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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2024 (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: The Department is still requiring an application process and it is not allowing the employer to trigger this process where they recognise the statutory entitlements of their worker but are just not in a position to meet them at that moment. Would it be possible to consider that by way of amendment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2024 (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: Does Ms Breathnach mean that everything is paid up with sole traders?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2024 (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: I just thought that it would not be that unusual for an employee to be left without something, if a business had to close its doors. It would be worth it for the Department to check that out with some of the well-known stakeholders who might have knowledge of these things.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of caps that apply to the sale by domestic solar into the grid; and if he believes they should be lifted. [43504/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 55. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the concessions on taxi licence extension at the time of Covid can be applied to all taxis registered at the time that the concession was made, rather than confining the concession to those registered up to the end of 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43372/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a plan to provide a wet room at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43503/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 209. To ask the Minister for Health if he has visited the accident and emergency facilities in Beaumont Hospital; if he recognises the urgency of progressing the building project to improve the service and conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43505/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: I welcome the Minister. What is his assessment of how changes in the geopolitical landscape, to put it at its most euphemistic, the output of war, the increasing tensions, the increasing sense of retaliatory measures between different states which we look to to co-operate in the context of reducing emissions, have put a dampener on progress that can be made at COP29? Are these countries...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: I was struck by the statistic the Minister provided that, of the 473 GW of renewable energy put in place, only 2.7 GW is in Africa. Has the Minister been able to probe what is going on there? I recently met the Moroccan ambassador to Ireland and he identified great opportunity in this area, to which he is very committed. What are the barriers? Are they funding barriers or are they more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: The structural question is whether all these microeconomic matters are addressed at the UN or if it is solely the macroeconomic thing of how much money is in the pot.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered extending the remit of approved housing bodies to include a proportion of homes for affordable purchase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42875/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has plans to stimulate the opportunity for people to right-size, where people wish to consider such options; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42936/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the challenge which the cap on flights poses to charters to attend major sporting events over the coming months, both home and away; if measures can be taken to protect this traditional traffic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42503/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Airports (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of investment provided for Ireland West Airport Knock since 2011 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42774/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the waiting time for driving tests in Castlebar, Ballina, and Tuam; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42775/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on active travel projects in Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42776/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on active travel projects proposed or pending in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42777/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide for several areas and categories (details supplied) a list of all the individual projects to which his Department has provided funding since 2020, in tabular form. [42920/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the approximate roll-out time of charging infrastructure at depot sites, as announced in Budget 2025, as there are commercial road cargo and delivery companies willing and ready to transition their fleets from fossil fuel to electric, but require certainty of provision before they invest; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 230. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an update on the review of Ireland’s ETF investor taxation regime announced by his predecessor and due to be completed by Summer 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42429/24]