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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Richard Bruton: The key is to request that local authorities develop a pipeline of people with provisional approval who would be eligible. That is the key to giving people confidence that there will be enough buyers when homes come to market.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Richard Bruton: They do not advertise them until they are built, which is too late.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Richard Bruton: 16. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will activate the cities fund to ensure that more of the affordable homes developed in cities, particularly by the Land Development Agency, LDA, can be offered for affordable purchase, and make it easier for potential eligible buyers of such homes to establish that there are sufficient buyers with the necessary access...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Richard Bruton: My constituency has been a significant beneficiary of Government policy and we now have over 2,000 social homes and 3,500 affordable homes in the pipeline. The crux of the matter is that there are not enough affordable homes for purchase. Too many are going in the buy-to-rent direction. I need to see initiatives to change that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Media Sector (5 Dec 2023)

Richard Bruton: 60. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has assessed the future patterns of media consumption and the implications this has for public policy. [53640/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: 11. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the difficulties with the access and the underground car park at Clongriffin, which is a vital hub in the new public transport strategy for Dublin, and if he will convene the key stakeholders to seek to broker a solution. [52816/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: The Clongriffin station is to be a strategic transport hub serving a very rapidly growing area. Indeed, it is an area where the Land Development Agency plans to develop more than 2,000 homes. At present, it has no park-and-ride facility, the underground car park is shut, the access to the Dart station from the Fingal side is in private hands, the lift is not working and the area is not in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: The Minister will understand the sense of abandonment by people in this rapidly growing area where this has been designated a strategic hub. As the Minister has fairly outlined, two of the key strategic assets to enable it are in private hands and are not working. If we want to go ahead with these higher-density, more sustainable developments, which we do, we need to put some money on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: I warmly welcome the Minister's commitment. This really needs to move on. The success of BusConnects and so on all hangs in the balance of getting a hub like this working properly.

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: People are right to be passionate and angry about what happened last week. I am angry and disappointed myself because it was an appalling scene to see. Anger, however, is not a policy, and it is disappointing that many people are reducing the issues that faced us last week to hollow slogans and demands for sackings or climbing on their own little hobby horses and claiming that those are...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: The community safety plans can genuinely be transformative because they offer the vision of community Garda teams working to a plan shaped by the local community and backed by activist councils, activist transport companies and an activist HSE. I have two questions for the Taoiseach. Will he update the House on the progress of the three pilots that are already in place? The key to their...

Science Week: Statements (16 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: I hope the Howlin name continues to be carried with aplomb in Wexford. First, I would also like to acknowledge the contribution of Deputy Dennis Naughten to the Dáil in elevating the status of science in our debates. Deputy Naughten has been singularly committed to doing that and it is something that hopefully will continue even though we may not still have him in the Houses. I...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: I welcome the housing figures announced yesterday. It is really encouraging to see that there has been a 34% increase in commencements in the past seven months, that there have been strong completions and that 30,000 first-time mortgages were approved in the past 12 months. I request that the Land Development Agency, LDA, acquire more sites with full planning permission. It has acquired...

Energy Charter Treaty: Statements (9 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: I welcome this debate. It is timely. Other Deputies have well articulated the defects in the energy charter treaty. It is important to recall, as the note from the Oireachtas Library and Research Service has underlined, that this emerged in the early 1990s in the wake of the opening up of eastern Europe and following the collapse of the Soviet Union. There were genuine desires to see...

Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Bruton: We are seeing a total tragedy unfolding before our eyes. We can see the pain every night on our screens and the fear and anguish in the faces of mothers in particular. It is there for all of us to see. The reality is that the decision by Hamas was a cold, calculated assault designed to kill citizens and create the sort of reaction we have seen. It was carefully planned. It was not the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (5 Oct 2023)

Richard Bruton: 11. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied with discussions between the NTA and other agencies and a private developer in relation to privately developed transport infrastructure (details supplied). [43050/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: This week the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment heard that sustainability is key to the long-term competitiveness of the food sector, which is not surprising. However, Enterprise Ireland and local enterprise offices, LEOs, report that only one in seven enterprises have taken up any of the Green Offer schemes. At the same time, we have deep supply chain problems in the...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: I too worry about my grandchildren. I take a very different view from the last speaker. I believe, for example, that the State's decision to invest in broadband so that every family in the country will have access to high-speed broadband was a good decision for rural Ireland. We have seen the product of that already with increased remote working and new opportunities in rural villages. We...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2023)

Richard Bruton: The Tánaiste will know that on retirement, people can now look forward to 20 years of further life. That is five times what our parents could look forward to. It is one of the great success stories. However, Covid exposed serious weaknesses in how we think about ageing and the supports we put in place. Recently there have been some appalling cases of vulnerable people not being...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Media Pluralism (13 Jul 2023)

Richard Bruton: It seems the Government has rejected the Exchequer funding model in favour of trying to patch up the leaky licence fee model. It also seems the Government has rejected the idea of a powerful broadcasting commission that, as the developmental body, would not just oversee in considerable detail the performance of RTÉ but also the performance of the other media that looked to it for...