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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

John Lahart: It would be useful to know in regard to the Connolly and Tallaght sites how much of the modest €5 million overrun in the overall cost of €82.5 million was the result of claims.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

John Lahart: Would it be reasonable to suggest that we could correlate the ratio of claims in Tallaght and Connolly to the main build of the NCH? In other words, if claims amounted to 5% of the final figure of €82.5 million, we could correlate that, potentially, to the total overrun cost for the NCH, giving an overrun cost of in or around 5%?

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (14 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: ...and Kerry; (3) Deputy Brian Stanley - to discuss pay and conditions for school secretaries; (4) Deputies Paul McAuliffe and Cormac Devlin - to discuss the return of the night-time economy in Dublin; (5) Deputy Pat Buckley - to discuss funding from budget 2022 for the refurbishment and maintenance of mental healthcare facilities; (6) Deputy Dessie Ellis - to discuss the urgent need in the...

Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2019)

John Lahart: ..., and one of the themes of the Government has been money messages and things coming with a cost to the State. I call this a sinking fund and in Australia they have a fund with the equivalent of €5 million. If a large college went wallop, at the moment those students would be insured and it would be up to the insurer, according to the policy, to find those students a place until...

Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2019)

John Lahart: ...We seem to keep every part of education at arm's length. It would have solved an awful lot of problems. However, private enterprise established the first English language schools in this country 45 years ago. According to the figures in some of the ministerial briefings, more than 140,000 international students come to learn English in Ireland. That is a phenomenal number. We know...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)

John Lahart: ...account was in place and money was being set aside. I will come back to that question while the answer is being sought. Time is an issue. An email we received from the Department of Finance dated 5 June stated that a notable feature of this month's fiscal monitor was that corporation tax was €223 million behind target and also 13% lower than it was at the same point in 2018. Do...

Finance (Office of Tax Simplification) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: ...for smaller businesses. On the face of it, the KDB is an attractive prospect. Qualifying profits from patents, computer programmes and certain certified intellectual property can be charged at 6.25%. However, the uptake is very poor. According to a response to a parliamentary question, only 11 companies have availed of it, costing the Exchequer just €9 million. It was...

Dublin (North Inner City) Development Authority Bill 2018: First Stage (11 Jul 2018)

John Lahart: ...they do not exist. The publication, for example, in January of this year of the investment of RAPID programme monies bears testimony to this. In 2017, the total funding allocation for RAPID was €5 million. From that, each of 31 local authorities received an allocation of €64,500 but €2.5 million was ringfenced for Dublin's north inner city. The budget available in...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)

John Lahart: ...able to make plans and follow through on them if one is a single parent, build on that basic argument. Therefore, I will not repeat all the themes mentioned. It was mentioned that there are 150,000 affected workers. I acknowledge the unemployment rate is down to 4% or 5%, which is fantastic, but we must also consider employment. People have mentioned underemployment. Are there...

Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2017)

John Lahart: ...night of the budget, the stamp duty on non-residential property transactions raised a few queries from Deputies, particularly those representing farming interests. The Government expects to raise about €376 million in 2018. The Office of Budgetary Oversight suggests that this is a static estimate and there can be behavioural change as a result of the change in policy to be...

Adjournment Debate Matters (19 May 2016)

John Lahart: ...Standing Order 23(3) and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy David Cullinane - the need for the Minister for Health to outline why University Hospital Waterford spent more than €20 million on agency staff from 2011-15, if he recognises that this is a consequence of underfunding of our acute hospital network and to outline what plans he has to increase staff capacity in...