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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Grant Payments (15 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: .... I will have to double check the figure. Quite a few details will need to be ironed out in respect of this particular scheme. Some 98% of businesses in Ireland have a turnover of less than €1 million. This scheme is very much aimed at the SME sector. As I understand it, it involves 10% of the first €1 million and 5% of the second €1 million up to a maximum grant...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (21 Mar 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 550, 560, 562, 565, 572 to 574, inclusive, and 577 together. In Budget 2017, I was pleased to increase the rate of Back to Education Allowance for those on age-related reduced rates of payment to €193 per week. This change will come into effect from the academic year commencing in September. The cost of increasing the reduced weekly rates of...

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)

Leo Varadkar: To state some facts, the budget for mental health this year is approximately €900 million. It has increased by €150 million or €200 million in recent years. One can argue about how much the increase was but it was certainly a lot more than €5 million. It was probably closer to €35 million.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pensions (1 Mar 2017)

Leo Varadkar: On Budget Day, I announced the first general increase in the weekly rates of payment since 2009, which builds on the €3 increase which was introduced for pensioners in Budget 2016. A €5 increase in the weekly rates of payment for all social welfare recipients will come into force this month, with proportionate increases for qualified adults and those on reduced rates of...

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (8 May 2008)

Leo Varadkar: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Finance the estimate of the revenue that would be gained by restoring the residential property tax and applying it to residential properties, rental and homes, over a threshold of €3 million, €4 million and €5 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17395/08]

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)

Leo Varadkar: Therefore, I am not sure whether Deputy McDonald's assertions count as fake news or spin but they are certainly untrue. The €5 million budget came out of my Department's administrative allocation. My Department is one of the few Departments that had their budgets reduced for 2018, and I imagine that €5 million budget will be reduced further, if not eliminated altogether,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Data (21 Mar 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...be paid in respect of children up to their 18th birthday who are in full-time education, or who have a disability. Child Benefit is currently paid to around 627,000 families in respect of some 1.2 million children, with an estimated expenditure in the order of over €2 billion in 2017. The estimated annual costs of increasing Child Benefit by €3, €5 and €10...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Leo Varadkar: Okay. The €5 billion was an estimate related to public nursing homes and not private nursing homes. A scheme was set up - I do not know when but under then Minister for Health, Mary Harney - to compensate people who were charged in public nursing homes. The initial estimate was €5 billion. By the time scheme was developed, it came down by €1 billion. In the end,...

Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...money. It is very expensive to send people abroad for treatment, but we do it because sometimes specialised treatment can only be provided in specialised centres in areas with a population of 10 million, 20 million, 30 million, 40 million or 50 million. I cannot say to the Deputy for sure whether it would be viable or possible to have the treatments provided in this country, a country of...

Written Answers — State Airports: State Airports (18 Apr 2012)

Leo Varadkar: Since 1993 a total of €17.8 million funding has been allocated to Galway Airport, €8 million in respect of Capital expenditure and €9.8 million for subvention of operational expenditure. In December 2011, a total of over €5 million was allocated to the six regional airports to cover a portion of their operating costs incurred in 2011. This included a subvention of over €2 million...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (17 May 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 545, 546, 549 and 552 together. The cost of increasing the weekly rates of payment for all pensioners aged 66 and over (State Pension Contributory, State Pension Non-Contributory, Widow’s, Widower’s and Surviving Civil Partner’s Contributory Pensioners aged 66 and over, Carer’s Allowance recipients aged 66 and over, Death Benefit...

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

Leo Varadkar: On the breakdown on expenditure on jobseeker's allowance and jobseeker's benefit, these payments account for just over €2.5 billion every year. We estimate that there will be a reduction in the cost of jobseeker's allowance and jobseeker's benefit overall of €304 million this year; €341 million is due to the projected decrease in the numbers on the live register. We are...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (18 Oct 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 303 to 305, inclusive, 331 to 334, inclusive, 339 to 343, inclusive, and 345 together. On Budget Day, I announced the first general increase in the weekly rates of payment since 2009. A €5 increase in the weekly rates of payment for all social welfare payments will commence from March, with proportionate increases for qualified adults and those on...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (29 Mar 2018)

Leo Varadkar: I do not know the answer to that question, but if one looks at the figure of €5 million as being for the full year, spending €2.5 million by the end of July would not be unusual. One would spend half of the budget in the first half of the year and the other half in the second half of the year.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...of the supportive comments other leaders have made on the arts. The budget increase for the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs for last year was between €18 million and €20 million. This included a €5 million, or 8%, increase in the annual budget of the Arts Council, an increase in the budgets of all of the national cultural...

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...Ring, has made 32 changes already to simplify the Leader process and to make sure that money is drawn down and is spent. The social inclusion and community activation programme is receiving €43 million. The CLÁR programme is receiving €5 million to help restore small-scale infrastructure projects in rural areas.

Other Questions: Tourism Project Funding (7 Nov 2013)

Leo Varadkar: ...It envisages a building of 6,000 sq. m, half of which would be visitor space, and visitor numbers of 300,000 per year. It estimates that the cost of delivering the facility could be between €20 million and €30 million for a new building, €13 million to €25 million for an existing building or €5 million to €15 million for an existing institution....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Registration (24 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...my Department’s Vote is expected to be submitted to the Dáil for approval shortly. It is expected that Companies Registration Office (CRO) will be provided with a gross allocation of €7.964 million for its use in 2021. On the basis of the CRO’s expected allocation for 2021, increasing its budget by 5% would cost  €398,000 and an increase of 25%...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Brexit Staff (29 Nov 2017)

Leo Varadkar: As part of Budget 2017, the Department secured an additional €3 million Pay allocation to help in responding to the challenges and opportunities associated with Brexit. Enterprise Ireland’s exchequer pay provision this year included an additional €1.7 million to assist the agency in the recruitment of an additional 39 Brexit specific posts to work alongside existing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (12 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Total health expenditure for each of the last 5 years, by both public and private, are detailed in the following table. Figures are presented in millions of Euro. Estimates of private health expenditure are compiled by the Central Statistics Office and include health expenditure by private insurance and out-of-pocket payments by households. Table: Total Health Expenditure in Ireland,...