Results 1-20 of 32 for 5 million speaker:Maureen O'Sullivan

Teaching Council (23 Feb 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...and have no problem in this regard but this Teaching Council certainly has not shown itself to be professional in the few years since its establishment. Moreover, it is taking in approximately €5 million per year and the Minister could seek to recoup the initial advance of €5 million, which could go into a great many other services that are vitally needed in education.

Teaching Council (23 Feb 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has recovered the funding, some €5 to €6 million, given by the last Government to set up the Teaching Council; if his attention has been drawn to the anger among teachers of having to pay this fee and their criticisms of this organisation which is collecting approximately €5 million annually from teachers and in view of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Biofuel Obligation Scheme Targets (19 Nov 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Failing to have an agreement does not mean that Ireland should give up on this issue. An interesting report produced recently by Action Aid examines the difference between the rates of 5% and 7%. The difference is such that if the former was adopted, over 68 million people could be fed. It is all very well to say we might have the lower cap by 2020, but by then how many more people will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alternative Energy Projects (28 Mar 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...-grabbing in Africa. Some of the scientific data and reports we have received bear this out. Recently an NGO from Kenya told us about the circumstances in that country. It is reckoned that 40 million hectares have been taken from African land for bio-fuels since 2000, and this is having very negative effects, such as land displacement and evictions. These, in turn, cause hunger and...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Waterways Ireland Remit (3 Dec 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 199. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the European Regional Development Fund has been considered as a possible source of funding towards the costs, estimated at over €5 million, of overcoming obstacles to navigation, namely, the lifting bridge and the fixed Spencer Dock bridge on the sea level of the Royal Canal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (12 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: The announcement of plans for the commemorative centre is welcome. However, there are questions. The Minister has paid €4 million for what is a derelict site. Why were these buildings not handed over to the State by NAMA, instead of the State having to pay €4 million for a derelict site? The Minister and I have been in these buildings so we are aware of the state of them....

Teaching Council (8 Jun 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: When the Teaching Council came in first, I had been teaching for about 35 years. My fellow teachers and I got what I can only describe as a threatening letter, that unless we joined up to the Teaching Council with our €90 our salaries would be stopped. I did not think that was a very positive start to the work of the council. I have yet to meet a teacher, although maybe there are some,...

Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: .... If rent supplement is not being re-examined, one must consider intervention at the other end, namely, some kind of rent management or rent control. I am struck by two ironies. One is that €5 million is going to these shareholders mentioned earlier, when that €5 million could do so much for the housing and homeless situations. I am also struck by the irony that the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (15 May 2019)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...-budget submission just a couple of months ago. They sought restoration of previous funding levels in order to enable them to do the work. Returning project funding to 2008 levels would cost €5 million. The submission also sought €10 million from the emerging needs fund for the areas most affected. We will see what will happen with the Minister of State's review, but I...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: .... 18's facade was singled out as being pre-1916. In another, this was omitted. Once something is destroyed, it is gone forever. There are examples of this. So far, the taxpayer has paid €9 million: €4 million to buy and €5 million designated for Nos. 14-17. Whose plan are we following? It does not appear to be the State's plan, but the plan that was drawn up...

Topical Issue Debate: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Provision (4 Nov 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...them. We know also that there are personal, emotional and psychological costs along with the physical ones. Stroke is a life-changing experience. Every year, the financial cost of strokes comes to over €550 million with €400 million of that going on nursing home care. Up to 75% of stroke victims never go back to work and there are major difficulties for them and their...

Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (29 Feb 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...for the sake of it and trying to reform something that does not need reform. On the issue of achieving cost savings, I suggested to the Minister last week or the week previously how to recoup €5 million or €6 million from the loan the previous Government made to the Teaching Council. I am sure the Minister has the wherewithal and the means to recoup those moneys, which could be put to...

Topical Issue Debate: National Monuments (9 Jul 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. More clarification on the figure of €5 million and how the restoration of Nos. 14 to 17 will be funded is required. The 10,000 plus signatures that I mentioned were more concerned with saving Moore Street than just Nos. 14 to 17. The street has been described as a battlefield site. I mentioned other stories. The Taoiseach described the...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...xe9; being used about this budget, but there is a danger that if resources are spread too thinly there will be negligible impact. Consider a specific issue such as housing. The year before last the budget announced a package of €2.2 billion for this area. Last year it was €500 million. What happened in the meantime? The situation did not improve and we know the...

Mental Health Services (4 Jul 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Reading the programme for Government, I was struck by the following commitment: "We will ring fence €35m annually from within the health budget to develop community mental health teams and services as outlined in A Vision for Change to ensure early access to more appropriate services for adults and children and improved integration with primary care services." Speaking during an excellent...

Topical Issue Debate: National Monuments (9 Jul 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...Moore Street site has been allowed to fall into neglect and dereliction. This is embarrassing, particularly with the centenary approaching next year. Nos. 14 to 17 have been designated a national monument. A figure of €5 million is floating around, but who costed the buildings? They form part of what the National Museum has called a battlefield site. It is our Gettysburg, our...

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

Maureen O'Sullivan: Budgets are strange creatures. This is my 11th or 12th one. Listening to the Minister of the day, as we did yesterday, one hears of "X" billion going here and "Y" billion going there and of a few million for this and a few million for that. One might be forgiven for thinking that everything is positive, that life will get better and that all of the problems and challenges in society will...

Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Oct 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...illicit trade in tobacco was worth €1.2 billion in the past five years. In the first six months of 2016 alone, tobacco products seized by Revenue would have resulted in a loss to the Exchequer of €15.8 million, which is higher than the figure for the previous six-month period. The black market in tobacco products is thriving in the centre of Dublin and the increase in...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...the work and research done on this issue by Independent Deputies Stephen Donnelly and Catherine Murphy. Figures on State funding to the political parties show the Fine Gael Party received €5.5 million, the Labour Party received €3.5 million, the Fianna Fáil Party received €3.75 million, Sinn Féin received €2.2 million, the United Left Alliance...

1916 Quarter Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...Parade for what will be a service entrance to the hotel. Where is the appropriateness and the sensitivity in that? I have been asking questions repeatedly of the Minister and I am not getting answers. Who valued Nos. 14 to 17 Moore Street at €4 million? Why was it valued at that amount? Surely €4 million would have bought the whole terrace? Were the buildings...