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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 136. To ask the Minister for Health the plans for e-health and remote delivery. [6835/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 174. To ask the Minister for Health the size of the budget for medicines; and the plans to manage it more effectively. [6836/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 228. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the restriction on the eligibility of persons for the warmer homes scheme that have had works done previously under the scheme has been lifted as part of the new retrofit strategy. [8220/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places available in reading schools for children with severe dyslexia; and her plans to expand the provision given these places are oversubscribed. [7616/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 928. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a medication universally recommended for acute morning sickness (details supplied) is not covered under the GMS or the drug refund scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8452/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: I welcome the representatives of the CRU to the meeting. I am interested in a few issues. The first is smart metering. I understand that almost 1 million smart meters are now in place in the system. Why are customers not being offered the opportunity to avail of off-peak rates and to avail of charging when renewable energy is on the grid? That could spread peak load. Nearly 1 million...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: How will we help to introduce it and promote it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: I wish to return to the topic of smart meters again. We have close to 1 million of them in family homes or in other users. How many of those are currently delivering savings, where people are able to use off-peak electricity and renewable electricity? The impression I get is that it is a small number but maybe I am wrong. While there may be GDPR restrictions, it seems that we could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: The published figure is 720,000. However, I presume that if the programme is going on, it has gone well up ahead of that.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 927. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulty in getting a general practitioner to accept new clients in some parts of the country; and if he will establish a system for ensuring cover for such persons who have been declined by their local services given it is essential for public health that there is universal access to a general practitioner for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 940. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the Howth harbour project; and the progress that will be delivered in 2022. [7599/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: The Tánaiste has often acknowledged the heavy burden that older people have borne during the Covid crisis. We saw the acute crisis in nursing homes, with many vulnerable people and many deaths there. Today, we read that one in five directors of nursing homes plans to quit. We have seen necessary care postponed for older people and isolation hollowing out their lives. Is it now time...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Consumer Rights (10 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 59. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to strengthen consumer rights; and the initiatives he is undertaking to introduce the concept of a circular economy in key economic sectors. [6832/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Strategies (10 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 155. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is developing a strategy to reward farmers for delivering environmental services as a regular source of income. [6833/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (10 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 165. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proportion of agricultural output on which processors pay a premium for its environmentally sound production standards. [6834/22]

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: This is very welcome legislation. We need to strike a balance between very powerful enterprises now emerging in the world of big data, artificial intelligence and ICT and the consumer because that balance has shifted dramatically. Markets have changed. The way individuals interface with them has changed dramatically. The capacity to have a personal interaction with those who provide...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Consumer Rights (9 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: I welcome the Minister of State's positive response. As politicians, we sometimes recognise things that need to change but our good intentions get caught up in the tangled affairs of bringing new legislation forward. I would like to see some of these small and simple changes prioritised and pressure put on the drafting of legislation to bring forward amendments. Those amendments need to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Consumer Rights (9 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: First of all, I welcome the focus on consumers this week. The Government is right to look both at short-term and, vitally, long-term solutions to this problem. One of the areas in which we have been very negligent is that we have not confronted the rip-off that many larger companies carry out on consumers by making it difficult for them to find best value. It is typically the older and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (9 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if specific targets will be set for aluminium cans as well as for polyethylene terephthalate bottles; if the targets shall be the same; and if he plans that the charges set for different types of item will be set to avoid cross subsidisation between lines in respect of the costs of recovery and onward uses. [6859/22]