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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Organisations (7 Jul 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 568. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which his Department became aware that the Football Association of Ireland had received a €5 million payment from the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, following the failure of the Republic of Ireland football team to qualify for the 2010 World Cup. [27146/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Organisations (7 Jul 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 570. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he, his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department have any concerns as to how the receipt of €5 million by the Football Association of Ireland from the Fédération Internationale de Football Association was accounted for by the Football Association of Ireland and-or reported to his Department or to...

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (27 May 2015)

Róisín Shortall: ...out by the international aviation consultancy company Nyras. The study concludes that the airline should set aggressive but achievable targets for short-haul cost efficiency at a minimum of €60 million or €5 to €6 per seat. It also recommends what it terms the next steps which identify potential savings. The breakdown of these possible savings includes ground...

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (27 May 2015)

Róisín Shortall: ...the worst effects of recession in recent years. It is worth reminding the House of the company's strengths. It generated revenues of €1.6 billion last year, with an operating profit of €72 million. It has total assets of €1.8 billion and cash reserves of €545 million, more than any other European airline. Last year it carried 11 million passengers on its 51...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: ...very expensive and benefits the better off. A great many people with very little pension provision for themselves or no pension provision at all are subsidising the better off who have pension pots up to €5 million and beyond in some cases. That is a highly inequitable system and that needs to be tackled.

Report of the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications: Motion (8 Nov 2013)

Róisín Shortall: ...to divulge to the joint committee all information on how much they received in sponsorship from the alcohol industry, the testimony of witnesses indicated that these sports gained between €10 million and €20 million in funding each year from this source. The dependence on alcohol sponsorship is heavier in the case of soccer and rugby, especially the latter, than it is for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (16 Apr 2013)

Róisín Shortall: ...for the delay in recruiting additional front-line primary care staff; when he expects all such staff to be recruited; and the way in which he intends to re-allocate the savings of approximately €5 million to date arising from the delayed recruitment of these primary care posts. [17027/13]

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)

Róisín Shortall: ...open to it. For example, it could have increased the universal social charge or introduced a solidarity levy. God knows we need solidarity now more than ever before and if we had introduced a 5% solidarity levy in respect of people with incomes in excess of €100,000 - in the context of the element of those incomes that is above that amount - we could have raised €320 million....

Primary Care Strategy (27 Mar 2012)

Róisín Shortall: ...teams targeted by the HSE for establishment by the end of 2012 now stands at 486. At the end of February 2012, 400 PCTs were operating, that is, holding clinical team meetings. Funding of €20 million has been provided for in the HSE's national service plan for 2012 to fill as many vacancies as possible that have arisen as a result of the recent public service retirements and to expand...

Seanad: Clotting Factor Concentrates and Other Biological Products Bill 2012: Second and Subsequent Stages (21 Mar 2012)

Róisín Shortall: ..., to St. James's Hospital which is the National Centre for Hereditary Coagulation Disorders and also the National Haemophilia Centre. These products cost the health system approximately €37.6 million in 2011. There are approximately 2,000 people with haemophilia and related disorders in Ireland. Approximately 600 people have haemophilia while 900 have Von Willebrand disease and another...

Clotting Factor Concentrates and Other Biological Products Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) and Subsequent Stages (14 Mar 2012)

Róisín Shortall: ...IBTS removed its commission of 19% on products. Projected savings were based on usage patterns being maintained but usage has actually increased, as noted by the Minister earlier in the debate, by 5 million units for factor 8 and 2 million units for factor 9. Even so, the cost of the products to the State has actually decreased from almost €40.8 million in 2009 to €37.6 million last...

Seanad: Water Services (1 Mar 2012)

Róisín Shortall: ..., Community and Local Government, Deputy Phil Hogan. I thank the Senator for providing me with an opportunity to outline the improvements made in the area of waste water treatment in the past 15 years. More than €6 billion in Exchequer resources has been invested in water services infrastructure since the early 1990s, with more than €5 billion of that spent in the past decade and a...

Health Service Plan 2012: Statements (Resumed) (2 Feb 2012)

Róisín Shortall: ...to provide a responsive health service. This will involve appointing a number of directors at national level, one of whom will have responsibility for primary care. We are all agreed that 90% to 95% of a person's health needs should be catered for in primary care and yet it is the poor relation of the health service and incredibly there is no national director with his of his own budget...

Seanad: Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Róisín Shortall: ...treatment must provide a certain minimum level of benefits. I refer to market statistics. The total premium income for the three insurers for 2010 was €1.9 billion, an increase of €300 million, or 19%, more than the 2008 figure of €1.6 billion. As of end-September 2011, 2.174 million people, or 47.5% of the Irish population, had private health insurance in the form of inpatient...

Seanad: Alcohol Pricing: Motion (16 Nov 2011)

Róisín Shortall: ...a volume that would be elevated further if one took into consideration that approximately 20% of the population do not drink alcohol. The average per alcohol drinker is even higher. Ultimately, 1.5 million Irish drinkers drink in a harmful way. That is an extraordinary statistic, given that the population is approximately 4.5 million. Data from relevant surveys indicate that the...

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2011)

Róisín Shortall: ...and a wide number of actions are being taken by the Revenue Commissioners and Customs and Excise in that regard. For example, between 2008 and 2010, Customs and Excise service seized a total of 532 million cigarettes with an estimated retail value of €222 million, representing just over 30,000 individual seizures. Much work has been ongoing at the ports and airports but many cigarettes...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (16 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Finance the basis on which he is estimating that €5 million can be raised in 2011 through the reduction of the overall life time limit on tax free lump sums to €200,000; and the reason such estimates were not provided in reply to recent parliamentary questions [47932/10]

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (24 Nov 2010)

Róisín Shortall: ...about how long one is allowed remain on CE, but there is no information available on the level of training of CE participants, for example, how many CE participants would have a FETAC level 5 award by the end of their CE training. We need this basic information because the focus of CE - I accept many of the services provided are worthwhile - must be on progression from the point of view...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: ...her actions. Her actions show clearly that she set out deliberately to hit the weakest in society. Rather than protecting the vulnerable, she has protected the rich. The Minister has protected millionaires. Those people referred to previously who earn vast salaries will not pay one extra cent in tax, nor will those who can avail of various property reliefs. None of the property...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: ...has been created to boot. A widow stands to lose €641 per year in the budget. A person with disabilities on disability allowance will lose €636 annually. In addition, she will have to pay €5 per week under the drugs treatment scheme, 50 cent for every prescription she fills, and she will have to go on a long waiting list to access dental treatment because of cutbacks under the...