced travel and subsistence scheme for student nurses and midwives to student doctors also known as medical students, who face the same costs in relation to meals, subsistence, scrubs purchase, laundering and travel to placement sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1197/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: 1424. To ask the Minister for Health if, as part of the Government's commitment to retaining doctors in Ireland, a medical intern doctor job will be made available to every eligible graduating doctor in an Irish medical school in 2023 similar to that which was offered during the Covid-19 pandemic. [1198/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: 1428. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to address the urgent need to recruit additional staff for children's disability network teams in order to address lengthy waiting lists for early intervention in the north Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1232/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: 1433. To ask the Minister for Health if he is in a position to indicate a start date from which free GP care will be extended to those under eight years of age. [1250/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Register (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: 1661. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the backlog in re-registering Irish doctors who seek to return to work in Ireland; and if steps will be taken to urgently clear the backlog in view of the urgent needs at present. [2011/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: 1720. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has considered the case for making the flu vaccine free to accelerate uptake at this time of acute pressure. [2370/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: 1721. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the FEMPI changes, which were introduced affecting the income of pharmacists; if there is a process in place for considering the restoration of such changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2371/23]

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Oil Emergency Contingency and Transfer of Renewable Transport Fuels Functions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: When a proposal such this, which increases the non-renewable percentage of fuel, is being introduced, there would normally be a regulatory impact assessment, RIA, of some sort. Some of these things can be quite expensive, and the least we can do is look at alternatives. The section does not include provision for an RIA. Would an RIA be carried out without the need to have it specified in...