Results 1-13 of 13 for 5 million speaker:Jonathan O'Brien

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Is Mr. Buckley saying that roughly €5 million was saved over the lifetime of the lease?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Brian Murphy stated that the cost of Government rebranding through the SCU could be enormous with a budget of €5 million for the purpose of streamlining Government communications. Does Mr. Fraser agree with that comment? What mechanisms were put in place to ensure that communications were not duplicated between the SCU and other Departments to avoid costs and unnecessary wastage?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: So there is €11 million committed still. There was also €5 million set aside for potential redesign costs.

Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Second Stage (23 Feb 2017)

Jonathan O'Brien: ...that are being put about, and also some of the negative press and commentary around the provision of an injecting centre. People will ask if there is a need for one. We should consider in that context that 13 million people worldwide inject drugs every single day. In this State alone, the latest figures we can work off, which are old figures from 2014, show nearly 10,000 people...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Expenditure (13 Oct 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: ...the status of the review of the school transport scheme; and if his Department will consider increasing funding to the scheme in line with the recommendation by a charity (details supplied) of €5 million resulting in an abolition of fees for parents. [30028/16]

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: ...could not be transferred directly. Therefore, when developing a new apprenticeship model it must be geared towards the workforce. We need to look at what skills will be needed in the next ten, 15 and 20 years and if there is a fall in a particular sector that people who have gone through an apprenticeship model can quickly sidestep into something else and upskill. It is also important...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: ...of education and training boards. Correspondence in my inbox this morning suggests one board is facing a financial deficit and will write to the Minister to seek permission for an overdraft of €5 million. These financial difficulties are being faced by the education and training boards. Unless we remove the financial constraints, they will not achieve what they were established...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: ...measuring their success or lack of it? With regard to the reform of the junior cycle, a reply I received recently to a parliamentary question stated that it would cost approximately €10 million in total to implement it. It is expected to cost €5 million this year. Deputy McConalogue asked some of the relevant questions about that, but perhaps there could be more...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Supplementary) (20 Nov 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: ...the scourge of heroin is being reduced. I am not sure whether the Minister will comment on that aspect of Garda budgets and resources given that it is an operational issue for the Garda. I welcome the additional allocation of €5 million for the Magdalen laundries redress process. On Cork Prison, the Minister stated some payments anticipated this year will carry over into next...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Back-to-School Costs and Schoolbook Rental Schemes: Discussion (13 Nov 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: I thank the representatives of the various bodies for coming before the committee. Ms Lynch referred to €5 million for schoolbooks and I ask Mr. Loftus to clarify an issue. I understood that €5 million would be available every year for the next three years, giving a total of €15 million. When I discussed this issue with the Minister, he said the €15 million...

Private Members' Business - Cuts in Education: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: ...Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's annual Education at a Glance survey reported that the State was spending 4.7% of its income on education compared to an OECD average for that year of 5.7%, while current spending on third level education in Ireland amounts to 1.2% of GDP compared to the OECD average of 1.5%; notes that, since coming to power in 2011, the Fine...

Financial Resolution No. 12: Life Assurance Policies and Investment Funds (6 Dec 2011)

Jonathan O'Brien: It is probably a missed opportunity because if we had increased the rate by another 5% we would have brought in €165 million which would have off-set some of the cuts to child benefit proposed by the Government. The measure does not go far enough. I inquired previously about the holiday on capital gains tax of seven years for property buyers. Does the Minister agree that it is a dangerous...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (16 Jun 2011)

Jonathan O'Brien: Question 27: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the level of uptake there has been for the €5 million for works on unfinished housing developments; and if he will provide details of works which have been carried out. [15649/11]