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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...their fixed costs when they are closed. It is largely focused at small and medium enterprises, SMEs, and the amount one can claim is based on one's turnover in 2019. It is 10% of the first €1 million and 5% of the second €1 million. The maximum grant that any company can claim is €5,000 a month. It is for companies that are closed as a consequence of Government...

Other Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (22 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The budget of the National Ambulance Service will be increased for next year and was increased by approximately €5 million this year. Additional ambulances will be purchased, but how the funding and ambulances will be spread out by region throughout the country is up to the National Ambulance Service and I will be guided by its advice. Deputy Dooley's point is valid and well made....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Maternity Benefit Expenditure (13 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: Maternity benefit is paid for 26 weeks at a rate of €235 per week. The 2017 Estimates for my Department provide for expenditure of approximately €266 million on maternity benefit. The estimated additional cost of extending the duration of maternity benefit is €10 million for each extra week. The following table estimates the additional cost of increasing the duration of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (8 Mar 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...in the following series of tables. Table 1: Cost of increasing all working age payments (i.e. weekly payments for those under 66 years of age) by varying amounts Scheme Full year cost of a €5 increase €m Full year cost of a €10 increase €m Full year cost of a €15 increase €m Full year cost of a €20 increase €m Social...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...from my Department’s Vote is expected to be submitted to the Dáil for approval shortly. It is expected that the Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) will be provided with a gross allocation of €52.781million for their use in 2021. On the basis of the LEOs’ expected allocation for 202I, increasing their budget by 5% would cost some €2.639million, an increase...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Jul 2020)

Leo Varadkar: Under the terms and conditions of the current Restart Grant scheme and for further clarity, the qualifying criteria is essentially that the applicant business in its totality must not have more than 50 staff overall and have a maximum turnover of €5 million. A business with a number of stores in one Local Authority region or in several, that each has a rates bill, is eligible to...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Community Development Projects (20 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...steps to address barriers or issues arising. While this work is ongoing, the Board has agreed a number of proposals across the four priority headings for implementation in 2017 at a cost of €2.5 million. This is in addition to the range of local measures already implemented in 2016 worth about €5 million.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (7 Jul 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...August 2012, with secondary legislation setting out the operational detail of the Scheme. The Credit Guarantee Scheme is available to Covid-19 impacted businesses, it supports loans up to €1 million for periods of up to 7 years. The Scheme offers a partial Government guarantee of 80% to banks against losses on qualifying loans to eligible SMEs. The scheme is designed to support a...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Commissions of Investigation (19 Dec 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...88 together. On 23 November 2018, the Commission submitted its Fifth Interim Report to me and requested a further extension of its deadline for reporting until the end of March 2020. On 5 December 2018, I met with representatives of the Opposition parties in relation to the Commission's request. There was a strong shared concern by all parties in the Oireachtas about the level...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (18 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...the relevant medical criteria). The estimated cost in 2018 (and a full year) of increasing the weekly personal rate of Disability Allowance by €20, from €193 to €213 per week, is €140.3 million. Each €1 increase in the weekly personal rate would cost €7.03 million in 2018 and a full year. There is an analogous social insurance payment, Invalidity...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (22 Sep 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...Executive and as such, I have referred this element of the question to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply. If the Deputy has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days, please contact my Private Office who will follow up the matter with them. The Report of the Steering Group on a National Substance Misuse Strategy, 2012 noted that the majority of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Advertising (12 Jul 2023)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 5, inclusive, together. In the past ten years, the Department of the Taoiseach has incurred expenditure of €3.7 million on advertising with RTÉ. The bulk of this expenditure relates to Government Information Service, GIS, campaigns in 2020 and 2021. All expenditure is placed through a media buying company procured through an Office of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Administration (23 Jun 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...be paid in respect of children up to their 18th birthday who are in full-time education, or who have a disability. 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...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...will sort it out. We are in strong position. The schools are 90% complete. The State owns the buildings and the payments made so far by the State to the PPP contractor are of the order of €4 million to €5 million. It costs much more than that to build one school, let alone six, so we are in a strong position to have this sorted out but because of the collapse of one of...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...needs payment where a person can go to his or her community welfare officer and say that he or she cannot afford to pay funeral expenses or burial costs. We can help with that. Approximately €5 million was paid out to help 1,000 people to date this year. In the region of 3,000 people last year and 1,000 people so far this year received an exceptional needs payment to assist them...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance (11 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 395, 396 and 404 together. The supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme is demand led and provides assistance to eligible people in the State whose means are insufficient to meet their needs and those of their dependants. The main purpose of the scheme is to provide immediate and flexible assistance for those in need who do not qualify for payment...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pensions (16 Sep 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...the rate of inflation. The appropriate level of social welfare supports will be considered by Government in a budgetary context in the coming weeks, with due regard to available resources. A €5 increase in the weekly rates of payment to those aged 66 and over is estimated to cost €148.8 million in 2017. A €10 increase in the weekly rates of payment to those aged 66...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Data (18 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...measure any impact on trade between Ireland and the UK, the EU or non-EU countries since 1 January 2021. The latest Goods Exports and Imports release from the Central Statistics Office, dated 15 February 2021, shows that the value of goods exports from Ireland rose to €160.8bn in 2020 which is the highest level on record. The value of goods exports increased by €8.3bn...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...uncertainty surrounding Brexit. The Government provides a range of financial aids to help beef farm incomes, as well as to support economic and environmental efficiency. These include the €300 million beef data and genomics programme. In addition to this, over the past two years more than €200 million was made available specifically to the beef sector, including the beef...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (11 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: Overpayments of benefit or assistance arise where a person is paid in excess of their entitlement or paid where no entitlement exists. In 2016, the Department overpaid customers by €110 million. Of this, customer fraud accounted for €41 million and relates to cases where a customer intentionally provides incomplete or inaccurate information in order to receive benefits, or...