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

Richard Bruton: Finally, because I am probably abusing the clock, the merit of a circular economy strategy is that you get a lot of those players into the same room and you start to put pressure on more employers to take up the smarter travel mark or more supermarkets to start to engage with the location of mobility hubs so they can be seen to be part of the strategy. It is the partnership piece. It is all...

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

Richard Bruton: I have just a brief question.

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

Richard Bruton: I am interested in the Minister's point about building capacity for some of the bigger shifts we need to make. I absolutely agree with that, but I am interested to hear his view on his understanding of the planning bottlenecks that remain. They do seem to be the key issue in the context of BusConnects and renewable energy. Time and again, that is where the capacity constraint is now...

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

Richard Bruton: The original location was Clonshaugh but it died a death.

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

Richard Bruton: No.

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

Richard Bruton: Do not take me as an authority. I have not heard-----

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

Richard Bruton: That is my understanding. A planning limbo is-----

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

Richard Bruton: I agree. We are doing the legislation, which we have beefed up, but as the Minister rightly said, the issue is judicial review. The case was made by the climate council that in other countries these projects would be done. These are not countries that are autocracies. I am wondering-----

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

Richard Bruton: Do we need some sort of critical path analysis that could be done by a whole-of-government team to look at why so many of these things fall off the radar for whatever reason? This is so we get down to a few net changes we could make to the process. We all say renewables are the great white hope for the country, but we then all wring our hands every other week because something is not moving...

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

Richard Bruton: I know.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: Will the Minister consider a cross-Government initiative to see that everyone gets their entitlements in full? People are losing €250 million in unclaimed tax relief on medical expenses, €280 million in carer's support grant, €62 million in unclaimed GP cards and €140 million in unclaimed working family dividend. Many of these are our most vulnerable families....

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in the debate. We are living at a time when unprecedented forces are conspiring to undermine the values on which our democratic community is built. These values are absolutely vital. They are critical to our society and we need to treasure them. They are the republican values of liberty, equality and fraternity, respect for every individual and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Provision (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 8. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to develop Skillnet Ireland in its capacity to accelerate adaptation to the challenges of sustainability and digital transformation of business models. [9082/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 15. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered the role that further and higher education could play in the future in supporting the contribution of people after they retire from full-time work both from their past experience and empowering them for a third age; and if he will consider evolving a new strategy in this sphere. [9081/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: I thank the witnesses for their interesting presentation. I will start on the political thing. I am interested to know how they define protecting electoral integrity. It seems to me that deliberative democracy, which a lot of us are used to, is challenged by social media. Outrage is the most saleable product and it spreads virally by the systems they have in place. On top of that, some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: Can I come back to job interviews and those sort of things that are like insurance? Situations could be envisaged where all sorts of data that would be regarded as extraneous to an insurance policy being cast would be capable of being tracked from people's social media histories. Will Coimisiún na Meán police that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: A lot of that is put up by people themselves and with their consent. It is in the public domain. Is Dr. Evans saying it cannot be used or can only be used for certain purposes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: For job interviews I suspect employers look at people's social media history. Is that now unlawful?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: There are extremes out there. If dishing out insurance policies or sifting through CVs becomes machine learning, there could be an awful lot of very-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: What I am getting at is that you feel there are certain principles that ought to be embedded in a job interview. Maybe this has to go into employment law or insurance law and is not Coimisiún na Meán's baby. However, it does seem to me that machine learning will challenge existing laws and it will not be good enough for Coimisiún na Meán to say there is a data law and...