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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: 71. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has examined the sustainability of different segments of the childcare sector; and how he intends to use the additional resources allocated in the budget for core funding. [48355/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: 241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the approach he intends to adopt to setting new speed limits; how he will ensure that there is a focus on dangerous speeds, rather than on minor exceedances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47930/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: 263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if using an electric powered scooter or bike is an offence against which Garda enforcement is possible; and whether the new legislation on the regulation of such vehicles requires regulations or a commencement date before they become effective. [48319/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: 562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to review the DEIS status of schools now that the results of Census 2022 have been reported; if she envisages granting a new DEIS status to any schools in the near future; how the disadvantage status of a person in homeless accommodation is assessed under the scheme; and whether this might result in the disadvantage status being...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: 797. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the security checks that are carried out on international applicants immigrating to Ireland; whether the Irish Immigration Service carries out criminal record checks on people arriving from other European countries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47466/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: 825. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the reports that the number of checks for dangerous driving have fallen sharply; and if she plans any particular initiatives to emphasise the need for compliance to reduce road deaths. [47931/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: 971. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason foster allowance reduces at 18 years of age, even if the person is in full-time education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47251/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: 1058. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the compliance and standards that will be required of childminders who seek to participate in the national childcare scheme from September 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48317/23]

Energy Charter Treaty: Statements (9 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: I welcome this debate. It is timely. Other Deputies have well articulated the defects in the energy charter treaty. It is important to recall, as the note from the Oireachtas Library and Research Service has underlined, that this emerged in the early 1990s in the wake of the opening up of eastern Europe and following the collapse of the Soviet Union. There were genuine desires to see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Skillnet's figures show that more than 1,700 businesses are involved in sustainable programmes while the SEAI has given grant support to 2,500 but there are 300,000 businesses in Ireland so the level of participation is less than 1%. Based on the witnesses' experience, does a more effective tool for mobilising businesses to take up the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: There is only so much the budget can do but is the method through which we are now engaging, which, as Mr. Healy said, is demand-led, totally inadequate for the scale of the challenge? It is only reaching 1%. Do we need to think differently if we are to get to the other 99%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: Where we do not have capacity, do we make use of energy-saving companies that go in and design changes, earning their money from the savings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: Do we need to move towards a point where conditionality comes in on other aspects of their activity? In other words, if they fail to do some of these low-level steps that some other expectation that the company has is restrained.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: I will go back to the issue of building momentum. Companies are moving towards being what might be called platinum companies and making great claims about their net-zero status, their trends towards such status or the progress they will make by given dates. That is great to see. Does the SEAI have a role in certifying such claims? On the corollary of that, would the authority consider...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: 32. To ask the Minister for Finance whether the implications of a new approach to taxing medical partnerships for the wider policy arrangements in health have been assessed by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48967/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: 132. To ask the Minister for Health whether the implications of a new approach to taxing medical partnerships for the wider policy arrangements in Health have been assessed by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48966/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (9 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: 44. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the throughput of patients being treated in key categories and the trends in patient numbers compared to the corresponding period in 2022 and to the equivalent period in 2019, before Covid struck. [48359/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (9 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: 82. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the throughput of the National Treatment Purchase Agency in 2023; and the plans for 2024. [48358/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: 156. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the latest information on the purchases of homes by first-time buyers and the supply of affordable homes for purchase by such buyers. [48356/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Reform (9 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: 164. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the proposals he plans to table for consideration by the citizens of Dublin of future governance for the city. [48357/23]