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National Archives Act 1986 (Section 1(2)(d)) Order 2023: Motion (23 Feb 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...if some of the documentation I am suggesting should be transferred to the archives actually is transferred. One such set of materials are those held by the Land Commission. Its records date back as far as 1892. I am told there are 800 million records in its archive in Portlaoise. They are not available to the public via a walk-in facility, though, and people have to prove their links to...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Policy (1 Mar 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 311. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total spend of the €5 million allocated to the seasonal musical theatre and pantomime scheme; and the amount of the allocation that was not spent. [10991/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Expenditure (19 Oct 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 401. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the outcomes that are foreseen from the €5 million in extra funding promised to the national cultural institutions in budget 2022; and the breakdown of the way this will be distributed. [50746/21]

Covid-19 (Arts): Statements (6 Oct 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...; brón orm as ucht an mhoill - bhí mé ag cruinniú Zoom leis an gCeann Comhairle. Ba mhaith liom díriú isteach ar an athrú atá tar éis teacht ó mheán oíche aréir. While we are not at level 5 shutdown, the arts and entertainment industries have once again been shut down in many ways unless people can avail of online...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review: Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (2 Oct 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister of State identified a desire to increase funding to Údarás na Gaeltachta to 2011 levels, which would mean annual funding of €12 million funding. In 2008, the agency received funding of €25 million. Funding is still a long way off where it was a little over ten years. On Foras na Gaeilge, since 2014 there has been a 5% reduction of funding for the...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Army Pensions (Revised) (8 Mar 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The estimate for litigation and compensation costs is set to rise. The outrun was €3.8 million and the estimate is €5 million. Does the Minister of State have reasons for that increase? I also wish to raise EU issues. I refer to the signing of the permanent structured co-operation, PESCO, in December and the confirmation in recent weeks of the specific projects Ireland has...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): European Defence Action Plan (13 Dec 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Does the Minister of State accept, and we have had some of this debate already, that these European Commission recommendations that EU investment in defence would increase from €1.4 million this year to €25 million next year, €90 million in 2020 and then possibly €500 million are an increase in anybody's eyes and us being tied to that would be contrary to our...

Priority Questions: European Defence Action Plan (13 Dec 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...has no position and does not want to pre-empt the debate. However, has Ireland already pre-empted this debate by assenting in October to the European Defence Agency, EDA, allocating €1.4 million to a pilot project in order to underline and prepare for the eventual project of increasing spending on research and pooling an initial €5 billion - up to €25 billion and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...highlighted my views of JobBridge so I will not elaborate on them in detail but I will offer a quick calculation. My view is that JobBridge is a subsidy for private industry equivalent to over €400 million in the years since it was established. I supported the Minister when she announced JobsPlus. If the same subsidy had been put into JobsPlus there would have been more...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Capital Allowances (13 Oct 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...as possible. To avail of the tax incentive the Taoiseach is talking about here, the projects that would need to be built at Ireland West Airport would have to be on a larger scale than the €5 million that is being discussed. It is a different ball game. We are talking about a different type of company. In the main, one- or two-bay hangars are being built in regional airports....

Financial Resolution No. 2: Capital Allowances (13 Oct 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...that this type of industry would be allowed to benefit. The amendment would allow the individual behind a construction that is to be used for maintenance to avail of a write-off of up to €5 million. We have seen some of the millionaires who own Gulfstream jets in this country. I remember recently looking at footage of what seems to be a habit now of people with helicopters...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: On 23 April 2014, the eve of the 98th anniversary of the 1916 Rising, the Government announced that, through NAMA, it would invest €5 million in refurbishing and restoring the section of Moore Street which had been designated as a national monument, that is, Nos. 14 to 17 Moore Street. This was re-announced five months later by the Minister for Arts and Heritage and the Gaeltacht,...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I said that about Irish Water and the waste management companies. I did not raise the issue of waste management and people with €1,500, or whatever, left over. That debt is sold. That is what companies do. They will make a provision in their annual accounts to write it off after two or three years. It is not worth the time of most of these companies chasing the €500 or the...

Income and Living Conditions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...enough food. It also highlights the growth in low pay, a measure on which we are beaten only by the United States of America out of all the countries in the developed world. The fact that half a million people have zero money left at the end of the month once they pay essential bills shows how bad austerity has been. This stark reality for the many can be contrasted with the cushioned...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: As we noted with the last measure, it is always welcome when a Government cops on and reverses a cut, albeit only a partial reversal in this case. The €5 restoration to child benefit each month does not do anything to offset the €400 million taken annually since 2009. It is a substantial cost. In the Minister's budget speech, it was mentioned that this was the first of two...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...from the fact that in the last three budgets the Tánaiste has cut jobseeker's benefit by three months, illness benefit by three days, the jobseeker's allowance for young people by €44, and the invalidity pension for 65 year olds. It has been easy for her to agree to give back €690 per year to a single person earning €120,000 but only €25 to the young,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...which I believe falls under the working age income supports, RTE ran a story about the recovery of redundancy debt and suggested that in 2011, for instance, only a very small portion of the €300 million outstanding was recovered; it had the figure at 4% or 5%. It has increased since then but upwards of €200 million or €300 million, which is a substantial amount, is...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...enough to have the maternity benefit supplemented by their employers, the cumulative impact of this Government's cut and tax measures could shrink their benefits by up to €126, to a payment as low as €135.70, a potential loss, between the tax and the Minister's cuts, of €3,276. That is a substantial reduction for people who are in many cases suffering a loss of income...

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...admirable in their reporting of the Minister's latest proposal and did not go after the cheap headlines, others continue to talk about dole cheats and so on. The figure for suspected fraud is €35 million, and this is the sum the Department should be pursuing to the ends of the earth. The message must go out that people who engage in deliberate fraud will be penalised. In the...

Social Welfare (Amnesty) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jan 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...that many people are caught in a bind. We are acutely aware that most social welfare payments are inadequate to meet the needs of dependants, but that is the level they are at. Many social welfare-dependent households are well below the poverty line and are struggling to pay the bills or put food on the table. If they receive an overpayment of €5 or €10 per week through...