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Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (6 May 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the long-term charges that are appropriate for persons with a disability who are in long-term care, bearing in mind that the charges in these cases were recently increased by more than 25%; and if she will clarify that she does not intend applying rules similar to persons in long-term nursing home care to such clients....

Written Answers — Long-Term Illness Scheme: Long-Term Illness Scheme (26 Jan 2011)

Richard Bruton: Question 40: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children in view of her decision to exempt persons who hold long-term illness cards from the prescription fee, if she will make arrangements that persons who hold both medical cards and long-term illness cards, who are now being forced to acquire their long-term medication under the general medical service scheme, should continue...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (23 Mar 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the €2,000 [i]ex gratia[/i] payment agreed to be made to persons in publicly funded long stay nursing homes will not affect their long-term entitlement to moneys owing in accordance with the Supreme Court decision; if the duration of payment will be backdated to the date on which these persons first entered long-term...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy is missing the point. As I stated in my reply, we created 60,000 jobs. The live register came down by 60,000 in two years and 40,000 or two thirds of those people were long-term unemployed so the long-term unemployed are not people who do not respond to market opportunities. We are seeing a very significant reduction in the number of long-term unemployed people who are getting...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Bruton: 102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware of persons who were allowed to remain long-term on illness benefit when restricted duration was first introduced, but who now on reaching retirement age, find that the required paid stamps have increased to 520 paid stamps, and thus have no pension rights, whereas persons on invalidity pension who also have...

Written Answers — Long-Term Illness Scheme: Long-Term Illness Scheme (17 Feb 2004)

Richard Bruton: Question 356: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will consider extending the long-term illness card cover to include Wegners disease, which is debilitating and responds well to medication, making it particularly appropriate for inclusion in long-term medication cover. [4511/04]

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: It has always been a requirement before legislation proceeds to Committee Stage. It is a long-standing requirement in this House. Deputy O'Dea has been around for almost as long as I have. He should know about the-----

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 198. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the sick leave entitlements of public servants who get long-Covid and if he plans to extend the leave period of support in light of the long-lasting effects which have been documented. [60850/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cancer Services (2 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: I ask the Minister to check those waiting times and report back to me and Deputy Staunton because the Irish Cancer Society is signalling quite long waiting times. For a screening test that can reduce long-term healthcare, it is to be hoped that it could be made more prompt.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (6 Nov 2018)

Richard Bruton: ...over the coming decades. The Government has responded to this challenge by putting in place a strong policy framework underpinned by significant investment plans in climate action. Ireland's own long-term vision of a low-carbon and climate resilient economy, set out in the 2014 National Policy Position on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development, commits to: - an aggregate...

Financial Services Regulation. (26 Mar 2009)

Richard Bruton: The Minister is missing the point of the question. The question was whether he would arrange an examination of the financial institutions to see to what extent they have entered into these long-dated security commitments that would justify them imposing these penalties of €20,000 for people to switch. My point is that with the taxpayer now underpinning much of the banking activity, if...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Legislative Programme (27 Nov 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...Act 2015. The objective of the Bill is to significantly strengthen the statutory framework for governance of the climate challenge, and ensure delivery of successive Climate Action Plans and Long-term Climate Strategies, supported by a system of carbon budgeting and sectoral targets with appropriate oversight by Government, the Oireachtas and a new Climate Action Council. The Climate...

Priority Questions: Third Level Institutions (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: ...We place a high priority on increasing by 30% the number of young people from disadvantaged areas that get through to higher education. We recognise higher education is absolutely pivotal to our long-term success as a nation. In approaching the important issue of funding, it must be recognised that there is a short-term need and a long-term need. We must look to this budget to find...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (12 May 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 233: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify whether refunds in respect of long stay patients apply in respect of persons who were admitted to specialist long stay residences for persons with a disability, who on their admission to these facilities suffered the loss of their disabled person's maintenance allowance; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: The Government continues to address the needs of the long-term and youth unemployed through the combined strategies of the Action Plan for Jobs and Pathways to Work. The aim of the Action Plan for Jobs is to improve the operating environment for businesses, to enable companies to start-up, grow and create jobs. The objective of Pathways to Work – which has a particular focus on...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (19 Feb 2019)

Richard Bruton: ..., the EU may reduce its overall emissions by more than the 40% committed to by 2030. The Paris Agreement also invites Parties to communicate, by 2020, to the UNFCCC Secretariat their respective long-term low greenhouse gas emissions strategies. I welcome the publication by the Commission in November 2018, of its Communication “A Clean Planet for All”, as an essential...

Written Answers — Long-Term Illness Scheme: Long-Term Illness Scheme (27 Feb 2008)

Richard Bruton: Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on extending the long term illness card to persons suffering from Lupus; the reason this illness which is very debilitating, is treated in a discriminatory way compared to other long-term conditions which have been listed; and if she has considered establishing a dedicated centre for the study and treatment of this illness...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (24 Apr 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 459: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make different arrangements for the contribution of persons with long-term acute disability to the cost of long-term residential care from the new rules applying to nursing home charges as such people only have access to disability allowance and have no chance to accumulate property and would have great difficulty if all...

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Richard Bruton: ...level we have seen since the recession. It is a sign of real progress in reaching out to people who would otherwise have been marginalised. I listened to Deputy Martin Ferris talk about rising long-term unemployment. According to the CSO's figures, the number of long-term unemployed at the end of 2012 was 176,000, while today it is 123,000. It is down by 50,000, yet the Deputy wants...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Reduction of Carbon Emissions of 51% by 2030: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: I was unsure from Mr. Gannon's reply. Are we asking Irish consumers to pay more in the short term so that we create a long-term opportunity to be an electricity exporter and a centre of excellence for renewables? Is there a new way of finessing that in some way? I realise Mr. Gannon said that in the long term we will benefit from it, but in the short term do we have to go through a period...