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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Mar 2022)

Richard Bruton: 460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the principles underpinning the allocation of SNAs will differ in 2022 from previous years; the way the presentation of new pupils with special needs to a school will be evaluated; and the review mechanisms that will be provided for schools that consider that their needs have not been met. [11017/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Richard Bruton: 479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered regrading school secretaries paid by her Department to take account of the fact that the staff ratio including SNAs has vastly grown since 1979 when the grading system was established, and with those numbers, that the responsibilities of school secretaries have also grown. [11444/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (1 Mar 2022)

Richard Bruton: 548. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department can offer assistance to a person (details supplied) for whom a planned school expansion has precipitated the end of a lease for a vital childcare service accommodating over 100 children. [11351/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Mar 2022)

Richard Bruton: 711. To ask the Minister for Health the categories of health workers on the front line who will receive the €1,000 bonus beyond those within the public service; and if those working during the pandemic caring for the clients of an organisation (details supplied) will receive the payment. [11214/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Richard Bruton: I thank the witnesses for the very worthwhile presentations. I was an economist by trade originally, and the infant industry argument is probably as old as economics itself. The question for Ministers and so on is how much State support is needed and for how long, as well as how to best structure that State support so the ultimate benefit for Ireland can be brought home. There have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Richard Bruton: The panel may have different views on this last question. What is the optimal mix of private sector and State sector investment in the core infrastructures here? There has been some discussion about some countries building out the platform and then would get a cheaper price because they are supplying into a State platform versus letting the market to do the whole lot. Is there a particular...

Town Centre First Policy: Statements (24 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: My few comments will follow on from those of Deputy Leddin without my having planned it. Huge opportunities will arise for rural Ireland and especially our towns and villages if we embrace wholeheartedly the infrastructures of the future. There is a danger that the way we think about rural Ireland is about looking backwards at some of the infrastructure that served us well in the past....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Bodies (24 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 45. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has met with the Future of Media Commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9463/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (24 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 72. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider establishing a ring-fenced part of the sports capital fund in order that rapid-growth areas that have a shortage of both facilities and of clubs could get support to fill the gap in opportunities. [9462/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (24 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way he is approaching the framing of sectoral carbon budgets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9460/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (24 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is making provision for experimentation in the roll-out of the energy upgrade programme so that the impact of different approaches can be tested to find the approach that attracts the maximum level of participation. [9461/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: I am sure the Taoiseach, as a former Minister for Education, will agree that efforts to open school facilities for wider community use have not succeeded. I hope he will also agree that we should take immediate action to tap into this potential. I recommend three specific things to the Taoiseach. First, the education and training boards, ETBs, should deliver a best-practice model. Second,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: Is that a "Yes"?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Facilities (23 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: Parents are tearing their hair out for childcare facilities. I have a specific case in my area in Sutton where a school is expanding, and a childcare facility is being displaced. The Minister of State should speak to his colleague, the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, as well as the Minister for Education and advance the three proposals I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Facilities (23 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: More flexible use of this infrastructure could release enormous potential in our communities, as Deputy Stanton has said. I can say, as a former Minister for Education who issued those guidelines, they simply have not delivered as we expected. The Department of Education now has to go further. I suggest three things that should be done. First, the education and training boards, which...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (23 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered the case that the benefit-in-kind regime for cars encourages increased mileage to obtain tax relief which is counterproductive to Ireland’s climate ambitions. [10313/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (23 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider easier methods for remote workers to claim tax allowance in circumstances in which the employer does not make provision such as by using standard allowances rather than requiring a bill to be uploaded. [10322/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (23 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 167. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the adult dependent allowance is disallowed in cases in which a welfare claimant has put savings in joint names for the purpose of ease of transfer in the event of succession and in which the dependent spouse cannot unilaterally withdraw those savings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10339/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received preliminary returns from the local property tax which might shed light on the case for a tax on properties left vacant for a long period; and the issues to be considered in framing such a tax. [9458/22]

Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (22 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: I am grateful to have an opportunity to speak on this. I welcome the citizens' assemblies on these two very important topics. It is one of the innovations that Ireland has successfully introduced into policymaking. I do not need to remind the House of its path-breaking role in helping constitutional change to occur in this country and introducing climate legislation that puts us very much...