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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]

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

Richard Bruton: I welcome the debate. I welcome all the work that Deputy Brian Leddin and the committee put in, including Deputies Darren O'Rourke, Paul Murphy and others who have left the Chamber. It has been a very valuable debate with a lot of insight. Globally, we are using materials from nature each year that are double the capacity of nature to replenish. That is heading in the wrong direction and...

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]

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: There is a great need. I have not seen the most up-to-date figures but from recollection I believe that about 40% of people in the workforce do not have any pension cover. That applies to both men and women although it is probably more acute with women, so there is a huge gap. The legislation begins to address some of the anomalies concerning how we treat pensions provision. We have a...

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

Richard Bruton: I welcome this framework. It is an important document, and it is important that we start to create a consistent approach. I would be interested to get a few benchmarks as to where we are at. We have had a number of approved offshore energy projects. What is Mr. Tobin's estimate of the likely Irish content in the supply chain in that first wave, and what is the Department's target for an...

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

Richard Bruton: Is that true if we are going for a planned approach, which means moving away from the developer-led approach? We are saying a State asset will be created.

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

Richard Bruton: So it is not going to be a physical thing. I thought it was about plentiful green energy. That would attract certain types of users. That is the nub of the hub. Mr. Tobin is saying it is more around skills.

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

Richard Bruton: Yes, that is what I had in mind. It was those clusters that would have renewables, activities hungry for green energy and everything associated with that. They could also be hubs for supply chain, if that suited, but I would have thought the magnet was the green energy.

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

Richard Bruton: Is that for the DMAP that is coming out in June?

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

Richard Bruton: By "export", I mean moving to hydrogen or other alternative uses as opposed to feeding our domestic need. Maybe "export" is not the------

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: Offshore Wind Energy Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: It is not 2030; it will be heading towards 2040 when we might be looking at hydrogen or other uses.

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

Richard Bruton: Do the witnesses want to comment on the moratorium on data centres? Data and artificial intelligence are already dominant and will probably become even more so in enterprise development. Are we managing this adequately from an IDA Ireland perspective?

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]