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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (31 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: ...occasion, the funding fell short of the ask of over €25m. Given the very high number of valid applications (2,727) and the budget available for the scheme, a decision was made by the Department to run a lottery on this occasion. Each of the applications were read and logged with any invalid applications removed. They were then subject to the lottery system. Any school that succeeded...

Children and Family Relationships (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...2015. However, that is ten years ago and we have still only just started Committee Stage of the AHR Bill. We had put this Bill - drafted as I said with LGBT Ireland and Equality for Children - in the lottery at some point last year in the knowledge that the Government's Bill was making such slow progress at that stage. We did not know, of course, that we were going to be picked the very...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: ...of the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland, dated 10 January 2024. It provides the decision of the complaints committee in relation to a complaint from this committee about the national lottery. It arose from our hearing with the national lottery. After considering the detail of the complaint and the advertiser's response, the complaints committee considered that a statement was...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (24 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ...Office 2022 827 85.5% 28.4 hours Female –70% Male – 30% National Shared Services Office 2023 820 87.4% 28 hours Female – 70% Male –30% Office of the National Lottery Regulator 2022 11 91% 24.5 hours Female – 70%...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Sign Language (24 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ...sign language. The following table outlines the position with regard to the bodies under the aegis of my Department. The Deputy may wish to note that the State Laboratory and the Office of the National Lottery Regulator do not use or post on social media platforms. Bodies under the aegis of the Department Included closed captioning/subtitles Irish Sign...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (24 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Patrick Costello: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 680 of 17 January 2024, the reason all applicants were given equal weighting in the lottery, regardless of DEIS status or not. [3167/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ...not get the CAO points. They might go into a further education college, take the pre-nursing course and get the best marks possible, and then be told to go to the UK because they did not win the lottery to get a place at university. That is farcical and utterly offensive. We have enough challenges with our health service without staffing the NHS in the UK. The nursing programme has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

..., to make units available for rent. We work our way through that process. The units are advertised on our website for seven days, at a minimum, and we go into an eligibility-checking process and lottery. We try to accelerate the move-in as much as possible. In some instances, we have potential residents who are already in lease arrangements and want to give their notice. We facilitate...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...there. The problem was about getting into University College Cork, UCC, to become part of the physical education, PE, programme and become a PE teacher. The course was oversubscribed, there had to be a lottery and she did not make it. The problem for that young lady is that even if she applies this year, it will be a lottery again. This is a person who has done everything right and...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Cormac Devlin: ..., what can Mr. McKeon say? How can we get over this to try to make it more simple to apply? These cards are essential for certain payments. People need them so they need to get them. If there is a lottery system in certain branches, that is not acceptable for the public. How do we deal with that?

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: ...Commission's July 2023 policy statement on care states: " Every stakeholder we engaged with in the writing of this policy statement advised that accessing care services in Ireland is a ‘postcode lottery’." The Government must listen to the people and clarify what it is seeking to achieve in this proposed wording and what it will mean in practical terms for both law and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Ms Grainne Morrison: It is a postcode lottery and depends on which CHO someone is in, with CHOs 4, 6 and 8 being the worst. There is then some discrepancy in terms of who is accepted into CAMHS, with the level ranging from 38% to 81%. Of our group, 40% were accepted on the first referral and 25% had multiple referrals. Some – 22% - had to go to accident and emergency and 9% needed...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery (17 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 406. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he remains satisfied that issues affecting the operation and running of the National Lottery are resolved to the satisfaction of his Department with particular reference to the extent to which players of the lottery have a reasonable chance of winning in line with the mission statement; the extent to which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Norma Foley: ...2358 495 Given the very high number of valid applications and the budget available for the scheme, a decision was made by the Department to run a lottery, where a random number generator was used to pick out schools based on their line on the spreadsheet. The application for each school was then assessed on a case by case basis with the applications read again by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: ...and processed, leaving 2,727 schools with an ask amounting of over €25m. Given the very high number of valid applications and the budget available for the scheme, a decision was made by the Department to run a lottery, where a random number generator was used to pick out schools based on their line on the spreadsheet. The application for each school was then assessed on a case by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Norma Foley: ..., leaving 2,727 schools with an ask amounting of over €25m. Given the very high number of valid applications and the budget available for the scheme, a decision was made by the Department to run a lottery, where a random number generator was used to pick out schools based on their line on the spreadsheet. The application for each school was then assessed on a case by case basis...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: ...;4.7m. Unfortunately, the funding fell short of the ask of over €25m. Given the very high number of valid applications and the budget available for the scheme, a decision was made by the Department to run a lottery, where a random number generator was used to pick out schools based on their line on the spreadsheet. The application for each school was then assessed on a case by case...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: ..., leaving 2,727 schools with an ask amounting of over €25m. Given the very high number of valid applications and the budget available for the scheme, a decision was made by the Department to run a lottery, where a random number generator was used to pick out schools based on their line on the spreadsheet. The application for each school was then assessed on a case by case basis...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Kathleen Funchion: 592. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to explain the rationale/process in awarding the recent round of STEM grant funding; the total funding allocated; if a lottery system was used, resulting in a significant number of applications not being examined; her views on whether this is an appropriate process, given the importance of funding to schools applying; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: ...School, Dalkey, with an ask amounting of over €25m. Given the very high number of valid applications and the budget available for the scheme, a decision was made by the Department to run a lottery, where a random number generator was used to pick out schools based on their line on the spreadsheet. The application for each school was then assessed on a case by case basis with the...