Results 21-40 of 76 for 5 million speaker:Damien English

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: ...Enterprise Plans to 2024 are currently being finalised by my Department. They will be published and launched across the country over February and March this year. My Department has approved over €126 million in funding to 79 enterprise strengthening projects in every region over a series of competitive calls since 2017. This has been provided through Enterprise Ireland via the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: ...Enterprise Plans to 2024 are currently being finalised by my Department. They will be published and launched across the country over February and March this year. My Department has approved over €126 million in funding to 79 enterprise strengthening projects in every region over a series of competitive calls since 2017. This has been provided through Enterprise Ireland via the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: ...Enterprise Plans to 2024 are currently being finalised by my Department. They will be published and launched across the country over February and March this year. My Department has approved over €126 million in funding to 79 enterprise strengthening projects in every region over a series of competitive calls since 2017. This has been provided through Enterprise Ireland via the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: ...Enterprise Plans to 2024 are currently being finalised by my Department. They will be published and launched across the country over February and March this year. My Department has approved over €126 million in funding to 79 enterprise strengthening projects in every region over a series of competitive calls since 2017. This has been provided through Enterprise Ireland via the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: ...Enterprise Plans to 2024 are currently being finalised by my Department. They will be published and launched across the country over February and March this year. My Department has approved over €126 million in funding to 79 enterprise strengthening projects in every region over a series of competitive calls since 2017. This has been provided through Enterprise Ireland via the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Help Service (14 Jun 2022)

Damien English: ...who need that care can receive it, including the person to whom the Deputy referred, for whom more than 40 hours was approved. In budget 2021, the Minister of State secured additional funding of €150 million for home support to progress the development of a reformed model of service delivery to underpin the statutory scheme for the financing and regulation of home support services...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: ...Plans to 2024 are currently being finalised and will be published and launched across the country over February and March this year. The Deputy will be aware that my Department has approved over €126 million in funding to 79 enterprise strengthening projects in every region over a series of competitive calls since 2017. This has been provided through Enterprise Ireland via the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Urban Renewal Schemes (17 Nov 2016)

Damien English: ...2016, further reinforces the Government’s commitment to the area of urban regeneration. In this context, the Government launched the Town and Village Renewal Scheme last August with an allocation of €10 million in funding for the year. A sum of €380,000 was made available to each of the 26 counties for 2016 under this initial phase of the scheme. Local Authorities,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 May 2021)

Damien English: ...ensure that high-income countries finance the vaccines and support the developing countries to secure their share of global supply. As part of our response, the Government, via Irish Aid has channeled €5 million to direct supports to COVID-19 vaccination, including through the COVAX mechanism, which has to date delivered over 49 million vaccines already to 121 participant countries.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Regional Development (19 May 2022)

Damien English: ..., climate action and smart working 3. Support cluster organisations in driving the development and growth of enterprise 4. Bolster the South-West as a leader in sustainable food production and agri-tech 5. Embrace the opportunities of climate action in the marine, circular bioeconomy, tourism and energy sectors 6. Ensure a pipeline of talent in the region, focusing on sustainable...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (29 May 2018)

Damien English: ...that, having regard to the available resources, the focus of the scheme is on dwellings which are most severely damaged by pyritic heave. I have no proposals to amend this eligibility criterion. Some €2.2 million was provided to the Housing Agency in 2014 to meet expenditure incurred under the scheme in respect of design work, contractors, expenses to homeowners, operational...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Construction Industry (7 Apr 2022)

Damien English: ...a focus on skills and everything else the Deputy touched on. The Deputy asked about the timeline for the proposal. Thankfully, the money has been set aside through Enterprise Ireland. A €5 million budget is set aside to drive this over the next couple of years. The call for proposals opened in February and closed on 4 March. It was open to all in the research community to...

Crime Prevention: Motion. (10 Oct 2006)

Damien English: ...brave. This is one of the massive failures of the Government. I shall correct the Minister as regards one figure, since we were attempting to clarify how much had been spent. He mentioned €200 million. He appears to have jumped €5 million in the last week. He answered a question last week to the effect that the figure was up to €195 million, so that €5 million seems to have...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Traveller Accommodation (17 Nov 2016)

Damien English: ...Nos. 8 and 32 together. The Deputy's question is mainly about getting the money spent but on the funding issue the funding has gone back up, and rightly so. In recent years approximately €5 million or €6 million has been spent on capital projects. Next year the figure will go up by 69%. The funding is increasing but ensuring that it is spent is another matter. We are...

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Damien English: ...level of inflation for 38 years was recorded in June 2022 at 9.1%, a level not seen since 1984. September marked the 12th straight month where the annual increase for the CPI has been at least 5%. These increased costs will cause significant strains on the working capital position of our SMEs and they will need to spread their costs over the next one to three years to deal with the...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Damien English: ...within the SME sector for the future, it is vital that businesses are equipped for the transition to the green and digital economy. I am pleased that Enterprise Ireland has been allocated an extra €10 million in budget 2022 to enable it to work with enterprises on the importance of climate change, mitigation and adaption. Working through our agencies, we will assist companies to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Intellectual Property (15 Sep 2022)

Damien English: I propose to take Questions Nos. 55, 69 and 76 together. Universal and equitable access to safe, effective and affordable vaccines is crucial in the global fight against COVID-19. The WTO Ministerial Conference concluded on 17 June with Ministers agreeing an outcome in relation to the production and supply of Covid-19 vaccines. The ‘Ministerial Decision on the TRIPS Agreement’...

Seanad: Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (29 Nov 2022)

Damien English: ...level of inflation for 38 years was recorded in June 2022 at 9.1%, a level not seen since 1984. September marked the 12th straight month where the annual increase for the CPI has been at least 5%. These increased costs will cause significant strains on the working capital position of SMEs. They will need to spread the costs of the next 12 to 24 months over a longer timeframe to avoid...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: ...and manufacturers honouring deals brokered under COVAX, and that unequal distribution, rather than supply, could compromise global access to vaccines. Ireland has committed to donate up to 5 million COVID-19 vaccines. To date, a total of 2.9 million have been accepted as donations and of these over 1.3m have been delivered to countries including Uganda, Nigeria, Indonesia and Ghana....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Approved Housing Bodies (31 Jan 2018)

Damien English: ...to the local authority. In recognition of the shift in investment required by AHBs towards construction of new units, my Department introduced upfront or accelerated CALF payments in 2015, a change to the scheme which was launched in 2011, which allows for the drawdown of funds prior to a project starting on site. Up to 95% of the approved CALF funding can be drawn down as specific...