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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Control of Exports Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (29 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: I thank the witnesses. That is fine.

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: I know many people in this House do not want the Minister to succeed. I want this to succeed. I want us to fix the housing problem by looking pragmatically at every solution, not standing on our little territories and refusing to allow private building on public lands. That sort of approach has stalled the delivery of homes and makes our local authorities unable to step up to this...

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: First, I congratulate the Minister on the production of this strategy. I listened to Sinn Féin Members with bemusement. They are always trying to create a caricature and then attack it. The latest caricature is that this plan is all about private developers. The reality is that building of social housing in this country increased tenfold between 2016 and 2019.

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: Under this plan it will double again. Some 48% of all housing built in the next decade will be either social or affordable. That is in the plan. This is not relying on the private sector. This is driving a housing sector, both private and public, to deliver for ordinary people. To try to portray it as some type of attempt to get into cahoots with private developers to hoodwink people is...

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: -----which would have almost doubled the social and affordable output from the council. It blocked that, despite it being in the pipeline for four years and approved by Sinn Féin members of that council at that stage. Let us get real about where housing strategy is coming from and what we are trying to achieve here. This is a very innovative policy proposal. Not only does it plan...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: We will soon see the NDP. Will it address the serious issues in early childhood provision, where we have a massive scarcity of childcare places? Most of these places provide less than 20 hours per week. We have a lot of public assets through which childcare opportunities are not being opened. Could we see the start of a strategy for capital and development planning in the early childhood...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: I thank our speakers. The sum total of their contributions vividly illustrates the long-term opportunity Ireland has and the short-term difficulties it has to overcome. What is the best location for date centres from a European perspective? The need for data centres is clear, but we are trying to deliver them in an environmentally effective way. Some argue that Ireland is well located...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: 99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline his plan to assist more local authorities to acquire derelict properties compulsorily if necessary. [46473/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: 116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the scale of his ambition for the cities' fund which will help with the cost of high-density units for buyers as outlined in Housing for All. [46472/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: 373. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the issues the legislation to strengthen tenancy will cover; and if he plans to adjust the indexation of rents to harmonised index of consumer prices, HICP, in view of the sharp rise in that indicator. [46665/21]

Ombudsman for Children's Initiative on Eliminating Child Poverty and Child Homelessness: Statements (23 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: I am glad we are having this important debate and I welcome Niall Muldoon's report. I know the Tánaiste will meet him shortly to discuss this and many other things. For generations in this country, early childhood has been neglected in a terribly disappointing way. We have failed to develop adequate policies for early childhood which is so pivotal in the development of any child....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (23 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: 27. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of the State’s expenditure in 2022 that will be allocated by way of competitive bidding for resources based on the quality or innovation of proposals; the Departments that make least use of such models; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44808/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2022 (23 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: 72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the value to date of requests for expenditure increases in Budget 2022 in pre-budget submissions; the main areas for which allocations have been sought; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44807/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Budget 2022 (23 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the value to date of requests for expenditure increases in her Department’s budget allocation for 2022 in pre-budget submissions; the main areas for which allocations have been sought; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44809/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (23 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received proposals from the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment on reform of the leaving certificate; if the experience of the assessment of students during the Covid-19 pandemic will allow more radical revisions than originally anticipated be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44810/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (23 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: 326. To ask the Minister for Health if arrangements are available for the vaccination of persons who cannot leave their homes for reasons of agoraphobia. [45809/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: In a month's time, Irish delegates will be sitting down with their international counterparts at the UN Conference of the Parties, COP26, in Glasgow to face what is the greatest global challenge of our generation. We will be sitting down with some countries that are emitting less than one tenth of the greenhouse gas emissions of developed countries like our own. Does the Minister expect the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: I thank the Minister for appearing in front of the committee. It is important that colleagues look at the hard facts of this agreement rather than creating a straw man, which might have had some validity in earlier agreements. It is also important to bear in mind we are a country that exports 130% of our GDP and we are one of the most open economies in the world. We have welcomed foreign...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (22 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the number of students who have failed to get any CAO offers due to errors in the student exam number; if there is an adequate system for alerting schools as well as students to the presence of such errors; and if there is a way in which students can be facilitated to participate in courses for which their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: I will not even take the three minutes. I will just make two points. On the question of SMEs, Canada is one of the target markets for Enterprise Ireland, the support agency for SMEs. I was on trade missions to Canada with small and large producers in the whiskey and food sectors. These are the backbone of the SME sector and they were trading and looking to use this agreement. What people...