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Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 769. To ask the Minister for Health if he can provide for several areas (details supplied) a list of all the individual projects to which his Department has provided funding since 2020, under the capital investment programme, according to the following categories: primary care centres, refurbishments and works, acute projects, new beds, beds replaced, nursing homes, community care centres...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 770. To ask the Minister for Health if he can provide in respect of several areas (details supplied), the overall level of health investment, by year, since 2020, in tabular form. [42926/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 825. To ask the Minister for Health if he would consider extending access to the FreeStyle Libre device on the medical card to persons with type 2 diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43197/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 869. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she can provide for several areas (details supplied) a list of all the individual projects to which her Department has provided funding since 2020, under schemes including, but not limited to the town and village renewal scheme, CLÁR, the community recognition fund, the community services programme, the LEADER programme, the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of caps that apply to the sale by domestic solar into the grid; and if he believes they should be lifted. [43504/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 55. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the concessions on taxi licence extension at the time of Covid can be applied to all taxis registered at the time that the concession was made, rather than confining the concession to those registered up to the end of 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43372/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a plan to provide a wet room at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43503/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 209. To ask the Minister for Health if he has visited the accident and emergency facilities in Beaumont Hospital; if he recognises the urgency of progressing the building project to improve the service and conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43505/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Enterprise Sector (24 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: I add my voice to Deputy O'Reilly's point. In my experience, there are many trip points for social enterprises in getting access, such as the definition of whether an enterprise is commercial. If an organisation has a charitable status, it can be excluded from Office of Public Procurement contracts because of this status. Much like Deputy O'Reilly, I believe there will be a lot of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 68. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are plans to develop the structure under which local enterprise offices operate so that centres of excellence could be developed for specialist sectoral support to be available on a regional basis, and inter-enterprise structures developed to evolve responses to collective problems that enterprises face; and if he will make...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: The Minister has extended the remit of the remit of local enterprise offices, LEOs. I come across a lot of enterprises which do not feel they have access to the specialist advice in each of the 31 LEOs. There needs to be regional centres of excellence. There is scope, in particular in areas like adaptation to green demands, for collaborative approaches in sectors.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: I thank the Minister of State for her comprehensive reply. One of the concerns I have is that there has been an extraordinarily low level of take-up of initiatives to promote a move to sustainable processes through the supply chain, in particular among LEO and Enterprise Ireland clients. Group initiatives are the way to go. I am sceptical that drawing in a contractor essentially to move...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: I agree simplification is a help, but we need people to act in concert. We have seen the success of group schemes in all sorts of different walks of life, such as group water schemes, sustainable energy communities and so on. We need to have a similar momentum within the enterprise sector. That is not happening at the moment. There are huge opportunities in the food sector for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2024: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (24 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: Data centres are at the heart of the ICT sector. That is the reality. Without them, we cannot develop a sector in which we have created a considerable competitive advantage. We have short-term problems of capacity constraints in meeting their demand. As the Minister said, though, we have a substantial opportunity in the long term to develop the offshore sector. We need domestic users of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2024: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (24 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: There are huge opportunities for us to rethink the way we design these sectors to reduce their impact both on climate and the wider environment. My specific question is: will the Minister consider introducing sectoral strategies around the circular economy in the key sectors within his remit?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 28. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many childcare providers have applied for fee increases within core funding; the size of the fee increases approved to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43485/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (24 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 32. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the level of shortage in childcare being experienced at present has been identified; if proposals are being developed to accelerate the process of filling the gaps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43486/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (24 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 75. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which there is untapped potential for clustering in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43501/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 282. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether an up-to-date audit of the gaps in childcare provision is being planned to inform future capital provision in the sector; and how he hopes to attract new entrants to the sector. [41196/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Nov 2024)

Richard Bruton: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the extraordinary way in which you have handled the role that you hold. You have upheld the highest of standards. You have been remarkably courteous and very fair in your rulings. The next Dáil will miss you. I have been around for a good while and have seen many cinn comhairle. You have been exceptional in the way you have handled the office. I...