Results 61-80 of 80 for 5 million speaker:Jan O'Sullivan

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (17 Jul 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: ..., use of vacant buildings and ownership. Such solutions should also take account of the best interests of residents.The first Annual Progress Report of the NCC, published by my Department on 5 July, confirmed that, through the use of the SRP process, 211 estates have now been completed and issues are now resolved. On a further 523 estates, plans are now in place and in many of these cases...

Seanad: Housing Policy: Statements, Questions and Answers (28 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...has been made available for that purpose. A call was made for local authorities to identify what they required to make estates safe, to which the Department responded. That is why the full €5 million was not sought. Whatever was sought and whatever fitted into the appropriate categories was given. However, there is more money available. There might have been other areas with...

Seanad: Housing Policy: Statements, Questions and Answers (28 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...most pressing concern for us as an Administration was the public safety aspects of unfinished developments where the responsible party could not be held accountable in the short term. We made €5 million available to local authorities to assess and make safe those elements which posed a safety hazard to members of the public. To date, we have identified 166 such estates and have...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (13 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Total available funding under the Public Safety Initiative in 2011 was €5 million. The total drawdown amount was €1.483m. A breakdown of the total amount drawn down by local authority is set out in the following table. Local Authority Amount paid Carlow County Council 94,456.40 Cavan County Council 106,201.98 Clare County Council 18,123.68 Cork City Council 0.00 Cork County...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Estates: Unfinished Housing Estates (8 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...pivotal to the resolution of problem sites, will be used more extensively in the coming year. In addition, under the Public Safety Initiative, my Department has made allocations totalling some €2.59 million to 21 local authorities from the €5 million funding allocation made available to address immediate safety issues in 2011. The types of works that have been approved to date include...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Estates: Unfinished Housing Estates (8 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 34 and 42 together. Under the Public Safety Initiative, my Department has made allocations totalling some €2.59 million to 21 local authorities from the €5 million funding allocation made available to address immediate safety issues in unfinished housing developments in 2011. The types of works that have been approved to date include the fencing off of...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Estates: Unfinished Housing Estates (8 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: Under the Public Safety Initiative my Department has made allocations totalling some €2.59 million to 21 local authorities from the €5 million funding allocation made available to address immediate safety issues in 2011. The types of works that have been approved to date include the fencing off of unsecured and hazardous areas, capping of pipes, installation of street lighting, and other...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (7 Mar 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...pivotal to the resolution of problem sites, will be used more extensively in the coming year. In addition, under the Public Safety Initiative my Department has made allocations totalling some €2.59 million to 21 local authorities from the €5 million funding allocation made available to address immediate safety issues in 2011. The types of works that have been approved to date include...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (21 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 427 and 433 together. I refer to the replies to Questions Nos. 175 and 191 of 2 February 2012, which set out my Department's funding for a range of programmes related to social inclusion activities. As part of the Government's Comprehensive Review of Expenditure and the 2012 estimates process, difficult decisions have had to be taken in relation to...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (16 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 156 and 157 together. As part of the Government's Comprehensive Review of Expenditure and the 2012 estimates process, difficult decisions have had to be taken in relation to prioritising funding for core services in all programme areas. The project in question is one of 5 drugs projects mainstreamed to my Department's Housing programme and, in 2011, funding...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (14 Feb 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...for core services in all programme areas. The provisional funding estimate to support my Department's mainstreamed drugs projects under the Housing programme budget 2012 was €100,000. Two of 5 drugs projects mainstreamed to my Department's Housing programme were the Tallaght Fettercairn and Killinarden Estate Management Projects. In 2011, funding was provided through South Dublin...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (31 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...areas. The funding estimate to support my Department's mainstreamed drugs projects under the Housing programme in 2012 is €100,000 compared with €400,000 in 2011, i.e. a reduction of 75%. One of 5 drugs projects mainstreamed to my Department's Housing programme was the Clondalkin Community Safety Forum and, in 2011, funding was provided through South Dublin County Council for two...

Written Answers — Household Charge: Household Charge (24 Jan 2012)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 429, 445, 456, 457, 462 and 465 together. As part of the process of preparing the National Housing Development Survey 2011, launched by my Department in October 2011, local authorities provided details of all unfinished housing developments in their areas. Unfinished housing developments were divided into four categories as follows: Category one, where the...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (13 Jul 2011)

Jan O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 23, 57 and 58 together. As Deputies will be aware from recent media coverage, Somalia and the Horn of Africa region more generally are experiencing the most severe food crisis in the world today. Between 10 and 12 million people in Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda are affected. The immediate cause of the crisis is a prolonged drought and the...

Health Care Services: Motion (18 Jan 2011)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...However, much of the blame lies at the Minister's door for not introducing a proper risk equalisation scheme. The VHI, in its annual report for 2009, stated that it would generate losses of €170 million in meeting the health care needs of older customers. In other words, as far back in 2009 the VHI was clearly signalling that there was a problem with having such a high share of older...

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...response to Leaders' Questions are a very clear indication of the total inability of this Government to run the country. The fact is that €4 billion of taxpayers' money, probably an extra €3.5 billion and quite likely a great deal more money is now going into a completely zombie bank which has no customers apart from those that were there prior to last autumn. That money is provided...

Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...saving as a result of this legislation, when the cost of the administration of the means test for the medical card is taken into account. I am aware that the Minister has disputed the €16 million figure that was mentioned earlier in this debate. It is certainly not much more than that. The cost of the administration of the means test needs to be taken into account. What does the...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Second Stage (13 Nov 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...after the grave. However, if one does not take that option, one must come up with the money anyway. It is something of a Hobson's choice and it still means families will have to include up to 15% of the value of the family home in terms of how they are assessed for long-term care. Again, the Labour Party has a principled objection to this which I will discuss in more detail later. I...

Medical Cards: Motion (21 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...removed any Minister can, with one stroke of a pen, reduce the limits and exclude more people. The people know too that the figures do not add up. The Minister said the measure will only affect 5% of the elderly, but the figures on savings do not add up. The most the Government could save, by my calculation, is approximately €20 million. I do not know where the Minister will get...

Voluntary Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (27 Nov 2007)

Jan O'Sullivan: This is a complicated issue, as we are dealing with VHI in transition after 50 years in existence. We should congratulate the body on that length of service. An EU directive exempted the company from rules governing coverage in the market, with many other similar types of health insurance system in Europe, but we are now moving to a point where the European non-life insurance directive must...