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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.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 15. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered the role that further and higher education could play in the future in supporting the contribution of people after they retire from full-time work both from their past experience and empowering them for a third age; and if he will consider evolving a new strategy in this sphere. [9081/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Provision (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 8. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to develop Skillnet Ireland in its capacity to accelerate adaptation to the challenges of sustainability and digital transformation of business models. [9082/24]

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in the debate. We are living at a time when unprecedented forces are conspiring to undermine the values on which our democratic community is built. These values are absolutely vital. They are critical to our society and we need to treasure them. They are the republican values of liberty, equality and fraternity, respect for every individual and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: Will the Minister consider a cross-Government initiative to see that everyone gets their entitlements in full? People are losing €250 million in unclaimed tax relief on medical expenses, €280 million in carer's support grant, €62 million in unclaimed GP cards and €140 million in unclaimed working family dividend. Many of these are our most vulnerable families....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Gas Safety (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. I presume they are all signed up to a licensed entity so they would now be licence 1. To clarify, has the commission changed the terms of licensed bodies to ensure it has a better handle over these unlicensed bodies whereby it could cut off supply to someone that it has concerns about? Has the CRU as an interim measure tightened the rights to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 156. To ask the Minister for Finance the process through which the Revenue Commissioners estimate tax that may have been overpaid by PAYE workers (details supplied); and, in particular, whether this is based on an assumption about tax allowable expenses claimed by these individuals, or by applying some inference about these taxpayers from the claims made by others. [9280/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are changes being made in how resource teachers are being allocated or deployed, if she is aware of concerns expressed by Down's Syndrome Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9033/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether the NCSE has reported on the adequacy of capacity of special schools and special units on the northside of Dublin to meet the needs of pupils presenting for placement this year; if increases in capacity have been identified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9034/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a shortage of special school places to serve Dublin's northside; if she has received a report from the NCSE on capacity constraints and how they might be filled; if new places are coming on stream for this coming September or beyond; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9271/24]