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

Richard Bruton: Does Coimisiún na Meán, as our trusted partner who is looking out for our interests, invigilate their consents in some way to ensure they are not asking for unreasonable things from consumers, who we know will not read the small print? We just know that is not going to happen.

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

Richard Bruton: When someone makes a complaint and they come to Coimisiún na Meán with it, is it an acceptable defence to say the complainant pressed the button to accept four years ago and the provider is only doing what it said it would do? What status do those consent buttons have in Coimisiún na Meán's assessment of a subsequent investigation?

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

Richard Bruton: That Act is now in place. The services cannot presumably rely on consents they received under the old legislation.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Care of the Elderly (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 5. To ask the Minister for Health whether his Department is evolving strategies to divert the flow of older patients from accident and emergency departments into more suitable pathways; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9730/24]

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Strategies (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 12. To ask the Minister for Health whether his Department has mapped out a pathway for the role technology can play in keeping patients healthy and in the planned statutory homecare scheme; and the status of the roll-out of the planned actions. [9731/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Gas Safety (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. I presume they are all signed up to a licensed entity so they would now be licence 1. To clarify, has the commission changed the terms of licensed bodies to ensure it has a better handle over these unlicensed bodies whereby it could cut off supply to someone that it has concerns about? Has the CRU as an interim measure tightened the rights to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 156. To ask the Minister for Finance the process through which the Revenue Commissioners estimate tax that may have been overpaid by PAYE workers (details supplied); and, in particular, whether this is based on an assumption about tax allowable expenses claimed by these individuals, or by applying some inference about these taxpayers from the claims made by others. [9280/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are changes being made in how resource teachers are being allocated or deployed, if she is aware of concerns expressed by Down's Syndrome Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9033/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether the NCSE has reported on the adequacy of capacity of special schools and special units on the northside of Dublin to meet the needs of pupils presenting for placement this year; if increases in capacity have been identified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9034/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a shortage of special school places to serve Dublin's northside; if she has received a report from the NCSE on capacity constraints and how they might be filled; if new places are coming on stream for this coming September or beyond; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9271/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Assisted Decision-Making (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 402. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that many lawyers are refusing to sign papers creating an enduring power of attorney, where citizens have drawn up their own documentation, which is leaving these documents with no valid application; and if he has any plans which might overcome this problem. [8783/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 666. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she is undertaking a review of the controls on dangerous dogs; the terms of reference, and the date on which consultations close; and whether she will examine regimes for control and enforcement in other countries so that best practice models can be considered. [9284/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 100. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he report on the remit and progress of the new Childcare Development Agency; how it will integrate the work of county childcare committees; and the new planned capital budgets for Childcare Development. [9732/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 144. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the methods in place for ensuring that new international protection centres are supported with necessary services and activities so that integration into the community is facilitated. [9733/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Facilities (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 210. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will review the funding allocated to the sports lottery fund and allocate extra investment in sports facilities across Ireland, where there is a growing population, and where the annual house building target is expected to increase by 100%, to 60,000 per annum. [9771/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: Some Deputies in the House seem to portray our need to move to a sustainable path to net zero as some sort of a mean-minded conspiracy by the Green Party. The reality is that we need sustainability in every sector. I put it to the Minister that we are falling behind in our enterprise sector in energy efficiency, waste elimination, reuse of materials, material use levels and so on. I...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: I come from a farming background. The people doing the greatest disservice to Irish agriculture are those like the previous speaker who pretend that holding out against the change we need to make in agriculture and in all dimensions of our lives will make it easier, that the hold-outs will win the day by resisting, to the very last ditch, the ending of untenable practices and that this will...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Union (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 40. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the discussions within Europe on the level of hostile online activity by foreign states, and the effectiveness of defences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11130/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Strategies (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will indicate the sectors for which a circular economy strategy is being prepared; if the values on key targets specified in the Circular Economy Act have been decided; and if he will indicate when each is likely to be published. [11129/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Production (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline the prospective generation capacity needs under each category of generation and storage over the next two years to achieve 2025 targets; if he has identified the critical barriers to be overcome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11128/24]