Results 21-38 of 38 for 5 million speaker:Peter Burke

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (6 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: ...that existing housing stock is utilised to its fullest extent including a targeted, effective and co-ordinated approach to identifying and tackling vacancy across Ireland. In that context, Pillar 5 of Rebuilding Ireland, set out a range of measures to assist in meeting housing needs by ensuring that our existing housing stock is used to the greatest extent possible. Key to this was the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (24 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: ...into account when comparing levels of funding in different local authority areas. Most of the funding from Central Government must be used for specified services. These can be grouped into 5 broad programme categories: recreational, education, environment, housing and transport. Across all schemes and funding sources, my Department provided €51.1m and €82.9m to...

Traveller Accommodation: Statements (3 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: ...with the relevant chief executives. It is accepted that more work needs to be done to increase the provision of Traveller-specific accommodation and I have made local authorities aware of the €15.5 million in capital funding available in 2021 to support this. In addition to that capital funding, my Department provides funding to local authorities for specific Traveller...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (3 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: ...into account when comparing levels of funding in different local authority areas. Most of the funding from Central Government must be used for specified services. These can be grouped into 5 broad programme categories: recreational, education, environment, housing and transport. Across all schemes and funding sources, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage provided...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rental Sector (26 May 2021)

Peter Burke: ...been made available to local authorities since 2018. Since then, the amount of money allocated has increased by 300%. I accept demand had increased also. In 2021, my Department provided €10 million of funding, up from €2.5 million three years earlier. The aim is to enable local authorities to target 25% of all local rental properties for an annual inspection. Significant...

Planning and Development, Heritage and Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Apr 2021)

Peter Burke: ...and species protection. It is also undertaking essential investment in our national parks, nature reserves, heritage estates and national monuments. For example, earlier this year, funding of €1.35 million was announced for local authority biodiversity projects, including €500,000 for projects targeting invasive alien species. A significant funding increase in 2021 to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (21 Apr 2021)

Peter Burke: ...Travellers, including a national framework of policy, legislation and funding. The Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act, 1998 requires each housing authority to develop, adopt and implement 5-year rolling accommodation programmes to accelerate the provision of accommodation for Travellers. The 5th round of Traveller Accommodation Programmes (TAP) began in July 2019, covering the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Authority Housing (26 Feb 2021)

Peter Burke: ...disregard income that is temporary, short-term or once-off in nature. The income bands are expressed in terms of a maximum net income threshold for a single-person household, with an allowance of 5% for each additional adult household member, subject to a maximum allowance under this category of 10%, and 2.5% for each child, subject to a maximum allowance under this category of 10%.The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (17 Feb 2021)

Peter Burke: ...authorities in respect of the 2020 waiver were completed in early 2021. A total of approximately €730m was distributed among the 31 local authorities. Cavan County Council received a total of €5,968,334.74 for approximately 1689 accounts, with 4 valid appeals. Monaghan County Council received a total of €6,137,861.96 for approximately 2040 accounts, with 5...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Oct 2020)

Peter Burke: ...which have made such an effort to make their premises safe for the public, and what they have had to go through as a result of a very quick decision which has impacted greatly upon them. On 5 October, the Government decided that from midnight on Tuesday, 6 October, all counties would be placed on level 3 under the plan for living with Covid-19. The Government is acutely aware of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Fund (7 Oct 2020)

Peter Burke: ...context of the forthcoming budget, it is important to reflect on the role of elected local authority members, who are best placed to determine the spending priorities in their respective counties. 5 o’clock This is also a reserved function and local authorities must balance those priorities against available resources. To achieve that balance, the elected members must make...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (23 Jul 2020)

Peter Burke: ...Nos. 9 and 10 together. A range of measures to assist in meeting Ireland's housing needs by ensuring that our existing housing stock is used to the greatest extent possible were set out in pillar 5 of Rebuilding Ireland. An overarching action within that pillar was the commitment to develop a national vacant homes reuse strategy. This strategy was published by my Department in July 2018...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Raised Bog Management Plan (26 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: 526. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her further plans regarding the repatriation of bogs in view of the €5 million promised in budget 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48576/19]

Rural and Community Development: Statements (10 Apr 2019)

Peter Burke: ...than the Minister, Deputy Ring. Much is expected of him and he is delivering. We can see the work he is doing rural-proofing the policies of every Department. In the current year, he secured a 25% increase in his budget from the previous year. That is the biggest increase in any Department. Given the pressures on housing and health, that is a serious achievement by a Minister in a new...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (10 May 2017)

Peter Burke: ...that, there is no certainty. We need to provide clarity on the issue as soon as possible because to get it to the CPO process would not take much funding. In capital terms it is approximately €5 million. In the context of the mid-term review of the capital budget and in terms of the major projects in the country, it is amazing that the only significant piece of motorway north of...

Other Questions: CLÁR Programme (7 Mar 2017)

Peter Burke: I welcome the additional €5 million for 2017. The critical aspect of this funding is that it makes rural Ireland an attractive place to live. It provides key infrastructure into areas where there has been a deficit. In my constituency, County Westmeath received an allocation of €214,000 last year while County Longford received €237,000 for key infrastructure projects....

Topical Issue Debate: Fish Farming (20 Jul 2016)

Peter Burke: ...with the chairperson of the board of IFI that no further action was to take place until there was broad consultation with all the stakeholders and, importantly, with his Department. However, on 5 July 2016, a notice of public consultation appeared on the IFI website explicitly stating that IFI will exit fish farm operations. This is not meaningful consultation. Indeed, it is an insult...

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Closures (14 Jul 2016)

Peter Burke: ...paragraph in the report explicitly stated that the emergency department in the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar was one of nine departments earmarked for closure, despite the fact that a €5 million new accident and emergency unit is under construction. Workers are on the site and it is due to open later this year. Scaremongering about this subject is totally out of place....