Results 1-20 of 37 for 5 million speaker:Seán Sherlock

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (28 Feb 2024)

Seán Sherlock: ...ameliorate traffic flows through the town of Mallow, much of which is HGV traffic, then we will need to progress this project. If we consider that one person in RTÉ can get an exit package of €450,000, if that figure was doubled, it would be small money in terms of the €5 billion the Minister of State spoke about or the €400 million that has been allocated for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (15 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...in her reply, she said the building in Ballincollig is operational and ready for equipping. I need to know if it is going to be fully funded. The ophthalmology unit based in SIVUH, which cost €5 million, is not operational. I need some comfort for the people I represent in the CHO 4 area in order that I can assure them there will be seamless access to services, whether on a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (15 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...39 whole-time equivalents in Cork University Hospital, CUH, but that the number of vacancies for whole-time equivalents is two. For South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital, SIVUH, it is 25 with a vacancy rate there of 2.7 whole-time equivalents while in the Mercy University Hospital, MUH, the number that came back is zero. The Minister told me that the South/SouthWest Hospital Group...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...out. The six-month requirement is arbitrary and permits no consideration of context: a child resident for 180 days receives €12,500. A child resident for 179 days receives ... [nothing at all]. 5. The Bill makes it more difficult for survivors who resided in an institution at a young age to claim compensation. Whereas the General Scheme of the Bill [which the committee...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (12 Oct 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...is required, which is welcome, I question why it has to be two years. That is the first point. My second point is on the wait period of 26 weeks and the flexibility around that. Subsection (5) of the new section 13B states: For the purposes of this section, where an employee ceases to be the employee of an employer and, not more than 26 weeks after the date of cesser, the employee again...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (25 May 2021)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Minister. What she is clearly articulating to me, so that I can report back to the people who have made representations to me, is that the €5 million connected hub funding does not apply to a person or entity trying to start from scratch and that it is for pre-existing infrastructure. This is what the Minister is clarifying. If this is the case, we will advise...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (25 May 2021)

Seán Sherlock: 2. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way in which the €5 million fund to support the development of Ireland’s first national network of remote working hubs will work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28176/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (25 May 2021)

Seán Sherlock: I merely wish to ask the Minister the way in which the €5 million fund to support the development of Ireland's first national network of remote working hubs will work, and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (25 May 2021)

Seán Sherlock: ...sized town while Killavullen is a village where connectivity would be an issue. Can people who live in areas where there is currently no hub reasonably expect that they will get a slice of the €5 million?

National Autism Empowerment Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2021)

Seán Sherlock: ...regarding how that list has been dramatically reduced and if we accept at face value that they have been reduced, there is still the significant issue of the follow-on services. Some €7.8 million was spent on this and I welcome that the Ministers were able to secure this amount. However, the HSE paid €8.7 million to Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC for consultancy services during...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 1323. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 234 of 7 October 2020, if he will provide a breakdown of the €5 million to each company and the service they provided since March 2020. [33138/20]

Early Exit from Peat for Electricity Generation: Statements (6 Nov 2019)

Seán Sherlock: ...'s closure, workers, unions, citizens and local businesses came together to research how to achieve a just transition. They developed a thermal solar plant that will create 1,800 jobs and save 5 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. This is a story of how preparation and partnership can work to deliver positive outcomes for all. This leads us to the Minister's announcements in...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Seán Sherlock: I apologise for my voice. I will start on the climate action agenda. Yesterday, the Minister announced that €90 million would be ring-fenced. The language used in the document was vague and non-committal. According to the document, the ring-fencing of that €90 million is to protect the most vulnerable, have sustainable mobility programmes, have agri-environmental schemes,...

Cork Mail Centre: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: ...up and I do not understand it. Notwithstanding all of that, An Post's administrative costs, according to its annual reports, have ramped up as a percentage of sales and, specifically in 2018, went from €55.9 million to €63.9 million, which gives it an extra €8 million. To quote directly from a journal.iepost on 17 March, in its official rebranding An Post has spent...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (18 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: The Minister addressed the Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action on 5 December and made very specific references to the €500 million climate action fund. He has already said that there are seven major climate change projects that will share €77 million in Government funding. He also made reference to the sovereign green bond. If we are talking about how the decisions we will...

Finance Bill 2018: Second Stage (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: ...Fáil look fiscally responsible and whether it is a Fianna Fáil tool or a Fine Gael tool and we seek more transparency and openness in that regard. While the fund may appear prudent, taking €1.5 billion from the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund is just a change on paper. It is not new money. We would like to know where the new fund will be invested and whether it is...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: ...the issue of climate change, it is astounding that in the week when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has told us there is a narrow window of opportunity to keep global warming within 1.5° Celsius and that to avail of this opportunity we have to act now, the Government did not do anything in terms of a set of measures that would seek to decarbonise further the economy. In...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Seán Sherlock: ...McCreevy looms large. The sums in the budget barely add up. Last night, the Taoiseach pledged that sustainable steps will be taken but that is the spin the Opposition has come to expect, as proven by the expenditure of €5 million on a communications unit. As all Members know, budget measures such as stamp duty increases that have a commercial or market-moving impact are...

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

Seán Sherlock: ...debt to GDP ratio is at a sustainable level and the general Government debt has fallen by €18 billion in the past three years. Debt stock is now €1 billion lower than it was at the end of 2015 and this is the third successive year of decline. Gross Government debt declined from a peak of approximately €218 billion in the third quarter of 2013 to €200 billion...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Seán Sherlock: ...on waiting lists, he replied:I am assured that the 2017 NTPF waiting list initiative will help to alleviate some of the difficulties in Cork. In 2017, the NTPF will have an allocation of €20 million and, in the first instance, in the region of €5 million will be targeted at day case procedures. The NTPF anticipate that 2,500 of the longest waiting day case patients,...