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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: It is essential that we take this more seriously. The reality is that releasing people to attend courses does not deliver improved leadership at local level. Leadership at local level is about leaders having the tools to critically examine what they are doing, to learn from best examples elsewhere, to bring a team with them to make changes, to monitor whether that is happening and to give...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 82. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider undertaking a pilot to inviting people to check if they are getting their full entitlements and targeting categories of persons who may be more likely to be missing out, perhaps in co-operation with other public bodies that may experience underpayment of benefits; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 90. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered initiatives to identify the extent of underclaiming of entitlements from her Department by categories such the low paid at work, by carers, and by pensioners, for whom rules of entitlement may be poorly understood; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7859/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in the Santry, Whitehall and Dublin 9 catchment area who have applied for upgrades to their school buildings, including the amount spent since 2019, in tabular form. [7708/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new schools built in the Santry, Whitehall and Dublin 9 catchment area and the amount spent on each school building since 2019, in tabular form. [7709/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (20 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that the rule that a cost rental should not exceed 35% of net income is rendering some persons in Dublin ineligible for both cost rental and ineligible for social housing; and whether this necessitates some changes in the terms of access for support in order that no one is excluded. [7582/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicles (21 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 36. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is legislative provision in place to require management companies to take reasonable steps to provide EV charging networks for occupiers. [8234/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (21 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the support schemes for EV charging networks developed by local authorities can cover the installation of chargers in multi-unit developments developed by local authorities or by approved housing bodies. [8232/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (21 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 42. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of local authorities that have installed EV charging networks with his Department's support; the number of locations in each case; and the planned and approved locations scheduled to be installed. [8235/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (21 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has completed the review of the financial supports for mobility for those with a disability and, in particular, the criteria for a primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8237/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Electric Vehicles (21 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 115. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is legislative provision in place to require management companies to take reasonable steps to provide EV charging networks for occupiers. [8233/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 141. To ask the Minister for Health if he has reviewed the submission from an organisation (details supplied); if he plans to publish a roadmap for service improvement, as has been done for disability services; and if he has considered the proposal for the regulation of CAMHS under the Mental Health Act 2001. [8122/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (21 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 142. To ask the Minister for Health if a scoliosis unit, or task force in relation to same, has been set up within the Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8123/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 32. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how it is intended to phase in the new community safety plans; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8347/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 82. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current rate of take-up of new farm methods which he regards as key to the Government climate ambitions and the step up needed by 2030 to meet the targets. [8346/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 91. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has considered new measures in the likely context that the sectors for which he has responsibility cannot meet the targets in the climate plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8345/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: I congratulate the Minister on the progress he has made. I recall when I had the climate brief back in whenever it was - 2019 - and the outlook of the transport Department was much different from what it is today in terms of trying to achieve change. That said, it is disappointing, as the Minister admitted in his statement, that there is no guarantee that the transport targets will be hit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: Are new partners needed? Look at all the supermarkets. Look at all the locations that are providing business. That location is near the Garda station and not much else, as far as I could see. A mobility hub ought to be in a place where there are a whole lot of partners sharing the promotion of this as a concept.