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Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: I think Deputy Murnane O’Connor is first.

Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: First, I am very uneasy about this legislation. We are proposing to consolidate the two agencies here before conducting the evaluation that I understand the Minister of State is planning, if it is not already under way. To have structural reform before doing the research into evaluating how the present system is working seems the wrong way to do things. It said in the blurb that it is...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: On a point of order, I do not think that the time allocations are being followed and I have a hard stop at 11.20 a.m.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: Given my time constraint, the Minister might be able to respond in writing. First, I congratulate the Minister, his Department and the agencies on the progress they have made. In 2011, IDA companies were employing less than half the figure they are employing today. That is extraordinary progress. I refer also to Enterprise Ireland, where we have gone from 320,000 jobs to 560,000, which...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: Would the Minister consider a circular economy lead for his Department on food and construction for starters?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: I think I nearly persuaded the Minister for agriculture to come on board too.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: The Minister might excuse me because I have to go, unfortunately. I have a hard stop outside the House. I thank the Minister very much indeed.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (30 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 100. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she would consider embodying initiatives to promote positive ageing within all the programmes of her Department, wherever practically possible; and if she will outline the specific areas of greatest potential. [4015/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (30 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 108. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development whether the Town Centre First initiative has succeeded in the pilot stage of one per county; if she will indicate the main areas of transformation; and if she will outline her plans over the next five years to extend the initiative. [4014/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (30 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 218. To ask the Minister for Finance the procedure through which the temporary mortgage relief on the increase in interest payments in 2023 can be applied for, and if Revenue have issued guidelines on the matter. [3866/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (30 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 219. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of taxpayer units who earn under €40,000 in the most recent year for which statistics are available; and if he will distinguish the number of them who have children; the number who claim as caring for a child alone; and the number who are assessed as married and jointly assessed. [4064/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered the submission seeking the restoration of the premium for teachers teaching through the medium of Irish; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3643/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 529. To ask the Minister for Health whether the pandemic bonus scheme has been completed; and whether a payment is due in the circumstances of a person (details supplied). [3930/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (30 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 597. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has carried out an assessment of the potential to grow both commercial and social enterprises in developing networks to support the circular economy transformation; and if new initiatives are planned in this arena. [50445/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (30 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 598. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has carried out an assessment of the potential of remote delivery in health and community development; and if new initiatives are planned in this arena. [4243/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Dogs (31 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 114. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how he intends to publicise the departmental public consultation on electric shock collars; what steps he intends to take following receipt of all submissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4385/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Parking Provision (31 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 159. To ask the Minister for Health the annual revenue generated by public car parking at Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4397/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Parking Provision (31 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 160. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of any contracts between private car park operators and Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4398/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (31 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 162. To ask the Minister for Health the number of physiotherapists catering to the needs of public patients; whether waiting lists are maintained to measure the extent to which demand is being met by the existing throughput of caseload of these practitioners: if he has considered extending the NTPF system to those waiting for physiotherapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4402/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: I ask the Tánaiste if he will establish a cross-government initiative to tackle unclaimed entitlements. Revenue admits that PAYE workers have left €480 million behind them in unclaimed reliefs. I estimate that the total for unclaimed entitlements for expenditure programmes is far higher, at about €1.5 billion. This is an enormous sum, more than €2 billion...