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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry Funding (18 Sep 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 170. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will request an additional €5 million for the sport horse industry (details supplied) via Horse Sport Ireland to be invested throughout the industry for the purpose of job creation, increasing exports and to ensure the industry can reach its true potential; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37825/19]

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: A total of €5 million was estimated for the eradication of bovine disease and €7 million was collected through farmers paying the levy at marts and factories. Does this cover the compensation paid to individual farmers because of tuberculosis, TB?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I saw an estimate of €5 million and an outturn of €7 million when I was going through it and I thought I would ask about it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I welcome Mr. Fraser and all our other guests. I will begin with Vote 1, the President's Establishment. I note €3.7 million and then €2.6 million under various headings and then a sum €5 million. That comes to a total of €11.3 million in costs for the President's Establishment. Am I correct? I see €3.7 million in total gross expenditure and then on the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Bobby Aylward: From where does the €5 million come?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Welfare Scheme (3 Oct 2018)

Bobby Aylward: ..., Food and the Marine if the possibility of increasing the €10 subsidy cap per ewe under the sheep welfare scheme will be examined in advance of budget 2019 in view of the underspend of €5 million in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40239/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: ...of Public Accounts. At least the Secretary General of the Department and the head of the strategic communications unit should be invited to attend. The unit was set up last August, it costs €5 million per annum and the unit consists of 11 personnel. The Brexit unit only has half that amount of staff even though it is more important to this country. Is the unit value for money?...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Welfare Scheme (20 Feb 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 457. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the possibility of increasing the €10 subsidy cap per ewe under the sheep welfare scheme will be examined in view of the underspend of €5 million in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8645/18]

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 – Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Department of Defence
Chapter 8 – Disposal of the Government Jet (26 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: ...more bidders interested. Instead, our hands were tied. The aircraft was stripped down in Savannah, with one bidder coming in for spare parts. We realised €471,000 but could we have made €4 million or €5 million on the jet if it had been repaired?

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: I welcome much of what I consider to be a reasonable budget, but I will focus on a number of areas in which the Government needs to do more. The €5 increase in social welfare payments and all old-age pension payments is very welcome. However, I have serious concerns that these measures will remove the focus from the astronomical delays being endured by those who applied for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas (10 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 540. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the drawdown to date of the €5 million reserve earmarked in Leader funding for the period 2014 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39339/15]

Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)

Bobby Aylward: ...singular contribution made by this age group to the national economy and to society. I am delighted that the Government decided to revise the income threshold up to €700 gross weekly or €36,500 annually for a single person and €1,400 gross per week or €73,000 annually for a couple. Now 95% of people who are over 70 will retain the medical card. This amounts to approximately...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Second Stage (13 Nov 2008)

Bobby Aylward: ...demands and social conditions. As nearly every member of a household is in work, they cannot take on the added responsibility of looking after an elderly or infirm relative. Approximately 22,750 people live in long-term residential care, either in public or private nursing homes. That represents about 5% of the over-65s population, or one in 20 people. Due to demographic factors and our...