Results 101-120 of 3,482 for lottery

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

Norma Foley: ...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 with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024) See 4 other results from this answer

Robert Troy: 612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if STEM grants are awarded on a lottery basis; and the reason schools are required to submit a comprehensive, time-consuming application, that is not even considered when the grants are being allocated. [1320/24]

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

Norma Foley: ...Rural 78 15 The STEM grant scheme was for all primary, post-primary and special schools within the free education system. The selection of proposals was run by lottery with the applications assessed on a case by case basis where they were read again by the evaluation team, to ensure they met the requirements as set out in the grant call. As the Deputy will be aware...

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

Mattie McGrath: 654. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to list all of the schools awarded STEM grants in 2023, by county and school type, that is rural, urban and DEIS; the reason she feels a lottery system to allocate the funding was appropriate, given the time and effort required to submit applications; the reason her Department did not select roll numbers at random to avoid schools wasting time...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024) See 2 other results from this answer

Norma Foley: ...the free education system including DEIS. Given the 2,727 valid applications with asks of over €25m and the total funding available of €4.7m, a decision was made by my Department to run a lottery. The proposals were selected by lottery with the applications assessed on a case by case basis where they were read again by the evaluation team, to ensure they met the...

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

Claire Kerrane: ...for Education and Skills if she has plans to fund applications received for ICT support where said applications met the criteria outlined by her Department, given these schools lost out on the lottery basis on which schools were awarded, which was not outlined at the time of applications; if she is aware of the frustration caused by the way in which this funding was allocated; and if she...

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

Seán Canney: 676. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she accepts that the STEM funding for schools was not allocated according to published specific criteria, and that the use of a lottery system was disrespectful to schools that made a serious application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1736/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024) See 2 other results from this answer

Patrick Costello: 680. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason STEM grants were allocated on a lottery basis; the reason no preference was given towards DEIS schools over fee paying schools; the reason the grant application process was not advertised in advance nor noted that schools would be competing or operating under a lottery system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1877/24]

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 with...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Dec 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...not the reality for hundreds of families with children who have additional needs. These families have already come through a bruising system and must apply to many multiples of schools. It is a lottery to get a school place. Parents have told me that they often apply for more than 20 places. Due to the shortages and because there is no system to match children with schools many...

Seanad: Hypothermia Scalp Cooling Therapy: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Pauline O'Reilly: ...x20ac;20,000. We have 19 hospitals that have no facility at all for these cold caps. That would amount to €364,000 in total to get a machine in each of those hospitals. We often talk about the postcode lottery for many things in Ireland. However, there is no need in this particular case because it is such a small cost. One particular hospital in Tullamore did have the facility...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Lottery (12 Dec 2023)

Noel Grealish: 300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any records exist for the National Lottery Sports Programme application or approval for funding, which was allocated for a centre (details supplied) from 1989-1999; if so, whether these records can be accessed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54493/23]

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...and the experience in particular of Irish people around the world when he sang: Thousands are sailing Again across the western ocean Where the hand of opportunity Draws tickets in a lottery. That is exactly what it is like for immigrants who want to work and who want to contribute to society. They move across the planet because of war, persecution, discrimination and,...

Seanad: Sex Offenders (Amendment) (Coercive Control) Bill 2023: Second Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Fintan Warfield: ...see in the District Court for family law and domestic violence cases. In the round, these matters should be viewed alongside this Bill as part of tackling this issue. We also know there is a postcode lottery in place where the waiting times vary widely across the State. I urge the Minister to look at these issues in the round, to provide the justice system with the resources it needs to...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Access to CAMHS for Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Discussion (6 Dec 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Tom Clonan: ...Ms Moore Ryan set out, and what I hear from the many representations I get through my office. There is a recurring pattern in those representations, one of which is that it is a bit of a lottery as regards where people live and, if they get access to a team, whether the team is led by a consultant with higher specialist training. I emphasise that, generally speaking, there is no...

Renters: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...is being left to rot in emergency accommodation. Then we get talk from the Government that cost rental is coming. However, it never comes in the volumes necessary to deal with the situation. A tiny bit comes and it is a lottery. It is like needles in haystacks for people hoping they might get one of these cost rental units. It is an absolute disaster, and 12,800 people, including...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Enrolments (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: ...school referenced by the Deputy, it is my understanding that there is no catchment area designed by the board of management. Schools choose to use whatever type of enrolment mechanism, whether a lottery or otherwise, and consequently, as we do not develop catchment areas, we do not have catchment area maps in the Department. I have referenced the school planning area maps. There are 314...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: That is exactly why PDS was rolled out in the first place. There was an inequality in that there was the postcode lottery and it was not standardised. There were not X number of therapists to whom children could have access. In Cork, there could have been OT and speech and language, but from a multidisciplinary point of view, there might not have been psychology, whereas, in Galway, there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2023: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (22 Nov 2023)

Eugene Murphy: ...for rural Ireland. I will turn to funding. Considerable work has been done in Roscommon in recent years. I presume all of that comes out of a budget like this. Racecourses do not qualify for lottery sports grants or anything like that. Is all of the work being done funded by what is allocated to them out of this budget? I will also say something about prize money. I like a bit...