Results 1-14 of 14 for 5 million speaker:Garret Ahearn

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (7 Feb 2024)

Garret Ahearn: ...them all, which is why, even before 2020, the school put in an application to the additional accommodation scheme. It was approved in February 2020. It is a huge project that involves almost €5 million in investment. It will deliver two special education teaching rooms, two science labs, a prep room, a design and communication graphics room, a home economics room, a textiles...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (7 Feb 2024)

Garret Ahearn: ...but that we have promised will be improved. I recognise that extra funding of €144,000 was given in June 2023, essentially for ventilation upgrade works. That is good and it was increased to €5 million. However, the longer the wait to build this, the more it will cost. The fear in the school is that they will have to go back to the Department to say that there are...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Dec 2021)

Garret Ahearn: ...up on what Senator Higgins said, we want good people to get into politics. There are lots of reasons at the moment why people would not, such as social media and work-life balance. There are a million reasons. There are changes we can make to encourage people into politics, especially women. Senator Higgins spoke about maternity leave, which is an obvious one. Paternity leave is also...

Seanad: Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Dec 2021)

Garret Ahearn: ...required. An exercise to estimate the budgetary requirements for the establishment of the corporate enforcement authority commenced in 2018 and at that point the annual budget of the ODCE was €5 million. Following an assessment of the CEA resourcing needs upon its establishment, the 2018 baseline was increased by €1 million in 2019 to a budget of slightly more than...

Seanad: Covid-19 and the New Measures (Enterprise, Trade and Employment): Statements (7 Dec 2021)

Garret Ahearn: ...in Thurles, have got on to me to outline their concerns. They say their occupancy rate over Christmas will drop to approximately 27%. This is a huge reduction. The hoteliers expect an occupancy rate of 5% to 8% in January and February. Therefore, there will be considerable worry over the coming months. While hoteliers welcome the announcement made last week, they have some requests....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Agriculture Schemes (1 Dec 2021)

Garret Ahearn: .... There are certain crops that can be used such as winter or spring oats, rye, winter or spring wheat, winter or spring barley and winter or spring oilseed rape. You can get paid on, at least, 5 ha but for no more than 40 ha. If you apply for more than 40 ha you can carry it out but there is no payment above 40 ha. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has approved a...

Seanad: Companies (Emission Reporting) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 Nov 2021)

Garret Ahearn: ...world. The new climate action Bill includes an acceleration of measures to achieve the level of decarbonisation now required in the industry sector. The target is for a reduction of 7.9 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2018 to about 5 million tonnes in 2030. Under the Government's Climate Action Plan 2021, an increase in energy efficiency in Irish enterprises of 50% by 2030 will be...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2021)

Garret Ahearn: ...and development fund. There was good news yesterday for a number of projects that received extra funding. There were two such projects in County Tipperary. A project in Thurles got an extra €500,000 on top of the €3 million it has received to develop a permanent structure for a farmers' market. That is a really good project for the centre of the town. There is a...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Care Services (7 Oct 2021)

Garret Ahearn: ...faced huge challenges over the last two years with Covid. We sometimes forget how many people are carers and how much they do for people. Approximately 13% of the Irish population over the age of 15 provide care. Family carers provide an average of 38.7 hours care per week, which means that collectively carers provide 19 million hours of unpaid care each week. The annual replacement...

Seanad: Carer's Allowance: Motion (10 May 2021)

Garret Ahearn: ...that we have committed to, and we really need to get moving on a lot of them. One of the issues that is a huge concern for Family Carers Ireland is the carer's guarantee. Last year, the €2 million that was committed to carers in the budget was welcomed but the problem is that the money did not go directly to family carers and went straight to the HSE service plan, which has...

Seanad: Remote Working Strategy: Motion (15 Feb 2021)

Garret Ahearn: ...with it. I agree with what Senator Byrne said about the right to disconnect. This is part of society adjusting to the opportunity of remote working. In my household, we try to work 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. but it can be quite difficult. People who have children do not get what they would normally view as a full day's work done between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. and they can find that they are working...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Dec 2020)

Garret Ahearn: ...the past nine months. The Minister's predecessor, Senator Regina Doherty, did phenomenal work at the start of the pandemic and the Minister has taken it on. We were at a stage where we had 1.3 million people receiving either the pandemic unemployment payment or a jobseeker's payment. The Department was able to facilitate this and work through it although it all happened suddenly. It...

Seanad: Reopening Ireland (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment): Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Garret Ahearn: ...that the Government will segregate them and treat them differently from other restaurants and pubs that serve food and that this should be recognised. The restart grants went down well. We have 2,500 businesses in Tipperary getting approximately €20 million from the restart grant, and then from the restart grant plus. I compliment the staff, led by the CEO, Mr. Joe MacGrath, in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jul 2020)

Garret Ahearn: I welcome this morning's announcement of €200,000 in funding for the Suir blueway. This is part of €4.5 million worth of funding from the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment for 26 blueway and greenway projects throughout the country. The blueway in Tipperary, as Members will be aware, goes from Carrick-on-Suir to Clonmel. This extra funding will add...