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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: I will go first if I may. We had a recommendation from the Low Pay Commission. I would be interested to hear the comments of the three representatives on it. Essentially, it is proposing abolition, but it states that “When considering the timelines for any changes ... the Commission recognises that this is a complex issue that will require the full deliberation and consideration...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: Is there any Irish evidence on this opportunity issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: I asked a question on whether the approach being adopted by the Low Pay Commission meets the expectations of ISME and Mandate.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 306. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has reviewed the investment in facilities needed to drive forward the national cancer strategy; if he is aware of the considerable pressure for more capacity in a cancer centre (details supplied), given its existing patient treatment rates and growing population catchment; and how such needs are assessed in drawing up the health capital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: Everyone on this committee wants higher levels of segregation, recovery and reuse. The issue is how we get there. Given the tightness of time, my first question relates to what we are to make of the EPA conclusion that, even with this legislative change, it is likely, if tested, that Dublin City Council's re-entry into the domestic waste collection service and the exclusion of private...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: Does all of this infrastructure not have to be bought out to do this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: Is the buying out of all these people not a requirement, if all the segregation and waste recovery centres are going to be nationalised?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I have a couple of questions for the CCMA. Do the councils want to re-enter the bin collection business? That is the central thesis we heard earlier. It has been very succinctly outlined what the local government does in the regions in terms of enforcement, collection, permitting and so on. Essentially the thesis earlier was that this...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Functions (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 51. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has reviewed the capacity across the public sector to deliver complex infrastructural projects; if new arrangements could be put in place to strengthen that capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29476/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Summer Economic Statement (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 70. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform how the evaluation contained in the summer economic statement will alter his assessment of the profiles of current and capital spending in the years ahead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29482/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Remote Working (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 74. To ask the Taoiseach his latest estimate of the extent of remote working, by county, being delivered from homes located therein; and how that compares with the total at work in the respective counties. [29508/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to detail the installed capacity of renewables, by county, distinguishing the renewable source in each case. [29497/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 106. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has mapped the potential location of projected new renewable generation capacity by county or region, distinguishing the renewable source in each case. [29498/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 107. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to indicate the marginal abatement cost of the most expensive policy measure in each sector now included in the Climate Action Plan for delivery by 2030; the projected cost per tonne of carbon equivalent abated in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29500/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 108. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the uptake, by county, of the various schemes for microgeneration, and for business-based small-scale generation, under the various supports offered; and his ambitions for scaling up these initiatives by 2030. [29503/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the peat restoration projects his Department or its agencies have supported; the estimated capital and recurring costs of the work; the proportion funded from public funds; and the projected gains in carbon abatement and biodiversity. [29504/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Industry (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of car sales, by county, from 2020 to date in 2024, distinguishing full-EV, hybrid-EV and fossil fuel combustion engines, in tabular form. [29483/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Policy (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 576. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps envisaged by the European Union to introduce a framework for carbon farming, and the processes through which farm progress would be measured and rewarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29486/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Policy (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 577. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures planned between now and 2030 necessary to maintain the environmental rating afforded by the Origin Green mark, in each key food sector. [29494/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 578. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the terms of support for the plantation of new forestry; the increase that this represents compared to what was there before; the take-up of the new scheme since it was announced; and the take-up he projects over the period to 2030. [29496/24]