Results 81-100 of 237 for 5 million speaker:Leo Varadkar

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Data (27 Sep 2016)

Leo Varadkar: Child Benefit is currently paid to around 619,000 families in respect of some 1.2 million children, with an estimated expenditure in the order of over €2 billion in 2016. Child Benefit is an important source of income for all families and in Budget 2016 the Government increased Child Benefit by €5 per month, at a cost of €72 million. Budget 2009 reduced the age for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...of concern around the country. It is coming up from Deputies from all constituencies. I understand from Deputy Griffin that the financial gap for Kerry County Council is estimated at about €5 million or €6 million for 2020, potentially rising to €13 million for 2021. That would be a grave situation indeed. The Government understands that local authority income is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Estimates Process (22 May 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...together. At the end of April, a further Revised Estimate for my Department was voted through the House. This further Revised Estimate reduced my Department's 2018 net budget allocation by €2.5 million, from €35.89 million to €33.39 million. My Department's original Revised Estimate showed a net reduction of 2% on 2017. This further Revised Estimate brings the total...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (21 Nov 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...to be finalised in the coming weeks, will include an update on measures progressed by Government Departments, including actions to ameliorate housing and homelessness problems, such as the €750 million financing entity Home Building Finance Ireland, the new stamp duty refund scheme, projects approved under the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, the national...

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The amount of additional funding for disability services next year, as announced in yesterday's budget, is €65 million. Approximately €50 million of this will be used to improve and expand existing services and cover additional pay costs etc. The other €15 million will be used for new developments. That is just in the Department of Health. Additional funding is being...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Strategic Communications Unit (21 Mar 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...of expenditure up to the end of February 2018 are contained in the following table: Details 2017 2018 (to 28 February) Total Travel & Subsistence €3,423.21 €299.34 €3,722.55 Advertising and Incidental Expenses €35,186.33 €124,385.38 €159,571.71 Postal & Telecommunications €626.48 €308.27...

Other Questions: Family Income Supplement (31 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...earnings with children. FIS is designed to prevent in-work poverty for low-paid workers with child dependants and to offer a financial incentive to take up employment. There are currently almost 57,000 families with more than 126,000 children in receipt of FIS. The estimated spend on FIS this year is approximately €422 million. There has been a steady growth both in the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud (31 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I would like thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. Total overpayments raised by my Department in 2016 amounted to €110 million. Of this, customer fraud amounted to €41 million. Cases of this nature arise where a customer intentionally provides incomplete or inaccurate information in order to receive benefits or deliberately fails to inform the Department of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (19 May 2022)

Leo Varadkar: ...internationally and attract small-scale foreign direct investment. There is a wide range of funding mechanisms available for these centres. To date my Department has provided funding of €250 million, administered by Enterprise Ireland, to assist the establishment of some 270 enterprise centres throughout Ireland. In 2022, an additional €5 million will be provided to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Leo Varadkar: .... The national broadband plan is the largest ever investment in rural Ireland and probably the most significant investment to take place since rural electrification. It is about connecting 1.1 million people, 450,000 homes, 50,000 farms and 50,000 businesses to high-speed broadband. The project is ambitious. Ireland will be one of the first - if not the first - countries in the world...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Estimates Process (22 May 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...thousand left of the original allocation to the SCU apart from what has been allocated or committed already. Deputy Howlin is right to identify that point. The budget was originally to be €5 million but it has been cut in half because the unit is being wound down and will cease to exist in approximately two months' time. Behaviour and Attitudes already has the contract for the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Data (5 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: Child Benefit is currently paid to around 624,000 families in respect of some 1.2 million children, with an estimated expenditure in the order of over €2 billion in 2016. Child Benefit is an important source of income for all families and in Budget 2016 the Government increased Child Benefit by €5 per month, at a cost of €72 million. Budget 2009 reduced the age for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme (24 Nov 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...of the jobseeker’s allowance scheme such as the retention of secondary benefits and access to activation programmes. The 2016 Revised Estimates for my Department provide for expenditure of €85 million on the farm assist scheme. Budget 2017 introduces new measures in relation to the assessment of means for farm assist. These include that farm income will now be assessed...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (15 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...and stage of growth. Access to appropriate forms of external equity finance is also vital for the development of indigenous enterprises. As part of the July Stimulus package, I announced an increase of €10 million in funding for the Seed and Venture Capital Scheme, which supports venture capital funds to invest in early-stage innovative Irish companies. The €10 million...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Citizen Information Services (11 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The Citizens Information Board (CIB), which has statutory responsibility for the Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS) and the Citizens Information Services (CIS), decided on 15 February 2017 to restructure the governance arrangements of these services. As a statutory body, the Board has the sole right to make decisions on its day to day operations as it sees fit. It would not be...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (24 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 175 and 176 together. An exercise to estimate the budgetary requirements for the establishment of the Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA) commenced in 2018. At that point, the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement’s (ODCE) annual budget was €5.057m. Following an assessment of the CEA’s resourcing needs upon its establishment,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...on numbers for public gatherings and other important public health advice. Full details are available at I should also explain that on Tuesday 16th June 2020, the Government announced €25 million in extra supports to help the Arts and Culture sector recover from the COVID-19 Emergency. The funding will include bursaries and commissions to artists and arts organisations, and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Semi-State Bodies Dividends (16 Jul 2013)

Leo Varadkar: ...that such a proposal emerges, it will be carefully examined and evaluated and a decision taken as soon as possible. In relation to dividends, the company declared and paid a dividend of just over €5 million earlier this year in respect of 2012. This was the first dividend paid by the IAA since 2004 and is a very welcome development for the Exchequer. The IAA...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Data (25 May 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...the relevant medical criteria). The estimated cost in 2017 (and a full year) of increasing the weekly personal rate of Disability Allowance by €20, from €188 to €208 per week, is €131.2 million. Each €1 increase in the weekly personal rate would cost €6.6 million in 2017 and a full year. There is an analogous social insurance payment,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme (17 Nov 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...of the jobseeker’s allowance scheme such as the retention of secondary benefits and access to activation programmes. The 2016 Revised Estimates for my Department provide for expenditure of €85 million on the farm assist scheme. Budget 2017 introduces new measures in relation to the assessment of means for farm assist. These include that farm income will now be...