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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Funding (19 May 2015)

Damien English: The payment of an additional training allowance of €31.80 per week for the long term unemployed was introduced during a period of high employment levels as an incentive for the long term unemployed to participate in former-FÁS training courses and VTOS courses. The payment of this allowance was later extended to those persons in receipt of social welfare disability payments to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and AIB (15 Apr 2014)

Damien English: In regard to restructuring, I accept that the compromise arrangement Mr. O'Connor outlined is a long-term fix. That is great. Is it the case, however, that for the majority of AIB's 9,000 SME customers, they will be seeing short-term rather than long-term solutions?

Order of Business (16 Jan 2018)

Damien English: It was further administered by the then Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, at a later stage. We upgraded the condition recently. I am happy to meet the Deputy to discuss the issue, but it is a long-standing condition attached to a licence granted a long time ago. My role concerns the conditions attached to the licence in the past couple of months.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Data (25 Jun 2015)

Damien English: The payment of an additional training allowance for the long term unemployed was reduced from €31.80 per week to €20 per week as part of Budget 2011 and as part of Budget 2014 it was decided to cease this payment for all SOLAS participants commencing courses after 1st January 2014. The cost of reinstating this long term bonus payment is estimated at €6.7 million in a...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Tenant Purchase Scheme (13 Jul 2016)

Damien English: ...deal as far as I can. The new tenant (incremental) purchase scheme for existing local authority houses came into operation on 1 January 2016. It is not two years old but six months old. It was a long time awaited and long needed-----

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Allowances (16 Jul 2014)

Damien English: I propose to take Questions Nos. 70 and 71 together. The payment of an additional training allowance of €31.80 per week for the long term unemployed was introduced during a period of high employment levels as an incentive for the long term unemployed to participate in former-FÁS training courses. The payment of this allowance was later extended to those persons in receipt of...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Motions (11 Jul 2018)

Damien English: Again, this relates to the issue of an annual review. Having an annual review would not help us in trying to achieve long-term planning. There might have been a misunderstanding of what we were trying to achieve, which is why I hope the Seanad will understand that when we think of long-term planning, it would be hard to prove the results every year. We are thinking about having a review...

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Damien English: We know if we really want to develop Galway as a city, approximately €1 billion must be spent on transport to service the area. These are the kinds of questions that should be considered in a long-term plan. What needs to be spent and where must it be spent to achieve what we want? That is the idea of a long-term plan; it is like a business case setting out where we are going with...

Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)

Damien English: It is a delicate issue. In accepting that establishment of the agency may take a long time, the Tánaiste should take on board our concerns in regard to small business. If it takes six months to sort out the problem, that is six months during which small business will not have access to money, which is my concern. That is what I meant. What will happen in the next six months to a year has...

National Drugs Strategy. (21 Mar 2006)

Damien English: It does not. Every station needs a person dedicated to combating illegal drugs crime. As it takes so long to get a result in a drug crime, to keep detection figures up, many stations put their efforts into combating other areas of crime. Will the Minister of State bring this to the attention of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform? The Minister of State claims the money is...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (27 Jul 2021)

Damien English: ...the aim of encouraging them to take up permanent residence and employment in the State. As a result, it attracts a number of additional benefits over the other permit types including a fast-track to long term residency after two years, immediate family reunification and broad access to the labour market of dependent/spouse/partners. The general employment permit is the main permit...

Other Questions: School Accommodation (6 Oct 2015)

Damien English: ...that the amalgamation option is not being proceeded with. The Department is engaging with the patron of both schools - it is the same patron for both schools - regarding how best to meet their long-term accommodation needs. My understanding is there has been a change of mind on the side of the schools and the Department is trying to determine exactly how it can make long-term provision...

Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (28 Sep 2005)

Damien English: ...of politics, we cannot simply make the decision. The decision makes sense and is correct, yet we want to wait and return to the legislation after a year or two, after negotiations. God knows how long we will have to wait. This Bill first came before us a year ago. How long will it take to make other little changes to it? It is disappointing and disheartening that we cannot make a decision...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (23 Nov 2004)

Damien English: Question 259: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when a person (details supplied) in County Meath will receive a telephone connection; the reason it is taking so long; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30314/04]

Grangegorman Development Agency Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (1 Jun 2005)

Damien English: It would do the Minister no harm in the long run.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Jun 2005)

Damien English: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress to date on a policy or framework for the future funding of long-term care of the elderly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22896/05]

Written Answers — Traffic Regulations: Traffic Regulations (28 Sep 2006)

Damien English: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Transport when the long promised national height restriction for lorries will be implemented. [29688/06]

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Damien English: That will not be long.

Crime Prevention: Motion. (10 Oct 2006)

Damien English: The Government has been in office for long enough.

National Drugs Strategy. (9 Nov 2006)

Damien English: It is now a long-term approach.