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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (6 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reskilling initiatives being considered in order to activate persons to transition from at-risk sectors and unemployment over to the highly successful biopharma, medtech, information and communications technology and foodtech sectors in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36426/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (6 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of work by his Department in providing research and analysis support to the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs in respect to the future needs of each of the highly successful biopharma, medtech, information and communications technology and foodtech manufacturing sectors in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (6 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the acceleration of the National Skills Strategy in Ireland in respect of the digital skills of the national workforce at entry, intermediary and advanced levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36429/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (6 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the acceleration of the National Skills Strategy in Ireland in respect of digital skills for persons in general in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36430/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (6 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the development of digital skills in the indigenous SME sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36431/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Reduction of Carbon Emissions of 51% by 2030: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: I thank the CRU officials for the presentation. I wish to turn to the longer-term opportunity that exists in renewable energy, particularly offshore, which suggests Ireland can become a significant net exporter of energy over time. I wish to explore the issue of how a platform for offshore renewable energy is funded and how that should happen. As I understand it, there is a belief now that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Reduction of Carbon Emissions of 51% by 2030: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: I was unsure from Mr. Gannon's reply. Are we asking Irish consumers to pay more in the short term so that we create a long-term opportunity to be an electricity exporter and a centre of excellence for renewables? Is there a new way of finessing that in some way? I realise Mr. Gannon said that in the long term we will benefit from it, but in the short term do we have to go through a period...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (1 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the scale of programmes supported by the education excellence fund; and if she has plans to expand this method of funding of innovation. [34507/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (1 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has plans to accelerate the delivery of senior cycle reform. [34506/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (1 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the capacity the social insurance fund has to support workers in the face of new challenges in the work, life environment; and the way this can best be harnessed. [34509/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Workplace Relations Commission (1 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the scale of developmental interventions which she views will be necessary in the post-Covid-19 environment; and the innovations she is considering in their delivery. [34508/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to extend the arrangements for the leaving certificate assessment 2021 to apply also for the students to sit the exam in 2022 given their study has also been disrupted. [35051/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: 138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to adjusting the term of short-term working support to ensure that workers in sectors which continue to be seriously reduced in activity due to continuing Covid-19 restrictions will be able to continue to receive this important supplement to their income which would otherwise expire due to...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Further Revised) (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: I welcome the Tánaiste and congratulate him and his Department on their response to gaps exposed by Covid. The supports to business have been significant, as have the changes in sick pay, remote working, the living wage and small company rescue. The Department is showing signs of a real capacity to respond. Many people were quite winded by reports on Monday that the Delta variant...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Further Revised) (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: I would like to return to some of the points I raised before asking another couple of questions. Would the Tánaiste consider establishing a climate and circular economy unit in his own Department? If the sectors do not drive change, it will not happen, and I can give an example. Food waste is equivalent to million extra cars on the road and two thirds of plastic is not recyclable,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (29 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: 89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a physical phone directory is still available to persons who request one; and if not, the provision made for access offline. [34934/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (29 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: 573. To ask the Minister for Health if supports are available without household income means tests for a severely disabled person to install equipment such as a full lift in cases in which the only way in which they can live independently is by being with a member of their wider family and in which a means test on other household income would be unfairly restricting their options. [34068/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Reduction of Carbon Emissions of 51% by 2030: Discussion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: I thank our guests for their presentation. It was stated that agricultural expansion is happening at the expense of the environment. I would be interested to hear the witnesses elaborate on that. The case has been made that Ireland has grass-based production and, as such, is environmentally superior to many of the alternatives, certainly within Europe. It was also stated that there need...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Reduction of Carbon Emissions of 51% by 2030: Discussion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: There are a few hanging chads elsewhere in that discussion, as someone has said, but in the interest of other speakers, I will come back to them on the second round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Reduction of Carbon Emissions of 51% by 2030: Discussion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: I thank the Chairman. I would like to go back to some of the points relating to agriculture. Mr. Treacy said that 350,000 ha of drained organic soil generate 8 million tonnes. That is a little over 5% of our land area generating this very large amount. Are there policy tools we could use in order to start to turn that negative into a positive? That would constitute a significant element...