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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 May 2021)

Richard Bruton: 823. To ask the Minister for Health the changes being made in the arrangements for partners to attend a birth. [24242/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (11 May 2021)

Richard Bruton: 858. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the threat to a care home (details supplied); and if he has identified a way in which residents can be guaranteed continuity of service while the issues are being resolved. [24393/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 May 2021)

Richard Bruton: 50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has reviewed the effectiveness of the public procurement process for the delivery of housing projects in terms of duration and best economic value; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22674/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (5 May 2021)

Richard Bruton: 91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way that the size of the capital and borrowing limits for the Land Development Agency has been decided; the estimated level of forecast construction and creation of a land bank in the key growth centres that this could support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22673/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (5 May 2021)

Richard Bruton: 243. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has assessed the impact of the tourism crisis on town centres and the problems they will face in the short and medium term. [22586/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Print Media (5 May 2021)

Richard Bruton: 244. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has assessed the pressures on the local print media and the challenges it faces in the short and medium-term; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22587/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs (5 May 2021)

Richard Bruton: 499. To ask the Minister for Health if there are proposals to change the method of needs assessment for children with special needs; if so, the reason for the proposed changes; if consultation on the changes has taken place; if his attention has been drawn to the objections of members of the relevant professions to some of the changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22576/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Bruton: 6. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce new extended producer responsibility schemes for the collection and processing of waste streams and to create stricter obligations within the existing schemes; the parameters of such schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22424/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Bruton: 7. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he plans to extend the recycling list to include soft plastics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22426/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Bruton: 8. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he plans to set targets for waste reduction, for reuse of product and for an obligation to incorporate recycled material with virgin raw material in key processes; and the range within which these targets are likely to fall. [22427/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Bruton: 9. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions within the waste strategy which will be delivered in the remainder of 2021 and in 2022. [22429/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Protection Agency (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Bruton: 10. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding being allocated through the circular economy programme run by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2021 and in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22430/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Bruton: 30. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected size of the tax base upon which the new non-recycled plastic tax being introduced to provide additional own resources to the European Commission is based; the rate at which it will be applied in 2021 and 2022; the expected payments to be made each year; the way in which it is planned to pay for same; and the way in which it is planned to apply...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Bruton: 47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered the introduction of regulations to promote more sustainable building practices and in particular of regulation governing the use of renewable components, the speciation to allow dismantling on buildings to facilitate reuse and on demolition planning for maximum recovery of materials; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Bruton: 164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has assessed the report by a company (details supplied) on the way in which the cost of solar energy on the grid may be reduced in future auctions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21354/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Bruton: 165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the procedures for setting grid connection costs and the estimation of needed strengthening of the grid to accommodate renewable power sources have been reviewed to ensure that they are similar to those applying for renewables in other European countries and are supportive of the rapid growth of renewable sources...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Bruton: 218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has reconsidered the reopening of the driver theory test centres with the easing of restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21404/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Bruton: 882. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to restore the FEMPI cuts in the pharmacy sector. [21263/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Bruton: 883. To ask the Minister for Health the reason reimbursement schemes require pharmacies to identify their wholesaler when they engage in parallel imports. [21265/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Bruton: 913. To ask the Minister for Health if a person returning from a country on the red list who is returning to care for a critically ill relative can be allowed complete their quarantine other than in a mandatory hotel. [21383/21]