Results 101-120 of 32,001 for speaker:Richard Bruton

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 1558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a shortage of training places in Dublin for those wishing to do apprenticeships, which is requiring people to train far away from home; and if he plans to roll out more facilities in Dublin to meet the need. [12918/24]

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: I come from a farming background. The people doing the greatest disservice to Irish agriculture are those like the previous speaker who pretend that holding out against the change we need to make in agriculture and in all dimensions of our lives will make it easier, that the hold-outs will win the day by resisting, to the very last ditch, the ending of untenable practices and that this will...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Union (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 40. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the discussions within Europe on the level of hostile online activity by foreign states, and the effectiveness of defences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11130/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Strategies (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will indicate the sectors for which a circular economy strategy is being prepared; if the values on key targets specified in the Circular Economy Act have been decided; and if he will indicate when each is likely to be published. [11129/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Production (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline the prospective generation capacity needs under each category of generation and storage over the next two years to achieve 2025 targets; if he has identified the critical barriers to be overcome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11128/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: Some Deputies in the House seem to portray our need to move to a sustainable path to net zero as some sort of a mean-minded conspiracy by the Green Party. The reality is that we need sustainability in every sector. I put it to the Minister that we are falling behind in our enterprise sector in energy efficiency, waste elimination, reuse of materials, material use levels and so on. I...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Strategies (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 12. To ask the Minister for Health whether his Department has mapped out a pathway for the role technology can play in keeping patients healthy and in the planned statutory homecare scheme; and the status of the roll-out of the planned actions. [9731/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Care of the Elderly (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 5. To ask the Minister for Health whether his Department is evolving strategies to divert the flow of older patients from accident and emergency departments into more suitable pathways; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9730/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 100. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he report on the remit and progress of the new Childcare Development Agency; how it will integrate the work of county childcare committees; and the new planned capital budgets for Childcare Development. [9732/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 144. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the methods in place for ensuring that new international protection centres are supported with necessary services and activities so that integration into the community is facilitated. [9733/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Facilities (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 210. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will review the funding allocated to the sports lottery fund and allocate extra investment in sports facilities across Ireland, where there is a growing population, and where the annual house building target is expected to increase by 100%, to 60,000 per annum. [9771/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: I thank the witnesses for their interesting presentation. I will start on the political thing. I am interested to know how they define protecting electoral integrity. It seems to me that deliberative democracy, which a lot of us are used to, is challenged by social media. Outrage is the most saleable product and it spreads virally by the systems they have in place. On top of that, some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: Can I come back to job interviews and those sort of things that are like insurance? Situations could be envisaged where all sorts of data that would be regarded as extraneous to an insurance policy being cast would be capable of being tracked from people's social media histories. Will Coimisiún na Meán police that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: A lot of that is put up by people themselves and with their consent. It is in the public domain. Is Dr. Evans saying it cannot be used or can only be used for certain purposes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: For job interviews I suspect employers look at people's social media history. Is that now unlawful?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: There are extremes out there. If dishing out insurance policies or sifting through CVs becomes machine learning, there could be an awful lot of very-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: What I am getting at is that you feel there are certain principles that ought to be embedded in a job interview. Maybe this has to go into employment law or insurance law and is not Coimisiún na Meán's baby. However, it does seem to me that machine learning will challenge existing laws and it will not be good enough for Coimisiún na Meán to say there is a data law and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: Does Coimisiún na Meán, as our trusted partner who is looking out for our interests, invigilate their consents in some way to ensure they are not asking for unreasonable things from consumers, who we know will not read the small print? We just know that is not going to happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: When someone makes a complaint and they come to Coimisiún na Meán with it, is it an acceptable defence to say the complainant pressed the button to accept four years ago and the provider is only doing what it said it would do? What status do those consent buttons have in Coimisiún na Meán's assessment of a subsequent investigation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: That Act is now in place. The services cannot presumably rely on consents they received under the old legislation.