Results 1-20 of 28 for 5 million speaker:Bríd Smith

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 199. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht how the State paid a sum of €5 million to purchase Numbers 14 to 17 Moore Street, Dublin 1, including details of the valuation process of the properties and of the recipients of the said moneys. [20058/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Easter Rising Commemorations (7 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 59. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht how the State paid a sum of €5 million to purchase 14 to 17 Moore Street, Dublin 1, including details of the valuation process of the properties and details of recipients of said moneys; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19852/16]

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships (13 Apr 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...of it. That is shown by the failure of the project to regenerate St. Michael's estate headed by Bernard McNamara. When he pulled out of the project, it cost Dublin City Council at least €5 million and it cost Mr. McNamara €1.5 million. I see he is back up around the corner, rebuilding again. The State had to fork out €35 million on a PPP that failed to deal...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Projects (9 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...exactly what is the investment from both companies and what the scale of the project will be? I have heard different figures and am not sure whether I am correct in saying they are investing €5 million each. Is the State giving any subsidy to this? I would love to be enthusiastic about this but I have strong misgivings about what I am reading.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Projects (9 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...renewables. I would argue that this is a real tragedy and I am sceptical, therefore, about the project. It is brilliant there is a move towards this but I am disappointed to hear it is just €5 million between the two companies. I do not believe the Minister has a commitment to solar energy. In an address last November, apparently, he all but ruled out the adoption of solar...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...on the level of contribution received from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection in lieu of the free TV licence, as part of the household package, amounted to a reduction of €5 million in RTÉ’s funding for the first year and has subsequently risen. Has Ms Forbes calculated how much was lost by RTÉ with this measure? In another discussion on...

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...which nobody wants to talk. I believe the Dublin 4 set and the media do not really get the people. They do not really get what is wrong when we say we are not paying water charges and when we get up at 5 a.m. or 6 a.m. to block the installation of water meters. They do not get it that some people are willing to end up in prison or march consistently. When we look back at the formation...

Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Report 2022: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...waters. There are a number of reasons for this and urban wastewater and historic under-investment in water treatment and wastewater is one of them. It is ironic this State spent more than €100 million on water meters in a failed attempt to move towards privatisation of water and charging people for drinking water. It was willing to spend up to €500 million on that...

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

Bríd Smith: We will support the motion and its idea of disbanding the strategic communications unit. It was ironic that, despite spending €5 million on slick PR and gathering the best and brightest minds in communications and social media, the Taoiseach revealed in a few minutes of hubris in Washington the reality of how the Government and the elite worked. Either the Government is not spending...

Science Week: Statements (15 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...out a review of its support for PhD researchers, which is good news. A recent report showed that Ireland's researchers are among the lowest paid in Europe, earning a salary of approximately €18,500 per year or lower, sometimes as low as €13,000. The highest paid are in Denmark where researchers are often paid up to €50,000 per year. A significant number in Ireland...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: ..., I will read some passages from it: Light, heat and power are fundamental requirements to participate in society and a prerequisite for social inclusion. ... [Last] year, SVP spent more than €5 million helping people with the cost of energy - an increase of 20% on the previous year. We are therefore concerned about the current and future impact of energy price increases on the...

Pre-European Council: Statements (14 Dec 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...to see the statistics and graphs on this. The biggest recipient of those arms is Saudi Arabia, which is totally engaged in the conflict in Syria, a country that has received approximately €829 million worth of arms in the past two years. The weaponry is horrific. We are talking here about weapons that can kill by shooting, bombs, tanks and planes that can drop horrible explosives...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...that tens of thousands of jobs will be lost if there is a no-deal Brexit but instead of taking measures to create jobs, the Minister has used the crisis to benefit his rich friends. Some €80 million in a full year will be given to support small businesses and agriculture but instead of tying any grant to a guarantee that jobs will be defended and retained, the Minister is giving...

Early Exit from Peat for Electricity Generation: Statements (6 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...take this opportunity to relay some of their most pressing concerns. Inadequate levels of finance have been allocated to a just transition to secure jobs and work on bog rehabilitation. The budgetary allocation of €31 million is inadequate for a number of reasons, as was the manner in which it was allocated. The €31 million will be raised through an increase in carbon...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (Resumed) (28 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...is really milking the system and profiteering from the pandemic. They will not notice who really won the lottery. I refer in this case to the owners of the private hospitals, who are receiving €115 million per month for the allowance of the beds to the system which we absolutely need. People like Larry Goodman and Denis O'Brien are seriously profiteering from a cost four times...

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...me they do? The Minister needs to understand that their exclusion is re-traumatising. It is unconscionable and must be addressed. The second issue is on the cost of the scheme. It may cost €800 million in total, with some 34,000 survivors being eligible but I question these figures and many have. I want to ask where the religious order and institutions are in their...

Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...useful Seanad debates on it, a few questions jump out and it would be good if the Minister of State could clarify matters. As was highlighted in the Seanad debate, the threshold for registration is 25 cu. m while the threshold for licensing is 2,000 cu. m. I am at a loss to understand why anything below such large volumes of water is exempt from regulation. It is at odds with the...

Companies (Protection of Employees' Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: .... He said progress has been slow but I want to ask him how slow does he think slow is. What I find interesting is that now that he is in government, he seems to accept the fact that since 2015 when the Clerys debacle happened, there was a recommendation from Duffy Cahill to push up the priority of workers in terms of redundancy legislation in circumstances of liquidation. If he was on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Tax: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...in carbon tax and it incentivises them to say, "I would love to get new windows and solar panels, and get the house retrofitted", but they cannot access it. They do not have the €40,000 or €50,000 upfront to say, "There is my contribution to doing up my home, now give it back to me." It does not work like that. There is a cohort of middle Ireland caught in the middle. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of Petroleum and Other Mineral Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (3 Jul 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...Records are broken routinely. The five warmest years in the global record have all come in the 2010s. Globally we are 1o Celsius above the pre-industrial average temperature and heading fast to 1.5o Celsius. Climate change is creating millions of climate refugees globally and impacting with devastating consequences on the lives of millions more. It is also threatening the earth's...