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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing apprentice fees by 20%, 50% and 100%, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23023/20]

Seanad: Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Second Stage (30 Jul 2020)

Ivana Bacik: ...ensured we would build back better. As the Labour Party spokesperson on children and childcare, I have already been contacted by a number of parents about widespread issues. They are concerned about increases in fees, being charged a deposit to hold a place for children who have not yet even taken up a place in childcare, and crèches that have closed. Parents are very anxious and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Examinations (28 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the discrepancy between repeat exam fees in different higher education institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18812/20]

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (24 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...than ever with the gaping hole left in our universities, given the funding situation and stresses that our third level sector is under in terms of the near-evaporation for the foreseeable future of fees that we could ordinarily expect from international students. The Labour Party's July stimulus package calls for an immediate increase in funding for third level under the new...

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Jul 2020)

Annie Hoey: ...thoughts on how returning to education will work. I suggest that perhaps they should be. Ultimately, the main issue facing both Ministers will be the funding of the sector. We have the highest fees in Europe. While great ambitions are outlined with the new Department we cannot do anything unless we have funding. The sector and Department cannot go forward until the funding crisis is...

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (7 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...was quite painful and bruising. Many small business owners will have just begun to look forward to the next period of their lives and their businesses' lives. They may have extended themselves on the feeling that things were improving economically and now they have been hit with this Covid disaster. It is much easier to retain a job than to create a new one. While we welcome this...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (27 Jun 2020)

Alan Kelly: ...homes at an affordable price point for ordinary workers or affordable childcare so that parents do not have to make the choice between staying out of the workplace for a prolonged period or paying a second mortgage in childcare fees. When Fianna Fáil claims to be of the working class it is simply a smokescreen. Nothing in this pick and mix programme for Government will completely...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: ...been some discussion about ring-fencing the carbon budget, for instance, or ring-fencing carbon tax. People are asking what that means in real terms for citizens. Does it mean the aforementioned fee-and-dividend model, which is doing the rounds in public discourse at the moment, is a real prospect in terms of Government formation? Will there be ring-fencing for key projects to deliver...

Covid-19 (Local Government): Statements (27 May 2020)

Brendan Howlin: That is the point. That is not going to happen. In fact, I think that will be a permanent reduction. There are others that will also be lost such as planning fees. The situation will very much depend on the local authority. In my local authority, harbour dues, for example, will be lost. Significant portions of the €108 million per month will be lost. So far, in answer to other...

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...delete that from the process and to let each script and assessed grade stand on its own merits. I state that because I do not agree with the Minister when he states that an average student from a fee-paying school will not be advantaged by this system. If I was an average student from a fee-paying school, I would be much happier today than were I an exceptional student from a...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (Resumed) (23 Apr 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...to make a decision. Also, the Government proposes to charge them €116 for the privilege. I am stunned at the Minister's statement that the best he can do is postpone the date for payment of the fee. It should be waived. Students should not be asked to pay €116 for the privilege of sitting the leaving certificate this year, particularly in light of what the majority of...

Coronavirus: Statements (5 Mar 2020)

Seán Sherlock: ...benefit of €203 per week. Many workers will have no contractual entitlement to anything beyond this, but they will have the same requirements to pay rent, pay bills and heat their homes. They may have additional costs associated with GP fees or the cost of medicines. This is the reality for low-paid workers, and one in four workers in this country is classified in this category,...

Appropriation Bill 2019: All Stages (17 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: ...under the watch of this Government. The Minister of State's colleague, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, announced that she was astonished that in some cases insurance fees for crèches and such like had increased from €3,000 to €8,000 to €10,000 because of companies leaving the market. A report was published yesterday by the...

Estimates for Public Services 2019: Motion (12 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: ...of State has come here with the Government accounts. We still have not received any serious explanation in accounting terms of how €24 million paid in taxes by airlines was refunded and recorded as consultancy fees. Could the Minister please explain how such a misstatement of accounting information was included in the Supplementary Estimates? I still have not heard an explanation...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Administration (10 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: ...and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to websites (details supplied) that offer pre-booked appointments at the INIS registration office at Burgh Quay, Dublin 2, for fees ranging from €20 to €50; his views on such practices; the steps being taken to stamp out these practices and to improve the in-house appointments procedure at Burgh Quay; if a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Pharmacy Services (10 Dec 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 413. To ask the Minister for Health if talks have commenced with the representative body for pharmacy contractors regarding new fee regulations, the reform and modernisation of pharmacy services and the unwinding of FEMPI for community pharmacists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51628/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Television Licence Fee (21 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: 189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the future of the television licence fee system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48344/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (20 Nov 2019)

Willie Penrose: 192. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for the decision of his Department to propose significant cuts to pharmacy fees from January 2020 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48001/19]

Broadcasting (Television Licence Fees Recovery) Bill 2019: First Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Seán Sherlock: ...be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the provision of data by television broadcasting service providers for the purpose of assisting in the recovery of television licence fees; and to provide for connected matters. In its 2018 report and recommendations on the five-year review of public funding conducted under section 124 of the Broadcasting Act 2009, the...

Financial Challenges Facing RTÉ and its Revised Strategy 2020-2024: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...urgent action is required". These are headings for three different pages in the report. My former colleague, Pat Rabbitte, when he was Minister did a considerable amount of work in changing the model of the licence fee and of the funding of RTÉ. This was continued by Senator Alex White. This seems to have been left on a shelf for the last three years. I would be really concerned...