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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: Does the Minister of State agree that the key to this potential is developing a stronger electricity network? This week we saw legislation introduced which I am thankful was withdrawn that would have blocked the development of onshore wind. Earlier in this Question Time we heard the dismissal of a review being carried out by the Government - effectively rubbishing it - and the backing of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 74. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which Ireland’s climate targets for respective sectors relate to the evolving policy agenda at EU level such as expanding the scope of the emission trading mechanisms. [53625/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way the penetration of plug-in electric vehicles in vehicle purchases and the roll-out of public chargers have changed in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53623/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied that the challenges to rolling out Ireland’s renewable power capacity are being resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53624/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the aggregate capacity of secondary schools in the Drumcondra school planning catchment area; and the extent to which it exceeds the current enrolment. [53760/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the planned opening date for the proposed new secondary school in the Drumcondra school planning area which did not go ahead on the date originally announced. [53761/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondary schools in the Drumcondra school catchment area which are mixed and non-denominational; and the capacity of each school. [53762/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the existing pattern of children entering or leaving the Drumcondra school catchment area for secondary schooling. [53763/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the CSO has provided her Department with a projection of population for the Drumcondra school catchment area over the next five years. [53764/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidance provided by her Department to schools outlining the way they should meet their obligation to outline their provision for children who wish to opt out of religious instruction; if it is set out explicitly in admission policy statements; and the other means that are available to a prospective parent to consider the policy in place....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 342. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland has made provision for the recognition of Covid digital certificates issued by countries outside the EU for the purpose of entering hospitality or alternatively, if an EU Digital COVID Certificate can be issued to prospective visitors to Ireland. [53800/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 358. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has sought to enunciate general principles which should apply in relation to patient visiting opportunities; if particular considerations are suggested in circumstances in which the patient’s vulnerability may call for greater family support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53799/21]

Finance Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: I would like to congratulate the Minister of Finance for his achievement not only in putting the economy into a position where we could cope with the challenge of Covid and to do so successfully, with our public finances coming back into order already, but also his very astute handling a very difficult challenge to our corporate tax regime. He has made the correct changes, and made them...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance if changes in the benefit-in-kind tax treatment of electric vehicles now make it attractive for those availing of that relief to switch back to diesel cars; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53543/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (3 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 103. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when applications for foreign birth registration for the purpose of obtaining Irish citizenship on the basis of a parent or grandparent were suspended; when it is expected that they will be resumed; his plans to deal with the backlog which will have inevitably arisen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53542/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 148. To ask the Minister for Health if he has been advised of the categories of patient who should be offered a booster vaccine for Covid-19; the way it is planned to put together a list of all those who fall into this category; if general practitioners will be contacted to submit those eligible; if not, if patients should themselves register; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (3 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 149. To ask the Minister for Health the date from which the payment under the drug refund scheme will be reduced from €114 to €100. [53456/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges to Ireland's Competitiveness: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: Thanks very much, a Chathaoirligh. Naturally, Government representatives will tend to see the glass half full and Opposition will see it half empty. I suppose it would be remiss of me not to say that while we may not be perfect as an economy, before Covid we had full employment and rising wage levels that would have been simply unthinkable a decade ago. In the context of the housing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges to Ireland's Competitiveness: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: I would like to return to the issue of enterprise and the environmental adaptation it needs to make. I am not sure if enterprise has seriously addressed this and even the way Mr. Gilvarry presents it, that enterprise is responsible for a small share, understates the contribution of the enterprise sector. Enterprise uses substantial amounts of transport, which is attributed to the transport...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges to Ireland's Competitiveness: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: I thank the witness and I look forward to that work. I recommend the review of the leaving certificate because there is a tendency for only insiders in the education system to engage on questions like this when it really affects our entire society, not least our enterprise sector. These are big choices that will shape Ireland for quite a while to come. They deserve a certain input from...