Results 1-20 of 43 for lottery speaker:Thomas Byrne

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Lottery (16 Apr 2024)

Thomas Byrne: ...continuing the SCEP and to prioritising investment in disadvantaged areas. SCEP is one of a number of schemes operated by the Department which is categorised as being “part funded by the National Lottery”. Under section 8 of the National Lottery Act 1986, the proceeds of the National Lottery are paid into the Central Fund of the Exchequer. The apportionment of National...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Defibrillators Provision (18 Oct 2023)

Thomas Byrne: ...under the 2023 round which is currently at assessment stage. Defibrillators situated at sports clubs are generally for community use and funding is also available through the HSE’s National Lottery grants schemes and other Community grants schemes.Furthermore, at a local level, the network of Local Sports Partnerships throughout the country delivers education and training...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Defibrillators Provision (21 Mar 2023)

Thomas Byrne: ...from which new applications will be accepted. Defibrillators situated at sports clubs are generally also for community use and I am aware that funding is also available through the HSE’s national lottery grants schemes and other community grants schemes. A number of national governing bodies of sport also have schemes in place to support their club networks in cardiac care,...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Defibrillators Provision (14 Feb 2023)

Thomas Byrne: ...from which new applications will be accepted. Defibrillators situated at sports clubs are generally also for community use and I am aware that funding is also available through the HSE’s national lottery grants schemes and other community grants schemes. A number of national governing bodies of sport also have schemes in place to support their club networks in cardiac care,...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (18 Jan 2023)

Thomas Byrne: ...which new applications will be accepted. Defibrillators situated at sports clubs are generally also for community use and I am aware that funding is also available through the HSE’s national lottery grants schemes and other community grants schemes. At a local level, the network of local sports partnerships throughout the country delivers education and training opportunities...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (29 Jan 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 621. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the procedure for applying for national lottery arts grants. [4062/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (16 Jan 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 836. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a recent cut to funding of the counties Louth and Meath branch of an organisation (details supplied) through the national lottery grant scheme 2017; and his views on whether this cut will reduce the ability of the branch to carry out work in the community. [55011/17]

Seanad: Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Statements (28 May 2015)

Thomas Byrne: ...of what the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, talked about when he described the hands-off nature of the sale of State assets. When he was talking about the sale of the national lottery he talked about appointing certain officials in his Department who would work on it and no Minister would be involved, etc. We have found out, however, that in the past few months...

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Thomas Byrne: ...that has arisen in the context of lobbying in the last week. The Minister has spoken at length and correctly about the establishment of procedures and structures when assets like the national lottery and Bord Gáis Éireann are sold. We welcome that and feel it is very necessary. When I was looking at this week's newspaper reports about the possible sale of shares in Aer Lingus,...

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (29 Jan 2015)

Thomas Byrne: ...to the Department of Health and other Departments once they are registered. That was found out through other means. I am worried that we would normalise it. There have been sales involving Bord Gáis, the national lottery and Irish Water, and there have been all kinds of public concerns about who is influencing whom in regard to them. It would have been better to have had this...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Thomas Byrne: ...for profits or whatever to a private body, it will have to go before the plebiscite and that the plebiscite provisions would apply. In the same way that the Minister part privatised the national lottery by issuing a licence - that is the most recent precedent - that would not be subject to the plebiscite provisions if he did something similar to Irish Water. If the Minister sold the...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Thomas Byrne: ...and protect the institutions of the State from the whims of politicians. They cannot just go in there and change things at whim, which they can do with this section. They changed the national lottery that Senator O'Donnell cares so much about on a whim - on a policy change. Things change.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Thomas Byrne: We had a lottery Act that did not allow for the issuing of a licence to a private body and then we simply had a section in the other Act repealing the previous Act. That is what will happen here. In fairness to Senator O'Donnell, I think that point is unanswerable. The Minister has repeatedly said that no party has proposed this. Actually Senator Walsh reminded me of the Sinn Féin...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Thomas Byrne: ...only talks about the alienation of shares in Irish Water; it does not talk about the sale, lease, letting or licensing of those shares or of the business or assets of Irish Water. As I said previously, the national lottery was effectively privatised by simply issuing a licence to a private company to operate it. Who would have imagined, in the Labour Party of the 1980s - which was in...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Thomas Byrne: Senator O'Donnell will be interested in this. The national lottery was not actually sold. The Government issued a licence. Having checked that, I have now submitted a Report Stage amendment. A licence could be issued in the same way the national lottery licence was issued regarding the business and undertakings of Irish Water without having anything to do with section 2 and leaving...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Thomas Byrne: ...to the debate and for listening to the robust and differing views expressed by Senators. I suggest to Senator O'Donnell this provision could be changed in exactly the same way that the national lottery was dealt with. It is the same procedure and the national lottery sets a precedent in this regard. The provision on the plebiscite has already been amended. I pointed out this morning...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Thomas Byrne: ...for Senator Quinn even if I might not agree with him on everything. We are not looking at this or the next Government; we are looking at the distance between the establishment of the National Lottery and its sale. The Bill does not deal with that distance. I have suggested that the public water forum be turned into a constitutional convention on the issue of privatising Irish Water, and...

Seanad: Economic Growth and Job Creation: Statements (4 Mar 2014)

Thomas Byrne: ...and show that we achieved something. Its sale was supposed to fund major infrastructural projects such as the national children's hospital, which is not really progressing. The sale of the national lottery licence is another issue. Health care is another key issue relating to economic growth and reform. It is seen across the world as a matter that relates not just to the health of...

Seanad: National Lottery Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (7 May 2013)

Thomas Byrne: ...all the best. The good causes which have benefitted from these projects want the scheme to continue. We have all acknowledged the fact that the communities that received funding from the national lottery needed the money. The children's hospital also needs to be built as a matter of urgency. God speed to the legislation. We wish the Minister and his staff well in the implementation...

Seanad: National Lottery Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (7 May 2013)

Thomas Byrne: I move amendment No. 1: "7. The employment rights of employees of the National Lottery and the contractual rights of agents of the National Lottery shall be protected by this Act.".It is crucial that we give clarity to the staff and agents of the national lottery that they will be protected under this arrangement. Former staff of Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society were...