Results 41-60 of 76 for 5 million speaker:Damien English

Loan Guarantee Schemes Arrangements (Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland) Bill 2021: Second Stage (12 May 2021)

Damien English: ...the European guarantee fund, which is managed by the European Investment Fund on behalf of the European Commission. The effect of the counter-guarantee is to allow for a scheme of up to €330 million in lending to be made available at a maximum executor cost of €29 million. This relates a multiplier effect of State funds by more than a factor of ten. The scheme costs will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Tendering (22 Sep 2015)

Damien English: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1192 and 1257 to 1266, inclusive, together. Bus Éireann operates the school transport scheme on behalf of my Department. The cost of the scheme was some €172 million in 2014 which included grant payments, payments for escorts to accompany children with special educational needs as well as the cost of direct school transport services. In 2014...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Science Foundation Ireland Funding (18 Feb 2015)

Damien English: ...streams to ensure that Ireland continues to attract, retain and expand research that leads to an increase in competitiveness and in high value jobs. In 2013 researchers funded by SFI leveraged €125 million in 2013 from external sources, including €56 million in funding from EU sources. The ratio of funding from non-Irish Exchequer to Irish-Exchequer is almost 2:1. SFI plays...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 May 2022)

Damien English: I propose to take Questions Nos. 6, 33, 37, 52, 58 and 59 together. I thank Deputy Connolly and her colleagues for tabling them. As we have outlined previously to both Houses, universal and equitable access to safe, effective and affordable vaccines, diagnostics and treatments is crucial in the global fight against Covid-19. This is at the heart of the Irish Government's international...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Oct 2020)

Damien English: ...for the recovery. The measures in the Budget are in addition to those announced in the July Stimulus, which was a substantial financial package to stimulate our economy worth more than €5 billion, with an additional €2 billion in loan guarantees for the new Credit Guarantee Scheme. As of 9th October, 45,505 businesses had applied for the Restart Grant, with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites (23 Feb 2017)

Damien English: Pillar 5 of the Government's Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness - Rebuilding Ireland is specifically focused on Utilising Existing Housing Stock, with a key objective of ensuring that the existing vacant housing stock throughout the country and across all forms of tenure, in both the public and private sectors, is used to the optimum degree possible. In this regard, Action 5.1 of...

Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Scheme Payments (18 May 2017)

Damien English: ...with the number of approvals requested. Of the 1,368 payment claims submitted to date, 847 have been paid. Payments are issuing on an ongoing basis. Payments in the amount of more than €10 million have been made. The current outstanding payment claims, of which there are 521, generally fall into the following four categories, with the estimates percentages as well. Some 75% of...

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Damien English: ...are not. It was recommended by the committee on housing and homelessness, we adopted it, the funds have been set aside for coming years and have been ring fenced in order to deliver, as a minimum, 50,000 social houses. We are on the same page. That is separate to affordable housing. Deputy Mick Wallace wants 10,000 affordable houses also, but we are on very similar territory there too....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Urban Renewal Schemes (6 Apr 2017)

Damien English: ...to be in a position to report before the Summer. To further assist in the area of urban regeneration, my colleague, the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs launched the Town and Village Renewal Scheme in August 2016, with an initial allocation of €10 million in funding.  In this regard, a sum of €380,000 was made available to each...

Social and Affordable Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2016)

Damien English: ...they must be addressed. That is the case but that is not what the Taoiseach was referring to the other day. Deputy Burton referred to the infrastructure fund and what she said is correct. The 75 applications that have been received total approximately €700 million plus in terms of infrastructure. That does not include all local authorities, as only 21 local authorities have...

Seanad: Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Jul 2020)

Damien English: .... The impact on SMEs has been enormous. SMEs are the backbone of the economy, representing 99.8% of business activities in Ireland. In May 2019, there were 238,000 SMEs in our economy employing more than 1.3 million workers at a time overall employment stood at 2.3 million. These enterprises are spread throughout the country in urban and rural areas and represent a vibrant and diverse...

Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Jan 2015)

Damien English: ...referred to the comment that Fianna Fáil wanted to end the junior certificate just to save money. That is not the proposal here. Again, the funding for education is going back up with an extra €60 million in the 2015 budget. The Minister secured the extra money needed for this reform with over €9 million being allocated for it and a commitment that resources that are...

National Drugs Strategy. (21 Mar 2006)

Damien English: ...task forces. These task forces were set up three or four years ago and their plans were finally submitted last September, although many of these were simply a copy of the national plan. A sum of €5 million was allocated and we now discover that less than 13% of that has been spent or drawn down. Only 4% was spent in the greater Dublin region, where there is an enormous drug problem, and...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Brexit Supports (10 Nov 2020)

Damien English: ...by Enterprise Ireland, provides for collaborative, enterprise capability-building projects advancing entrepreneurship, productivity and innovation in the Border Region. The Fund is part of a €28 million economic stimulus package announced for the six border counties of Louth, Monaghan, Cavan, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal earlier this year.  Enterprise Ireland’s...

Seanad: Loan Guarantee Schemes Agreements (Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland) Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 May 2021)

Damien English: ...they try to trade their way through Covid and Brexit. This is what we are trying to deal with. To unlock the European guarantee fund counter-guarantee, which will be used to leverage funding of up to €330 million for the Brexit impact loan scheme, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine will collectively contribute...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mica Redress Scheme (13 May 2020)

Damien English: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1231, 1238 and 1241 together. Regulations have been made under sections 2 and 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1979 to provide for a grant scheme of financial assistance to support affected homeowners in the counties of Donegal and Mayo to carry out the necessary remediation works to dwellings that have been damaged due to defective concrete...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Science and Technology Groups (16 Dec 2014)

Damien English: Since Ireland joined the European Space Agency (ESA) in 1975, Irish industry and research groups have been at the heart of Europe’s space missions building a reputation as providers of innovative technologies for use in the European space programme. My Department, in association with Enterprise Ireland, supports Irish companies to bid on ESA development contracts and to exploit the...

Non-Use of Motor Vehicles Bill 2013: Second Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Damien English: ...prime example of an area with heavy traffic and we need to address the situation. We need to collect money that belongs to this country. The motor tax evasion rate is estimated to be in the region of 5% annually. With a total tax take of €1 billion, the evasion is worth €50 million in cash terms. However, the calculation is based on the last major roadside survey,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Issues (23 Feb 2017)

Damien English: ...model. The Deputy has previously called for the model to be available in Offaly and other counties. We also want it to be available everywhere. The scheme is being progressed. A total of €32 million is secured for the scheme, but again there is potential for further roll-out if needs be because it is a successful scheme. This should be considered as one phase. There will be...

Seanad: Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Jul 2020)

Damien English: ...we debated the Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020 but I will now add further detail. When these figures are broken down further, we see that microenterprises accounted for approximately 26.5% of persons engaged and the greater number of enterprises, at 92.1%. Small and medium enterprises combined accounted for 42% of total persons engaged in employment in 2017 and just under...