Results 661-680 of 32,119 for speaker:Richard Bruton

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 195. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the ceilings on rents supported by HAP for different household composition, different areas, and for those at risk of homelessness, and if he has plans to alter these ceilings. [41983/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (28 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 273. To ask the Minister for Health the means thresholds and savings thresholds for medical card, and for GP only cards, both for those under 70 years and those aged 70 and over, when the recently announced extension of GP cards is complete; his plans to index either or both to the trend in any income indicator for future years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41989/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (28 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 274. To ask the Minister for Health the circumstances in which a charge will be made to a patient visiting the casualty department, visiting an outpatient department or obtaining a blood test, and the level of charge in each case, and the circumstance in which a patient may apply to have such charges waived. [41990/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (28 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 275. To ask the Minister for Health the concessions offered under the fair deal scheme within the means-testing arrangements where homes of patients have been sold, and where homes of patients have been rented, and if he will indicate the number of instances where this option has been taken up in each case since the concession was put in place. [41991/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 276. To ask the Minister for Health the prescription charges now paid by medical card holders and if the level of these thresholds is under review. [41992/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 277. To ask the Minister for Health the threshold for drug refund which is now in place and if the level of this threshold is under review. [41993/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (28 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 278. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Treatment Purchase Fund is on track to deliver the targeted level of procedures, scopes, diagnostic tests and outpatient appointment during 2023, and whether target waiting times for arranging different interventions have been set. [41994/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 279. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated number of patients who have been treated abroad under different options in the year to date; if he has any breakdown of this number by procedure or specialty, and if the conditions for obtaining treatment in the UK and Northern Ireland, or in other member states of the EU is likely to change in the coming year; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (28 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 280. To ask the Minister for Health if he has set prospective dates by which he expects to extend the age groups who qualify for free GP services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41996/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (28 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the concessions made on the student registration fee and the bonus payment on maintenance have been continued into the new academic year; if so, if he will indicate on what terms the concessions are available in the academic year 2023/2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41974/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: SME Energy and Carbon Demands, Green Initiatives and Technology: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I have a couple of statistical points. Mr. Magee gave a figure of one in seven of clients taking up the green opportunity. That it is a low figure is probably understandable. Do we have the same numbers for Enterprise Ireland? What are the numbers involved? What percentage of its client base is involved and how much of its budget goes on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: SME Energy and Carbon Demands, Green Initiatives and Technology: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: That is 171 out of how many companies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: SME Energy and Carbon Demands, Green Initiatives and Technology: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: Wow. It is very low. Mr. Clancy said his clients generate 4.4 million tonnes. Is that solely what he calls "on site" or does that include transport and allied emissions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: SME Energy and Carbon Demands, Green Initiatives and Technology: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: The key question is, is Enterprise Ireland taking far too narrow a view of the sustainability challenge? Take food, for example. Some 40% of our emissions come from food globally, which is about 30 million tonnes. Enterprise Ireland is at the pivotal point. It represents food processors and supports them. They are key to all of the opportunities. Apart from just on-site emissions, there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: SME Energy and Carbon Demands, Green Initiatives and Technology: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: The EU has already imposed reporting on larger companies in respect of this whole supply chain. We have not made it a centrepiece of our policy yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: SME Energy and Carbon Demands, Green Initiatives and Technology: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: I recall Chris Horn some years ago talking about research in Ireland. He said that we have to move from launching individual boats to creating an admiralty. In this sphere, Enterprise Ireland needs to think of creating an admiralty, not individual initiatives. They are good in their own right but the future of food depends, in ten years' time, on the correction of a number of things that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: SME Energy and Carbon Demands, Green Initiatives and Technology: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: Are we in injury time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: SME Energy and Carbon Demands, Green Initiatives and Technology: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: Will targets be set for the take-up of schemes, or more global targets for where we ought to be on critical indicators of sustainability, be they the carbon footprint of our food products, the recycling content within our packaging, or 100% recycling of packaging? Will Enterprise Ireland set those sort of targets, which are the markers of success in sustainability?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: SME Energy and Carbon Demands, Green Initiatives and Technology: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: This has been a very useful discussion. The takeaway for me is that we should move to developing the sorts of sectoral compacts that have been pretty successful in the Netherlands. I certainly think of food, and you can see it in construction and probably in engineering. It is where you start to look at the whole responsibility, from, as Mr. Magee rightly said, design - they say 80% of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Impact on Carbon Budgets of Trend Towards Heavier and Larger Vehicles: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: I thank the witnesses for the interesting presentations. To get down to brass tacks, as they say, can the witnesses give us a label for each car being sold that would indicate weight or embodied carbon - I do not know whether they are the same thing or are linearly connected - and its CO2 over a prospective 300,000 km lifetime? It would be a huge step forward if we could see that...