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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: I am grateful to have an opportunity to speak in this debate. I know time is limited. To be honest, when I see members of Sinn Féin come into this House criticising the Government for not delivering affordable homes to buy, I take a very deep breath. They come as a wolves in sheep's clothing. The reality is that they oppose five important measures from the Government that will...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (10 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the role of Ireland in tackling the future challenges for the European Union in the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine. [22925/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (10 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 141. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the role of Ireland in supporting efforts to end the war in Ukraine. [22924/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (10 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the terms of the financial support made available to the generators of renewal energy under RESS 1 for the different types of renewable energy. [22826/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (10 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 208. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the Irish reserves of oil and gas; the way that they are held; if they comply with European Union requirements; and if there are plans to expand such reserves. [23283/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (10 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 209. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of Irish energy interconnection for the supply of energy that is, gas, electricity, oil and so on; and the way that the capacity for delivery compares to average daily usage in each case. [23284/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (10 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 210. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total capacity of battery storage either held by energy utilities or through supply and demand management agreements; and the way that the capacity compares to average daily usage. [23285/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (10 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 211. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the obligations in Ireland to share access to gas supplies should the supply of gas from any source to be curtailed; and the way that this is being factored into preparations. [23286/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Exploration (10 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 212. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the aggregate offshore areas in which licences to explore for gas or oil exist; the areas in which recent activity in terms of surveys or preliminary drilling have been sought; if these have been approved; and his views on their potential. [23287/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Exploration (10 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 213. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the volume of recoverable gas which remain in proven fields in the Irish offshore; and the way that it compares to Irelands annual gas consumption. [23288/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (10 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 214. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the withdrawal of Britain from the European Union creates new concerns from an energy security point of view; if not, if it creates new obligations for Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23289/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (10 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person who paid for a ten-year licence, but whose duration was curtailed due to their reaching 70 years of age before the ten years were reached, should now be able to extend the cover of the ten-year licence to its full ten-year duration without incurring further charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23282/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (10 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if dates have been set for the publication of the leaving certificate results 2022. [22833/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (10 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if dates have been set for the publication for the first round of CAO offers. [22833/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (10 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if persons who undertook undergraduate study without access to free fees that is, in a private college will be given the opportunity to access free fees in another degree course undergraduate entry in cases in which a career change became necessary. [22622/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: New Retrofitting Plan and the Built Environment: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: I thank the witnesses for the presentations. Will the witnesses give us some of the numbers, in terms of the embodied carbon in a standard three-bedroom home or wherever, that one would save being expended by going for reconstruction, refurbishment and renewal, versus site clearance and starting from scratch? One of the difficulties is that embodied carbon is not on our inventory and many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: New Retrofitting Plan and the Built Environment: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: Excellent, I thank Mr. Hoyne.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: Deputy Stanton is very anxious to break the logjam on the Midleton Water Rock project, which has the potential for 2,500 homes. The local infrastructure housing activation fund would contribute just over €2,000 per unit to trigger it. It seems that it is stuck. The latest problem is that Transport Infrastructure Ireland has said the major road is not up to scratch to allow it to go...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: The frustration arises because this is very good value from money from a LIHAF point of view. For €2,000 each there would be 2,500 homes. It seems one hand of government is trying to push it along and another is trying to block it. Funding for the proposed upgrade of the N25 was dropped and now TII is saying it is inappropriate to go ahead with the development. We now have a real...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ukraine War (5 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. I will ask the Minister of State a number of specific questions. There are 62,000 holiday homes and there is a window of opportunity to potentially bring them into use. It probably would need some level of payment though, to attract some of those 62,000 into use. They would be really valuable. I welcome the fact that the Minister of...