Showing results 1 - 10 of 85 for the category: Funding.
Funding for youth services
Several deputies raised the funding of youth services. In a reply to a question about Cherry Orchard from Joan Collins (PBP, Dublin SC), the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald told her that Cherry Orchard had been asked…
Child poverty initiative
Asked about the child poverty initiative, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Frances Fitzgerald told the Dail that this was budgeted at €2.5m in 2013 and €4.75m in 2015 (Dail Eireann, Debates, 16th April 2013, 138). A project team…
Additional activation places
The Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton, gave details to Heather Humphreys (FG, Cavan Monaghan) of the allocation of the 10,000 additional activation places announced in the budget (Dail Eireann, Debates, 23rd April 2013, 496-8). They had been allocated as…
Funding for emigrants; Peace IV programme
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore, told Brendan Smith (FF, Cavan Monaghan) that his department had received 360 applications for projects from 16 countries during the 2013 round of funding for voluntary services (Dail Eireann, Debates, 18th April 2013,…
1 Debates Philanthropy in the Seanad
Fiach Mac Conghail (ind, Taoiseach nominee) introduced a motion to welcome the government’s philanthropy initiative (Seanad Eireann, Debates, 27th March 2013, 375-402), during a debate attended by many voluntary organizations, including The Wheel. He warned that maximizing private funding should…
Lottery good causes
The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin, told Mary Lou McDonald (SF, Dublin C) that under the new lottery licence it was intended that good causes be linked to gross gaming revenues (sales less prizes), which would offer…
Funding for Irish emigrants; reconciliation
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore, told John Browne (FF, Wexford) that grant-aid for services for Irish emigrants abroad was €11.93m in 2010, €11.57m in 2011, €11.59m in 2012 and was kept at that level for 2013. This year,…
Arts philanthropy initiative
The Minister for Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan gave details to Aengus O Snodaigh (SF, Dublin SC) and Gerry Adams (SF, Louth) of the arts philanthropy initiative for 2013 (Dail Eireann, Debates, 13th March 2013, 546-7)). Under the…
Peace IV programme
The Minister for Public Expenditure & Reform, Brendan Howlin, told Brendan Smith (FF, Cavan Monaghan) that he had already begun a consultation process for the new Peace programme (Dail Eireann, Debates, 7th March 2013, 53-4). This was initiated last April…
Disability cuts
Senators protested against the cut in mobility grant and transport allowance for people with disabilities (Seanad Eireann, Debates, 27th February 2013, 385). Marc McSharry (FF, industrial & commercial) said that he could not understand what the government had against people…
