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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...develop a circular economy strategy for the food sector? The climate committee will be starting to consider that issue. The facts are there. The Minister will know well that food waste is over 1 million tonnes and accounts for 5% of our global emissions. Half of compostable waste does not find its way to compostable outlets. Excess packaging in the sector accounts for two thirds of...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (16 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: I thank the Minister of State for his presentation. I welcome the electricity credit under this provision. According to my sums, a total of 2,059,000 homes will benefit from this €450 credit. It will be very welcome over the winter months when the high cost of energy will continue to be a real problem in terms of the cost of living of ordinary families. I welcome this measure and I...

Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...us and even for the sustainability of many of the businesses doing so. It does not take Einstein to recognise that. The Minister needs to be commended on the progress being made. As he said, 95% of Natura regions are now subject to regulation. There is a significant shift in the State attitude, with Bord na Móna's title going from brown to green and Coillte's target of 50% of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP27: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...a new announcement today that it is a key priority for Ireland? We also heard that Irish aid had plateaued in recent years and that we seem to have stalled in moving towards the commitment to €225 million. It seems to me that the energy crisis provoked by the war in Ukraine has brought new focus on cutting our use of energy in the first place. To what extent can that gain...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...so on. To what extent is the commission leveraging what it could do? Is it leveraging, for example, status yellow weather warnings? If we know that there is going to be cold weather of between 5°C and 7°C tonight with no wind should the commission not be out there saying that now is the time to trigger these changes? Consider smart meters for example. As I understand it, and...

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...little attention and are treated with contempt in this House by the Opposition are the companies that have restored our economic sovereignty and have brought us back to a position where we have 2.5 million people employed and under 5% unemployment. The truth is, which it is not popular to hear in the House it seems, that unless we have enterprise success married with social progress and...

Insurance Reform: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...fund motor insurance, employer's liability and public liability. These are often huge burdens on businesses and families that are already hard-pressed. For families, insurance typically runs to about 5% of household spending. That gives an idea of how important insurance is. It ranks ahead of clothing and footwear when measured by the amount of the household budget spent on the various...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Energy Conservation (25 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...plans but they are sitting on their hands when it comes to these practical measures. The heat controls are not accessible through the 80% grant, even though a manufacturer I know claims a 25% reduction in heat use can be achieved in any home - no matter what the household is using, it can achieve that reduction. That is real, tangible change. I reckon, just on the back of the...

Town Centre First Policy: Statements (24 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...like the town and village renewal scheme and the rural development fund. These programmes are significant. In Munster and Connacht alone, they are funding nearly 1,000 projects worth nearly €300 million. In what the Government is doing today, I welcome the concept of a partnership that is coherent at local level and will add value to the diverse supports for community...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: ...not been included heretofore in the targets we set for either EU reductions or Irish national reductions. The climate council is advocating that we set a reduction which will mean we have to find 5 million MTCO2e from the land use sector. I want to probe the Minister of State as to what new policy tools and investment measures will allow us do that because failure to meet this new target...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: ...Council has recently added land use to the greenhouse gas inventory, which has to be halved over the next decade. That means we will have to find measures to reduce carbon emissions by an extra 5 million tonnes. I would like to ask the Minister of State what impact that might have on other sectors if that sector itself cannot deliver and what new policy and investment tools will evolve...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Reduction of Carbon Emissions of 51% by 2030: Discussion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: I thank the Chairman. I would like to go back to some of the points relating to agriculture. Mr. Treacy said that 350,000 ha of drained organic soil generate 8 million tonnes. That is a little over 5% of our land area generating this very large amount. Are there policy tools we could use in order to start to turn that negative into a positive? That would constitute a significant element...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Bruton: ...improvements in staffing were provided to DEIS band 1 senior schools but not to junior schools or integrated schools in the same category; and if it has been decided the way in which the planned €5 million for such schools will be allocated. [39428/20]

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Richard Bruton: The way those targets are evaluated is that it is the cumulative number between 2013 and 2020. It is not the number in 2020. In 2013, 2014 and 2015, we were ahead of target. We were exceeding what was expected, but that, of course, was because of the depressed economy. In 2016 and 2018, we undid all that and went on a rising trend. We are about balance, however, so the two years in which...

Covid-19 (Communications, Climate Action and Environment): Statements (27 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: ...the midlands. We have moved very swiftly. I have been around this House for quite a long time but I was impressed to see, within a matter of weeks, a budget involving an investment programme of €31 million and to see the ESB top it up with an additional €5 million. This means that in the first year of a just transition there are significant funds available. We now have a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Commissioner (27 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: ...in 2020, through allocating a portion of the additional carbon tax revenue to be raised on foot of Budget 2020, to measures to support the delivery of an effective just transition for the Midlands. This includes €20 million for a new energy efficiency retrofitting scheme to be focused on the Midlands, €5 million for peatland rehabilitation outside of the Bord na Móna...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (27 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: The Government's Climate Action Plan identifies how Ireland will achieve its 2030 targets by reducing carbon emissions by 35% and puts us on a trajectory which would be consistent with net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Afforestation, the use of bog land carbon repositories, and wind generated electricity can each contribute to carbon reduction. Forestry provides verifiable removal...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Commissioner (20 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: ...through allocating a portion of the additional carbon tax revenue to be raised on foot of Budget 2020, to measures to support the delivery of an effective just transition for the Midlands. This includes €20 million for a new energy efficiency retrofitting scheme to be focused on the Midlands, €5 million for peatland rehabilitation outside of the Bord na Móna estate, and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Commissioner (13 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: ...in 2020, through allocating a portion of the additional carbon tax revenue to be raised on foot of Budget 2020, to measures to support the delivery of an effective just transition for the Midlands. This includes €20 million for a new energy efficiency retrofitting scheme to be focused on the Midlands, €5 million for peatland rehabilitation outside of the Bord na Móna...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Online Safety (13 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: ...cost of the regulator have not yet been finalised. The Commission will absorb the functions and staff of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, which is funded by an industry levy of approximately €5 million per year. In addition, the Commission will regulate on-demand audiovisual services that are established in Ireland. The Commission, through the...