Ní féidir ach ceisteanna agus freagraí a foilsíodh tar éis Iúil 2012 a amharc anseo. Is féidir amharc de réir téarma nó dátaí ar leith ó Mhárta 2016 ar aghaidh do Ranna Rialtais. Foilsítear freagraí scríofa de réir mar a fhaightear iad ó Ranna. Chun ceisteanna parlaiminte a foilsíodh roimh Iúil 2012 a fheiceáil, cuardaigh Díospóireachtaí na Dála.
Ceisteanna agus freagraí le haghaidh Téarma Dála nó Seanaid
Leathanach 19 de 40
Déar, 22 MFómh 2022
oral
School Transport
Richard Bruton
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]
Déar, 22 MFómh 2022
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Electric Vehicles
Richard Bruton
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]
Déar, 22 MFómh 2022
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Fiscal Policy
Richard Bruton
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]
Déar, 22 MFómh 2022
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Fiscal Policy
Richard Bruton
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]
Déar, 22 MFómh 2022
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Grant Payments
Richard Bruton
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]
Déar, 22 MFómh 2022
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Tax Reliefs
Richard Bruton
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]
Déar, 22 MFómh 2022
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Housing Policy
Richard Bruton
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]
Déar, 22 MFómh 2022
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Housing Schemes
Richard Bruton
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]
Déar, 22 MFómh 2022
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Social Welfare Code
Richard Bruton
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]
Déar, 22 MFómh 2022
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Richard Bruton
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]
Déar, 22 MFómh 2022
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Home Help Service
Richard Bruton
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]
Céad, 21 MFómh 2022
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Childcare Services
Richard Bruton
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]
Céad, 21 MFómh 2022
written
Childcare Services
Richard Bruton
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]
Máirt, 20 MFómh 2022
written
Broadband Infrastructure
Richard Bruton
71. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his Department has developed a vision for the way in which broadband connectivity can transform lives, particularly in Ireland’s regions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45645/22]
Máirt, 20 MFómh 2022
written
Energy Conservation
Richard Bruton
82. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he plans to bring measures forward to make energy-saving easier for people to achieve over the coming year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45646/22]
Máirt, 20 MFómh 2022
written
Renewable Energy Generation
Richard Bruton
160. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the level of current activity in installing small scale solar capacity with battery backup; and if he will consider introducing greater incentives towards this activity as a cost-effective means of supplementing the national generation capacity. [45923/22]
Máirt, 20 MFómh 2022
written
Community Employment Schemes
Richard Bruton
377. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social Protection if the remuneration for supervisors of community employment schemes has been linked to any grade in the public service; and the progress in negotiations to recognise such people in terms of pay and conditions, and pension rights. [45755/22]
Máirt, 20 MFómh 2022
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Citizens Information Services
Richard Bruton
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]
Máirt, 20 MFómh 2022
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Post Office Network
Richard Bruton
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]
Déar, 15 MFómh 2022
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Enterprise Policy
Richard Bruton
21. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work that is underway to develop a circular economy strategy in key sectors. [45050/22]
Déar, 15 MFómh 2022
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Energy Prices
Richard Bruton
43. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has assessed the position of the sectors most-exposed to the surge in energy costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45049/22]
Déar, 15 MFómh 2022
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Broadband Infrastructure
Richard Bruton
105. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will consider commissioning a study on the potential broadband and other infrastructures of the future to transform the quality of life in rural communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45044/22]
Déar, 15 MFómh 2022
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Rural Schemes
Richard Bruton
131. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has considered the constraints on building community infrastructure and community involvement in the new rapidly developing areas on the fringe of cities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45043/22]
Céad, 14 MFómh 2022
written
Energy Conservation
Richard Bruton
93. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he is considering changing the administration in relation the 80% grant for certain retrofit measures as suggested by the Climate Action Council; if he is considering an extension towards other actions delivering swift energy savings; and if solar panels with battery storage, heat controls or other measures warrant similar levels of support. [44552/22]
Céad, 14 MFómh 2022
written
Renewable Energy Generation
Richard Bruton
95. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the potential to support battery storage alone in residences, separate from solar generation; if he has received advice on the potential for residential scale wind generation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44645/22]
Céad, 14 MFómh 2022
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Energy Policy
Richard Bruton
101. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the way that restrictions on replacement oil or gas boilers as early as 2025 will impact on families that cannot easily switch to a heat pump replacement, which requires a great deal of ancillary works to the home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44850/22]
Céad, 14 MFómh 2022
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Richard Bruton
601. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he has received an update from the HSE on the roll-out of the pandemic bonus payment; and the arrangements in particular that have been made for contract workers [44953/22]
Déar, 8 MFómh 2022
written
Departmental Schemes
Richard Bruton
111. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the supports which his Department makes available to support the learning of digital skills for adults who do not have any. [43656/22]
Déar, 8 MFómh 2022
written
Tax Reliefs
Richard Bruton
419. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the amount that a worker can put into a pension savings plan with relief from income tax; the amount which their employer can put in on their behalf with relief from tax on business income; and if this varies with different types of pension plan. [44203/22]
Déar, 8 MFómh 2022
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Tax Exemptions
Richard Bruton
420. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the current status of the age exemption limit in the income tax code; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44204/22]
Déar, 8 MFómh 2022
written
Public Services Provision
Richard Bruton
465. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is a general requirement across the public service that there must be a fallback paper-based option for access to public services for those who are not computer literate. [43653/22]
Déar, 8 MFómh 2022
written
Housing Schemes
Richard Bruton
506. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current interest rate charged on a local authority home loan; the way that it is adjusted as European Central Bank-sanctioned interest rates changes; and the equivalent monthly charges per €1,000 borrowed on a 30-year loan. [44205/22]
Déar, 8 MFómh 2022
written
Housing Schemes
Richard Bruton
507. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the extra charge on a local authority loan to cover mortgage protection; if this is subject to change; and the equivalent monthly charge per €1,000 borrowed on a 30-year loan. [44206/22]
Déar, 8 MFómh 2022
written
Local Authorities
Richard Bruton
593. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the fact that executive planners and assistant town planners cannot carry increments from previous public service posts, unlike other positions in local government; and if he will indicate whether there are plans to change this arrangement. [43302/22]
Déar, 8 MFómh 2022
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Housing Provision
Richard Bruton
674. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the affordable homes developed by the Land Development Agency either on delayed sites contracted the private sector or on its own sites, will be sold with the option to participate in the local authority affordable purchase scheme or the first homes scheme; and if so, the proportion of those offered for sale that will be under these options. [44207/22]
Déar, 8 MFómh 2022
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Housing Policy
Richard Bruton
675. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way that the quota of 10% affordable homes in new private developments will be made available to eligible applicants; the way that prices for this quota shall be set; and if buyers can use the first homes scheme to assist purchase. [44208/22]
Déar, 8 MFómh 2022
written
Social Welfare Eligibility
Richard Bruton
1189. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social Protection the eligibility conditions for a person who does not have a social welfare pension to qualify for the household benefit package; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44211/22]
Déar, 8 MFómh 2022
written
Early Childhood Care and Education
Richard Bruton
1279. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the core funding scheme applies only to hours not covered by ECCE; and if it applies to hours delivered for children who have completed ECCE. [44209/22]
Déar, 8 MFómh 2022
written
Further and Higher Education
Richard Bruton
1357. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the supports that his Department makes available to support the learning of digital skills for adults who do not have any. [44037/22]
Déar, 8 MFómh 2022
written
Residency Permits
Richard Bruton
1434. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Justice if she has considered changing the requirement that the spouse of an Irish citizen has to fulfil Irish residency requirements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43456/22]
Déar, 8 MFómh 2022
written
Visa Applications
Richard Bruton
1451. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Justice if the wait time for a joint family visa has been lengthened to 12 months; if she has assessed the difficulty that this is causing for some families; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43631/22]
Déar, 8 MFómh 2022
written
Medical Cards
Richard Bruton
1501. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the free medical card to those over 80 years (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42010/22]
Déar, 8 MFómh 2022
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Mental Health Services
Richard Bruton
1755. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to in reduce waiting times in the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service service in each of the CHO areas; if new approaches are deemed necessary; the progress that has been made to date in the audit of CAMHS following the Maskey Report, the progress of the review being undertaken by the Mental Health Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42933/22]
Déar, 8 MFómh 2022
written
Medical Cards
Richard Bruton
1786. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he has considered the need to index the means test for the medical card or to make other improvements to assist access-to-need care and appliances for those currently not eligible but who are significantly affected by the rising cost of living. [43024/22]
Déar, 8 MFómh 2022
written
Dental Services
Richard Bruton
1844. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he will consider a scheme to address the long waiting times for children listed for orthodontic treatment in order that they can access private treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43261/22]
Déar, 8 MFómh 2022
written
Medical Cards
Richard Bruton
2049. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health his plans to increase medical card limits for persons over the age of 70 years or to make it easier for such persons to qualify for medical appliances needed in older age. [44210/22]
Máirt, 26 Iúil 2022
written
Employment Rights
Richard Bruton
36. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the start date for the sick pay scheme; and the date on which it is proposed to increase cover from the current three days. [40973/22]
Máirt, 26 Iúil 2022
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Energy Conservation
Richard Bruton
124. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of contractors who are now participating in the one-stop-shop for the roll-out of retrofitting; the estimated aggregate capacity in terms of homes done per month that they can deliver; and his plans to recruit more to the scheme. [40996/22]
Máirt, 26 Iúil 2022
written
Energy Conservation
Richard Bruton
125. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the contractors under the one-stop-shop arrangement will confine themselves to deep retrofits to achieve the target BER rating; and if not, if they will also deliver service to those doing shallow retrofits. [40997/22]
Máirt, 26 Iúil 2022
written
Departmental Schemes
Richard Bruton
126. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the terms of the low interest loans for retrofitting have been agreed; and if he will outline the provisions of same. [40998/22]