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

Richard Bruton: The corollary of opening the debate on this is that IBEC needs to do a survey of its own members’ practices so we have a picture of that. I will put the question slightly differently. Would IBEC support a code of practice developed by the WRC that would create a model of flexibility for people who have caring responsibilities?

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

Richard Bruton: Does that cover people switching from full-time to part-time to combine their caring responsibilities?

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

Richard Bruton: It is a request model. To my knowledge, there is no code of practice that says how the request should be judged.

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

Richard Bruton: We are talking about caring. To move the dial, I know small businesses are under a lot of pressure but, at the same time, if this is as important as IBEC is saying and is crucial to the supply, would it not be the way to go to get a proper code? Then, when these requests come in from family carers, there is a standard against which to judge them.

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

Richard Bruton: If IBEC is telling us this is a crucial area for the long term, it cannot say the State should do this and the HSE should do that, but sit on its own hands.

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

Richard Bruton: I acknowledge that and any code would have to respect that. If someone is a one-person employer, they will have a different set of expectations than if they employ 1,000 people. That is what the WRC is there to manage. It would only be a code and it would not be a statutory obligation.

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

Richard Bruton: I suggest IBEC does a survey of the practices of its employers so we get a baseline picture of what is available and the direction of travel. I will move on. I share IBEC's belief that we need statutory home care and the ESRI has estimated its cost at about €500 million. Will that be in the IBEC pre-budget submission? Is it looking for that to be done? IBEC will be knocking on...

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

Richard Bruton: One of the issues about home care provision is that, currently, only some 40% is provided by the HSE itself and it outsources to the private sector about 60% of the workload. The issue of how this sector develops is going to be intimately involved with the negotiating position of IBEC. Personally, I favour a development agency, much as is now promised for the childcare sector. Like the...

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

Richard Bruton: That sounds very like a registered employment agreement, REA. It is going to regulate the training, the pay and conditions. It seems Dr. McGann is wiggling somewhat on the idea of whether we should move towards some sort of regulated employment sector, much like childcare has now moved to. Multiple interests are represented by IBEC. However, I cannot see a way forward that does not have...

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

Richard Bruton: To be fair, in the case of childcare, the REA, was developed with the Government stepping up to the plate and saying it will cover a high proportion of the extra costs involved.

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

Richard Bruton: Yes, can I come back to that? The focus is very much on the means test which the Minister has raised successively. She raised it twice. Are employers using carer's benefit, which does not have those restrictions to anything like the same extent? Are they using that in a creative way? Carer's assistance is really for full-time care so those recipients would be detached from the workforce....

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

Richard Bruton: When Dr. McGann says days versus hours, is it the 18.5 hour restriction?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: 27. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the review of the rioting in Dublin has resulted in new approaches being put in place; and if there is a need to develop a wider range of policies to create a capacity for coordinated responses to potential problems. [26505/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: 30. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the planning which has been put in place to roll out the community safety plans; the approach which will be taken to their creation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26493/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: 54. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will undertake an evaluation of further initiatives which could be taken to derive the full potential from the rural connectivity created by the National Broadband Plan, to deliver new services remotely and support new activity in rural communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26499/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: 66. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a review of the initial town centre first initiatives is being undertaken; and if she envisages further development of the approach for the future. [26498/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Long-Duration Energy Storage: Discussion (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: I thank Mr. Smith for his presentation. Everyone recognises that driving forward our renewable energy ambitions is complex. Storage is an integral part of that. How far short are we of surviving on the normal revenue that would come from being able to access one third of the renewable capacity, which he said is the stream of potential? There is potentially a very substantial amount of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Long-Duration Energy Storage: Discussion (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: We are not going to design a new market here but it sounds as though it is extremely complex if you are watching one rising curve of surplus renewable and another one of these competing technologies with their different features. It sounds tricky enough. Is Energy Storage Ireland a long way off trading off a spot price to be able to justify some of these longer term things?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: I welcome the substantial increase in the allocation for the just transition under subhead A8. This shows there is progress in getting good projects off the ground. The Minister mentioned the significant overall investment of €169 million in the midlands. Is provision being made under this subhead for the establishment this year of the just transition commission? The deadline for...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: I do not know the programme under which it falls. The Minister mentioned that the land use review is being funded under programme A. I am interested in an update on where we are with setting targets for land use, land use change and forestry, LULUCF. The estimation has jumped around quite radically as to what the environmental impact will be of land use and land use change. The review...