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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: On a point of order, does the same person get in twice before-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: I have been here since the start of the meeting so I just-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: You can see that there are very diverse opinions in the committee. In a full employment economy, the reality is that we do have huge pressure on finding a living wage for people who are trying to survive in an expensive world but there is also huge pressure on low-margin businesses with high employment content trying to survive in that equally difficult world. We are trying to grapple with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: My question is more about what IBEC sees as the downside of ICTU's vision. It is a change in culture and a coaxing with some element of stick as well as carrot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: Is that happening extensively?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: Today, we read that new house prices are believed to have peaked at levels like €310,000 in the midlands and €464,000 in Dublin. It is true that, with the assistance of Government schemes, these can now be purchased using mortgages of under €300,000. However, because these schemes do not allow buyers to express advance interest in being purchasers under the affordable...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: Once they are built.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: If the decision was to switch €50 million from one column to another, why was it ever conceived that that was a percentage share being switched? From what everyone has said, it sounds like €50 million was the amount. It seems strange that a decision would be made in sharing out how much of its costs fell on business consumers of one sort or another, or on householders - that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: I was not in government at that time 15 years ago, but I do recall unemployment had grown by nearly 200,000. Ireland had massively lost its export market share and these manufacturing companies were the key to a recovery. Borrowing levels were unsustainable at 14% of GDP. The Government could not find resources to do the sort of things it would like to do to promote employment. At the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: There have been unchallenged statements that this was an extraordinary decision to have made. In my view, it was not at all extraordinary at a time when we were trying to protect employment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: I would like to just go back to the issue. Does any of this raise concerns in regard to state aid rules? I want to understand that.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 214. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will indicate how many people have claimed tax relief on their rental payment, and how this number compares to the estimate which his Department made of the likely numbers that would become eligible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2689/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 215. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will indicate the total value of claims for the refund of income tax on out-of-pocket medical expenses and if he has made any estimate of the likely underclaiming of such eligible expenses. [2690/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 216. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will indicate the number of persons who claim incapacitated child tax credit and if the Revenue Commissioners have undertaken any assessment as to whether a significant number of people may be missing out on this entitlement. [2691/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has undertaken any assessment of the number of families who may be eligible for the working family payment, but who fail to apply and if she has considered making arrangements with the Revenue Commissioners to transform this payment into a form of credit which could be more easily claimed or automatically accrued by...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 398. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will indicate the number of people who qualify for the carer’s support grant and how many of these receive it automatically because they are already in receipt of a carer’s payment or domiciliary care allowance; how many qualify through a specific application for the grant and whether she has made any...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 399. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will indicate the number of persons in receipt of the household benefits package who receive this along with their social welfare entitlement and the number who apply separately for them without having an entitlement to a weekly social welfare payment; if she has any estimate of the numbers over 70 years of age on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 418. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline the procedure for managing the application of persons applying for asylum who have no documentation when they land; whether the carriers retain records of the documentation presented when boarding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2404/24]