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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: 1720. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has considered the case for making the flu vaccine free to accelerate uptake at this time of acute pressure. [2370/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: 1721. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the FEMPI changes, which were introduced affecting the income of pharmacists; if there is a process in place for considering the restoration of such changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2371/23]

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (17 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: Tairgim: Go n-ainmneoidh Dáil Éireann an Teachta Leo Varadkar chun a cheaptha ag an Uachtarán mar Thaoiseach. I move: That Dáil Éireann nominates Deputy Leo Varadkar for appointment by the President to be Taoiseach. It was Samuel Johnson who said, "The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another." On most measures, this House would be...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Broadband Infrastructure (15 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 50. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has assessed the potential of the high-speed broadband network to create potential for rural development; and the number of projects emerging for support from her Department's programmes which utilise its potential. [62743/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 67. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has an early indication of the uptake of connected hubs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62744/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (15 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered the policy implications of the ESRI's assessment of the embodied emissions in Irish imports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62746/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (15 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has received any early indications of the trend in emissions during 2022 and the factors influencing those trends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62747/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Funding (15 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 145. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding that was provided by county from his Department in 2022, broken down by project in tabular form. [62872/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (15 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 212. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the risk of flooding in Sutton and Baldoyle has been assessed a part of his nationwide flood assessment; if measures are being considered which would reduce this risk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63092/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (15 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if some members of the Dublin Fire Brigade have been excluded from the €1,000 bonus for front-line workers; if so, the reason for same. [63093/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: Last week, the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, showed that spending in Ireland is generating 75% more emissions than the conventional measure. I want to ask the Minister about his green procurement strategy. The only data I have seen are a couple of years old and show that Ireland is well behind other European countries. I would be interested to know whether the Minister can...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Sector Pensions (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 32. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has a role in deciding whether the pension fund in the State bodies under his authority are providing sufficient increases to their members to match rising costs of living, where the fund has adequate resources to pay more; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62550/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: 74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the risk to public health caused by blockages on private drains which are no longer addressed as an environmental health hazard by the environmental health officers attached to the HSE, and which are not addressed by the councils or by Irish Water; and his views on whether this lacuna should...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: I have a few questions. How many co-operatives does the proposed legislation provide for? What sort of aggregate turnover do they have and what is the prospect of growth in the sector? I am just looking for a rough picture of what we are dealing with here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: I am limited as regards time. Who will be the regulator of these entities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: Will the registrar will have all the similar sort of powers of company law enforcement as-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: In terms of something like the small company administrative rescue process, SCARP, will there be access to it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: I am interested in whether the local enterprise offices are well equipped to promote this. If we are talking about group water schemes and housing co-ops, we can see that a local enterprise office is going to be a more accessible point of contact. What sort of capacity will the local enterprise offices have to deal with the sort of issues that make co-operatives unique? Unlike Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: It sounds as if we may have to consider if there should be a centralised unit developed versus opting for the more dispersed LEADER model. When Mr. Shine looked at other countries, do they have these sort of networks? Some of these networks we have developed would be relatively strong in Ireland compared with those in some other countries. It appears that the Department is holding out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Bruton: It would be useful if Mr. Shine could provide us with a little information. It looks like less than 0.5% of such businesses are in operation. We are not talking about something massive as regards the existing base but, if we are to set up a unit of some sort, it is presumably with the prospect that this figure will grow dramatically from 800 to something much more substantial. I am...