Results 1-20 of 21 for 5 million speaker:Imelda Munster

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Imelda Munster: ...need to be asked about it. This comes back to due diligence, oversight and that sort of thing. The Department approved that particular scheme in 2018. It was to consist of an investment of €8 million in the Nuremore Hotel and €2 million for refurbishment. It was to include the Fairways Hotel in Dundalk, which was to be purchased for €5 million, with €2...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Imelda Munster: When we last engaged on this, the criticism was from 2015 to 2018. The OPW was tendering contracts at €3 million but spending €10 million. Then the OPW was tendering contracts at €5 million but spending €25 million. There is a quare difference between €3 million and €10 million, and between €5 million and €25 million. Why is the OPW...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2021)

Imelda Munster: ...indictment of the last Government and this Government. Two weeks ago, at the Committee of Public Accounts, I asked representatives of the HSE about the additional home help hours. There were 5 million additional hours to be delivered this year. The HSE has only delivered 2 million thus far and it is hoping for a further 1.5 million by the end of the year, but who knows about that given...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)

Imelda Munster: Some 600 rehabilitation beds were committed to. How many of those have been delivered? How many of the 5 million additional home care hours that were to be funded have been delivered?

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (15 Jun 2021)

Imelda Munster: 507. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the additional €5 million announced in budget 2021 for tourism product development is a once-off Covid-19 payment for 2021; if it can be understood to be a new component of her Department’s baseline core funding allocation; the amount of it that has been spent to date; the amount expected to be spent by the end...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tourism Policy (28 Apr 2021)

Imelda Munster: -----under this scheme, the €5 million will only cover 1,250 businesses.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tourism Policy (28 Apr 2021)

Imelda Munster: ...of a voucher scheme that would benefit every man, woman and child in the country and local economies. I also want to touch on the outdoor dining grant. As she said, it was a positive move with €12 million for local authorities to use in respect of adaptations for outdoor dining. The concern, however, is the €5 million allocated for individual businesses. She does not...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Key Priorities for the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media: Discussion (20 Apr 2021)

Imelda Munster: I have a number of questions for the Minister. I am looking for detail on the two outdoor dining grants. Did I hear her correctly that €12 million will be allocated to local authorities and €5 million will be allocated to the outdoor seating and accessory schemes for individual businesses?

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Key Priorities for the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media: Discussion (20 Apr 2021)

Imelda Munster: I am asking about the €5 million awarded for individual businesses. How many businesses will be able to avail of this, according to the Minister's calculations? Did the Department research the average cost for businesses to upgrade their facilities?

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Key Priorities for the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media: Discussion (20 Apr 2021)

Imelda Munster: I am curious because I spoke to Louth County Council yesterday and the person in charge of the process did not have information as to the amount it would receive. I am curious as to how the €5 million for individual businesses throughout the State was calculated, given the pressure they are under. This is why I am asking.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Key Priorities for the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media: Discussion (20 Apr 2021)

Imelda Munster: Fáilte Ireland did not forward its reasoning for the €5 million allocation.

Other Questions: Radio Broadcasting (19 Nov 2020)

Imelda Munster: We are all aware of the importance of local radio, in terms of public service and news roles and also in giving a platform for local artists and community initiatives. The fund of €2.5 million was available for Covid-related programming up until the end of the summer, but since then local radio stations have been in dire straits with a dramatic drop in revenue, and particularly under...

Protecting Jobs and Supporting Business: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: ...pockets of every adult and child in the country, regardless of their tax or socioeconomic status, which would then have been spent in the Irish domestic tourism and hospitality sector. Instead we have a €105 tax rebate for the very small cohort who are eligible and which is available for holidays from October and in November. Another sector brought to its knees by the pandemic...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Enterprise Offices (9 Oct 2019)

Imelda Munster: As the Minister of State is aware, the State is overly reliant on a fairly small number of multinationals for a significant portion of its tax take. Last year, 45% of the total corporation tax take came from just ten companies and foreign-owned multinationals paid 77% of the corporation tax receipts for last year. This would leave our public finances very vulnerable to any sudden economic...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2018)

Imelda Munster: ...no specific funding has been allocated to it despite the fact that Drogheda has been identified as one of five regional cross-Border drivers along with Sligo which got a specific allocation of €5 million, Letterkenny which got a specific allocation of €1 million and Dundalk which got a specific allocation of just over €0.5 million. However, there was not specific...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Proposed MetroLink: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Imelda Munster: ...and tunneller as saying it should take a year, or possibly two years, to complete the tunnelling part of the project, based on an average daily rate for cutting a tunnel of between 100 ft and 150 ft. He said that in normal circumstances it should be completed in three years. Na Fianna has been told that it will have no facilities for six or seven years. It seems TII is proposing to cut...

Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)

Imelda Munster: ...not supposed to be the news. Initially we were told the unit would not cost the State a cent. Those were the Taoiseach's words. Subsequently, we discovered that it would cost in the region of €5 million annually. For that €5 million taxpayers have witnessed a series of blunders. Chief among those blunders was the Project Ireland 2040 launch where the communications unit...

Bus Éireann: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2017)

Imelda Munster: ...receive funding from the Department for 41% of the average fare and journey. That has contributed massively to the financial loss. According to Bus Éireann's annual accounts, it pumped €41 million from the Expressway business into the PSO network because of State underfunding. That €41 million would have gone a long way towards reducing the €5 million loss of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Imelda Munster: ...–Cork route, seat capacity has grown by 120%. The seat capacity on the Dublin–Limerick route has grown by 111%, and that on the Dublin–Waterford and other routes has also grown. Between 2011 and 2015-16, the company issued five more licences. That amounted to 104 services. How in God's name did the company not think that introducing licence after licence would not...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2016)

Imelda Munster: ...is facing catastrophe. On Tuesday the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport told the Government that Bus Éireann was facing insolvency within two years and that because of losses of over €5 million last year and upwards of €6 million this year between six and eight bus routes would be cut. It is believed these bus routes are covered by Expressway services, on which...