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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Better Care, Better Business Report: IBEC (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: If IBEC is telling us this is a crucial area for the long term, it cannot say the State should do this and the HSE should do that, but sit on its own hands.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Better Care, Better Business Report: IBEC (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: I acknowledge that and any code would have to respect that. If someone is a one-person employer, they will have a different set of expectations than if they employ 1,000 people. That is what the WRC is there to manage. It would only be a code and it would not be a statutory obligation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Better Care, Better Business Report: IBEC (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: I suggest IBEC does a survey of the practices of its employers so we get a baseline picture of what is available and the direction of travel. I will move on. I share IBEC's belief that we need statutory home care and the ESRI has estimated its cost at about €500 million. Will that be in the IBEC pre-budget submission? Is it looking for that to be done? IBEC will be knocking on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Better Care, Better Business Report: IBEC (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: One of the issues about home care provision is that, currently, only some 40% is provided by the HSE itself and it outsources to the private sector about 60% of the workload. The issue of how this sector develops is going to be intimately involved with the negotiating position of IBEC. Personally, I favour a development agency, much as is now promised for the childcare sector. Like the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Better Care, Better Business Report: IBEC (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: That sounds very like a registered employment agreement, REA. It is going to regulate the training, the pay and conditions. It seems Dr. McGann is wiggling somewhat on the idea of whether we should move towards some sort of regulated employment sector, much like childcare has now moved to. Multiple interests are represented by IBEC. However, I cannot see a way forward that does not have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Better Care, Better Business Report: IBEC (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: To be fair, in the case of childcare, the REA, was developed with the Government stepping up to the plate and saying it will cover a high proportion of the extra costs involved.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Better Care, Better Business Report: IBEC (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: Yes, can I come back to that? The focus is very much on the means test which the Minister has raised successively. She raised it twice. Are employers using carer's benefit, which does not have those restrictions to anything like the same extent? Are they using that in a creative way? Carer's assistance is really for full-time care so those recipients would be detached from the workforce....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Better Care, Better Business Report: IBEC (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: When Dr. McGann says days versus hours, is it the 18.5 hour restriction?

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: I will preface my remarks by stating what a remarkable institution the European Union is. It is unique. It was formed by statesmen determined that in future, difficult global problems would be resolved co-operatively and peacefully among the countries involved. For Ireland, membership of the European Union has been the gateway to take our place among the countries of the world, as Parnell...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. When the circular economy Act was passed, we envisaged that we would have the circular economy strategy within six months. It seems that two years on we are still talking about analysing the baseline from which the strategy would evolve. What has gone so radically wrong with the original intention?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: The Act stated not later than six months from the date the section came in-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: That in itself is a bit of a cop-out. We brought in a strategy that envisaged six months, but the relevant section was not activated so we do not have a strategy. It is hard to square that with the sense of urgency that people feel about the use of materials that have huge emission impact, etc.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: When does Mr. McLoughlin expect that will be published?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: I will ask about the existing producer responsibility schemes. Can Mr. McLoughlin give the committee the current recovery rates and the destination of the material recovered? The purpose of this is to recover a high percentage and then see that the material is reused in some fashion that would give the highest value potential. Does Mr. McLoughlin have them available now? I have not seen...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: That would be excellent to get. On the reuse, the fear is that it is exported in a ship and no one really cares much as to what happens afterwards where the intention is to recover to get a maximum value. What information has the Department on the value of the chain after these materials are recovered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: No. Ms Kiely has them all there. There is: vehicles, tyres, farm plastics, tobacco filters, batteries, packaging, WEEE. They are all listed there. There are eight or ten of them.