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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 October 2022
328. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the work to replace the mobility allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52501/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 October 2022
316. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health the way in which his Department is developing a strategy for carers; if closer integration of the work of his Department with other agencies is envisaged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50626/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 October 2022
224. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the implications that the recent enquiry into the affairs of An Bord Pleanála have for the status of previous decisions by the Board; and if the Board can proceed as envisaged with those decisions. [52516/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 October 2022
190. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will indicate the way that the energy credit can be claimed if a person uses so little that the credit rests in their account and cannot be applied to their gas bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52508/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 October 2022
144. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he will indicate the new capacity planned for the coming year in clearing waiting lists within the public system and through the NTPF; the estimated number of additional outpatient first-time consultations and the number of additional procedures which will be facilitated in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51944/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 October 2022
127. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if the manpower planning exercise for Ireland's health service needs has identified the most immediate gaps to be filled and the longer-term needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51945/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 October 2022
52. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Justice if she will indicate the learnings to date from the pilot initiatives in the new approach to community policing; and the implications they have for the roll-out of the approach nationwide. [51942/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 October 2022
6. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Justice the trends in antisocial behaviour since the end of Covid that require changes in the policy approaches taken by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51943/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 October 2022
588. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his attention has been drawn to undergraduate students in the Marino Institute of Education not being eligible for the recent supports which he announced for students in the free undergraduate programmes; and if he will consider extending the arrangements to this not-for-profit college. [51212/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 October 2022
417. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education if there is any scheme to help support a bus service to a school (details supplied) where a significant number of pupils come a significant distance to school. [51187/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 October 2022
467. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he has assessed the implications of rising electricity costs for patients undertaking home dialysis; and if some special arrangements can be made. [51083/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 October 2022
166. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider requesting an assessment from each county childcare committee of the balance between supply and demand in different areas of childcare; if he will request that they make a formal submission to the revision of each county development plan on the matter; if he will provide an update on existing supply constraints; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50637/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 October 2022
149. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on whether school premises could make a greater contribution to support the development of children in early childhood and outside of school hours; and if he will consider funding some demonstration projects for schools willing to be pioneers in developing a campus of activities to meet community needs. [50641/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 October 2022
168. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he has been provided with an estimate of the increase in nursing home running costs; if the payment levels towards running costs under the fair deal scheme will be re-evaluated; and the provision that has been made for this in the estimates for 2023. [50443/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 October 2022
520. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person who was unaware of their entitlement to household benefits when over the age of 70 years can claim retrospection to the point at which they turned 70 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50264/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 October 2022
187. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has put restrictions on the work of obligated entities to support household energy upgrades; if he will identify these; and the reason that he has introduced those restrictions, particularly at a time when the European Union has demanded urgent and immediate reductions in energy use which can be most easily achieved by shallow measures. [49825/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 October 2022
132. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education if she has adopted a strategy for improving leadership and performance evaluation in schools. [49766/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 October 2022
116. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education the way that the changes in the resources in the National Council for Special Education planned for 2023 will be deployed for the benefit of families. [49763/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 October 2022
393. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he has reviewed the supports for mobility of persons with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49377/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 October 2022
373. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he has assessed the matter whereby persons suffering certain mental health conditions are only eligible for long-term illness while under the age of 16 years; if this constitutes age discrimination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49286/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 October 2022
191. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has met with the Residential Tenancies Board to discuss the Customer Relations Management and in particular the ease with which clients can raise queries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49235/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 October 2022
85. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Defence the way that Budget 2023 will commence the implementation of recommendations made by The Commission on the Defence Forces. [48931/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 October 2022
38. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will outline the discussions that are occurring at the United Nations regarding reform in its structures and procedures in the wake of multiple global crises. [48925/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 October 2022
25. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will outline the humanitarian situation in Myanmar; and the initiatives that have been taken by the international community to address the situation. [48926/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 October 2022
729. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that throughout the European Union, the medication evushed has been fast-tracked to ensure that patients with blood cancer can develop antibodies to resist Covid, which would otherwise have a very high fatality rate for such patients, but in Ireland, the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics has required a lengthy heath-technical-assessment before it would consider sanctioning its use; if this approach accords with the precautionary approach which has characterised the Government's Covid policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48649/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 October 2022
410. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social Protection if she has considered the reintroduction of a diet allowance on supplementary welfare in view of the potential hardship this can cause to those on low incomes. [47869/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 October 2022
282. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has considered any intervention to assist older persons with a good income who find their age confines them to a small mortgage to acquire a suitable small dwelling; and if he will consider piloting a shared equity initiative targeted at such a category. [48198/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 September 2022
266. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he has considered the provision of support on the medical card for patients whose treatment requires an expensive diet. [47814/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 September 2022
165. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the terms of the housing in situ scheme, which allows a local authority in certain circumstances to acquire a house with HAP tenants and retain the house as part of its rental stock, converting the HAP tenant to a council tenant; the assessment of suitable tenants that applies; the rules governing acquisition of the home that apply in 2022 and in the years ahead; and the estimated number of council tenancies that will be delivered in this way. [47761/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 September 2022
455. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if paramedics and firefighters in the Dublin ambulance service qualify for the pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46700/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 September 2022
275. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education if she has plans to move the average points awarded in the leaving certificate back to the type of normal distribution which prevailed before Covid; and if so, the way that this will be accomplished. [47271/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 September 2022
271. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education if she has considered supports for schools that are not in the school transport scheme that seek to organise public transport to the school to improve the safety and sustainability of the journeys made by pupils to the school, which are now threatened by the rising fuel costs of coaches used. [47143/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 September 2022
256. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education the school catchment area in which Clonshaugh, Dublin 17, is located; the primary and secondary schools in the catchment area; the nature of each school; if a location such as this directly adjoining and integrated with other urban school catchments can be accommodated in getting access to schools in neighbouring catchments in cases in which they would otherwise be considered as of lower priority. [46972/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 September 2022
152. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if it has been decided when the next call for funding under the sports capital grant will be made; and if changes are planned in the format of the next call. [46702/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 September 2022
87. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Transport the protocols for emergency responses to incidents on Dublin’s beaches; if the Dublin Fire Brigade is notified of incidents; or if it is solely the Coast Guard that is informed. [47070/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 September 2022
331. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health the further work to develop a new national home care support scheme that has been undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46497/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 September 2022
285. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social Protection if persons who do not have a social welfare pension can qualify for the household benefit under a means test; when the additional amount allowed over and above the corresponding rate of contributory old age pension was last adjusted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46496/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 September 2022
284. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social Protection if income of no more than €14,000 earned from renting a room in a home is now excluded from all means tests applied by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46495/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 September 2022
255. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way that the income threshold for eligibility for housing aid, mobility aid and grants to support the adaptation of a home for a person with a disability are set; when they have last been updated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46494/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 September 2022
254. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there are plans to alter the rate at which money is lent by the Housing Finance Agency to the local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46493/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 September 2022
213. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the present tax reliefs that are available to employees and to employers to support remote working; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46498/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 September 2022
176. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the grant supports that are available for the installation of solar energy features to a home or to a business, indicating the support with or without battery storage; and if the level of support increases if it is part of a wider energy upgrade. [46492/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 September 2022
150. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the scale of the impact that rising energy prices will have on the balance of international payments in European Union Member States; the implication that this will have on public policy; the strategies that are being debated by the Euro-Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46331/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 September 2022
99. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if he will indicate the relaxed European Union rules that are now available to member states' taxation and public finance ministers in order to assist in confronting the present crisis and if he will indicate the possibilities they open up. [46332/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 September 2022
78. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Transport if he has identified the barriers to adoption of electric modes of travel; and if he is developing measures to address them. [45648/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 September 2022
13. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Transport the progress to date with the safe-routes-to-school initiative, the best exemplars which have emerged; and if there shall be a new call for participation. [45647/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 September 2022
98. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider steps to simplify the registration of childminders delivering service from a home; and if he will consider ways of supporting such provision where there is a shortage of registered childcare services delivering under the various national childcare supports. [46134/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 September 2022
97. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will take fresh initiatives to support the opening of new services in areas where there is a proven lack of adequate supply, confirmed by the local childcare committee. [46133/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2022
603. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a hub service is to be provided through the post-office network for persons who have difficulty with accessing online public services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45644/22]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2022
383. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social Protection if she is aware of the possibility of some closures of physical Citizen Information Centres, and her assessment of the impact this may have on those who have weak digital literacy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45848/22]