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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cancer Services (2 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: I ask the Minister to check those waiting times and report back to me and Deputy Staunton because the Irish Cancer Society is signalling quite long waiting times. For a screening test that can reduce long-term healthcare, it is to be hoped that it could be made more prompt.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...we were talking about this Bill that became an Act. We were talking about the EPA. These are the very same things that we are talking about and I worry the scope to do something different is on a long lead. We need to nail down dates for each of these elements. If you go into a building site today, the smaller building sites are not separating their material. Everything is going into a...

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

Richard Bruton: ...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 all plastic packaging. Long-distance imports are a feature. Premium payments are not adequate for people producing sustainably. There is significant opportunity in this sector to have a better strategy.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: First, I welcome what the Minister of State has said, but so long as there is no clear picture of what a revenue stream from sound environmental farming will mean in ten or 20 years' time, this uncertainty and unease will continue. We know, for example, that raising water levels on certain lands has huge carbon dividends. We know that benchmarking and reducing emissions by sequestration or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...have to be substantial rewards linked to them? Surely, on a no-regrets basis, we should be making those substantial rewards available so that a step change can be considered by people who want a long-term commercial and prosperous family future. We need to take a slight step of imagination in the approach we take to this.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: The Minister knows that farmers worry that their transition to a sustainable model of farming will not sustain prosperous family farms into the long term. There are many in this House and outside it who want to fan the fears of farmers. I believe a clear pathway to a carbon farming approach could reassure many farmers. To date, the detail in that regard is scanty, which creates uncertainty.

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...tragedy ensued. The initial determination of arson was seen as a further slap in the face to the families and victims. The burning sense of injustice has fired these families throughout a very long struggle and we who have represented them in the constituency have failed them; I acknowledge that fully. Often it seemed that the chains and padlocks were being again put in place as they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...needs and various sectors can meet their needs. This is the missing piece in this to some degree. We have the framework. The climate Act is good but Ministers will come in here with one arm as long as the other saying they have not been able to mobilise the change they thought they could. That is the reality. We need to find something. As well as delving into the scientific...

Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...up. The discipline of reporting back annually is important. We need stronger institutional elements. I am disappointed that the Government has not decided that the biodiversity action plan, along with the climate action plan and the circular economy plan, when it comes back, would not be integrated and overseen by the Department of the Taoiseach. That is what we need to actually shift...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: I welcome the introduction of this legislation. It has indeed been a long time in gestation. I suspect it is probably a decade since this was first thought about, if not more.

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...pensions provision. This legislation will begin to address those. It is important to recognise that the legislation will begin to address income inadequacy in retirement but it will be a long time before we see it doing so significantly. People will need to be reassured that the State has a long-term commitment to the development of the contributory old age pension and that there is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Offshore Wind Energy Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...going to go down this route, we have our ducks in a line. Going to the issue of optimal use and what Deputy Stanton was talking about, Mr. Tobin said that reliability of power in the medium to long term is critical to long-term decisions by the FDI sector, which has a huge stake in cloud-based investments. What is the impact of the de facto moratorium in Dublin on that at present? I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Offshore Wind Energy Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: My question concerns the date at which we might have that excess supply. Is it near term, long term or-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing Businesses in Relation to Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...guests for the very interesting presentation. I have a few questions. Representatives from every enterprise agency which has appeared before the committee said that sustainability is the key to long-term competitiveness. However, it is simply not scaling. That is the reality. Small businesses are not taking up the offer. Even larger businesses are not taking up the EI and IDA...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 1361. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that people who have become ill and debilitated with long-Covid, contracted while delivering essential services during the pandemic, face the cut-off of their pay continuation scheme at the end of March; and if he can make arrangements to extend this cover. [12288/24]

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...provide a future for Irish agriculture or for rural Ireland. That is a totally blind alley. Every sector, regardless of what the sector is, will need to have sustainability at the heart of its long-term strategy for prosperity. The future for prosperous Irish farms lies in having sustainable methods of production. This means changing some of the ways in which we farm. Those who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...? Is there a bottleneck that we can break in that regard? As the Minister is aware, 2030 is looming and we have a lot of projects, like BusConnects, that we feel are going on for ever given how long it is since it was first mooted. There is a great deal of frustration regarding renewables. The recent auctions have not been as good as they might have been, and all the rest of it. What...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland: Chairperson Designate (21 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...threats. Next, I want to hear Mr. O'Rourke's views on the cap on data centre capacity and whether that impinges on the IDA's approach. It is a short-term difficulty in terms of power but a huge long-term opportunity to have data centres in Ireland using the huge renewable capacity that we hope to build. The management of that pathway seems to me to be a strategic issue. It is worth...

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...and, of course, my sister Mary and, I should say, the next generation: Ophelia, Hugo, Oliver and Robin, who were the apple of his eye, as they say, and buoyed him up, particularly during his long illness. I think it was Kieran who spoke about how Ireland has changed since John entered politics. Going back to 1969, we had 1 million people employed; now we have 2.6 million. One in 20,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...companies, it probably comes to 3% when they are totted up across the agencies, but plainly, as the Minister acknowledged in his statement, the idea that becoming sustainable is the key to long-term competitiveness is not getting through. These companies will be left behind in addition to the country failing to meet its climate targets. How will the Minister kick-start change in that...