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Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

John Brady: ...Israel's efforts during the current wave of violence. Ireland needs to make a referral to the International Criminal Court for Israel's war crimes in Gaza. In 2022, the Government provided €3 million to the ICC investigation in Ukraine. The Belgian Government recently provided €5 million for the ICC to investigate the war crimes in Palestine. The Irish Government needs to...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)

John Brady: ...the Opera Site. We know UL was deeply invested in the process of trying to acquire the Opera Site. The finance, human resources and asset management committee, FHRAMC, gave approval for up to €5 million to be spent on the acquisition of the site and preparing it to get to planning stage. Would it be the normal procedure for the approval of funding like that to go through that...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)

John Brady: Ultimately, having gone through that particular committee, and possibly others. So, €5 million was authorised. In terms of preparing the papers to get to a point where the university was actively trying to acquire the Opera site, how much was spent by UL on the preparatory work for the bid?

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (25 May 2022)

John Brady: ...threatening to break international law through signalling its intent to abandon the Irish protocol and effectively ride roughshod through the Good Friday Agreement. The people of the North voted on 5 May to make politics work. Some 70% of voters voted in support of parties in favour of the protocol. Two thirds of the MLAs elected to Stormont want the assembly up and running now. Boris...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Distribution of Covid-19 Vaccines to Developing Countries: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

John Brady: ...protect all their citizens three times over in 2021 and yet some of the poorer underdeveloped countries are struggling to vaccinate their citizens. Lessons need to be learned from the AIDS crisis. I believe 9 million people in African countries alone died of AIDS while they were screaming out for access to the medication to help with AIDS. I believe five European countries, Belgium,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (17 Nov 2020)

John Brady: 456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the planned investment of €5 million for DEIS schools will be allocated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36137/20]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Relations (6 Oct 2020)

John Brady: ...to Libya, Armenia, Azerbaijan and now Greece and Cyprus, Turkey is a major protagonist in that region, it has to be said. The one thing that Erdogan has over the EU is the fact that Turkey has 5 million refugees. The EU fears Erdogan and the Turks instead of facing them down. It really is an admission of the failure of the EU to put in place a humane refugee policy. Until this is done...

Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2019: Second Stage (12 Nov 2019)

John Brady: ...to say that social welfare increases are only welcomed by recipients and by stakeholders because the payment is so inadequate in the first place. By increasing certain payments by €2, €3 or €5, the Minister is not making social welfare payments adequate, nor are the increases based on evidence of any kind. To quote Social Justice Ireland, this budget betrays the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (28 Jun 2018)

John Brady: 272. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full cost of increasing the funding for the free travel scheme by €5 million to make it more attractive for operators to join and to ensure that it continues to address passenger needs. [28440/18]

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2017)

John Brady: ...we are now living with the consequences. It is predominately women who are affected, but a sizeable number of men are also directly impacted by the changes. We know the impact that cuts of €35 or €40 per week can have on our older citizens. Sinn Féin and others have raised this issue continuously since 2012. One of my first actions as a newly elected Deputy was to...

Social Welfare Bill: Second Stage (23 Nov 2017)

John Brady: ...deserve? When it comes to righting wrongs money is an easy excuse. It is always peddled but it certainly does not wash with people when billions of euro can be found to bail out the banks and millions can be wasted in setting up Irish Water and bringing in water charges until the Government is forced into a U-turn which wastes millions of euro in taxpayers' money. The Government can...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2017)

John Brady: ...messages are coming out. It is unhelpful to the 42,000 people who are expecting something for the head of Government, the Taoiseach, to come out and remove any potential hopes they had. Some €5 million is being spent on a spin unit. Maybe that should be put to some use to get a solid message that Government is singing from the same hymn sheet on this because, ultimately, 42,000...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

John Brady: ...the working family payment was such a pivotal part of Fine Gael’s general election campaign last year, it is clear it was nothing more than PR and spin. Fine Gael knows all about PR and spin given it is spending €5 million of taxpayers' money to run its own spin unit. We know from the Indecon report published last week that previous cuts made by Fine Gael and the Labour...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Issues Facing Lone Parents: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2017)

John Brady: ...of Focus Ireland and One Family for coming to meet us. Several groups have already come to present their perspectives on lone parent families and the impact of the changes introduced in 2015. Both submissions were excellent and contained very useful information. One Family refers to a universal payment to assist the poorest children and increasing the qualified child payment. My...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Review (29 Nov 2016)

John Brady: ...the status of the review of the school transport scheme; and if his Department will consider increasing funding to the scheme in line with a recommendation by a charity (details supplied) of €5 million resulting in an abolition of fees for parents. [36911/16]

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)

John Brady: ...experiences. This is utterly unacceptable. Budget 2017 has done nothing in that regard. Due to the inaction of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, this will continue. There was a song and dance about the €5 increase in the State pension. When we looked at the fine print, however, we realised older people will not see the increase until five months after the budget, a date...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

John Brady: ...few fivers like they were going out of fashion, stating his social protection measures were fair, socially just and benefited everyone. That is fundamentally untrue. Older people have received a tokenistic €5 increase in the State pension. With the cost of inflation, the increase will realistically leave older people with little more than €1.30 extra per week. This...