Results 41-60 of 65 for 5 million speaker:Willie Penrose

Written Answers — Urban Renewal Schemes: Urban Renewal Schemes (25 May 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...of pyrite have been discovered at three locations. These include the Ballymun Central Youth Facility, a new 124-unit apartment complex at Sillogue 4 and completed and tenanted units at Poppintree 5. Following the discovery of elevated levels of pyrite in the hardcore fill for the Youth Facility building, remedial works costing an estimated €1.25 million were carried out by the...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (17 May 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...to address the difficulties associated with unfinished housing developments. On foot of the interim analysis and findings of the Advisory Group my Department made available initial funding of €5 million to local authorities to deal with immediate safety issues and works to improve the living conditions for existing residents. My Department has now put in place the necessary arrangements...

Housing Advice Services (17 May 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...associated with unfinished housing developments effectively and promptly. On foot of the interim analysis and findings of the advisory group, published on 17 February 2011, initial funding of €5 million is being made available to local authorities to deal with immediate safety issues and works to improve the living conditions for existing residents. My Department has put in place the...

Housing Advice Services (17 May 2011)

Willie Penrose: I agree with Deputy Stanley and I have the commitment in this area. The €5 million is an initial amount and it is provided by the State to the local authorities. Most people in the House know that it is the developers and the owners of unfinished housing developments, or the receivers when they are appointed, who have the primary legal obligation to address outstanding problems associated...

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Estates: Unfinished Housing Estates (3 May 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...with unfinished housing developments effectively and promptly. On foot of the interim analysis and findings of the Advisory Group, which was published on 17 February 2011, initial funding of €5 million is being made available to local authorities to deal with immediate safety issues and works to improve the living conditions for existing residents. My Department has put in place the...

Ghost Housing Estates (6 Apr 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...associated with unfinished housing developments. On foot of the interim analysis and findings of the expert group which were published on 17 February, an initial funding provision of €5 million is being made available to local authorities to deal with immediate safety issues and works to improve living conditions for existing residents. My Department has made the necessary arrangements...

Economic Strategy: Motion (29 Sep 2010)

Willie Penrose: ...s lip-service, disdain and curling of his lip. What is envisaged is a co-guarantee, risk-sharing scheme where the banks themselves make the lending decision but the Government steps in to guarantee 50% to 75% of the loan. The beauty of such an arrangement is that there is an alignment of interests between the loan originator and the guarantor. Where the bank's capital is under pressure,...

Unemployment: Motion (23 Feb 2010)

Willie Penrose: ...policy of the Government and its predecessor led to a totally unsustainable expansion of the construction industry which, at the height of the boom, constituted 13% of GDP compared to an average of 5% for the EU. It is significant that the highest unemployment rates in the EU are in Ireland, Spain, Latvia and Lithuania, all of which experienced property bubbles. By contrast, countries...

Hospital Services. (12 Nov 2009)

Willie Penrose: ...campaign to downgrade the status of the hospital, which is centrally located to serve the citizens of counties Longford and Westmeath on foot of a commitment given in the mid-1980s. At 5 p.m., 41 acute beds or 20% of the bed complement at the hospital will close. I can anticipate the HSE's reply through the Minister of State. It will say 13 beds will be transferred to the day care unit...

Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Willie Penrose: ...any member of the Government aware of how the bureaucratic monster, namely, the HSE is surreptitiously pursuing a campaign to downgrade the status of the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar? At 5 p.m. today 41 acute beds will be taken out of the most efficient hospitals in the country. No discussions took place with consultants, nurses or patients. Beds for acute patients who present...

Government Charges on Businesses: Motion (20 Oct 2009)

Willie Penrose: ...local government funding base and local authority jobs. The Labour Party has been always to the forefront in trying to protect local authority and public service jobs. These workers are out at 5 a.m. cleaning streets. If there is an accident, they are out at 3 a.m. clearing away the fallen tree or whatever. Those are the people on the frontline who would suffer if we supported this...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Oct 2009)

Willie Penrose: ..., the incompetence of the Financial Regulator and the unwillingness of the Government to heed the warnings of distinguished economists in time to avert the disaster we must now deal with. In 2005 Professor Morgan Kelly wrote an article in The Irish Times pointing out that the total lending of the Irish banks to property developers was greater than the value of the deposits in the banks,...

Consumer Issues: Motion (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)

Willie Penrose: ...taxes and increased public spending as if it believed the boom would last forever. When Labour was last in office and Deputy Quinn was Minister for Finance, growth in public spending was 7.25% and inflation was 2%, slightly below inflation in the rest of the EU. Between 1998 and 2001 public spending increased by 80%. This increase occurred as we were approaching full employment which...

Agriculture: Motion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2008)

Willie Penrose: ...to get started? I would hazard a guess that no other European country has embarked upon that process to undermine in such a deliberate way an effort to keep young farmers on the land. The €34 million cut in disadvantaged area payments will impact significantly on up to 40,000 low-income farmers with the cut in the area eligible for farm payments from 45 hectares to 35 hectares. That...

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

Willie Penrose: ...that there should be only one major hospital in each region. Accident and emergency, as well as other services, should be centralised in this hospital while other hospitals would become 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. five-day a week care centres. The Hanly report states on page 68 that, ultimately, there should not be a requirement for an on-site medical presence overnight or at weekends. The most...

Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)

Willie Penrose: .... The cost of insurance has come down but the magnitude of the decrease, some of which would have happened, is dwarfed by the significant increase in the profits of insurance companies. In 2005 the profits of the motor insurance industry increased by 26% to €480 million. This figure comes from a report by the Financial Regulator. Overall, insurance companies made a net underwriting...

Social Insurance. (25 Apr 2007)

Willie Penrose: ...the future pensions of an ever-ageing population? Was a similar warning issued in a report in 2002? What is the proportion of workers to pensioners? Is this steadily declining? In 2002, some 5.3 workers paid PRSI for every pensioner. What is the figure per pensioner now? Has it not declined? Social welfare benefits are financed entirely from the social insurance fund. That is...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (21 Mar 2007)

Willie Penrose: ...argument is that those areas have already received substantial tax designation leading to their regeneration and that therefore some people availing of rent supplement, which now amounts to €400 million annually, would be gaining on the double. However, people should be entitled to live where they want to live. Some people would like to improve themselves and move into those areas. It...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (21 Mar 2007)

Willie Penrose: ...work. Carers have clamoured for and asked us to fight for this on their behalf. It is the way forward. The Minister may not be in a position to accept the amendment because it involves €140 million but we put it down to ensure it remains at the top of the political agenda where the Labour Party has placed it from the start. As spokesman on social policy I am proud of the party's stand...

Citizens Information Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Oct 2006)

Willie Penrose: ...through three information channels, or "strands" as they were described by the Minister, namely, the Oasis website, the citizens information phone service, CIPS, and a nationwide network of 235 to 240 offices of the citizens information service, CIS. One of these channels, the Oasis website, is administered directly by the organisation, while the CIS and CIPS are delivered by independent...