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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Holly Cairns: ...that they are not normally monitored in the courts in question. In this instance, however, could they perhaps be monitored to ensure that there is a level of consistency rather than a complete lottery in the context of something so important to people?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (19 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...and Skills if she will provide an update on the school transport policy; if she will set out her plans to make changes to the scheme ahead of the 2023-2024 school year; and if she will remove the lottery-based system and replace it with a needs-based model of service. [2477/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Could your office, a Leas-Ceann Comhairle, facilitate the Members who are on the list in the round next week instead of using the lottery system?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery (18 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 424. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which the highest possible prizes have been won by players of the national lottery in the past twelve months; the way that this corresponds with the number of times that major prizes were won in the previous year; the extent of the cost of advertising in the past twelve months and in the previous year; if the community...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (18 Jan 2023)

Thomas Byrne: ...which new applications will be accepted. Defibrillators situated at sports clubs are generally also for community use and I am aware that funding is also available through the HSE’s national lottery grants schemes and other community grants schemes. At a local level, the network of local sports partnerships throughout the country delivers education and training opportunities...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (18 Jan 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...structures in any local authority area could apply directly to the Department for a grant to pay for conservation advice from a qualified architect. 370 applications were received of which 100 were chosen by lottery to participate in the scheme; 72 of these in turn availed of funding. Participants selected a conservation architect who then billed the Department directly on completion of a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Responsibilities (18 Jan 2023)

Simon Harris: ...will form the basis for the forthcoming delegation. - Betting Acts 1931 to 2015 - Firearms Acts 1925 to 2009 - Part III of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act 1990 (No. 12 of 1990) - Gaming and Lotteries Acts 1956 to 2019 In addition to these statutory functions, Minister Browne had day-to-day responsibility for: - The management of the legislative programme to transpose EU measures...

Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) (Pets) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I again thank Deputy Verona Murphy and Deputy Canney for co-signing the Bill and for submitting it to the lottery. It would not have made it to this Stage if not for that important help. This is a very important issue to many people around the country. Legislation on animal welfare needs to be strengthened. We need to strengthen regulations to protect animals in this country, especially...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...strong position within all of the contracts that it is engaged in. From our perspective - over the past number of months we have been looking at broadband, the children's hospital and the national lottery - it is apparent that on the private side the operators take the most robust position available to them within every contractual arrangement and it is of interest what the State's...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022) See 3 other results from this debate

Brian Stanley: We will follow up on that. No. 1607B is from Ms Carol Boate, regulator of the national lottery, dated 30 November, providing information requested by the committee on the number of people who commenced a self-exclusion in 2020 and 2021. This was raised at our recent meeting. It is proposed to query why the breakdown of self-exclusionary periods by length is not available and to note and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery (15 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...annual publication in a national newspaper of details of the disbursement of "Funds for Good Causes", in light of the report on the independent review of the allocation and utilisation of National Lottery funding. [63056/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

...you, Chairman, for the opportunity to make my opening statement. I will begin with VAT on e-gaming.The regulation of gambling is currently provided for in the Betting Act 1931 and the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956 and as the committee will be aware the Gambling Regulation Bill is currently before the Dáil. The operational aspects of gambling and gaming regulation are dealt with by a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Policies (13 Dec 2022)

Michael McGrath: ...an allocation of over €1 billion, equivalent to just over 20% of the entire Reserve, making Ireland the largest single beneficiary. - Publication of the Independent Review of the Distribution and Utilisation of National Lottery Funding. - The publication of 12 Spending Review papers in 2022, following 37 papers in 2021 and 25 in 2020. - Advancing Green Public Procurement whereby...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022) See 4 other results from this debate

...for this kind of housing. We have to look for additional funding elsewhere. The HSE has come up with an agreement to fund the capital element and enable that to happen, along with the community lottery funding we are also trying to access. However, that is a very limited level of funding. There is a statistic at the moment that 98% of current 24-year-olds will acquire a disability...

Dublin Bay Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...Dublin Bay South in July 2021 and after that we worked on the Bill. It is almost exactly 12 months ago, on 7 December 2021, I introduced the Bill in the Dáil on First Stage and then it went into the lottery. This is my first lottery Bill and I was delighted when it was pulled out of the hat to have the opportunity to put it forward today on Second Stage. I hope that the Government...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
2021 Report of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners
2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15 - Collection of VAT on e-Commerce
Chapter 16 - Revenue's Suspension of Periodic Reviews of Tax Clearance Certificates
Chapter 17 - Overstatement of Certain Unallocated Tax Deposits (8 Dec 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

Verona Murphy: We have an illegal activity for which Mr. Cody does not have a breakdown of revenue. We have the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956, which we will discuss later in respect of the national lottery. Mr. Cody does not know what the revenue from e-gaming is. The UK, where the figures are gathered, had revenue of £14 billion from this. Does Mr. Cody know that 60% of profits for online gambling...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General Chapter 19 - Exchequer receipts from National Lottery ticket sales (8 Dec 2022)

2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General Chapter 19 - Exchequer receipts from National Lottery ticket sales

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...facility. Tonight, Labour Senators will table a motion in the Seanad to address the crisis in Ireland's childcare system and to call for a change in policy to ensure we no longer have the postcode lottery that so often determines the availability of places and their affordability. High, exorbitant and rising fees are a huge issue for many parents. Several parents have come to me to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Funding (7 Dec 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Jackie Cahill: ...question cannot wait until December each year to see whether it will get funding for the next calendar year. There needs to be certainty about its funding stream. It got funding from the national lottery in the past. Obviously, there will always be fundraising. That will not be an issue for the centre as there is a great community spirit. The centre was founded by cancer survivors,...