Results 1-20 of 58 for 5 million speaker:Willie O'Dea

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (29 Nov 2005)

Willie O'Dea: ...for appraisal and management of capital expenditure proposals in the public sector. The guidelines require that a cost benefit analysis be carried out on certain projects valued at over €5 million; and on all projects valued at over €50 million. There were no capital projects in my Department that fell within either category during the past six months.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2014)

Willie O'Dea: This only requires €1 million from a €5 billion budget.

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: -----and for carers, the vulnerable and the unemployed? Will the Tánaiste give the House a categoric assurance the cut of €5 million in the subvention to RTE with regard to those who receive free television licences will not result in any diminution of the benefits given to these people from the Department of Social Protection at present?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (28 Jan 2014)

Willie O'Dea: ...initially supposed to be a short-term panacea to address short-term homelessness. However, it would now appear to be the cornerstone of the Government's policy on social housing given that some 55,000 people have been on rent supplement for more than 18 months. The Minister stated that the Government had provided for just under €400 million and it cost €414 million last...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I will follow on a point made by Deputy Brady in regard to the abolition of the bereavement grant. The Minister mentioned that a figure of €5 million was paid out last year in exceptional needs payments. Where does the provision for exceptional needs payments appear in the budgetary figures? Is it part of the supplementary welfare allowance?

Written Answers — Departmental Projects: Departmental Projects (17 Jun 2008)

Willie O'Dea: ...both Permanent and Reserve. The programme focuses mainly on infrastructural projects comprising the construction of new buildings and the refurbishment of existing buildings. Since 1999 over €250 million has been expended on the programme. Estimated expenditure this year is €29.6 million including a carryover of €3 million savings from 2007. The following are the capital projects...

Departmental Expenditure. (12 Dec 2007)

Willie O'Dea: The gross total allocation for my Department in 2008 is €1,078 million, comprising €888 million in the defence Vote and €190 million in the Army pensions Vote. This represents an increase of 7% on the 2007 allocation. Almost 70% of the defence Estimate is expended on the pay and allowances for an average of 10,500 Permanent Defence Force personnel, some 880 civilian employees and...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Property: Defence Forces Property (2 Nov 2004)

Willie O'Dea: ...to improve the standard of accommodation in the Curragh were placed in recent years as part of the barracks reinvestment plan for the Defence Forces. These included contracts to the value of €5 million approximately in Connolly Barracks, students, and Clarke Barracks, other ranks. In addition, minor accommodation upgrade contracts to a total value of approximately €600,000 were carried...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Respite Care Services (10 Jun 2014)

Willie O'Dea: ...has spent several minutes answering a question that could be answered in four words: We have no plans. The Minister mentioned that the expenditure on carers in the current year is at €806 million. She will be aware that for every euro the State spends on carers it gets back about €5. The value of the total caring done in this country is estimated to be between €4.5...

Written Answers — Air Corps Equipment: Air Corps Equipment (21 Apr 2005)

Willie O'Dea: I propose to take Questions Nos. 15 and 37 together. There are a total of 33 aircraft in service with the Air Corps at present, comprising 14 helicopters and 19 fixed wing aircraft. The type and age of the aircraft is set out in the following tabular statement, which will be circulated in the Official Report. In January 2005, two contracts were signed for the provision of new helicopters for...

Written Answers — Judicial Reviews: Judicial Reviews (30 Jan 2008)

Willie O'Dea: ...to provide the financial data as requested by the Deputy. Year No. of applications where leave for Judicial Reviews was granted 1997 1 1998 2 1999 3 2000 1 2001 3 2002 4 2003 1 2004 9 2005 6 2006 8 2007 5 In the period in question approximately €345 million has been paid out of Subhead T in respect of approximately 17,600 claims for compensation.

Written Answers — Defence Forces Pensions: Defence Forces Pensions (22 Oct 2008)

Willie O'Dea: The gross cost of Defence Force Pensions for the years 2003-2007 is set out below. 2003 — €133m (million) 2004 — €143m 2005 — €150m 2006 — €164m 2007 — €177m These amounts include all superannuation type benefits (pensions and gratuities) payable to ex-members of the Permanent Defence Forces (PDF) and their dependants. Details of the average ages and service of all...

Topical Issue Debate: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (30 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister of State for his offer and intend to take him up on it. I take his point on rent inflation. We propose a 5% increase in the rent cap in order to alleviate what is a desperate situation. I am not in favour of hundreds of millions of euro of taxpayers' money going into the pockets of private landlords. I abhor it and it is grossly wasteful; however, we are faced with a...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: ...year the Department is saying that most of the money it intended to spend on this has already been spent. I know it is demand-led and it is supposed to be open-ended. The Minister mentioned €5 million for last year. Will she get me the figures going back?

Defence Forces Equipment. (26 May 2005)

Willie O'Dea: ...and 41 together. The Air Corps has a 40-aircraft complement comprising 14 helicopters and 26 fixed-wing aircraft. The type and age of the aircraft is set out in the tabular statement. In January 2005, two contracts were signed for the provision of new helicopters for the Air Corps at a cost of over €61 million. At a cost of €48.4 million, inclusive of VAT, four utility helicopters will...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017)

Willie O'Dea: ...are divided between pay and non-pay. Pay has not increased significantly. It seems to be non-pay that has increased. Pay has gone down slightly, actually, but non-pay has increased from €190 million to €254.9 million, which is quite a considerable increase. It is an increase of €50 million and perhaps the Minister would like to comment on that. The pension...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (10 Jun 2014)

Willie O'Dea: ...problems? Perhaps she is correct that the solution is not simply to increase the flow of State money to landlords. The figures I have suggest the top 20 earning landlords last year received €5 million from the State in sums ranging from €180,000 to €578,000 to an individual at the top of the scale. That is one side of the story, but, on the other hand, the...

Overseas Missions. (21 Apr 2005)

Willie O'Dea: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 and 5 together. The United Nations department of peacekeeping operations has invited Ireland to contribute a small number of Defence Forces personnel to act as UN military observers with the recently established United Nations mission in the Sudan. The request to participate in the peacekeeping operation in the Sudan is being given the careful consideration...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2016)

Willie O'Dea: ...recall that representations were made to both him and his predecessor regarding the abolition of the retirement pension, where people are compelled by the terms of their employment to retire at 65 years of age but they must wait a year, and it will shortly be two years, for a pension. In such cases, many of them are obliged to seek jobseeker's allowance. I was informed that an...

Written Answers — Cash Escorts: Cash Escorts (22 Jun 2006)

Willie O'Dea: ...the provision of Cash Escorts. Following detailed and intensive discussions between officials of the IBF, the member Banks and the Department, a detailed formal agreement was signed on 11 May, 2005. This agreement, which is for a 5 year period, provides that the banks will pay the total actual costs incurred by the Defence Forces in the provision of cash escorts. Costs in respect of each...