Results 41-60 of 60 for 5 million speaker:John Halligan

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tourism Policy (9 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: ...Apprenticeship Council will continue to work with the proposers of these new programmes to develop them into sustainable apprenticeships that can be delivered on a nationwide basis. The funding for planned and forecast expansion in 2017 will see an additional €20 million provided.  In 2015 a new Career Traineeship initiative was begun by SOLAS in collaboration with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (8 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: ...the proposers of these new programmes to develop them into sustainable apprenticeships that can be delivered on a nationwide basis. The funding for planned and forecast expansion in 2017 will see an additional €20 million provided. In 2015 a new Career Traineeship initiative was begun by SOLAS in collaboration with ETBs and enterprise to develop a more effective model of work-based...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Development (2 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: ...the proposers of these new programmes to develop them into sustainable apprenticeships that can be delivered on a nationwide basis. The funding for planned and forecast expansion in 2017 will see an additional €20 million provided. In 2015 a new Career Traineeship initiative was begun by SOLAS in collaboration with ETBs and enterprise to develop a more effective model of work-based...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (1 Feb 2017)

John Halligan: ...the proposers of these new programmes to develop them into sustainable apprenticeships that can be delivered on a nationwide basis. The funding for planned and forecast expansion in 2017 will see an additional €20 million provided. In 2015 a new Career Traineeship initiative was begun by SOLAS in collaboration with ETBs and enterprise to develop a more effective model of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

John Halligan: ...the proposers of these new programmes to develop them into sustainable apprenticeships that can be delivered on a nationwide basis. The funding for planned and forecast expansion in 2017 will see an additional €20 million provided. In 2015 a new Career Traineeship initiative was begun by SOLAS in collaboration with ETBs and enterprise to develop a more effective model of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Data (26 Jan 2017)

John Halligan: ...including some 10,000 children with special educational needs, are being transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually.  Overall, the number of school transport bus routes has risen from 5,001 in 2011 to 5,256 in 2016. Families of eligible children, for whom a school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Data (17 Jan 2017)

John Halligan: ...out in the attached table. CRAFT Actual Registration 2016 Forecast Registrations 2017 Forecast Registrations 2018 Forecast Registrations 2019 Forecast Registrations 2020 BRICK & STONELAYING 52 65 95 140 180 CARPENTRY & JOINERY 399 570 700 810 1045 FLOOR & WALL TILING 0 0 0 0 0 PAINTING & DECORATING 27 45 65 90 110 PIPEFITTING 33 45 55 65 75...

Flood Prevention Measures: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2016)

John Halligan: ...up to and including the words “State Agency Co-ordination Working Group” and substitute the following:“— the progress with the delivery of the series of specific actions outlined by the Government on 5 and 26 January 2016, to address and alleviate flooding concerns, namely:— the establishment of a Shannon Flood Risk State Agency Co-ordination Working...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Research and Development Funding (8 Dec 2016)

John Halligan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 12 and 16 together. My Department recently secured Cabinet approval for the provision of a capital investment package of €60 million for expenditure in 2016. This will include €49 million for innovation, including the areas of research and development, science and technology. It includes funding of €27 million to Science Foundation...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Research and Development Funding (8 Dec 2016)

John Halligan: The Deputy is asking if cycle 5 of the programme is fully paid, or what is remaining to be paid. In monetary terms, cycle 5 was the largest of the five cycles which awarded a total of €359 million in funding across 36 distinct projects. My Department continues to make payments to the colleges via the Higher Education Authority in respect of the PRTLI cycle 5. Total expenditure by my...

Seanad: Commencement Matters (Resumed): Schools Building Projects (24 Nov 2016)

John Halligan: .... The staffing allocation for Whitecross national school is currently a principal with 16 mainstream teachers. Enrolments in September 2011 stood at 410 pupils. The enrolments in September 2015 stood at 432 which shows an incremental growth of 5%. The design team was appointed in March 2011 with a brief to provide the extension and refurbishment work on a phased basis with a partial...

Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)

John Halligan: ...financial supports for postgraduate students with particular focus on those from low income households; - the commitments and allocations of resources in Budget 2017, including:- an additional allocation of €458 million, a five per cent increase in 2017, resulting in an overall budget of €9.53 billion, the third highest in the history of the Department of Education and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (28 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: The Student Grant Scheme supported approximately 81,500 students in the academic year 2015/16 at a cost of circa €380 million. Under the student grant scheme, eligible candidates may receive funding, provided they are attending an approved course at an approved institution and meet the prescribed conditions of funding, including those which relate to nationality, residency,...

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (8 Dec 2015)

John Halligan: ...to patients in the south east. The Waterford-Wexford mental health services, which serve a population of approximately 278,000, have spending in the mental health area of approximately €148 million. In Carlow-Kilkenny, the spend is €223 million while in south Tipperary it is €198 million. Wexford now has no 24-hour mental health service and proposals for an acute...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

John Halligan: ...to introduce measures aimed at universally affordable and accessible child care for middle-income earners who are currently forking out approximately €1,000 per month. There is a wholly inadequate €3-million allocation to support after-school services which I cannot see stretching very far. The school year only runs for 37 or so weeks of the year so what are working parents...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: ...not get hung up on the fact that people are paying or registering, because that does not necessarily mean they agree with these charges. The Minister is completely out of touch if he thinks the 4 million people in this country who were not among the 45,000, 70,000 or 150,000 people marching yesterday or a few weeks ago agree with these charges. That is not the case. It is interesting to...

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: ...UN in Somalia and Sudan and now works for a private company in Scotland. He was completely shocked and says we are a laughing stock. He found it incomprehensible that we would make available €539 million to install a metering system on pipes that will eventually have to be replaced. I live in an old part of Waterford city and, if meters are installed, they will be connected to an...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2014)

John Halligan: ...I will concentrate on child benefit and the high cost of child care. Child benefit has shrunk from €160 per child in 2008 to its current level of approximately €130. The Government has added €5, returning €70 million to parents, but this does not make up for the €400 million that has been cut since 2009. The €5 will make no discernible...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

John Halligan: Like many who worked through the budget last night, I mulled over the extra €5 per month for parents paying more for child care than they do on their mortgages and considered the €100 in water charges relief for those vulnerable people who have had most of the safety nets designed to protect them undermined in recent years. What I saw was a Government clearly at ease with...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Government Reform (23 Oct 2012)

John Halligan: ...reform programme; the amount being saved by Waterford City and county councils through local government efficiency savings since 2010; if those savings already accrued are included in the estimated €5 million savings to be brought about by the proposed reforms in Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46507/12]