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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: ...Committee and these are certified by the master of the hunt. I have done this myself and it is necessary to provide various documents, including registration papers for the horse. Subscription fees are also paid to the hunt. The certificate is issued and only registered by the Irish National Hunt Steeplechase Committee when it has carried out the relevant integrity checks, for example,...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: This brings it back to owners and everything else. Owners buy the horses and pay the entry fees, the trainers' fees and the fees to HRI which first got my attention, and there was a flood of stuff into me about it, which is what got me angry with HRI. There are people with substantial expertise who are on the owners committee. I happen to have been an owner myself and was a member of the...

Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2015)

Willie Penrose: ...Ireland of income derived from point-to-point racing. Is that not a major change? I had to collect a certificate from Cecil Ross's wife for point-to-point racing, for which I paid a registration fee that was reinvested in the sport.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Personal Insolvency Practitioners (13 Oct 2015)

Willie Penrose: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to ensure that fees earned by personal insolvency practitioners are exempted from the provisions of value added tax, as their role is totally different from that of a liquidator or receiver; if he is aware that a decision of the first-tier value added tax tribunal in the United Kingdom found that individual voluntary arrangements...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Prices (26 May 2015)

Willie Penrose: ...acknowledge the distinction between domestic and small accounts with MIC less than 30 KVA, as is the existing practice, but which also allows the medium and large accounts be levied at the same fee rate of up to 29 KVA, and only per KVA on the balance that exceeds 30 KVA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19897/15]

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Willie Penrose: ...of a view in RTE that the culchies are alright and do not matter because they are outside the Pale? If it cared to check, it would find that people outside the Pale also pay the television licence fee of €160. It is time to acknowledge Irish music of all genres and commission dedicated programmes to allow it to take its rightful place in this country. We had such programmes in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Fees (29 Apr 2015)

Willie Penrose: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to reduce the unjustified fee being charged to students who repeat the leaving certificate at the rate of €301 for the re-sit, as opposed to €115 for the first sit, and whereby this exorbitant charge is serving as a barrier or obstacle to young persons who do not have the financial means to pay same; her...

Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Feb 2015)

Willie Penrose: ...not need an overcrowded class. I accept the pupil-teacher ratio is a budgetary issue but it would be important that the Minister would get an opportunity of tackling that. As the chief proponent of the abolition of tuition fees in 1995, I played a big role in it. I certainly was central to it and was probably key in persuading the then Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Raidió Teilifís Éireann: Chairperson Designate (28 Jan 2015)

Willie Penrose: ...The people who are on the coal face, tramping the highways and byways of Ireland, are the people I want to see given an opportunity in RTE. It is our biggest broadcaster. I support paying the licence fee but I want to see everybody given a level playing field. It is no use playing somebody who is just coming in, recording here and then saying it is Irish. It is only a bit of an Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Chairperson Designate (28 Jan 2015)

Willie Penrose: ...giving ten to 11 hours every week, while Shannonside FM has Joe Finnegan and Frank Kilbride broadcasting country programmes. These stations are in a very competitive listenership environment, getting no licence fee but they are giving an opportunity to those musicians, as well as young musicians. This helps grow the industry. Is there any way Dr. Travers will get rid of these...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Rates (21 Oct 2014)

Willie Penrose: ...any employment in the said business, but still receives demands for rates from their local authority and whose application for a revision of the situation be de-rated is made subject to a revisions fee of €250; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40477/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Social Workers Register (13 Dec 2012)

Willie Penrose: ...ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to reduce the proposed annual registration for social workers from €295 to a more realistic level, which would be commensurate with registration fees which are levied and payable by professionals with similar qualifications; if same will be reviewed in this context; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56182/12]

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (2 Nov 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...my Department. The Act provides that a landlord must apply to register the tenancy of a dwelling with the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB). Such registration must be accompanied by a fee, the level of which is dependent on whether the tenancy is registered within one month of its commencement or later than one month after the commencement of the tenancy. There is also a specific...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (20 Oct 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...constrained and must be managed under the Employment Control Framework designed to contain and reduce staff numbers in the PRTB. The PRTB's funding is derived primarily from a proportion of the fee income accruing from tenancy registrations, as set down by ministerial Order. The PRTB is currently entitled to retain 80% of the registration fee income to fund its activities, with 20% going...

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (18 Oct 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...served by the landlord. Further information on the PRTB's dispute resolution services, including a downloadable dispute resolution application form, is available on its website at www.prtb.ie. The fee for dispute resolution is €25.00.

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (14 Sep 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...tenders in the recent past, the sample used is very small and the results therefore need to be interpreted with caution. This figure does not include additional costs such as design team fees, public utility charges or site costs which add on average 15% to the construction costs. Site costs are not included as these may vary significantly, depending on whether the land used was already...

Written Answers — Local Regeneration Projects: Local Regeneration Projects (19 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...out in the following table: Expenditure details 2008 2009 2010 Project Staff Salaries â'¬218,240 â'¬498,351 â'¬369,042 Office Overheads â'¬21,518 â'¬42,509 â'¬16,387 Consultants Fees â'¬132,890 â'¬123,529 â'¬5,346 Development Worker â'¬9,335 â'¬5,027 â'¬20,000 Information Officer â'¬0 â'¬0 â'¬0 Cranmore Mounds (Technical fees ) â'¬24,882 â'¬90,286...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (14 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: Section 33(2)(c) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 makes provision for a person to make a submission or observation on a planning application on payment of the prescribed fee and within the prescribed period. Under the Planning Regulations the prescribed fee is €20 and the prescribed period is 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt of the planning application by the planning...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (7 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...under the terms of my Department's funding schemes for voluntary and co-operative housing. To date, some €468,711 has been paid by my Department in respect of site costs and planning and design fees. It was decided to defer the construction stage of this project due to the current budgetary situation and the existing high level of capital commitments under the voluntary housing funding...

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (5 Jul 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...operates on a self-financing basis and does not receive direct Exchequer support. Instead, by way of Ministerial direction under section 137 of the Act, it is allocated a portion of the overall fee income received by the Board.