Results 81-100 of 32,025 for speaker:Richard Bruton

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has reviewed the operation of the Just Transition Fund to date; the lessons which have been learnt; when it is intended to establish a Statutory Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13545/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number, location and capacity of local link transport services; and his plans to grow this service. [13533/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered the possibility of creating a digital platform for people living in isolated areas where public service transport is not feasible to access rides either by volunteers or on a cost covering basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13534/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has reviewed the adequacy of the funding for regional and local roads in 2024; how it compares with last year; how need is measured; what measure he uses to establish relative need in different counties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13546/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 185. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that “community gain” allocations under the process for developing renewal energy projects, is subject to income tax; and if he would consider altering its tax status or allowing a tax free amount, in order that it could become of greater value to the communities affected by these essential infrastructures for a net-zero world....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 187. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of people who now have a public service or State body pension; and his projection for this number for 2030 and for 2040. [13521/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 188. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated proportion of income which would be necessary to set aside during each working year of a typical public servant in order to create an adequate actuarial fund to pay the prospective public service pension. [13522/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 189. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the size of the fund that would be needed at retirement age to pay a prospective public service pension of €20,000 per year. [13523/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Swimming Pools (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 219. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of the damage suffered to a swimming pool (details supplied); if he is considering setting aside a special fund to support swimming pools in forthcoming capital allocations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13547/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 235. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which the actions in Housing Options for Our Ageing Population have been achieved; the areas in which achievements have fallen short of expectation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13535/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, based on the policy Housing Options for Our Ageing Population, data has been collected on the level and the growth of accommodation in the core categories required by an ageing population namely adapted family homes, dedicated homes for older people with varying degree of attendant services below the levels of more acute...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the size of the stock of housing held by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies dedicated to the accommodation of older people; how this has grown since 2010; and the size of the national waiting list for older persons accommodation. [13537/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the proportion of the stock of housing held by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies dedicated to the accommodation of older people, which has ancillary support services, and the numbers of homes with the various range of such supports. [13538/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 244. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the target of income adequacy in old age; the contribution which she hopes that auto-enrolment will make to achieving that; and by what date she expects people retiring to have reached that target. [13551/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 245. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the role, if any, which MABS plays in advising on pension and financial planning for old age; and if she has considered developing a programme in mid-career by MABS which would equip people to plan better for their retirement. [13552/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 246. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has systems for identifying and supporting more vulnerable carers, such as older parents caring for ageing children with disabilities, in order that extra supports could be developed in partnership with other Government agencies. [13553/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 316. To ask the Minister for Health the number of man hours allocated to provide home help and homecare services; and the number of persons receiving those services in 2000, 2010, 2020 and allocated for 2024. [13524/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 317. To ask the Minister for Health the steps necessary to be taken to put in place a national statutory homecare scheme; and the date on which he hopes to reach each milestone. [13525/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 318. To ask the Minister for Health if he has carried out an audit of the assistive technology that is now available to support care in the home; if he has assessed the feasibility in each case of supporting their use to better manage care in the home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13526/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 319. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated proportion of consultations with GPs, with medical consultants, with nurse practitioners and with therapists which were conducted at their peak during Covid; the extent to which this has been sustained as practices have returned to normal; if he has undertaken a review to see whether such approaches should take a more prominent position in...