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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: Yes. I absolutely agree with this statement from the building council that we cannot tackle the three environmental crises we are facing without transitioning to a more circular construction industry. What I am hearing from the CIF, however, is that, like the Kerryman, "I would not start from here." That seems to be the dilemma we are trying to reconcile here. The first question I would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: Is there a number we could track to know-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: We do not have that sort of stuff.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: Is it difficult to turn a three-bedroom house into a duplex with a downstairs unit and a two-storey overhead? It strikes me that this is very difficult to do in Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: Will the Irish Green Building Council look at this? It is a very practical way of starting to get better occupancy of our existing buildings, if that could be done relatively easy. It is very standard. The appearance of a street would not dramatically change because it would be duplex. Perhaps the next time the witnesses are here they will have done an evaluation of whether all the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 94. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline the training provided to members of the Defence Forces to respond to future environmental disasters such as flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28237/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 178. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of schemes in the UK and Canada to allow individuals to accumulate small sums each year into personal funds which grow tax-free; if the tax strategy group has assessed changes in certain rules on such funds in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27924/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to indicate the distribution of the current primary schools and pupil numbers across the different patronage bodies; and the extent to which there has been a growth in non-denominational and multi-denominational schools over the past decade. [28299/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of transfers of patronage which have been completed over the past decade from denominational patronage to other forms of patronage. [28300/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the evolution of the pupil-teacher ratio at primary level and at secondary level since 1990. [28301/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to indicate the evolution of DEIS schools since 1990 at primary and at secondary level, identifying the number of schools and of pupils at each point after a new intake was adopted, and the additional concessions to selected schools offered to the different category of participating schools. [28302/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures used to assess the impact of DEIS status on the experience and the outcomes for pupils involved relative to schools without that status; and to outline how the gap on these indicators has evolved over time.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28304/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Standards (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the data obtained from schools on pupil accomplishment in reading, mathematics, and so on; the frequency with which it is collected; and how it is analysed to establish relative progress in different schools and to inform the priorities for inspection assessments and policy options for educational advancement. [28307/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 483. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that there is no service for assessment of adult ADHD on the northside of Dublin; if there are plans to fill this gap; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28272/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the evolution of participation rates in higher and in further education for representative years since 1990; and how the student-to-staff ratios have evolved in the same years. [28308/24]

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: I welcome this debate and the work the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, is doing in this area. In my view longer lives is one of the greatest achievements of humanity but sadly it is too often portrayed as a period of decline or even of burden. We need to see this issue through a different lens. While I welcome the Commission on Care for Older People, I would have to say that again its...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: The Tánaiste will have read that today the Climate Change Advisory Council remarked on how progress in transport emissions has been arrested, the inordinate delays in, for example, getting BusConnects through and the need for a better planning model for compact development in urban areas. However, the big wake-up call related to EVs, where progress has been arrested. There needs to be,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: I appreciate what is happening, but when we passed that circular economy Act it was enshrined that we would have the second circular economy strategy within six months. The Government has not activated that section, so as a result the six months did not start. That is a sleight of hand. In countries that have been successful in this field, they had voluntary compacts developed before the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: There were loads of things that could be done. Some 60% of what we discard goes into the wrong place where it cannot be recovered. There is no question of recovery, recycling or reuse. That was an early win. We do not have to wait for statutory obligations to come in to get the sectors around the table eliminating things like that. That is where my frustration comes from. It is a lot of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: 74. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if discussions with the various sectors have commenced on the expectations of stakeholders to deliver circular economy strategies; if he will outline the greatest barriers which the Government is encountering in delivering climate targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27581/24]