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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 216. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will indicate the number of persons who claim incapacitated child tax credit and if the Revenue Commissioners have undertaken any assessment as to whether a significant number of people may be missing out on this entitlement. [2691/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has undertaken any assessment of the number of families who may be eligible for the working family payment, but who fail to apply and if she has considered making arrangements with the Revenue Commissioners to transform this payment into a form of credit which could be more easily claimed or automatically accrued by...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 398. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will indicate the number of people who qualify for the carer’s support grant and how many of these receive it automatically because they are already in receipt of a carer’s payment or domiciliary care allowance; how many qualify through a specific application for the grant and whether she has made any...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 399. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will indicate the number of persons in receipt of the household benefits package who receive this along with their social welfare entitlement and the number who apply separately for them without having an entitlement to a weekly social welfare payment; if she has any estimate of the numbers over 70 years of age on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 418. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline the procedure for managing the application of persons applying for asylum who have no documentation when they land; whether the carriers retain records of the documentation presented when boarding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2404/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 616. To ask the Minister for Health if he will indicate the number of families who are in receipt of GP cards now and how that compares to the level before the means limit was increased to the median wage; if he will indicate how this increase compares to his estimate of how many extra families would become eligible as a result of the change in the means test, and if he considers that a large...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 617. To ask the Minister for Health if he will indicate the date from which the rental earnings on the home of a person receiving support under fair deal will cease to be assessed for the resident’s contribution to the cost of nursing home care, and the estimated cost that is being budgeted for this change in the method of assessment. [2696/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 651. To ask the Minister for Health whether the group considering expanding the role of community pharmacists has reported to him; and if he is considering increasing the fees for existing work or introducing funding for new activities, which could see improvements in service. [2934/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 80. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the work at EU and UN level which Ireland is undertaking in pursuit of peace and of a two-state solution in the Israel Palestine conflict. [2981/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline the progress in developing a new circular economy strategy with sectoral targets, and an EPA programme of actions, which implement the provisions of the Circular Economy Act. [2979/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will comment on reports that there will be a tight supply situation for electricity for many years to come, and the initiatives which could be considered to ease this risk. [2980/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: I thank Mr. Foley for his opening statement. Like other members, I thank him for the guidance on policy, as well as the work EirGrid is doing. He pointed to a fairly sharp issue relating to the failure of the capacity markets and stated they are not being framed correctly. Dermot McCarthy prepared a report on what went wrong in the past. He stated that the risks in the scale of transition...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: I ask Mr. Foley to explain in layman's terms what restructuring of the market might be. The McCarthy report stated that there were issues of architecture and framework. I do not know what that means.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: Is that the only issue with the architecture?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: In simple terms, will Mr. Foley describe what was wrong with the auction?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: It was the scale they were bidding on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: Which parameters need to change? That is what I am trying to understand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: It is just the price.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: Mr. Foley also said the policy framework for shaping what is appropriate demand is flawed, missing or inadequate. Will he elaborate on the flaw?