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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...is not any user-friendly approach to help people remain in their own neighbourhoods and still right-size their properties. There is a bigger arena of potential in this than what is currently being tapped. That is my little rant for the day. Where is the bigger strategy that will actually start to shift the dial in key sectors? Will we see, particularly for food and construction, a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing Businesses in Relation to Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...enterprise. I am doing a bit of work on positive ageing through the Fine Gael policy lab. It seems that the 25 years that most people can look forward to after they retire is simply not being tapped as an asset. There is massive wasted value and massive unmet needs, and a huge scope for pairing off some of that spare time, energy, commitment and interest to some of the unmet needs....

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: .... We need much more efficient construction sites, use of our vehicle fleet, and so on. That is where we need to find ways to deliver. There is a new opportunity in those areas and we need to tap into them. We still need to see sectoral plans, which are crucial. I think we can deliver a much less adversarial approach to meeting our targets if we look at this through the prism of the...

Science Week: Statements (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...as we could, then we would come up with completely different solutions and we would look at solving the problems of individual families in different ways. I ask for that to be considered; it would tap into a deep vein of fresh thinking and break out of a slightly depressed approach that a lot of people take to the challenge of climate. On seeing Deputy Naughten in the Chamber, I note that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...is not connecting the new data centres and that data centres will take the slack if there is pressure. I have questions on the longer-term issue of data centres. Am I right in thinking that if we tap into our offshore resource that Ireland is a good place to have data centres? In the short term we may be in difficulties but am I right to say that in the long term it would represent a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Offshore Renewable Industry Forum and Ireland’s Offshore Wind Industry: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...to work in. Should this be more of a European infrastructural play than simply an Irish play? Should we be looking to the longer-term global context in which the Atlantic resource will be tapped into? Does that alter the view of the witnesses on how this opportunity should be developed? I am also interested to know what the successful elements of the Scottish strategy were, and what...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...as a former Minister for Education, will agree that efforts to open school facilities for wider community use have not succeeded. I hope he will also agree that we should take immediate action to tap into this potential. I recommend three specific things to the Taoiseach. First, the education and training boards, ETBs, should deliver a best-practice model. Second, all school patrons...

National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...risk of fuel poverty and bad energy conditions exist. The Minister should invite people to sign up and give them a year or 18 months to do so with supports that can be put in place. We should really tap into making it area-based and use communities. We need to make it easy and the one-stop shop is a great step forward. We should also have other measures. In the UK, when an attic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Oct 2020)

Richard Bruton: I have a couple of questions for each witness. Professor Buckley makes a very valid point that on tapping into nature's capacity to provide its own solutions that can really supplement man-made solutions. Does Professor Buckley envisage many sharp trade-offs being made? How should these be made? For example, there is a choice between conifers and hardwoods. If one were to look at a...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Richard Bruton: ..., for the midlands in order that we can be in a position to avail of that. As Deputy Leddin rightly said, the wave of renovation and retrofitting is another element whereby we can not only tap into funding lines but also learn from successful approaches in other countries. There are countries that have done significant things and I think there is a sense among EU climate ministers that...

Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Sep 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...to seek a graduated exit from peat, the Government's very first decision was to form a cross-Government group which is being chaired from within the Department of the Taoiseach, in order that we can tap into a wider range of policy and skill areas to inform the sort of response we design. It is important that just transition is seen as being at the heart of climate action policy, not as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Bruton: ...Council. I would certainly support useful research in this area. We have put out the disruptive technology fund. We also have the climate action fund and the other funds. We are looking to tap into bottom-up solutions. We do not pretend that the solutions to all of these challenges are in Merrion Street. I think it is simplistic to say that Moneypoint should not be used. We need to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (10 May 2018)

Richard Bruton: ...carry out a national audit of potable water in schools, this has not been costed. There are already several mechanisms under which schools can address any issues with regard to the availability of tap drinking that they might have. These are the Summer Works Scheme, the Emergency Works Grant Scheme or, for primary schools, the Minor Works Grant Scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (7 Feb 2018)

Richard Bruton: ...in school physical education programmes currently. The Physical Activity area ‘Artistic and aesthetic activities’ includes Gymnastics: artistic, rhythmic And Dance: contemporary, folk, modern, ballet, jazz, tap, ethnic, traditional. Leaving Certificate Physical Education is designed to be taught in approximately 180 hours. It is recommended that of the five suggested...

University College Galway (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2017)

Richard Bruton: ...range of second-level programmes we need to deliver a genuine Irish language immersion education in secondary schools. It is not possible to go beyond that and hope one will get a broadly based university across the diversity of programmes without being able to tap into wider non-Irish speaking skills that make up a major part of a successful university in today's reality. One needs...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Facilities (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department is not in receipt of information from schools that they do not have a tap drinking water supply.  Should a school find itself in this position it may apply to my Department for funding to address the issue either under my Department's Emergency Works Grant Scheme or the Summer Works Scheme.  At primary level, schools may use their minor works...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (11 Sep 2017)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 399 to 401, inclusive, together. I can confirm that remediation for tap drinking water supplies is covered by my Department's Emergency Works Grant Scheme under the "mechanical" category.  Mechanical components of a building incorporate, among other things, all water systems, including tap drinking water...

Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Richard Bruton: ...the same coin. I heard Deputy Seamus Healy trot out the same stuff we have heard so many times before to the effect that, in some way, the European Union owes us by writing off our debt and that if only we tapped into 1% of the population, everything would be solved.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Services Provision (20 Apr 2016)

Richard Bruton: ...of the Government supports that are available to support them in their expansion. This new brochure which is available on my Department’s website brings together all these services in a single publication to assist the sector to tap into these supports and clarify the details of what is available from the various Government Organisations and Agencies. Details are at: . In the area...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: IDA Supports (15 Jul 2015)

Richard Bruton: .... Companies in Ireland are part of this trend. In all sectors, companies use the practice of outsourcing to enhance productivity, use their resources better, focus on more core business areas and tap into new technologies without in-house expertise. Such business process outsourcing is a fast-growing economic sector in which Ireland is winning substantial international business. Ten...