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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 47. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered designing new initiatives to tackle under-claiming of benefits, which is widespread across her own Department and other agencies of Government. [18077/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 82. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has developed proposals within his area of responsibility which would fit with the ambition to deliver a circular economy initiative for the Irish food sector. [18081/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (25 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 127. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the review of the recent controversies within the Inland Fisheries Ireland has been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18534/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (25 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has set a date from which all sales of cans or PET bottles must have a deposit paid; if he has discussed with retailers whether products without the logo and bar code printed on the container can apply a deposit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18591/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 56. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has considered the extent of unclaimed benefits across different Government programmes; if he would consider establishing a cross-government initiative to better promote take-up of these schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15267/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Services Provision (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 89. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the initiatives he plans to promote better planning to promote a longer and more fruitful retirement, across all of government, harnessing technology, promoting optimal choices of accommodation and adapting existing services to the new requirements. [15266/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a scheme has been established whereby persons with medical conditions that result in the generation of high volumes of waste can get relief on their waste charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17332/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of energy upgrades undertaken in each of the past five years under the free (warmer homes) scheme; the distribution by the intensity of upgrade; and if he will indicate the extent of the waiting list for this scheme. [17478/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if wood products are permitted to be burned in urban areas; and if they are subject to particular conditions nationally or under local by-laws. [17883/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if air quality standards apply to emissions from household burning outside of the bans on certain products that are in place; and the procedures for monitoring air quality that may be associated with such uses. [17887/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 196. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of claimants of a tax exemption on renting a room up to €14,000. [17479/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of councils that offer a contribution scheme under which persons in homes too big for their needs can sell or offer the home to the council and, in return for a contribution from the proceeds of a sale, secure a council tenancy in a secure complex; and the number of homes that have been processed under this scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the number of grants issued by local authorities under each of the grants for older people, housing aid, mobility aid and adaptation grant in each of the past five years; and whether he has information on the extent of a waiting list for these schemes. [17477/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Tax Reliefs (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 399. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will indicate the number of claimants who are availing of the exemption from the means test of the renting of a room with revenue up to €14,000. [17480/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 604. To ask the Minister for Health the most common technology aids provided under the medical appliances scheme offered by the HSE; the number sanctioned in each of the past three years; if an evaluation has been carried out on the effectiveness of such technologies to keep people independent in their own homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17498/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the present status of the project to redevelop a school (details supplied), where many strains are being experienced in the existing facility; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17115/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Data (16 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 130. To ask the Taoiseach the distribution of retirees across the entire Irish workforce, by age of retirement; the difference of pattern among the self-employed and the rest; and their estimate of the number of persons at work aged 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, and 70 or over. [15927/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (16 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Zero Emission Vehicles Ireland has published proposals for a regional and local EV charging network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16592/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered the provision of incentives towards the creation of safe secure living in town centres suitable for those seeking to rightsize and to gain access to homes where assisted living within the community could be facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15265/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what policy tools have been put in place to support rightsizing of accommodation for those, particularly older people to move to a smaller home or to adapt their existing home into two residential units, releasing unneeded space upgrading the energy use and comfort of the home; and if he will indicate his estimate of the...