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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (9 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: 42. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to a payroll issue of a person (details supplied). [55747/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Teaching Qualifications (9 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that teachers who have qualified as primary teachers in the UK cannot return to do their on-the-job training year; and if such a requirement could be waived given the shortage of teachers being experienced at present. [55727/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their presentation. It is worth recalling the role that Irish enterprise winning new markets played in our recovery from the last crash and indeed the role that start-ups played. Start-ups in Ireland created 100,000 jobs in that very difficult period, without which we would have had a much deeper crash. The work that Enterprise Ireland does is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: Going back to the issue of sustainability, despite what Deputy Paul Murphy says, data centres have enabled the digital transformation. They have allowed us to have remote delivery and remote working, they facilitate enterprise operating in a less energy-intensive way where they are properly used and they are excluded from Ireland's obligations under the EU because they are in the emissions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: My concern is that, at this time of focus on costs, sustainability will be regarded as an extra. In my view, sustainability is the enterprise strategy. If we do not put sustainability first, we are on a round track. It is great to have sustainability at the research level and to begin to start the conversation but there is a sense of urgency implying we need to put it front and centre in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: 40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which his Department measures progress in reducing energy poverty; if closer alignment with the system of energy upgrades could be developed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50625/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: 100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will list the energy efficiency obligated entities for the most recent year for which data is available; the energy savings credits which they earned through delivery of efficiencies; and the proportion in each case which was delivered by buying credits. [54182/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: 101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will indicate the extent to which the annual target of energy efficiency obligated entities will increase in 2023 compared to the existing obligation. [54183/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: 102. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the requirement to have a minimum efficiency uplift, a requirement to achieve a B2 rating or better, prevents the achievement of cheaper and shallower measures which could deliver rapid reductions in energy use at this time of heightened energy uncertainty. [54184/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: 192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on planned upgrade works to the N4 between Mullingar and Longford. [54596/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: 269. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is a record kept of properties which have come into the possession of mortgage holding institutions, which have not been sold or rented, or of properties which are held by an official assignee in a bankruptcy case, which have not been sold or rented; and if such properties have been made the target of any public policy initiative to bring them...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: 666. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider including persons who are on sickness benefit for over one year on the autumn cost-of-living payment. [54864/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: 711. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered suggested innovations in the management of the pool of funds generated by the auto-enrolment scheme, whereby the individual's pot would continue to be managed in a single pool, and drawdowns could be made at a smoothed rate rather than the market value of the moment, given that this approach could...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: 760. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the payment level for the ECCE scheme was last revised; if he has assessed whether it continues to adequately cover the costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54602/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: 919. To ask the Minister for Health if proposals have been presented to his ministerial management committee to accelerate the conduct of assessments of need for children with special needs, in the aftermath of a recent court case which deemed that preliminary assessments did not meet the obligations of the existing legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54254/22]

Energy Security: Statements (27 Oct 2022)

Richard Bruton: I welcome this debate and the publication of the report. It is an incontrovertible fact that our ambition in respect of climate transformation creates risks that we must plan for. This certainly helps us to do that. It is equally incontrovertible, however, that the more successful our climate strategy is, the less dependent we will become on imported fossil fuels and all the unsavoury...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Oct 2022)

Richard Bruton: I welcome today's housing completion numbers that show completions are up by more than 7,000 to 28,000, which is the highest in more than 15 years. The total of 45,000 planning permissions is also the highest of the past 15 years. What is clear is that while 80% of housing permissions are being completed, only 40% of apartment permissions are being built and completed. How have the two...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)

Richard Bruton: 73. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will develop a set of initiatives to support the strengthening of new communities in rapid growth areas on the fringe of Ireland's cities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53400/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)

Richard Bruton: I ask the Minister to think about communities that fall between two stools, namely those in rapidly-growing fringes of our cities. They may nominally have access to developed urban facilities but the reality is very different. For years they are often without any sports facilities, are relying just on takeaways and schools are built very slowly. These communities need a leg up. Will the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)

Richard Bruton: I thank the Minister for her reply. I ask that she ask her officials to provide her with data on the proportion of those moneys that goes to the high-growth communities on the edges or our cities in Waterford, Galway and Dublin, including in my and the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach's constituency. These communities do not have the sports clubs that can draw down sports grants. They do not...