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- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Bruton: It is being published this week and will be taken next week.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Bruton: I understand preparatory work is being done on the Bill that was mentioned in the Department of Justice and Equality.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Bruton: I understand that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine received a request from the IFA for him to meet it yesterday. He is happy to meet it but it seems-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Bruton: This request came in yesterday. I am sure the Minister will schedule this. He is quite happy to meet the IFI in the normal course and he meets it frequently. He has been seeking to develop the outline of a crop loss compensation scheme, as the Deputies are aware. He is in discussions with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to develop the terms of that. He will meet with the...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Bruton: -----and is happy to meet the IFA regarding this specific proposal.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Bruton: This will, I hope, mean that the facility mentioned by the Deputy will be better managed because there will not be contaminated waste streams through it.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Bruton: This is a progressive change that will bring about a better approach to meeting the huge global challenge presented by how waste streams should be managed and waste segregated and how we should minimise damage and protect the use of resources.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Bruton: That is what this about, no more, no less.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Bruton: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. I am not familiar with the site, but I can assure the Deputy that the HSE would be very interested in working with local communities if there were viable proposals for its future use. Clearly, they would have to be stand-alone proposals. I am sure any Department would support a local initiative of that nature. I will ask the Minister of State...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Bruton: I recall that Jimmy Deenihan who was a Deputy for many years was a huge advocate of the restoration and reopening of Killarney House. It was a proud day for him when the Ministers, Deputies Heather Humphreys and Michael Ring, opened different phases of the project.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Bruton: I am sure there will be room for a saxophone playing department within the restored Killarney House to recognise the contribution made by the Healy-Rae family. As I said, if there are uses to which the property could be put and businesses cases could be made in that regard, the Government will be keen to examine them but only in the context of the social housing programme that has to deliver...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Bruton: I have to say to the Deputy that if she was serious about having the detail of this case dealt with she would not be raising it on Leaders' Questions since she knows I do not have advance notice of the issues. If she wanted to do so, she would have asked the Ceann Comhairle for special notice provision, whereby the Minister responsible could have been here to respond in detail.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Bruton: I am providing Deputy O'Reilly with the sort of response that she can expect from someone who is taking Leaders' Questions.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Bruton: I can tell Deputy O'Reilly that we have massively expanded our provision for caring. A total of €1.2 billion is being spent as we speak on home carers and support for home help hours on respite.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Bruton: We have €1.7 billion being spent in the education sphere. All of those provisions are expanding rapidly. As I have outlined, even in the very difficult years, we expanded those provisions by over 40% in the case of support. I am not pretending that there are not cases where need is not met.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Bruton: The need in this area is growing rapidly. However, it ill-behoves Deputy O'Reilly to come in and try to pretend that we are not addressing the issue when she does not allow any possibility of the case of that family being addressed by someone who is aware of the circumstances and could have responded.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Bruton: I take Deputy O'Reilly's shock and awe with a large grain of salt.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Bruton: First, Deputy Smith would know what was happening if she bothered to attend the Dáil the other night when these issues were being debated. Deputy Smith was marked absent when decisions were being made and when the position that was going to be introduced was being explained. It is a matter of shedding crocodile tears now when these decision have been taken when she does not bother to...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Bruton: We have 67 waste providers. They all will have different schemes. People can pick and choose. We will be providing oversight of that. The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has the power to deal with cartels if people find there is cartel practice. The commission has major civil and criminal powers to pursue anyone who adopts cartel practices. The House has agreed that...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Bruton: This is helping.