Results 241-260 of 32,057 for speaker:Richard Bruton
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Richard Bruton: On a point of order, I do not think that the time allocations are being followed and I have a hard stop at 11.20 a.m.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Richard Bruton: Given my time constraint, the Minister might be able to respond in writing. First, I congratulate the Minister, his Department and the agencies on the progress they have made. In 2011, IDA companies were employing less than half the figure they are employing today. That is extraordinary progress. I refer also to Enterprise Ireland, where we have gone from 320,000 jobs to 560,000, which...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Richard Bruton: Would the Minister consider a circular economy lead for his Department on food and construction for starters?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Richard Bruton: I think I nearly persuaded the Minister for agriculture to come on board too.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Richard Bruton: The Minister might excuse me because I have to go, unfortunately. I have a hard stop outside the House. I thank the Minister very much indeed.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Dogs (31 Jan 2024)
Richard Bruton: 114. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how he intends to publicise the departmental public consultation on electric shock collars; what steps he intends to take following receipt of all submissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4385/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Parking Provision (31 Jan 2024)
Richard Bruton: 159. To ask the Minister for Health the annual revenue generated by public car parking at Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4397/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Parking Provision (31 Jan 2024)
Richard Bruton: 160. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of any contracts between private car park operators and Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4398/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (31 Jan 2024)
Richard Bruton: 162. To ask the Minister for Health the number of physiotherapists catering to the needs of public patients; whether waiting lists are maintained to measure the extent to which demand is being met by the existing throughput of caseload of these practitioners: if he has considered extending the NTPF system to those waiting for physiotherapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4402/24]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Richard Bruton: I thank Mr. Foley for his opening statement. Like other members, I thank him for the guidance on policy, as well as the work EirGrid is doing. He pointed to a fairly sharp issue relating to the failure of the capacity markets and stated they are not being framed correctly. Dermot McCarthy prepared a report on what went wrong in the past. He stated that the risks in the scale of transition...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Richard Bruton: I ask Mr. Foley to explain in layman's terms what restructuring of the market might be. The McCarthy report stated that there were issues of architecture and framework. I do not know what that means.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Richard Bruton: Is that the only issue with the architecture?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Richard Bruton: In simple terms, will Mr. Foley describe what was wrong with the auction?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Richard Bruton: It was the scale they were bidding on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Richard Bruton: Which parameters need to change? That is what I am trying to understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Richard Bruton: It is just the price.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Richard Bruton: Mr. Foley also said the policy framework for shaping what is appropriate demand is flawed, missing or inadequate. Will he elaborate on the flaw?
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (30 Jan 2024)
Richard Bruton: 100. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she would consider embodying initiatives to promote positive ageing within all the programmes of her Department, wherever practically possible; and if she will outline the specific areas of greatest potential. [4015/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (30 Jan 2024)
Richard Bruton: 108. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development whether the Town Centre First initiative has succeeded in the pilot stage of one per county; if she will indicate the main areas of transformation; and if she will outline her plans over the next five years to extend the initiative. [4014/24]