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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the student involvement that he envisages in testing the value of spending in higher and further education as he plans to increase investment in the sector. [25448/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that is being made on CAO reform; and the initiatives that have been taken to make it easier for students to apply for apprenticeships. [25449/22]

Just Transition: Statements (18 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: I am glad to have initiated the structures, provisional as they are, for just transition. Important principles have been already established, such as the hypothecation of carbon tax, the just transition commissioner, the dialogue that has been at the heart of the process in the midlands, the local authority-centred partnership that has been so important in driving programmes and the various...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: Every day, we read evidence that our planet is burning up. Today we see that four previous records were broken last year, namely, those relating to CO2 concentrations, sea levels, heat and acidity of our oceans. The fact is that global action is not matching what is needed. I welcome today's debate on just transition. However, an integral part of just transition has to be climate action....

Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: I sometimes wonder if the sponsors of the motion represent the same city that I do. The core problem in my constituency is that new high-density compact development is simply too expensive for first-time buyers. The old model, whereby modest builders sold to homeowners, is not able to mobilise these sites. As a result of that, what we have seen in recent times is that the REITs have moved...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (18 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a process will be introduced to promote the reconfiguration of the patronage of schools in school planning areas in cases in which there is limited diversity in terms of denomination, non-denomination or single sex and co-education; the way that school planning areas will be chosen; and the way local parents can become involved. [25110/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (18 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has reviewed policies in relation to assisting persons with restricted mobility to get access to support with their travel needs; and if there are initiatives which she or the agencies under her remit are considering to improve the situation. [25111/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: First of all, I do not agree with the disparaging remarks made by Deputy O'Reilly about the Tánaiste, who is not here to defend himself. These remarks should not have been put to an official to comment upon. Regarding head 12, a lot of attention is being paid to what or should not be on the list. The reality is that whether or not the employer picks one of these is entirely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: If it is an offence not to have a policy, is it an offence to have a policy that ignores half the code of practice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: Is there any method short of stating that somebody is guilty of an offence? Is it possible to develop some process of change over time so that if someone declares it is reasonable not to accept a person's request now, they would be under some obligation to remove the vulnerability of the data protection system if that was the ground? Can we get to something that is more a case of evolving...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (17 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the action that is planned to explain and promote the auto-enrolment scheme for a pension top-up. [24507/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (17 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is undertaking a review of the fuel scheme in the context of the rising prices and the ongoing climate crisis. [24506/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (17 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 343. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there have been instances of overcharging for passports in 2022; if the error giving rise to this has been corrected; and if refunds are being arranged for those affected. [24135/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (17 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 612. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a protocol operated by the gardaí in relation to when to intervene with persons who are joyriding on stolen motorbikes. [24623/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: International Bodies (17 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 715. To ask the Minister for Health the new role that has been assigned to the WHO in the context of pandemics; and if the role reduces the discretion of Government in framing responses to any future pandemic. [24666/22]

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: I am grateful for the opportunity to participate in this debate and I thank the Minister for the time he is giving to help us to understand this. I think it was Shakespeare, in King Lear, who wrote, "Striving to better, oft we mar what's well." More of us might say that the best is the enemy of the good. There is no doubt that this is not a perfect arrangement. If we were given a blank...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (12 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are required in moving the successful pilot model of therapeutic support to preschools and schools to become available on a nationwide basis. [23748/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (12 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that are planned to roll-out the new format for the leaving certificate as quickly as possible. [23747/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (12 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 329. To ask the Minister for Health the date from which children under eight years of age will become eligible for general practitioner services without a means test. [23934/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Rental Sector (11 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 56. To ask the Taoiseach if he will indicate the trend in the private rents sub-index within the CPI over each of the past five years; the way in which data on the average rents paid by tenants is collected by the CSO, and the way that differs from the data on rents collected by the Residential Tenancies Board which only looks at properties in which new rentals have commenced; and if he will...