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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...

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

Richard Bruton: Is there a linear connection between weight and embodied carbon? Is that a straightforward multiplication?

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

Richard Bruton: Is there a simple way of converting weight into embodied carbon? People do look at the figures for embodied carbon but they may not look at the figures for higher accident rates or greater road maintenance. The latter are issues for Government. Can we calculate the embodied carbon of different cars?

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

Richard Bruton: Is that correct? I have seen newspaper articles quoting very substantial numbers for the embodied carbon of SUVs, which are much greater than their lifetime fuel consumption.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Cybersecurity Policy (26 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how the NIS2 Directive on cybersecurity will be implemented in Ireland; and whether consultation and an information campaign are planned to better inform the public and affected bodies. [40990/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (26 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline the details of those companies who are obligated entities in terms of energy savings; the extent of the obligation in each case; the opportunities for charitable bodies to seek support from such bodies to improve their energy consumption; and whether each entity has published contact details for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (26 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether public service bodies who have outreach services delivered by employees using their personal cars are obliged to count the carbon impact of these journeys in their carbon impact; whether there are initiatives in place to facilitate the switch of this necessary mileage to electric vehicles; if there is a role for a centralised...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (26 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 187. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has reviewed the value of the thresholds set out for tax relief on pensions; and if he will consider adjusting them, in view of the substantial inflation since they were set almost ten years ago. [41437/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 369. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether it is possible to set up a trust for a person with a severe disability, without undermining their eligibility for disability allowance, which normally assesses a nominal weekly means to all capital exceeding €50,000. [41173/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Deaths (26 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 523. To ask the Minister for Health if he has examined the reports of elevated death rates; and whether any research is being undertaken to evaluate underlying factors. [41033/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (26 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 548. To ask the Minister for Health if he has examined the reports of elevated death rates; and whether any research is being undertaken to evaluate underlying factors. [41165/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (26 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 564. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE has started to recruit to the position of physician associates; whether the extent of the responsibility of such posts have been defined: and whether there is a need for registration and regulation of such posts by an appropriate body to ensure that they only work within their area of established qualifications. [41276/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (26 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 628. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has calculated a multiplier for the knock-on value within the community of the different schemes under which she allocates funds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41309/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (26 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 629. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has analysed trends in remote working as the economy has fully reopened again; and if there are areas of initiative to help embed this as a pattern to bring new activity to rural Ireland. [41310/23]

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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (21 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 13. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an estimate of the average number of inpatient and outpatient procedures that have been delivered by public hospitals and by the NTPF to date in 2023; and if he is considering any innovations to deliver more procedures. [40277/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (21 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 60. To ask the Minister for Health what the key drivers of the reported overruns in health expenditure are; whether there are improvements that can be made in spending management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40276/23]