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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 May 2022)
Richard Bruton: 423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the CSO has provided her Department with a projection of population for the Killester, Raheny and Clontarf school catchment area over the next five years. [26177/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Probate Applications (24 May 2022)
Richard Bruton: 546. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received reports of delays in the Probate Office and if the delays that arose during Covid are being overcome. [26204/22]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Richard Bruton: Three years on none are installed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Richard Bruton: Can SEAI say, for instance, 650 SECs delivered X in 2021? Do we have that sort of hard data to drive the thing forward?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Richard Bruton: There are 1.5 million homes that we are not talking about reaching at all in the retrofit scheme for the next ten years. Is there data to show that a significant majority of those have heat controls in there? The impression I have is that they do not and that the 1.5 million late movers, as it were, have very little in the way of management. What if we got them, the laggards, to be able to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Richard Bruton: Only if they are packaged by some very deep measure, as I understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Richard Bruton: And heating controls?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Richard Bruton: The Department of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Richard Bruton: To confirm a point, it is the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage that will be accountable for evaluating the local authority climate plans, not the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. Is that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Richard Bruton: Therefore, we do not look to Ms Corcoran's Department but to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Richard Bruton: Perhaps we should see to that gap. As for community initiatives generally, it seems to me that shared vehicles and, as we have discussed, EV chargers for people who do not have access to them are the coming piece of community initiative. Have the witnesses started to shape a framework for that? It would make such a difference to the way we plan our cities and so on if, outside apartment...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Richard Bruton: Does anyone wish to take my question about the community initiative in respect of shared vehicles and facilities that would accelerate our decarbonisation of travel?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Richard Bruton: It is evolving.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Richard Bruton: Did they? Ah, well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Richard Bruton: The framework outlined is top class and hits all the right issues in terms of the involvement of communities, local authorities and so on. The key question concerns implementation. What, when, where? This is where I get a bit worried. So far, the local authorities have failed to roll out any electric vehicle, EV, chargers. Not a single one has been rolled out. For three years, they have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Richard Bruton: It is a job for us.
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (19 May 2022)
Richard Bruton: 62. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the top competitiveness challenges for small businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25378/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Living Wage (19 May 2022)
Richard Bruton: 67. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the main challenges to be overcome in the development of a living wage; and if this concept includes terms of access to protection and services needed by those at work. [25379/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 May 2022)
Richard Bruton: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in the roll-out of public sector apprenticeships and the sectors in which further progress will be made. [25377/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (19 May 2022)
Richard Bruton: 214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the support scheme for chauffeurs to bring fully-electric vehicles into their fleet has been reduced or suspended; if those now-buying fully-electric vehicles will again become eligible for a rebate soon and the way the rebate will be paid. [25554/22]