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Seanad: Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (14 Nov 2018)

Anthony Lawlor: ...in the past couple of years these people were finding it extremely difficult to get finance. Banks were not lending to them and are still not lending.As mentioned, banks require at least 40% to 50% equity or capital before they will lend the balance. Some builders were getting finance from vulture funds of up to 15% to 17% which was making it unviable for them to commence building. They...

Seanad: Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (14 Nov 2018)

Anthony Lawlor: I asked if he could reduce the figure of €37.5 million or 5% of the pot and also introduce a measure for the small builders.

Seanad: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Second Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Anthony Lawlor: ...Bill he has provided to us to discuss today. I worked on the Horse Racing Ireland Act, which also went through a long process. Is there much of a repeal of the Greyhound Industry Act 1958, which is the basic Act that will be taken over by this new Bill? One key point, as noted by Senator Coffey, is the change of board membership from seven to nine members. In fairness, in 1958 they...

Seanad: Budget 2019: Statements (9 Oct 2018)

Anthony Lawlor: ...eight years has been remarkable, not alone by our standards but by international standards. The Minister for Finance spoke today about the future and the prudence of budgets going forward. Putting €500 million into a rainy day fund and using €1.5 billion from the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund for investment is planning for the future. We do not know what is going to...

Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: ...groups which I know will be used to great benefit, as it was on the previous occasion, particularly as the amount of matching funding required by the clubs or organisations was reduced from 30% to 15%. A former Minister from my constituency, Charlie McCreevy, dished out allocations of €700,000, €800,000 and €900,000 and clubs had to come up with 30% of it. As a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: ...What staff will be let go? Obviously, staff costs comprise one of the high associated costs. If there is to be consolidation under the Bill, what will the exact process be? With regard to head 5, might there be a conflict over the allocation of grants, loans and disbursements to the racecourses, particularly considering that HRI manages and owns four of the racetracks and that 20% of...

Topical Issue Debate: Respite Care Grant Administration (10 Jul 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: ..., the respite care grant is payable to all those who receive carer's allowance, domiciliary care allowance or prescribed relative's allowance and is a very welcome payment. Approximately 57,000 people receive the respite care grants each year, a total of more than €800 million in 2014. The payments were made recently, in early June. The cut-off date was 5 June, and there is a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (16 Apr 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if plans are in place to increase the €5 million fund which is available from his Department to address public safety issues which arise in category four classed unfinished housing estates; if he intends to extend this fund in order to complete public infrastructure in category B estates; the way his Department intends...

An Garda Síochána: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Jan 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: ...when he arrived in Kill and addressed a few people in the local pub. I wonder if he told them the truth, that under his party's proposed national development plan spending would have been reduced by €90 million per annum or about the gardaí numbers that would have resulted from those cuts, or about the structures that his party left behind. We have to pick up the pieces and...

Transport (Córas Iompair Éireann and Subsidiary Companies Borrowings) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Dec 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: The Bill will provide an increase in the overdraft facility of a company of up to €300 million for its day-to-day running. If a private company went to a bank and sought to increase its overdraft from €107 million to €300 million, the door would not even be opened. One must analyse it from the perspective that it would not be tolerated for a private company without a...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: I have just one question and will not hold up the meeting. I refer to the €5 million provided for research in third level institutions. The Minister mentioned supporting universities. He should provide members with a more detailed breakdown outlining where precisely the money is going.

Suicide Prevention: Statements (Resumed) (14 Apr 2011)

Anthony Lawlor: ...I visited that organisation several weeks ago, I learned of the serious situation in which it finds itself in regard to funding. It is amazing that the Road Safety Authority is allocated €40 million each year for the prevention of road accidents and yet only €5 million is allocated by the HSE to prevent suicide. Almost two people take their own lives each week. Many car accidents -...