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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (27 Apr 2023)

Richard Bruton: I thank my constituency colleague in the Chair for her generosity. This question refers to an interesting report, which I am sure the Minister has seen, from the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI. The authors showed that if we measured our consumption, including the vehicles we buy and the goods we import for buildings, our carbon footprint would be 75% higher than it is on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (27 Apr 2023)

Richard Bruton: I invite the Minister to consider giving the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, a more prominent role in respect of promoting this sort of thinking within the climate plan. For example, the choice between a sports utility vehicle, SUV, which has 35 tonnes of embodied carbon, and a standard car, which has only 10 tonnes, can have a huge impact in the global context. Does the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (27 Apr 2023)

Richard Bruton: 65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is tracking the emerging situation in Myanmar; and if he will indicate what leverage the international community can exercise to ensure citizen rights are respected. [19320/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Richard Bruton: 140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will indicate the processes which he has put in place to set sectoral targets under Circular Economy and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19321/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Emigrant Support Services (27 Apr 2023)

Richard Bruton: 144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are new procedures in place that create complexity in transferring a pension paid from the UK to Ireland; and if there is any public agency which could advise citizens of how this can be done without incurring disproportionate costs. [20073/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Richard Bruton: 173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will indicate the benchmarks which he uses to assess the extent to which green criteria have impacted public procurement; and whether he can indicate how Ireland compares with other EU member states in this respect. [9534/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Flexible Work Practices (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Bruton: 113. 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. [19323/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Bruton: 381. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline how working part-time hours affects a person’s entitlement to jobseeker's allowance; how it affects entitlement to jobseeker's benefit; and the number of claimants in each case who receive payment while working part-time. [19553/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IBEC and Science Foundation Ireland: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: I thank out guests for their interesting presentations. I see there is a proposal to merge SFI with another body. It raises this issue of what the proper balance between applied and relevant research versus blue sky is. Under SFI’s approach, it has targets around relevant industrial partners and spin-outs. Is there a risk that we will see research move away from the more pressing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IBEC and Science Foundation Ireland: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: It does to an extent, but apprenticeships are for providing skills to employers. The State is putting a considerable amount of money into these programmes. I am not saying it is the perfect level of funding but it seems that the only sector that sought to create a central recruitment process was the financial services sector and it succeeded in developing apprenticeships. Some of them went...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IBEC and Science Foundation Ireland: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: That is great. If the financial services operation could promote its best practice model among some of the others, that would be great.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Safety (4 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: I am interested in that question because I recently had the opportunity with the Committee on Environment and Climate Action to visit the Netherlands. It is interesting there, where there is a very high cycling culture, that they make less use of red lights and allow many more what would be left turns for cyclists here and in their case would be right turns where the light is red for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (4 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 14. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the basis on which funding will be made to local authorities to fund mobility hubs for the different elements that can be provided; and when he expects that the first ten such hubs will be in place. [20732/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Safety (4 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 52. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied with the progress in preventing air traffic disruption from drones. [20733/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Control Measures (4 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 149. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that the Finance Act 1995 prevents retailers from setting a margin on the sale of tobacco, as they can on every other product, instead, they are obliged to sell product at the price set by the tobacco companies; and whether he has considered allowing a higher price be set even if he is unwilling to allow any discounting from the RRP. [20977/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (4 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 262. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that a trend has been developing whereby cigarettes are being sold in larger packs than the standard 20 pack, and that this allows a lower unit price be charged, and encourages more consumption; and if he has considered any restrictions on this, or a requirement to have the same unit price regardless of the pack size. [20978/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (3 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department plans to provide more capacity for boys' secondary school places, which are very low in the school planning area of Clontarf, Killester and Raheny. [20274/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. I thought I heard a report today about serious arrears levels among consumers. The CRU's statement seems to suggest arrears are lower than they were. Maybe we could have a comment on that. On the take-up of the smart meters, at the moment it is 7% which seems very low for such a large investment. What is the target for that? What percentage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: Will the witnesses comment on the gas arrears and the target for the smart meters?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: With disconnection bans gone, can the CRU manage to bring those arrears back down? Do we need to worry about it from a policy perspective or can it be managed by the CRU's interaction with the suppliers?