Results 1-20 of 25 for lottery speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This meeting has been convened to allow the committee to consider Committee Stage of the Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the House or an official either by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable. We...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Funding Data (6 Feb 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 156. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual return to the exchequer from the national lottery in each of the years 2008 to 2017; the payout to charities and other beneficiary organisations and entities by the national lottery for each of the years; the arrangements in place with the national lottery operators; the timeframe of their tenure; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recognition of Traveller Ethnicity: Discussion (9 Nov 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...and have it ready for presentation. This is a busy committee. We will have our first report on Irish Sign Language debated on the floor of the Dáil tomorrow. Reports are selected from a lottery and ours was drawn from the hat because it was the only one in it. It appears we are the only committee yet to have produced a report in 2016. We intend to stay ahead of the other...

National Dementia Strategy Implementation: Statements (14 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...centre at St. James's Hospital, Dublin, believes these services are linked with areas with "well-known hospital overcrowding problems." This, if it is the case, is a sensible approach to deal with overcrowded hospitals, but it also means that families with similar need levels are being discriminated against owing to a postcode lottery. We also know that those with the disease at earlier...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...a point regarding a reference at the foot of the C8, dealing with total administration but there is no designated letter and number on the entry. It refers to grants to organisations part funded by the national lottery. In the 2014 Estimates-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...referring to page 5 of the 26-page briefing provided by the Department in advance of today's meeting. I seek clarification as to the organisations and as to why grants part funded by the national lottery to these respective organisations, estimated as €910 million in 2014, are not now to be provided. There is a 100% discounting of these for this year. I will leave it at that for...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...and services, I put a question to the Minister at the outset when I was attempting to establish the factual position with regard to the grants to organisations part-funded by the national lottery. The Minister indicated that €910,000 had been moved on to Tusla and the Child and Family Agency, if I remember correctly from his earlier reply.

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I tabled my priority question as part of the lottery system and, strange to relate, have been seeking the first position for a long time and here we are.

Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...and to examine how best to integrate it. I am contacted regularly by citizens from all across the State who have difficulty in seeking the appropriate care. I suggest there is an element of a postcode lottery in this respect. Citizens should be able to rely on quality services no matter where they live. I have said before the plan is being sold as adding an extra €625 million to...

Other Questions: Preschool Services (25 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is some lottery.

Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...local and European elections but has described the current medical card system in Ireland as being broken and lacking in humanity. It has described it as being unjust and inconsistent and as a hellish lottery. Has the Minister of State read the correspondence from the specialist nurses in the Jack & Jill Children's Foundation? Has he looked at the case put by the Aoibheann's...

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...Depressed and beaten into submission by a system that is just too hard, where parents have to fight for every little support for their child. The medical card system in Ireland is broken. It lacks humanity. Is unjust. Inconsistent. A hellish lottery. We know it is a real issue on the doorstep for local and European election candidates. We know the pressure coming to bear on you from...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Lottery Funding Applications (26 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 570. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when a decision will be made on the lottery grant fund application in respect of a group (details supplied) in County Meath. [50403/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (28 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 307. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funding transferred from the National Lottery funds to Government Departments and agencies for good causes in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25287/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (28 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 308. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funding transferred from the National Lottery funds to the Office of the Minister for Children in 2008, 2009, 2010 and to the Department of Children and Youth Affairs in 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25288/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (28 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 309. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the impact of the sale of the National Lottery licence on the amount of funding available for good causes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25289/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (28 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 600. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which the details of the 2013 National Lottery grant scheme of once off funding to community and voluntary organisations from her Department will be made known; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25274/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details, year on year, of the compensation funding stream from the National Lottery, to those charities who had their own scratch card fund raising in situ and whose returns were negatively impacted by the introduction of the coterie of National Lottery products; if he will provide the above requested detail by individual...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Enterprise Initiatives (4 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...projects for youth, young people’s and facilities fund round 1 and 2, youth service grant, local drugs task force projects and the youth information centres that is funded through the National Lottery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53947/12]

Medical Inquiries (19 Jun 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...which is a significant organisation providing important support and making representations for a body of men who need help and support. I urge the Minister to make every effort to approve national lottery funding for it.