Results 1-10 of 10 for lottery speaker:Jan O'Sullivan

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...pre-budget submission, which many of us attended this morning. I thank that organisation for the detail it provided us with. Family Carers Ireland was very strong on the issue of the postcode lottery, whereby a carer in one area will get respite but a carer in another will not, or will get a housing adaptation grant in one area but have to wait two or three years in another. That is...

Housing (Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...far too long. In many cases, such individuals have physical disabilities which mean that they simply cannot manage in houses that do not have level access showers. There is something of a postcode lottery at play here. The system is far more efficient in some local authority areas than in others. There needs to be a level of consistency imposed by the Department. I am aware that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan Funding (18 Oct 2018)

Jan O'Sullivan: Mine is pretty much the same question as that asked by Deputy Kelleher. This is my third question in today's lottery. I have done so well that I must buy a national lottery ticket tonight. The Minister clearly answered Deputy Kelleher's questions about the expert panel and so on. I primarily wanted to ask about funding. If the Minister has a different answer, she might give it. If...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...is supposed to qualify for these affordable homes, that is, with an income threshold of up to €50,000 for a single-income qualifier and up to €75,000 for a dual-applicant household. Will there be a lottery for who will get these homes? Only 400 additional social homes have been announced. We need something much more radical and fundamentally different. We published...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Lottery Funding Applications (13 Oct 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...funded directly by the Exchequer. The Revised Estimates Volume (REV) which, is published annually, contains details on a Vote by Vote basis of those programmes that are part-funded by both the National Lottery and the Exchequer. (Reference page 224 of the 2015 REV). There are no programmes in my Department's Vote currently receiving National Lottery funding.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (23 Jun 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...Nos. 564 and 565 together. Annually the Revised Estimates Volume (REV) published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform provides details of Programmes part-financed by the National Lottery and disbursed by relevant Government Departments and Offices. The Revised Estimates Volume provides these details at Vote subhead level and identifies the aggregate amount of National Lottery...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...educational initiatives. These include the literacy and numeracy strategy, the reform of the junior certificate and the continued roll-out of high-speed broadband to second level schools. In addition, proceeds from the national lottery licence transaction were used to provide seed funding to allow primary schools without book rental schemes to set up such schemes. The 2014 provision...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (15 Jul 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...Nos. 268 and 277 together. The Department provides capitation funding to all recognised primary schools. An allocation of €5 million was secured from the proceeds of the sale of the National Lottery Licence to allow primary schools to invest in book rental schemes to reduce the cost burden on parents with young children. Given the scale of our economic crisis, I have no scope to...

Disability Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Mar 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: ..., Deputy Kathleen Lynch, stated last night, choice and control will shift to where it correctly belongs, namely, with the individual and his or her family. A number of Deputies referred to a so-called postcode lottery in services for children. The Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, acknowledged that services have developed independently and were often established to serve one...

Hospital Accommodation (13 Jan 2011)

Jan O'Sullivan: When I saw that three of the first four ordinary questions had gone in the lottery to my colleagues, Deputies Reilly and Ó Caoláin, I was going to suggest that, considering their good luck, they should do the lotto this evening. However, seeing that Question Time is almost over, it is not of any great advantage to them.