Results 1-20 of 110 for 5 million speaker:Brendan Howlin

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Programme Expenditure (17 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: The direct Exchequer capital funding allocated to the Office of Public Works for 2014 amounts to €104.5 million. A breakdown by Subhead of the €104.5m on the OPW Vote in 2014 is set out below: Funding Source Description / Subhead Capital Estimate 2014 €000 16 B.4 Grants for Refurbishment (C2) 250 20 B.5 Purchase of Sites & Bldgs (D) 500 25 B.6 New Works (E)...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Public Sector Pensions Data (21 Apr 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (FEMPI) Acts laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas in June 2014, the Public Service Pension Reduction (PSPR) was estimated to save in the region of €125 million annually. Public service pensions awarded to or in respect of persons retiring or reaching preserved pension age from 1 March 2012 onwards are based on...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (13 Jul 2022)

Brendan Howlin: ...the action plan on solidarity lanes will offer an alternative; in fact, it will not. The Commission explained to us that, at best, it will get half the volume of grain out of Ukraine, that is, 2.5 million tonnes per month as opposed to 5 million tonnes, and at much greater cost. How likely is the opening of the ports by way of the Turkish initiative?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Programme Expenditure (8 Jul 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ...allocations to Departments.  The 2014 figures in the following table show the allocations published in the Revised Estimates Volume 2014 (published in December 2013) and, therefore, do not include the further Stimulus investment of €194 million that I announced in May of this year and about half of which will be spent by Departments and agencies on the specified projects...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Programme Expenditure (10 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I should point out that the figure of €5 million published in the figures refers to my Vote group which includes Votes 11 to 19. Of these Votes, only three have a capital allocation – Vote 11 Public Expenditure and Reform, Vote 13 Office of Public Works and Vote 18 Shared Services. While the group is showing an underspend against profile at the end of November, it is expected...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (23 Jan 2018)

Brendan Howlin: At least €5 million is being spent on this unit, one would have to do something.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (23 Jan 2018)

Brendan Howlin: A sum of €5 million has been spent so it has to produce something.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements: Supplementary Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (31 Jan 2018)

Brendan Howlin: It has a very concentrated population of 5 million.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: These things are not written in stone. I have moved Garda vehicles to the capital side. As the Deputies will be aware, I provided a capital grant of €5 million this year to acquire more Garda vehicles. It is easier to find capital moneys than it is to find current expenditure, although perhaps I should not say that loudly.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (7 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...and Reform - that in budgeting, it is a Minister who determines the amount of money to be sought for any agency or unit. Who then proposed that the strategic communications unit should get €5 million and who determined that it should have 15 staff?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Issues (18 Jul 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...the PSPR adjustments which the Deputy has proposed. However, by drawing on previously undertaken costings work, it is possible to ascribe an approximate order-of-magnitude savings figure of a further €5 million to the PSPR proposals made by the Deputy. This approximate and tentative €5 million PSPR savings estimate arises very substantially from the Deputy's proposal in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (7 May 2014)

Brendan Howlin: The reduction in the rate of Pension Related Deduction (PRD) applied to the €15,000 to €20,000 band of pay fell from 5% to 2.5% on 1 January 2014. This rate cut is worth €125 annually in gross terms to most public servants, with those taxed at the standard rate enjoying the greater gain in terms of take-home pay boost. In terms of annual impact on the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Brendan Howlin: It is a simple matter. Lotto wins will remain tax free. The Revenue Commissioners will not be going after a person if they find €5,000 in an account somewhere. However, if they discover an account wherein there is €5 million they will have the power to inquire from where it came. This provision ensures that where a person declares that he or she won a particular amount on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Expenditure (12 Jun 2013)

Brendan Howlin: With effect from 1 July 2013, the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2013 will reduce public service pensions valued above €32,500 per annum, applying to all such pensions already payable on that date or awarded up to end-August 2014. The reductions will range from about 2% near the €32,500 threshold level (subject to no pension falling below...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (21 Nov 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...of public expenditure for running everything, which would not be right either. I will finish the point relating to the Department of Justice and Equality. We have allocated an additional €5 million for the first instalment of the Magdalen payments, which was not accounted for but to which nobody would object. The Deputy mentioned the €51 million, which is a gross figure,...

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (27 Mar 2007)

Brendan Howlin: Question 138: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will review the level of funding allocated under the recent hardship scheme for salmon fishermen and the €5 million level of funding designated for the general coastal communities support; his views on extending the deadline for applications for the scheme beyond 31 March 2007; if he has had contacts...

Other Questions: Public Service Reform Plan Update (4 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I agree with the Deputy. My first budget announcement was that we could realistically target 5%, and that is where the figure of €75 million came from. The Deputy was on the committee which examined allowances and he knows that when we drill down to see what are allowances, this is a completely different issue. I do not have time to go into detail with the Deputy but within the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (1 Jul 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...analysis. The following table shows spending in the categories of Domestic Subsistence, Foreign Subsistence and Motor Travel for 2012 and also shows the amount equivalent to a reduction of 2.5%, 5% and 10% on these figures. The Deputy may wish to note that certain changes in subsistence arrangements come into effect from 1 July 2015. In summary, these arrangements provide...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (24 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...briefed and had given their views on the contents of the survey. When will that process take place and will the research proceed? On the overall budget, the Taoiseach indicated the budget of €5 million was to be reallocated, with €2.5 million to be retained to meet existing financial commitments. I understand from his reply that the remaining €2.5 million will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Mar 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...and park at Rathfarnham Permanent exhibition on the life of P.H. Pearse in the exhibition area of the museum to be launched in 2016 Arbour Hill Presentation works to the site (complete in 2015) Garden of Remembrance Universal Access works (complete in 2015) Conservation works at the Children of Lir statue (complete in 2015) Pearse Cottage Provision, by Údarás na Gaeltachta,...