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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (5 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 14. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way the environment for a person suffering domestic violence will improve under the third national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. [35976/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (5 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 63. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on recent crime trends in Dublin; and the reports she is receiving from the Garda Commissioner on changes in operational policing. [35975/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (5 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has acquired a site for a school (details supplied); and if commencement work to service the site has begun. [36123/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: 423. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have lost the adult dependent allowance as a result of a fresh means test undertaken in the past 12 months; if she will consider increasing the savings disregard given that the present threshold of €20,000 has not been revised in a long time and does not go very far in meeting the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: I thank the witnesses for their presentations, which were very worthwhile. What I am picking up from what they are saying is that we need a strategy but that strategy seems to have a different hierarchy. I would like to probe how that needs to be structured. Not utilising waste that would otherwise go to landfill is a terrible missed opportunity. The low collection rate and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: I was thinking Mr. Finan might know more about the farm situation because of IrBEA's three on-farm projects. The first speaker from Cré might be best placed to answer the wider question as to how we approach the small versus the large.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Jun 2022)

Richard Bruton: I am grateful for this opportunity. Will the Tánaiste consider introducing a programme of emergency measures for businesses and households to make them more resilient in the face of rising fuel prices? I have in mind switching to shallow refits; heat controls, which could cut energy by 25%; smart meters, which 750,000 households have not exploited; initiating measures on food waste and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (30 Jun 2022)

Richard Bruton: 42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the supports in the DEIS scheme are sufficient to meet the needs of schools in the most acute areas of disadvantage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34942/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Religious Discrimination (30 Jun 2022)

Richard Bruton: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that children who do not wish to participate in the religious life of a school are being adequately accommodated. [34941/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (30 Jun 2022)

Richard Bruton: 218. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the procedure for a divorced person to revert to their original surname; the documentary evidence that is required; and if there is a consistent approach to the matter across all public bodies. [35166/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Jun 2022)

Richard Bruton: 40. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will indicate each of the programmes or work streams of the Land Development Agency and, in each case, the target volume of land that it will release for housing development and the target number of homes to be developed, that is, public lands acquired and master-planned by the agency; the existing outstanding private...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Jun 2022)

Richard Bruton: 109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will change the practice whereby a person who has an entitlement to retire from their public service job is obliged to sign on weekly for jobseeker’s benefit in order to obtain their entitlement under co-ordinated pension as in the case of a person (details supplied). [34617/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Jun 2022)

Richard Bruton: 114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if arrears of household benefits are payable in cases in which a person was unaware of their entitlement. [34686/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Richard Bruton: I have a few questions. If this entity is not indemnified by the State, if it is not for profit and if it has limited access to third-party funds, how does it actually have the capacity to take on some of these cases? I imagine these are pretty daunting cases, for example, a case could involve a huge company doctoring its fuel rating or whatever. That is one question. What are the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Richard Bruton: My question was how the entity would fund this. There may be a ruling of no court fees but it still has to employ lawyers and will have its own costs. If the entity is not indemnified, is not-for-profit and is just getting nominal sums from consumers, how will it fund these potentially substantial cases?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Richard Bruton: That goes back to the issue of whether these are State entities or not. If it is a State entity, it has the State standing behind it but if it is a private one, it does not. The choice of whether this is a State body or private body seems pretty fundamental to the law. Is it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Richard Bruton: I will hand over to Deputy Stanton.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Richard Bruton: To follow up on what Deputy Shanahan said, this Bill will allow regulators to take class actions. I understand that is not allowed under present legislation covering regulators. It has been one of their discontents that they have to take individual actions every time an infringement crops up. Will this automatically transpose into legislation governing regulators? Some of them, including...