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Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: We are delivering a consistent strategy. Of course we realise that the number-----

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: -----that we need to reach is higher than was first thought. We must continue to pursue this policy so that we can deliver.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: Deputy Ó Broin, whom I respect greatly-----

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: -----often lambasted the Government in the Chamber for failing to see new social housing being built. I did not hear him comment that the number of social houses being built now is seven times what it was in 2016. That is the reality.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: Social housing is being transformed. We have a delivery pipeline that is now delivering for people.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: My good friend, Deputy Eamon Ryan, stated that the Government was allowing for private developers and a collapse of the well-honed policy that he wanted to deliver. This is the first Government that introduced its own land development agency.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: We now have a State developer that will shape the sorts of development we want to see and-----

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: -----accumulate sites in the cities of Waterford, Cork, Galway and Limerick where we want to see compact development and growth so that we can break the perverse regional balance from which we have suffered for many years. Far from voting no confidence in the Minister, tonight is a night when we should be endorsing the work he is doing because it will deliver.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Pollution (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: I refer the Deputy to the reply to Question No. 12 of 28 November. The position is unchanged.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: The Government currently funds a number of schemes, administered by the SEAI, to assist homeowners in upgrading the energy efficiency of their properties, including switching to new heating systems. These include free upgrades for low income households and fixed grants for those who can invest some of their own money. The grants promote a fabric first approach – advising people to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 469 to 474, inclusive, 476 and 477 together. The Government is committed to delivering high speed broadband to every home, farm, business and school in Ireland. It is vital that we ensure that people of rural Ireland have the same opportunities as people in our towns and cities. The fundamental building blocks of the project, which is designed to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: The Department recently conducted a public consultation to close the ongoing mapping exercise, seeking submissions from operators who wished to have their existing high speed broadband networks, or who had developed plans to invest in high speed broadband networks over the next 7 years, to be included on the Department’s High Speed Broadband Map. Operator submissions were assessed...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 478 to 480, inclusive, together. As a State intervention, the National Broadband Plan (NBP) must comply with the requirements of the European Commission’s Guidelines on the application of the State aid rules on broadband. The Guidelines require, amongst other things, that Member States carry out a detailed mapping exercise to identify as far as...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: Under the 2009 Effort Sharing Decision 406/2009/EC (ESD), which put in place binding annual emissions targets for each year between 2013 and 2020 for sectors outside the EU Emissions Trading System, Ireland must achieve a reduction of 20% relative to 2005 levels of emissions. Under the latest projections of greenhouse gas emissions, published earlier this year by the EPA, emissions from those...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ministerial Meetings (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: Neither I, nor my Officials, arranged, or attended, a function at the location mentioned.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Better Energy Homes Scheme Eligibility (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: The Better Energy Warmer Homes Scheme is funded by my Department and administered by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). The Scheme delivers a range of energy efficiency measures free of charge to low income households vulnerable to energy poverty, who meet the defined eligibility criteria. The initial Warmer Homes Scheme budget allocation for 2019 was €24 million....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Reports (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: My Department administers a very diverse, complex and technical brief across a range of strategic sectors. The technical, commercial, legal complexity and evolving nature of sectors with which the Department deals requires access from time to time to external professional expertise to assist in discharging its functions. In procuring these specialised services, my Department always seeks to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Expenditure (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: Details of fees paid since January 2007 by my Department to Analysys Mason are set out in the Table below. In procuring these services my Department always seeks to ensure value for money. Project Expenditure € Cost Benefit Analysis and Public Service Benchmark calculation of the National Broadband Scheme 43,934 Training...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Education and Training Boards Administration (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: Section 15(2) of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 provides that a relevant Minister may give a direction to a relevant public body requiring it to submit a report specifying the measures it has adopted to have regard to, in the performance of its functions, - the most recent approved national mitigation plan, national adaptation framework, or approved sectorial...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: Government policy in relation to the Role of Data Centres in Ireland's Enterprise Strategy is primarily a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation in the first instance. The Government Statement on the role of data centres in Ireland's Enterprise Strategy, 2018 recognises that a plan-led approach is needed to develop a range of measures to promote regional...