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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (9 Sep 2021)

Mary Butler: ...in their own homes and communities, as well as facilitating timely discharge from hospital. We have made improved access to home support services a priority. In 2021 an additional investment of €150 million has been made available to fund over 24.2 million hours of home support and to support the roll out of the inteRAI standard assessment tool and the establishment of a National...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (26 Apr 2005)

Dick Roche: ...is primarily a matter for local authorities. My Department operates a capital grants scheme under which local authorities may apply for grants for recycling and recovery facilities. Over €50 million has been allocated so far and I expect to announce a further tranche of grants in the coming weeks. In addition, my Department subsidises the costs to local authorities of operating recycling...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Local Property Tax: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Ms Kathy Quinn: I emphasise the point about the 5%. While €80 million is collected in any one year in local property tax, €4 million is provided, keeping it at 5%. Dublin is an extreme case by comparison with other local authorities. Members may have seen in the report that 20% was taken off. There was a reduction as applied by the members. As to the balance, what happens...

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: ...have children facing into the rest of the winter in freezing cold conditions in old buildings, which are no longer fit for purpose, and prefabs. Last year the capital programme for schools was €334 million. This year the Government has only provided €338 million. It is an increase of €4 million or €5 million and perhaps a few million more by the end of the...

National Drugs Strategy. (28 Feb 2007)

Brian O'Shea: ...to developing solid data on them. For instance, why are people taking up this habit in ever growing numbers? According to recent statistics, drug seizures in Ireland last year amount to €40 million. If one takes the lower international seizure rate norm of 5%, it means that €800 million worth of illegal drugs were coming in here. If one takes the higher seizure rate of 10%, the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)

...be sitting around the table with the likes of our colleagues here and other people in order that we can discuss things. We are not looking for an equal chop of the cake. We are not looking for €5 million because they got €5 million. We want to sit down and work out how the transport system works. We all complement each other, and I said it in my opening statement. We all...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (12 Feb 2009) See 1 other result from this answer

Peter Power: Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world and has been one of Ireland's Programme Countries since 1994. Through Irish Aid, the Government provided over €47 million for development programmes and projects in Ethiopia in 2008. Assistance addressed a wide range of basic needs, with an emphasis on health, education, food security and governance. For example, some €23 million was...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: We have not abandoned in any way the people the Deputy is talking about because in last year's budget, more than €5 million went specifically to helping people with burial allowances and funeral costs. The average payment was €3,800 per family who approached us. There is no cap on that. The Department did not have a budget of €5 million and it was not a case of...

Seanad: Finance and Related Matters: Statements. (18 Feb 2003)

...made in the public press that the Minister for Transport had ignored the west. The record speaks for itself and I would like briefly to quote the figures. Last week Donegal received €3 million for preliminary work on the Ballyshannon-Bundoran bypass, Sligo received €11 million for archaeological and other works on the town's inner relief road, Clare received €16 million for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Apr 2014)

Seán Fleming: At my request they have given us a list of 25 agencies with section 39 agreements with the HSE, each of which receives over €5 million. We wanted to have an indication of the other organisations such as Rehab Care, etc. I was surprised to see that there are 25 organisations receiving €344,699 between them. In case anyone would think we are picking on Rehab or any other...

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2013)

Clare Daly: That is €15 million out of the pockets of hard-pressed bus workers who already have had to endure cuts. The Taoiseach has chosen to avoid the fact that choices are always available. Rather than taking money from the pockets of modestly paid workers, why could the Taoiseach not have chosen instead to tax the new millionaires who have gained extra wealth under his stewardship? For...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid Provision (5 Mar 2019) See 1 other result from this answer

Ciarán Cannon: Yemen is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in terms of numbers of people in need - the UN estimates that 24.1 million people, equivalent to four fifths of its population, are severely affected and require some form of humanitarian assistance. 70 per cent of all districts are estimated to be at heightened risk of famine. Last week, the United Nations and the Governments of...

Order of Business (14 May 2015)

Mattie McGrath: ...the Regulation of Lobbying Bill what will the Government do to reign in the outrageous lobbying and funding by Atlantic Philanthropies of groups such as the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, €7 million, Amnesty International Ireland, €5 million-----

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Peace and Reconciliation Programme (21 Jul 2016)

Charles Flanagan: ...to support civil society organisations create better understanding between the people and traditions of the island of Ireland, and also between Ireland and Britain. Between 1982 and the end of 2015 approximately €44 million in funding has been allocated. The signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 committed parties to “positively examine the case for enhanced financial...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Okay, that is fine. The total that the State has spent on MANs so far is €176 million. That was a piece of information given to us by the chief executive officer of Enet. The revenue share represents about 5% of a return over the past 15 years. When we discussed this previously, one of the reasons for not going to tender was because investments were being made by Enet and there was...

Written Answers — Universal Social Charge: Universal Social Charge (12 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: ...incomes, of increasing the proposed thresholds as suggested by the Deputy are set out as follows: · increasing the lower exemption threshold by €100 from €4,004 to €4,104 would cost €0.4 million in 2011 and €0.5 million in a full year. · increasing the middle threshold by €100 from €10,036 to €10,136 would cost €6.5 million in 2011 and €9 million in a full year. ·...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (12 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Total health expenditure for each of the last 5 years, by both public and private, are detailed in the following table. Figures are presented in millions of Euro. Estimates of private health expenditure are compiled by the Central Statistics Office and include health expenditure by private insurance and out-of-pocket payments by households. Table: Total Health Expenditure in Ireland,...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...to get people, who are a captive audience so to speak, from unemployment into employment or better skilled. There has been a reduction in the fund for training people for employment, from €212 million to €130 million, and Springboard funding has gone from €22 million down to €10 million. Again, are opportunities being lost there? Is there a kind of acceptance...

Air Travel Disruption (5 May 2010)

Noel Dempsey: ...aspects of the closure of airports owing to volcanic ash and that work is still ongoing. In the reply I said that Aer Lingus and Ryanair have estimated their losses from the crisis to be €5 million and €6 million respectively per day. I recollect that the airport authority mentioned losses of approximately €8 million over the course of the previous closedown. On that aspect alone...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Nov 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Under my Department's 2012 Prefab Replacement Initiative, approval was given to 170 schools nationally to replace 458 prefab units with permanent accommodation. In excess of €42 million was allocated for this initiative of which €35 million has been paid to date. Of these a total of 157 projects have gone to construction and 108 of these have been completed. The total rental...