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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: I wish to ask the Minister about the development of community pharmacists. During Covid-19, they played a fantastic role. As the Minister probably knows, they feel very aggrieved about financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, obligations. They also feel there is a potential to develop them. We see GPs under pressure daily. Community pharmacists do seem like a resource...

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: I welcome this debate and the Minister's assurances. He made important points, the first of which was that this situation was evolving and he had already gained significant flexibilities. The second was that Ireland was not tied into plans or targets developed at a single point in time. That was one of the fears held by people who read the detail of some of these targets. The third point,...

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: Mankind has always sought to bend nature to its will, but what has changed, of course, is the global industrial scale on which we are now wreaking unintended damage, which is enormous. The way in which we meet our needs for nutrition, travel, shelter and comfort is doing huge damage. It is estimated that we are on course to use more materials in one year than nature can replenish in three,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: One of the things that has been graciously welcomed in recent years is the expansion of autism spectrum disorder, ASD, units in many of our schools. However, I am finding that this expansion is displacing childcare facilities and that there is a scarcity of places, particularly for younger children. This is rampant across my constituency and I am sure it is the same across the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: Many schools that had spare classrooms allowed childcare facilities to be established there but now the priority is to children in the schools, so they have to ask those childcare providers to leave to put in the ASD units.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: Not for childcare.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: That would be welcome.

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak. I will start by thanking the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, and his colleagues for the work they are doing on our behalf. If one looks at any European country and the challenges they face, it is the political issue of our time. The Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, has handled it extremely sensitively in a very difficult environment. The figures speak...

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy: Statements (18 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: I welcome the Tánaiste's initiative to have a consultative forum on international security. His selection of Louise Richardson as chairperson for that is a good one. Her biography demonstrates she is a committed reformer, decisive in action and not easily browbeaten by those who would seek to divert her. She will be a good chair. It is time we had a serious conversation on all...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: I am sure that, like many Deputies, the Tánaiste is seeing how growing participation in the workplace is exposing weaknesses in childcare supply, particularly in rapidly growing areas such as those I represent on the northern fringe of Dublin. When will the details of the capital programme that is provided for under the NDP for childcare be outlined? When will we see legislation for...

Control of Exports Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on the Bill. There is no doubt the world has become a much more dangerous place. It is very important that Ireland and the EU as a whole take a consistent approach to the sale of goods that might come into the wrong hands and have an adverse impact on the human rights of people across the globe. The Bill is welcome. It is a good structure that is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 81. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the preparations that have been undertaken in his Department to develop a circular economy strategy in key economic sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21544/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: Ireland has not been good at either constructing buildings or enterprises that put sustainability at their core. We have 50% higher emissions and a low uptake of renewables outside of electricity, poor material and waste management systems and the lowest rate of circularity, bar Romania, in Europe. Does the Minister agree he has a central role in addressing this?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: While we have now decided that is where we want to go, we are certainly not very advanced on the path. We passed legislation providing that every sector should have a strategy for circularity but I do not see sectoral strategies being evolved. The Dutch, who are the leaders in this field, have such strategies. We need to offer enterprise and consumers much more information on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Strategies (11 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: I appreciate the Minister's commitment to this area. It is one area where we would benefit from a set of succinct policy proposals that are built around stronger leadership, a stronger culture towards entrepreneurship and better opportunities for people to decide to set up their own business from within companies that are successful. A sustained focus on that, with policy instruments around...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Strategies (11 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 70. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has plans to update the strategy for entrepreneurship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21543/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Strategies (11 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: I apologise for not being here earlier. The House is very efficient and speeding through the work. A key long-term investment for Ireland is to build a much stronger culture of entrepreneurship and stronger hubs around it. Will the Minister consider updating the strategy put in place some years ago? Time has passed considerably since then and it needs to be looked at again.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Strategies (11 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: During the deep recession when we lost 300,000 jobs we would have lost 400,000 jobs were it not for the fact that people set up businesses that in the most difficult times created 100,000 jobs. Almost 10,000 businesses a year are formed. The obsession with high potential start-ups is misplaced. There will be only 100 of them per year and this will be pushed up to 120. We need to look at...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (11 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 12. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the recent patterns in demographic growth require a revision in the national development plan; and what are the key areas which he has identified where additional investment in transformative changes or in capacity is required. [21546/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (11 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: Everyone will agree that the world has changed dramatically in the past number of years. In that context, I will ask about the national development plan, NDP. Funding is not now a problem but there are huge capacity constraints. How does the Department plan for us to break out of the siloed thinking that has hampered much of our investment in the past?