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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of the Withdrawal of Covid-19 Measures on Business: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: I thank Mr. Hughes. Would Mr. McDonnell comment on the types of issues that might give rise to business difficulties?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Spending Code (16 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the methodology to ensure that public capital projects and public procurement avail of every opportunity to minimise carbon footprint and avail of opportunities for sequestration of carbon; and if he is planning to put in place a reporting format to ensure that it will happen. [55586/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (16 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the ambitious national development plan can be delivered smoothly; and the measures being put in place to remove obstacles which have delayed projects in the past. [55587/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (16 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the contribution anticipated from financial institutions to the various schemes to restore buildings which have suffered from building product defects, in view of the benefit they enjoy in the value of the security of their portfolio of property as a result of the restoration of these properties at the taxpayer's expense....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (16 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 303. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the additional procedures which must be completed for issuing a passport to a child of Irish citizens who are not Irish born; and if there are steps which can be taken to speed up this process. [55582/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: Does the Minister, as a former Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine and a former Minister with responsibility for trade, agree that Ireland, as a food exporter with 90% of our produce exported, must aim to be an early mover in respect of earning high margins from climate conscious consumers? Does he also agree there are significant opportunities for family farms to earn income not only...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: Will the commission consider the capacity of local authorities to deliver? Waterford is the only local authority that delivers on the repair and leasing scheme. In respect of compulsory purchase orders, CPOs, only the Louth local authority delivers on that. Only one third of money due under the vacant site levy is collected by councils. They are slow to get projects on-site. That problem...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authorities (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: Given that going over these thresholds takes someone from receiving 80% support with his or her rent to zero, when will the cost-rental thresholds and conditions be published? This is what people will have to fall back on if they are not on the eligibility list.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress which has been made in finalising the parameters for eligibility for the various affordable purchase and rent schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55050/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the milestones for measuring progress which he has set for the Land Development Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55051/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 118. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has assessed the number of enterprises supported by her Department that are reporting financial distress; and the capacity of policy initiatives to ensure that viable activities can be sustained. [55053/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 190. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her assessment of the challenges facing local media in a post-Covid environment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55052/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to lift the restriction under the warmer homes scheme of not revisiting homes which have previously had a shallow retrofit in view of the new Climate Plan with its target of B2 retrofits. [54816/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 378. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the initiatives being taken at United Nations Security Council level or elsewhere within the European Union to protect human rights and opportunities in Myanmar. [54270/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reassess the application to expand the first-year intake of a secondary school (detail supplied); the schools adjoining it which have spare capacity; and if she has collected details of the waiting lists of this school and of the schools adjoining and the practicality of local children in this rapid growth area having to leave...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: The Minister of State did not advert to the fact that the LULUCF has not been included heretofore in the targets we set for either EU reductions or Irish national reductions. The climate council is advocating that we set a reduction which will mean we have to find 5 million MTCO2e from the land use sector. I want to probe the Minister of State as to what new policy tools and investment...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: I am delighted to hear that from the Minister of State. I suppose we need to see what will be those mechanisms for paying for making those land use changes. It is important, if those mechanisms are not evolved today, that there is a clear statement that Government will be evolving mechanisms to pay for carbon management, which is effectively what this would be, of the land use. I welcome...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 11. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way the inclusion of land use, land use change and forestry, LULUCF, in the inventory used to measure greenhouse gases will alter the policy challenge for Ireland. [53626/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: The Climate Change Advisory Council has recently added land use to the greenhouse gas inventory, which has to be halved over the next decade. That means we will have to find measures to reduce carbon emissions by an extra 5 million tonnes. I would like to ask the Minister of State what impact that might have on other sectors if that sector itself cannot deliver and what new policy and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: I am delighted that we are repeatedly seeing pressure being put on here for quicker delivery of the national broadband plan. Both I and Deputy Naughten know this was fought tooth and nail within the House by people seeking to obstruct it. I raise a serious element of Deputy Naughten's question, specifically the impact this will have on carbon emissions. My experience has been that...