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Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: I congratulate the Minister on her initiative of bringing in a pension for those on carer's allowance, but I would like to see progress on two other programme for Government commitments. I refer to the proposal to extend free GP care to those on the carer's support grant and to develop a carer's guarantee that will provide a core basket of services across the country. I ask the Minister to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Ms O'Meara said that at national level we face a choice between seizing unprecedented opportunities and addressing the risks of these technologies. This is hopefully not so stark as having to choose between the two, although that is certainly where much of my anxiety arises about how we are going to manage this. Another concern regarding what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: I have exhausted my time. Those were very interesting answers. I will come back in again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: Our guests emphasised several times the challenges for our education system. It strikes me that our emphasis on memory-based assessment is a real obstacle to changing the way we think about using various technologies. What are countries that are trying to prepare children for this sort of transformation doing in terms of curricula and assessment that we might learn from? Our guests also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: Is it a question of grafting on to what is there or is it a more fundamental shift in terms of getting away from the high-stakes leaving certificate model, with students cramming everything into their heads for three hours?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: Is there anyone blazing a trail that we should be looking at in the context of the educational dimensions of this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: We have seen the technology with journalism, for example. If you do not adopt, it will you shape you and hollow out your business. You will not get the chance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: I thank the witnesses for the presentations. I am not happy with the progress we are making. Four years ago we were talking about halving food waste and now we are still talking about measuring it and getting a baseline. That is not good enough. We passed legislation that said within six months we would have a strategy from the Department. We are still waiting for a strategy. That Bill...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: That was to be six months after the Bill. That is two years ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: Is it therefore the case that in both cases roughly two thirds is misplaced?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: Could that not be expanded into the area of packaging, as well as feeding back into the primary production side, where there could be premiums for products that are produced sustainably? Is there not more leverage to be gotten?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: I want to ask about the EPA's charter. Mr. Flynn referred to waste companies signing up. They are pivotal in this. The charter itself does not suggest using FoodCloud, for example, zero-packaging areas or menu formats that might reduce food waste. Why not get far more specific and go after the sources of food waste in the supply chain where we can actually see a behavioural change and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: Perhaps the committee could inject a little bit of urgency into it.

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: It is encouraging to see 52,500 new starts up to the month of April and 30,000 mortgage approvals in the past 12 months to first-time buyers. In my own constituency we have a strong pipeline on State land of 2,500 social homes and 3,500 affordable homes. However, I want to underline a problem generally in Dublin. The Minister needs to examine carefully the situation emerging because, last...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (22 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: I have two questions. One is on whether a review of the success of Microfinance Ireland has been undertaken and what are the highlights, the positive things like loss levels and so on. Second, while I welcome all the accountability to the public accounts committee, will there be a reporting requirement? To whom will be the reporting? Going through the different sections, I do not see the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I recall Chris Horne saying years ago in the context of research in Ireland that we have lots of interesting launches but what we need is an admiralty. Looking at the evidence here, that is my sense. My question to everyone is: how do we scale up? In terms of those with whom Ms Ruttland deals, which I presume are some of the big food...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: And that is not the food waste, as we heard earlier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: Does that investment come from the State or from the entire supply chain seeing the benefit distributed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: Is there a sort of silo issue as well, that the waste is not in the food even though they will be collecting it? Is IBEC a bit siloed in that way in terms of a circular strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: No.