Results 1-16 of 16 for lottery speaker:Anne Rabbitte

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (9 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...voluntary agencies can contact the HSE with proposals/applications for funding – see weblink below: hse.ie/eng/services/publications/non-statutory-sector/ Applications for funding can also be made via a National Lottery Grant - more information can be found on HSE.ie at the following link: hse.ie/services/schemes-allowances/lottery-grants/national-l ottery- It is important to note...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (9 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...therapy, speech & language therapy, play therapy and hippotherapy. I note that the HSE does not fund Sensational Kids, although the organisation has received small grants under the National Lottery Grant Scheme amounting to €4,577 in 2016 and €3,000 in December 2022. However, I am aware that the HSE in CHO7 are in ongoing engagement with Sensational Kids with regard...

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...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (16 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...are expected to be announced by the end of the year. I would take from this that the issue raised by the Deputy falls under the fourth category. However, at the same time it feels like a bit of a lottery system. When he meets with TII next week, that is one of the points the Deputy would need to make. In my opinion, it also answers that piece. It is a market town and a major point of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (8 Mar 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...to dieticians. When you train only 29 dieticians in a year, there is no wonder we have a shortage. The children who apply for the dietician role in the CAO will need 615 and then they will go into a lottery. That is the number of spaces we have. We need far more places on dietetics. It needs to be completely expanded. We need to have a complete suite of measures on this. It is not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding (14 Oct 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: ...lives, provide greater independence in accessing the services they choose, and enhance their ability to tailor the supports required to meet their needs and plan their lives. As National Lottery Grants are within the remit of the Health Service Executive, I have asked the HSE to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: ...to have the money laid out in advance. They have to know what it will cost them to run a community bingo game. In my research I found that the cost of a double book, which would fall under the lottery permit and the maximum price of a ticket, would be €10. The cost of a single book is €7 and a baby book is €4. A person pays €3 for the gamble and €3...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: ...Funchion cited one amendment in particular, but what we speak about in our amendments goes to the core of the issue, namely, ensuring that every child has access to a GAL regardless of postcode lotteries or the level of the court system he or she is in. The child might not need a guardian ad litem, but he or she would have had the opportunity to decline one. Another amendment would have...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: ...Minister is saying and I think that she hears what we are saying. Without labouring the point, it really goes back to removing the discretion of the judge. It also relates to work on the postcode lottery and to having the voice of the child heard.

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2018: From the Seanad (7 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I want to speak to the last portion of the Bill that the Minister spoke about introducing relating to the certificate of fitness. I am homing in on the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956. Fianna Fáil brought forward a Gambling Control Bill and I feel this is diluting it. Listening to the Minister's statement, I understand what he is saying. At what stage are he and the Minister of State,...

Gambling Control Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: ...we could allow the Bill to go to the justice committee. While the Government is facilitating this, we all know how the system works. I do not want it stalled and would like to see it emerge from the lottery along the way.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Betting Legislation (21 Mar 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 183. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the threat posed to the good cause fund generated by the national lottery in accordance with the National Lottery Act 2013 by unregulated offshore bet-on-lottery operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13176/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Betting Legislation (21 Mar 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to tackle the growing threat posed to the good cause fund by offshore bet-on-lottery operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13177/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Betting Legislation (21 Mar 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 185. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that unregulated offshore bet-on-lottery operators are using a legislative loophole through a remote bookmaker licence issued by the Irish National Excise Licence Office to offer bets on the National Lottery and EuroMillions consequently posing a threat to the good cause fund; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Betting Legislation (21 Mar 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 186. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that through a remote bookmaker’s licence issued by the Irish National Excise Licence Office offshore bet-on-lottery companies are operating here under no regulatory authority or regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13179/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (25 Oct 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: ...matter of urgency in view of the fact that this person is waiting indefinitely as a high-priority case for surgery; if he will issue a date for the operation; the reason surgeons have to wait in a lottery from month to month to be able to perform surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31902/16]