Results 1-15 of 15 for 5 million speaker:Carol Nolan

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (5 Mar 2024)

Carol Nolan: 693. To ask the Minister for Health how much of the €5 million investment from Budget 2023 to target backlogs in dental services for children and adult medical card holders has been spent in the way that it was intended; if the remainder of this money is still ringfenced to target dental waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10284/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (23 Jan 2024)

Carol Nolan: 311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm that under Project Ireland 2040, her Department is investing in excess of €5 billion over the period 2021 to 2025, to add capacity and develop and upgrade school facilities across the country for the almost one million students and over 100,000 staff that learn and work in our schools every day; if this level of investment...

Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...in the House agree that taking action to protect the lives and health of our young people is important, and that efforts to reduce the prevalence rate of smoking should be encouraged. Smoking is very harmful to health and generates hundreds of millions in health service costs each and every year. We would also agree that whatever measures we take to tackle these problems must be...

Cancer Care: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2022)

Carol Nolan: ...followed a meeting I had in my constituency with a representative of the Irish Cancer Society, Siobhan Hayes, who is based in County Laois. The society has been advocating for the provision of €5 million to public hospitals to reduce the cost of car parking charges for cancer patients. It is also calling for a reduction in the drugs payment scheme cap to a maximum payment of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (28 Sep 2021)

Carol Nolan: 729. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide €5 million in annual funding to deliver the carer’s guarantee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46289/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (28 Sep 2021)

Carol Nolan: 730. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide €5 million to publish a refreshed National Carers’ Strategy Action Plan 2021-2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46292/21]

Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (19 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: ...in college. We need to get to grips with that as this is excluding bright and gifted students. We need to ensure that we have legislation in place to overcome all of this. The Government can announce millions in support and measure after measure to assist college students but all of that will be purely academic, pardon the pun, if people are priced out of going to college. That is...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Carol Nolan: ...change for Ireland. We know from the Parliamentary Budget Office's analysis that the Department of Finance in its own economic forecast underpinning budget 2021 estimates that GDP will fall by 2.5% in 2020 before increasing by 1.4% in 2021. The Department also estimates that the unemployment rate will be 10.7% in 2021 but will increase further if more severe public health restrictions...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Areas of Conservation (28 Jul 2020)

Carol Nolan: 292. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is satisfied that the allocation of €5 million made in Budget 2020 from the carbon tax fund to restore over 1,800ha within the raised bog special area of conservation and national heritage area network on a number of raised bogs across several counties in the midlands region can now be used for this work in view of...

Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (30 Jun 2020)

Carol Nolan: ...need. At present, I can assure the Minister there is a long waiting list in Laois-Offaly that badly needs to be tackled. I have no doubt he will try to do that. Since its post-crisis low in 2015, gross Voted spending on healthcare has risen by almost €5 billion. The concern of many people is that we are not seeing value for money and we are not seeing the services. A change of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Provision (10 Dec 2019)

Carol Nolan: 388. To ask the Minister for Health if an investment of €5 million to open a regional neuro-rehabilitation centre to provide rehabilitation beds outside of Dublin will be granted to an organisation (details supplied). [51394/19]

Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Sep 2019)

Carol Nolan: ...We also know that regions in Greece, Slovakia, Poland, Czechia and Germany have benefited from its support. This is to say nothing of the fact that in Silesia, which was the EU's largest coal region, €120 million has been ring-fenced to provide support to projects in the area of urban infrastructure and clean air and to prepare former mining sites for investment. This is exactly...

National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (7 Feb 2018)

Carol Nolan: ...and Luxembourg 97%. Arguably, both of these regions are geographically small, with high population density. More impressive, perhaps, is Norway, which has attained 94% coverage with a little over 5 million of population across more than 4.5 times the landmass of Ireland and a sparse population density of 15 people per sq. km compared to Ireland's 69 people per sq. km. Broadband...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Welfare Scheme Funding (10 Oct 2017)

Carol Nolan: 500. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an additional €5 million funding for the sheep welfare scheme will be provided in budget 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42355/17]

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

Carol Nolan: This budget is nothing more than a master-class in rhetoric and spin. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform stood in the Chamber yesterday and announced an additional spend of €458 million in education. However, outside of demographic pressures and money that has already been committed, the grim reality is the true figure for our education system, which has been ravaged by...