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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to increase the capacity for trains to pass through Connolly Station, which is becoming a significant bottleneck in planning the expansion of Dart north and threatens the direct service from Howth to the city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27038/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 169. To ask the Minister for Finance if the new system whereby tenants deduct a withholding tax from their rental payments where the landlord is living overseas will be applied after the deduction of allowable interest and other chargeable costs; if not, how these legitimate reliefs will be recovered; and if the system has been trialled to ensure that landlords and tenants do not face...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Childcare Services (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the displacement on childcare places, as schools take back spare classrooms to accommodate ASD units and other school needs; the estimated scale of this displacement; and if she can draw up a plan with her colleague the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on how such inevitable changes can be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 267. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether there have been any prosecutions under incitement to hatred arising law from protests against asylum seekers; and when she intends that the new offences covering hate crime will be available to gardaí handling such challenges. [27035/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 304. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a strategy is being developed to provide respite places for families caring for people with special needs, such as those within an organisation (details supplied) in north Dublin; if there are initiatives to ensure that such resources do not get removed to meet emergency situations which often arise; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 376. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received submissions raising concerns that future plans of the WHO in coordinating responses to pandemics might overreach the need for local national and community responses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27039/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Decarbonisation of the Heat Sector: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. It was really interesting. I have a few questions. The opening statement mentions a hydrogen pathway and says that the electrification pathway is superior. Are these two choices that we face? Is it the case that Ireland Inc. has to take a punt on one or the other or is it the case that they are essentially complementary and it is a question of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Decarbonisation of the Heat Sector: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: On the issue of cost, to a layman, it sounds like quite a substantial matter to reduce the cost of electricity and achieve the viability that the witnesses are talking about. What sort of money does that represent in abating the 2 million tonnes of carbon that the witnesses say is the potential? What bill are we asking the Government to foot to achieve that? The corollary is whether it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Decarbonisation of the Heat Sector: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: Perhaps the committee could take that up with the SEAI. It would be relevant information. Regarding Mr. Marren's last comment, is the climate action plan, as set out in the document in front of me, is less ambitious than it ought to be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Decarbonisation of the Heat Sector: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: No, I just had a question on flexibility.

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: There is a worrying trend in this House to see embracing sustainability and the climate challenge as a conspiracy somehow hatched in Dublin against the future of rural Ireland. The truth is exactly the opposite. It is those who seek to cling to practices and institutions that do not have a future who will lead their communities in the wrong direction. What I like about the vision for...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2023: Committee Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: On the general point of the ability of bodies that may take collective actions on behalf of consumers, there is this outstanding issue as to how they will fund such actions. I know the Minister of State has not included an amendment to champerty, where I understand exceptions have been granted in other cases in international law. I wonder how the Minister of State envisages these collective...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2023: Committee Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: I get the impression, from what the Minister of State is saying, that he does not see this as being fully effective until that piece of the jigsaw is in place. I wonder why the Minister of State cannot give a timescale. Should we be looking for a review in six months whereby the Minister of State would come back to the committee and give us a report on the potential of that?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether his Department has assigned work on preparing a regulatory regime for carbon capture and storage; and whether there is scope for the EU to promote the concept within the emission trading scheme to facilitate paying for carbon removal at the going carbon price. [27227/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will be announcing plans for additional schools in view of the census population figures and the substantial number of outstanding planning permissions; and, in particular, if she will outline her forecast for the growth in demand for primary school places in the next five years in the Clongriffin, Dublin 13 and Baldoyle...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 858. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new staff devoted to handling the increasing number seeking international protection; the target processing capacity which is planned over the coming year; if this is causing an increase in the prospective waiting period for a decision to be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27225/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 1124. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the desire of athletic therapists to obtain recognition for their profession; and how such a process can be initiated. [27223/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 1125. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that negotiations have broken down between the NTPF and some private nursing homes, thereby jeopardising continuing care for many residents; if there is scope for mediation or adjudication on the issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27224/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 1126. To ask the Minister for Health if will outline the recent capital investments made in Beaumont Hospital; and the planned investments in the next five years, covering both buildings and additional equipment for diagnostics and treatment. [27228/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 1127. To ask the Minister for Health If she will outline the progress being made on a 2023 tender for home care services, and on the development of a statutory scheme for home care, which would bring equity and consistency into access; if she is aware of the frustration of some existing care providers on the continuous extension of the 2018 tender; and if he will make a statement on the...