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- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Brendan Howlin: The capital allocation of €450 million for the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation next year will ensure continued strong support for job creation and enterprise supports, with a focus on building on our recent strong export performance. Another critical component underpinning future growth in jobs is sustained investment in research, development and innovation. The...
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Brendan Howlin: We are determined that economic recovery should be and will be accompanied by social recovery. Getting people back to work remains this Government’s number one priority. A new back-to-work family dividend will be introduced to provide an additional incentive for families to move from welfare to work. This will allow families to retain the full qualified child increase of...
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Provided circumstances allow, we will increase child benefit again in 2016, by a further €5.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Brendan Howlin: We are increasing the rate of the living alone allowance to €9 per week, benefitting almost 180,000 elderly people from January 2015.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Brendan Howlin: These are the first rate increases to be applied to social welfare since 2009 when the economy was collapsed by the previous Administration. The outturn figures for unemployment for 2014 are much better than forecast. The Government has decided to allocate a portion of these live register savings to pay a 25% bonus to social welfare recipients this coming Christmas.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Brendan Howlin: This is a current year payment from 2014 figures. Whether a similar bonus will be paid next year will again depend on the availability of sufficient savings in next year’s social protection Vote. Water The establishment of Irish Water is a necessary measure to put the provision of this critical resource on a long term sustainable footing. Securing a quality water supply, as...
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Brendan Howlin: This will benefit 653,000 households in this country-----
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Brendan Howlin: -----who will see their water bill reduced by €100 to mirror the allowance available to taxpayers announced by the Minister for Finance.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Brendan Howlin: All of these social protection measures will cost €196 million next year and will be funded by the fall in the live register as a result of getting people back to work - the most successful outcome of the policies pursued by the Government.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Brendan Howlin: This is a real social dividend delivered by the policies we have progressed. There are now 1.91 million people at work, a higher number than when Deputy Mattie McGrath abandoned Fianna Fáil.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Brendan Howlin: The Tánaiste will provide more detail later on the full range of social protection measures. Society - Health The Government continues to recognise health as a key priority and will provide €13.1 billion for the delivery of health services next year. In 2015, more than 2.1 million people - nearly half the population - will have a medical or GP visit card. This includes our...
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Brendan Howlin: As my colleague, the Minister for Justice and Equality, will outline later, this funding will also support the justice reform programme. The programme includes plans for the reform of An Garda Síochána, the strengthening of the remit of GSOC and establishment of the new independent policing authority, the Court of Appeal, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and the...
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Brendan Howlin: We still have a way to go, but our collective achievement in the face of adversity is a considerable one. There remain challenges ahead, but discipline, hard won, will not be jeopardised. Irish people will not thank anybody who forgets and repeats the mistakes of the past. As we enter a new era in Irish history, that is this Government’s commitment to the Irish people.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Fianna Fáil phoned the Greens at home and got them out of bed.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Fianna Fáil is against the measures for tourism.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Spring.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Brendan Howlin: We are growing the economy.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Brendan Howlin: We have given €2 million for suicide prevention.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Brendan Howlin: It will be through revenue generation.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister will outline them later this evening