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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: Returning to the issue of liability and insurance, if I go to a cheaper repairer than the manufacturer, do I lose the warranty and all that sort of stuff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: In respect of the circular economy, we have to move from launching interesting pilots to creating an admiralty, as someone else said. It is not an original quote but the concept is valid. Two thirds of what we put into our bin is in the wrong place. We are coming from very seriously off the pace. I have a provocative question. Does success mean that there has to be commercial entry...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: How would such a scheme be designed? Ms Downey said that of the 170,000 tonnes of textile waste being produced at the moment, just 10,000 tonnes are being reused. If we brought in an extended producer responsibility model, one presumes we would recover well over 100,000 tonnes. We need to see that chain being a quality chain. What model would keep the existing sector and the scaling...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: From 1 January, we will have a pilot textile scheme with none of the sorting and back-end activity. Is that true?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: Are the witnesses worried about what we talked about earlier, namely manufacturers balking at honouring warranties if repairs are carried out through a voluntary scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: Is there an issue with parent companies stating that the warranties they offer have been destroyed because their products have been repaired by a community repair shop?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: The US Surgeon General sought a tobacco-style labelling on social media this week. He cited the damage to mental health and well-being for younger people due to high levels of exposure to social media which damages self-esteem, causes feelings of depression and a decline in the quality and quantity of their relationships, particularly for young women. He cited that these are not a failure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: The WEEE sector has much higher targets, which we can see down the track. Is it possible to do it without an extended producer responsibility? One has to aggregate to get scale.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: As we heard earlier, there is no tracking of what happens after the material goes to recovery. We need to get quite forensic about what happens subsequently to all this WEEE material, including where all the various batteries are assembled and where they go. My worry is whether community bring centres can get us to the scale we need. If they cannot, how do we make the two things...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: That is not in the scheme starting on 1 January.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: Do the witnesses want to deal with product liability and insurance, just to explain the day-to-day grind?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: 41. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the response to his call for capital support for new childcare places; and his plans for the longer-term expansion of the sector. [26054/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: 63. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has initiated drafting of legislation for a childcare development agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26055/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review her decision to not classify works (details supplied) as representing an emergency category, given the engineer’s report which was submitted. [25921/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: 391. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development in view of the recent tragic accidents involving very powerful dogs, the plans to tighten the rules about permitted breeds and codes of conduct when in public places; the plans for public information notices to inform people of rights and duties at places which might be deemed higher-risk; and if she will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: Okay. Will it be part of the circular economy strategy to bring that in, as such?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Better Care, Better Business Report: IBEC (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: In reflecting on that conversation, it is welcome that IBEC is entering into this sphere. To have longer lives is one of the great achievements of humanity and we are not maximising that potential or supporting it in an optimal way. I have noted many of IBEC's suggestions. It highlights Iarnród Éireann, which seems to have taken a very flexible approach to allowing part-time...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Better Care, Better Business Report: IBEC (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: The question is how widespread it is. What is the percentage?