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Summer Economic Statement: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: Members should listen to one another. It is a debate. I think it is extraordinary that we have come to the stage in this House that terms such as big companies in the food sector, big companies in the ICT sector or big companies in the energy sector should become terms of abuse. This is how we sometimes regard these companies, which have created between them the economic success we have...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Policy (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 69. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Ireland’s lead in carbon efficiency over other European Union Member States has changed significantly in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38222/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 74. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the speed with which the framework to support carbon farming will be put in place in Ireland; and the countries that are the best international exemplars in this respect. [38221/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the proportion of persons on the contributory pension and on the invalidity pension who qualify for the fuel allowance scheme; if many are excluded who are experiencing fuel poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34938/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 166. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the criteria for assessment of savings needs to be updated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34937/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the terms of the means test for a qualified adult allowance will be adversely affected if the savings of a continuous positive airway pressure claimant are put into joint names due to the claimant’s diminishing capacity to take decision; and if she will consider protecting the qualified adult allowance payment in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (13 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 402. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the medical and psychological supports which are provided for those seeking asylum, who may have difficult experiences to overcome as they seek to develop a new life, and in particular services to help divert people from alcohol or other substance dependencies and whether such services are...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (13 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 404. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he intends to continue with the present system of funding for the your place your space scheme; and if his attention has been drawn to the concerns raised by community organisations that valuable networks could be damaged if the current system is changed. [38397/22]

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: Everyone realises we are in the grips of a series of crises that have rocked the world. Anyone who went to the photographic exhibition the Ceann Comhairle put on today of the damage being done to lives in Ukraine would not doubt this is the reality. Mercifully, we are far from that reality but we are feeling the brunt of it. The evidence shows the Government has been caring and innovative...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: Yesterday the Taoiseach will have seen that the futures price of natural gas hit its highest, at €175 per megawatt hour, since the start of the war in Ukraine. Germany is talking about potential rationing and emergency gas storage. France is talking about a massive efficiency drive. Where is our energy security review, which is now long overdue? Will we address some of these...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 94. To ask the Minister for Health if the waiting list initiative has been impacted by the latest surge in Covid-19 hospital admissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37520/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Court Judgments (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 125. To ask the Minister for Health the way that the court decision striking down the preliminary assessment of children with special needs will affect the children who have been assessed and listed for therapeutic services; and the additional resource implications for the HSE to act upon the ruling. [37521/22]

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: I welcome the Minister of State and the officials. I am interested to hear a little bit more about the cost of the investment in generating units for a short period. It is a very different provision from the norm. It is a sort of outside-of-the-market provision. What penalty are we paying for going for short-term standby capacity compared with what we would have paid in normal auctions?...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: Does that fall to the State? Do we own the asset and then sell it at its second-hand value back into the marketplace or are we just contracting it for the three or four years or whatever it is?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: It would be interesting to hear how that will work out because the second-hand cost will, presumably, be very high. I imagine that these generating plants have a fairly long design life so, presumably, the State has a fairly valuable asset. Is there any difficulty for the State, having procured this under this exceptional arrangement, which, as I understand it, is outside of the market or...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: Maybe the Minister of State could send a written reply to confirm that the asset can be sold back into our network as opposed to having to be displaced and sold away.

Irish Corporate Governance (Gender Balance) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: I congratulate Deputy Higgins for the work she has done and the many people she has consulted to make sure that this is a rounded and balanced proposal. We had a discussion earlier in the House about changes in regard to other aspects of how enterprise interacts with people in the community, whether in terms of precarious working, protection of employees, and looking at the environmental...

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: I welcome the opportunity to discuss this Bill, which is part of a major suite of changes we need to undertake. There is no doubt that we are living at a time of extraordinary transition in the way our economy works. We are in the aftermath of a financial crisis that shook people's faith in the regulators that had responsibility for keeping us safe financially. We have passed through the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 91. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has sought reports from the childcare committees in the various Dublin local authority areas on the availability of childcare for children under two years of age; if there are measures which could be taken in the short term to meet supply constraints; if he will request that local authorities undertake...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: I think the Minister will appreciate the desperation of many parents who are looking for childcare for under-twos and, in a constrained supply framework, how prohibitive the costs can be. At the same time, local authorities, with their childcare committees, often see the standard of 20 childcare places per 75 new housing units developed not being properly enforced. I am anxious to see the...