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Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: ...more than 10% of the RTÉ site at Montrose, the bare minimum, was provided for social housing. That has to be questioned. The Minister said it was up to the board and washed his hands of it. Licence fees are another issue. While I have always been very negative about RTÉ, its coverage, its responsibility as the national broadcaster and the subvention it receives as such, the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Consultancy Contracts Data (12 Dec 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 207. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount spent on outside consultancy fees to date for advices since the initial announcement of the national broadband plan. [52401/18]

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: ...the Minister and the board can consult, such as Quality and Qualifications Ireland. In the private sector of education and training, as I am sure the Minister and her officials are fully aware, a lot of fees are being paid and it is reasonable that students would know that the courses they and their parents are paying for are quality courses that will enable them to get employment in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2018: Motion (27 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: ...They have given us great horses that have won major races. It is a tough job for those people to survive with three or four mares. It is a very easy job for those who can command €75,000 or €175,000 in stallion fees. It is not too hard surviving in that game. Those people can then go out on Saturdays and Sundays and clean up. A lot of this money is going into the prize...

Brexit: Motion (21 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: .... He believes that a second referendum must be carefully prepared for to avoid a situation where even if the UK people voted to remain after all, there would be millions of Leave voters who would feel betrayed, humiliated and resentful. The deal to exit the EU is what it is and I pay tribute to Irish Ministers and diplomats who so valiantly protected Irish interests in the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Television Licence Fee (21 Nov 2018) See 1 other result from this answer

Brendan Howlin: 201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the aspects of the television licence fee reform the interdepartmental working group is reviewing; when this report will be published; if there will be engagement by the group with stakeholders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48489/18]

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (20 Nov 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Joan Burton: ...point. I asked about areas which were less well-off and rural areas. We have not heard, in relation to this Bill, details of lobbying by financial service providers. I do not know what the fees are on the allocation of these particular jobs. The Minister may not know but if he is having a study conducted, in all fairness, we should be told about it in order that we can make an...

Residential Tenancies (Prohibition on Viewing Fees) Bill 2018: First Stage (20 Nov 2018)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to prohibit the charging by landlords of viewing fees from prospective tenants; and to provide for related matters. This is a short Bill entitled an Act to prohibit the charging by landlords of viewing fees from prospective tenants, and to provide for related matters. It is quite straightforward. It is one of a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (20 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: 580. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the individual fees and expenses paid to the chairperson and members of the board of Oberstown Children Detention Campus for each of the years 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018. [47877/18]

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: ...broadcaster on an excellent documentary on Sergeant Maurice McCabe that was shown over the past two nights. We must focus on the sustainability of public service broadcasting, particularly the licence fee. An excellent report from both Houses was published with recommendations that were sent to the appropriate Minister at the time, Deputy Naughten. He set up a working group that is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (18 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: ...firm which designed BusConnects, is listed as having been paid €407,000. In 2018 to date, the same firm of consultants is listed as having been paid €208,000. That is a total of €615,000 in consultancy fees in two years, which is not an inconsiderable sum. We are now thrown into total confusion. This relates to the Minister's leadership of his Department. A...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...a year we have been awaiting Government legislation to protect tenants and to beef up the Residential Tenancies Board. The latest move from landlords is to charge non-refundable so-called viewing fees; we have actually drafted a Bill to deal with that practice. Rent pressure zones have been in place for nearly two years, but we are still waiting on laws to allow the Residential Tenancies...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Television Licence Fee Collection (10 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 19. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason there is a 15% evasion rate in relation to the television licence fee. [41227/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (18 Sep 2018)

Willie Penrose: ...the reason her Department issued directives to community employment scheme area supervisors advising them that support is being discontinued for private members clubs which receive membership fees from their members, a move which will impact severely upon clubs based in rural areas that receive minimum membership and which is particularly applicable to pitch and putt clubs in that...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Projects (7 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 233. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of reinstating the Phoenix Park after the Papal visit; when this will be complete; the fees that were charged to the event organisers; the contractors employed; the estimated attendance at the event; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36985/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (7 Sep 2018)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...if a person whose parents are Irish citizens and who has been living and attending school here since the person was six years of age but whose own passport is from outside the EU qualifies for EU fees for higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36687/18]

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2018)

Willie Penrose: ...years. I have done a lot of work in this area and that will be recognised by people on the ground. The Labour Party wholeheartedly welcomes the extension of eligibility for a GP service without fees to persons in receipt of a carer's allowance payment, although we believe that they should be given full medical cards. In the course of our study, we found that very often a carer ends...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Television Licence Fee (11 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: 459. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline his plans to reduce the licence fee for deaf persons who are working and who have to pay the full television licence fee despite not being able to access full ISL sign language interpreter services and subtitles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31344/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (11 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: ...the Gaeltacht in respect of the transfer of the National Symphony Orchestra from RTÉ to the National Concert Hall; if she will intervene to ensure the portion of the existing television licence fees paid by her Department towards the support of the National Symphony Orchestra continues to support the orchestra, in view of the fact that many attendees at the orchestra are retired and...

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: ...them? A development bank approach is available all around the world. We have a huge amount of public land in this country. We could either lease the public land on a long lease via the local authority at a very low fee or almost cost-free. That would reduce the price of the house because the cost of the crazy speculation going on with land, particularly in the greater Dublin region,...