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Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (15 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer, if the maximum allowable pension fund was capped at €5 million, €4 million, €3 million and €2 million respectively. [35084/08]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (11 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: .... Very often, drugs cannot be approved in this country because of the exorbitant prices that are allowed to be charged here. There is an opportunity cost involved. If one wants to approve €5 million for a given drug, €5 million is taken from other health services. If we are to hold such a session, we must invite Dr. Barry. I assume he still works in quality assessment....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stamp Duty (6 Sep 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 168. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimate of the first and full year yield from an increase to 5% for stamp duty on residential property transfers on all amounts in excess of €1 million. [36930/19]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (16 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Finance the basis on which he is estimating that €5 million can be raised in 2011 through the reduction of the overall life time limit on tax free lump sums to €200,000; and the reason such estimates were not provided in reply to recent parliamentary questions [47932/10]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Organisations (7 Jul 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 568. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which his Department became aware that the Football Association of Ireland had received a €5 million payment from the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, following the failure of the Republic of Ireland football team to qualify for the 2010 World Cup. [27146/15]

Written Answers — Sports Funding: Sports Funding (15 Feb 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the details of the Government offer to make €5 million available to the GAA to improve player welfare; if he has had discussions with the GAA and the Gaelic Players Association on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5556/07]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (16 Apr 2013)

Róisín Shortall: ...for the delay in recruiting additional front-line primary care staff; when he expects all such staff to be recruited; and the way in which he intends to re-allocate the savings of approximately €5 million to date arising from the delayed recruitment of these primary care posts. [17027/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Organisations (7 Jul 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 570. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he, his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department have any concerns as to how the receipt of €5 million by the Football Association of Ireland from the Fédération Internationale de Football Association was accounted for by the Football Association of Ireland and-or reported to his Department or to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Treatment Purchase Fund (19 Apr 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 5. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the recently announced funding for the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, to procure medical procedures in private hospitals represents best value for money; if a cost-benefit analysis on this €50 million investment has been carried out; his further views on whether this policy could represent a perverse incentive in the...

Social Welfare Fraud. (7 Oct 2009)

Róisín Shortall: ...a fairly poor performance by her Department. For example, in one of the schemes that has the highest fraud and overpayment rate, the one parent family payment, surveys suggest that in 2007, €67 million was overpaid yet the Department detected only €5 million of that. That cannot be a good performance. There is a concern that the Minister is not targeting those schemes most prone to...

Primary Care Strategy (27 Mar 2012)

Róisín Shortall: ...teams targeted by the HSE for establishment by the end of 2012 now stands at 486. At the end of February 2012, 400 PCTs were operating, that is, holding clinical team meetings. Funding of €20 million has been provided for in the HSE's national service plan for 2012 to fill as many vacancies as possible that have arisen as a result of the recent public service retirements and to expand...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (30 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: ..., at best, offered courses of between three and six months duration. We know, given the skills shortages in the economy that have been identified, that the type of training required - FETAC level 5 and level 6 - requires training for a minimum of eight months and up to two years in most cases. The Department spends €300 million on the contract for JobPath. There is a central...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: It was the Minister who decided the time is right to remove the €500,000 cap on bankers' pay and restore their bumper bonuses. We are told he needs to do this so we can attract good people and the top talent to run our banks. It seems no self-respecting high-flying banker would want to work for a less than €500,000, as if they could not survive on a salary that is more than...

Seanad: Water Services (1 Mar 2012)

Róisín Shortall: ..., Community and Local Government, Deputy Phil Hogan. I thank the Senator for providing me with an opportunity to outline the improvements made in the area of waste water treatment in the past 15 years. More than €6 billion in Exchequer resources has been invested in water services infrastructure since the early 1990s, with more than €5 billion of that spent in the past decade and a...

Urban Regeneration Schemes. (1 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: ...of this project. The regeneration scheme has been exceptionally successful to date. This project is unique in its scale because never before has an existing town with a population of some 15,000 been replaced, on the same site, with a new town. The Ballymun regeneration scheme has posed major challenges to those charged with managing it and also the residents who have been prepared to...

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (27 May 2015)

Róisín Shortall: ...the worst effects of recession in recent years. It is worth reminding the House of the company's strengths. It generated revenues of €1.6 billion last year, with an operating profit of €72 million. It has total assets of €1.8 billion and cash reserves of €545 million, more than any other European airline. Last year it carried 11 million passengers on its 51...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: ...very expensive and benefits the better off. A great many people with very little pension provision for themselves or no pension provision at all are subsidising the better off who have pension pots up to €5 million and beyond in some cases. That is a highly inequitable system and that needs to be tackled.

Seanad: Clotting Factor Concentrates and Other Biological Products Bill 2012: Second and Subsequent Stages (21 Mar 2012)

Róisín Shortall: ..., to St. James's Hospital which is the National Centre for Hereditary Coagulation Disorders and also the National Haemophilia Centre. These products cost the health system approximately €37.6 million in 2011. There are approximately 2,000 people with haemophilia and related disorders in Ireland. Approximately 600 people have haemophilia while 900 have Von Willebrand disease and another...

Clotting Factor Concentrates and Other Biological Products Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) and Subsequent Stages (14 Mar 2012)

Róisín Shortall: ...IBTS removed its commission of 19% on products. Projected savings were based on usage patterns being maintained but usage has actually increased, as noted by the Minister earlier in the debate, by 5 million units for factor 8 and 2 million units for factor 9. Even so, the cost of the products to the State has actually decreased from almost €40.8 million in 2009 to €37.6 million last...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: ...her actions. Her actions show clearly that she set out deliberately to hit the weakest in society. Rather than protecting the vulnerable, she has protected the rich. The Minister has protected millionaires. Those people referred to previously who earn vast salaries will not pay one extra cent in tax, nor will those who can avail of various property reliefs. None of the property...