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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Bruton: 297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of approved units in Fingal and Dublin city since 1 January 2019 to date; and the estimated cost per unit by the land cost, professional fees, utility costs, abnormal costs and construction contract costs per unit, respectively. [39935/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Bruton: 431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are funds that schools can avail of to allow participation in digital initiatives in partnership with private enterprise over and above standard funding lines so that opportunities for innovation can be seized. [40314/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Work Enterprise Allowance Scheme (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Bruton: 519. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is considering new supports for enterprise start-ups such as through the back to work enterprise scheme as Ireland commences exiting the Covid-19 setbacks to employment. [40500/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Strategy Statements (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Bruton: 532. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the innovations he plans for the upcoming statement of strategy of his Department. [40110/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Bruton: 533. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department has recorded a significant drop-off in children in early childhood settings or in the number of providers offering service during Covid-19. [40111/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Bruton: 658. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that international advice from an institution (details supplied) recommends stronger protections for women over 28 weeks pregnant than is being applied by the HSE in its advice for the public service; and if he will assess whether that advice should be amended. [39741/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Bruton: 43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if overseas development programmes have been hampered by the Covid-19 virus; and if unspent money can be carried forward. [37952/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Bruton: 48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider the possibility of allowing local communities decide the use of a small part of the ODA budget through a democratic consultation process in locations in which a well-structured aid programme is in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37953/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Strategy Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Bruton: 78. To ask the Minister for Finance the innovations he plans for the upcoming statement of strategy of his Department. [36171/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Bruton: 153. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to refresh the roadmap for tax policy in relation to the taxation of companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36170/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Bruton: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason improvements in staffing were provided to DEIS band 1 senior schools but not to junior schools or integrated schools in the same category; and if it has been decided the way in which the planned €5 million for such schools will be allocated. [39428/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Bruton: I thank the Environmental Protection Agency for the fine work it has done in the context of its report on the condition of our environment. I take some encouragement from the progress being made on greenhouse gas emissions. However, the report shows broadly that we have a huge amount of ground to make up. At a time when Covid dominates and many of us are re-evaluating our priorities, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Bruton: 79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the assertion that red tape and restrictions on borrowing capacity are preventing councils from engaging in more direct building; the typical timelines for design, master planning, cost appraisal, establishment of funding lines, planning approval, tendering and construction on direct build projects; and if his...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Bruton: 80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the improvements he has identified in the manner in which the Land Development Agency will operate in order to reduce the time and cost involved in site assembly and acquisition, in design, master planning, cost appraisal, establishment of funding lines, planning approval, tendering and construction; and if he is satisfied...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Bruton: As I understand it, the Duffy Cahill report has raised a couple of issues. The primary issue concerns the consultation period, the secondary issue concerns this hiding of assets and a third issue is collective deals for the future. As for the first, the issue of making it obligatory to have consultation in an insolvency, is there consensus on this being a correct way forward? It seems...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Bruton: Is there consensus on changing the rules on consultation in an insolvency?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Bruton: I would like to hear the Minister of State's understanding of what recommendation 6 says because I have heard different interpretations of it. Is it that a collective redundancy could only become a burden on an insolvency fund or whatever we call it in a case where the company has broken the law in respect of consultation or is this an open-ended scheme? Does it require the company to have...

Covid-19: Statements (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Bruton: I join in the thanks to so many, not just those on the front line but also the many people who are making sacrifices to keep others safe. I do not agree with my colleague, Deputy Shortall, when she says that decisions should be made by the whole Parliament. Parliament has a role of scrutiny but the Government has to make decisions. At a time like this, we need to recognise that difference...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Bruton: 71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps which remain to be completed in order to sign the new guidelines for renewable generation at windfarms; and if he will set a deadline for when they will enter force. [37956/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Office of the Parliamentary Counsel (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Bruton: 112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the arrangements which have and are being made to ensure that priority access to legal drafters is assigned to the marine planning legislation without which the development of offshore renewable energy will be held back; and if he will outline a timed roadmap for its presentation for consideration by the Houses of the...