Results 181-200 of 32,583 for speaker:Richard Bruton

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Minimum Wage (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 496.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the various levels of minimum wage which have been recommended to the Government to take effect from 1 January 2025; whether the Government has completed its assessment of the legal provisions necessary before they can be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35856/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 497.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of sick days which the employer-funded sick pay scheme will cover during 2025; and the date on which any change will take effect.[35857/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 590.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funds will be released this year to schools for summer works; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34749/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 611.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34886/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 622.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if work on revisions will be necessary in the present school planning process operated by her Department in light of the new National Planning Framework and the Planning and Development Bill 2023, which envisage accelerated areas of development being designated; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35012/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 646.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the shortage of primary teachers, if initiatives have been considered to make it easier to attract suitable people from other professions, i.e., supporting the fees for the PME or by establishing special bridging courses under Springboard or under the human capital initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35369/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 701.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provision being made to provide free schoolbooks at primary and secondary schools during the coming academic year; the arrangements and payments involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35881/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Television Licence Fee (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 763.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the new arrangements which will apply for the setting of the charge for a TV licence; the range of equipment to which it shall apply; the changes proposed to improve collection rates during the coming year; how it will impact on those who are currently entitled to free TV licence, and on the estimated shortfall of the projected...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 766.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the growth in population and in the housing stock from 2016 to 2022 across the regional categories identified in the National Planning Framework 2018, across Dublin and its suburbs, across each of the four other cities and their suburbs, and across each of the three regions (East and Midlands, North and Western,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 891.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current caps on grant payments and the current caps on income which apply to housing aid for older people, to mobility aids, and to housing adaptation grants; when these caps were last raised; the level these caps would reach if grants had been indexed to the average cost of works undertaken under the scheme, and the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 839.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how the updated National Planning Framework envisages the future split in house building across the categories of: rural one-off housing; village growth; town growth; growth in satellite areas of the five cities and in the five cities themselves; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35025/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Development Plan (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 840.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how he envisages that the investment plans developed in the new ten-year county development plans will interact with the national planning of infrastructure under the National Development Plan; and if it will be necessary for the various Government Departments to align their investment approaches to this new process of having...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Prices (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 841.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has undertaken work to establish how the price of a second-hand residence compares with the price of a new build in each county; if so, the findings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35027/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Prices (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 861.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has carried out an estimate of the number of homes in the pipeline for affordable purchase in Dublin; if so, how it compares to the pipeline for cost rental; and if he will consider setting a quota on new Land Development Agency projects that they contain a minimum of 30% for affordable purchase, or of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Prices (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 893.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the maximum contribution by the State towards the cost of affordable purchase, under the council-developed sites, under sites developed by approved housing bodies, under the croí cónaithe cities fund, under protect Tosaigh partnerships operated by the Land Development Agency (LDA) and under projects fully financed...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 892.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the scale of the pipeline for social homes and for affordable homes, from the local authorities, from the approved housing bodies and from the Land Development Agency, both for Dublin and for the rest of the country; and the estimated number of these which will be delivered in the next three years.[35873/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 898.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the conditions under which the vacant or derelict property grants can be paid; the level of applications received to date; the level of approvals; the level of completions; if he has received proposals for the relaxation of some of the conditions; and if he is disposed to consider changes.[35879/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 894.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the house price caps that apply under first homes, and under the local authority home loan; and if he has plans to adjust these, in view of the rising house prices.[35875/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 895.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the income caps that apply under local authority home loans, under cost rental, and for inclusion on the housing list for social homes; if he has plans to adjust these in line with rising average earnings; and if he has considered that higher costs in Dublin and other locations warrant the application of differentiated...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 896.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current interest charged on local authority home loans and on the outstanding equity under first homes; the way these are set relative to rates set by the European Central Bank or other benchmark rates; and whether reductions in these rates are in early prospect.[35877/24]