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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Food Industry (26 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputies Harkin and Kenny. The geographical area for the production of boxty in the context of the PGI application is Cavan, Leitrim, Sligo and Mayo. It is a great product. You do not see it in enough counties. It also has great potential particularly in terms of its health and nutrition benefits in the current context where people are looking for products that are not as...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (26 Sep 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...concerned considers that there are additional contributions or credits that have not been recorded, it is open to them to forward documentary evidence to Social Welfare Services, College Road, Sligo, F91 T384. If the person concerned has provided full time care to incapacitated dependents for 20 years or more (1040 weeks), it is open to them to apply for long-term carers contributions....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Marc MacSharry: ...MBA, I might stick around for a couple of years. Is coastal erosion under the remit of the OPW? The western seaboard, as we know, is rotting away because the weather is the way it is. I am in the Sligo area and there are big problems where I live in Strandhill. The fantastic head of public affairs at the OPW also lives there and I am sure she will be filling in the witnesses. Have...

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Noel Grealish: ...their hours and, of course, their income. The census also found that the greatest percentage of the population acting as unpaid carers was to be found on the western seaboard, that is, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo and my own county of Galway. This is another indication of a gap between the level of services available in the west and in the rest of the country. The motion before the House...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion (25 Sep 2024)

...are further reflected in the Pobal deprivation index data, which highlights that “more isolated rural areas situated in the Northwest of Ireland - Donegal and Mayo, as well as parts of Sligo, Cavan, Leitrim, Longford and Roscommon - continue to have higher levels of deprivation than the Southeast”. The index reveals that persistently high levels of disadvantage exist in...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (25 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...service. Deputy Claire Kerrane - to discuss falling Garda numbers in Roscommon and Galway. Deputy Marian Harkin - to discuss the lack of student accommodation at Atlantic Technological University Sligo. Deputy David Stanton - to discuss provision of a playing pitch adjacent to the Carrigtwohill school campus in east Cork. Deputies Pat Buckley and James O'Connor - to discuss flood...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: Ballynacarrow is a village on the N17 in County Sligo that immediately needs traffic-calming measures, yet nothing is happening. In 2024, Sligo County Council allocated €264,000 to safety improvement works for the entire county. That is a great deal less than the cost of the bicycle shed out the front of this building. While there is no traffic calming in Ballynacarrow, Sligo County...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (24 Sep 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Roderic O'Gorman: ...638 Louth 528 Waterford 513 Westmeath 486 Clare 456 Meath 451 Sligo 397 Wicklow 395 Offaly 334 Carlow 327 Leitrim 327 Cavan ...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (24 Sep 2024) See 5 other results from this answer

Heather Humphreys: ...x20ac;0 €407,163 Mayo €461,821 €898,946 €1,196,843 €225,000 €982,807 Meath €405,563 €686,997 €1,763,206 €410,000 €1,284,017 Monaghan €422,320 ...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (19 Sep 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Thomas Byrne: ...Station, we all know there is a single track each way with extremely limited options. Trains come into Connolly Station from Belfast, Drogheda, Dundalk, Howth and Malahide and others come in from Sligo, Longford and the local line from the M3 Parkway. Anyone who travels regularly on these trains knows the delays that are there before reaching Connolly Station. However, a railway order...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (19 Sep 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...rates had decreased in 19 counties. The database published worrying figures for commercial vacancy. There are crisis levels of vacancy in many towns and villages across the country. In County Sligo, it is 20.5%; County Donegal, 19.4%; County Galway, 18.5%; County Limerick, 17.5%; and County Leitrim 17.5%. This is of real concern and this is something that local authorities,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (19 Sep 2024)

Frank Feighan: ...absolutely delighted. That £20,000 made a difference in the area. This is happening in every town and village around the country. It is very welcome. There are a lot of clubs in my constituency of Sligo, Leitrim, north Roscommon and south Donegal that are anxiously waiting for this news next week. I hope and believe it will be good news. Under the LSSIF, my local club, Sligo...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Swimming Pools (19 Sep 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Marian Harkin: 39. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider fast-tracking funding for the building of a 50-metre swimming pool in Sligo given there is no 50-metre pool in the north west. [36482/24]

Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: ...core funding and had to freeze their fees, are now closing because their businesses are not viable. The Minister tells us that more services are open now than previously. Seven services closed in Sligo this September. One in my home village of Ballintogher moved to community, but six mainly smaller rural services have closed. They are either in rural areas or on the outskirts of towns,...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (18 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...city. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan - to discuss bus infrastructure on housing estates across Limerick. Deputy Marian Harkin - to discuss the lack of student accommodation at Atlantic Technological University Sligo. Deputy Pat Buckley - to discuss the ongoing boil water notices in east Cork. Deputies Steven Matthews, Violet-Anne Wynne and Matt Carthy - to discuss school transport issues in...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...miles off our coast, we need a road along the coast to serve the infrastructure. We need to upgrade the M20, the road from Galway to Donegal, the Mullingar to Westport road, with a spur across to Sligo, and the road from Cavan across Monaghan to make sure we are interconnected. Money also needs to be put towards affordable housing. We are at a stage where the people who are working hard...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: I welcome the Taoiseach and all colleagues back. I want to raise the with the Taoiseach what is known as the Sligo cancer bus, which brings patients from Sligo-Leitrim and parts of County Donegal to the centre of excellence in Galway for treatment. There are two issues. First, the bus has no toilet facilities and is not wheelchair accessible. It is unacceptable for sick patients to have...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...review and the western rail corridor, we have the opportunity to do what needs to be done there. You only have to look at the map to see the absolute lack of rail services from that area up to Sligo and Donegal, and the Minister, Deputy Chambers, will know this. There is an opportunity now and there is no excuse whatsoever not to do it. Cork Airport was mentioned and Galway, and we have...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...East West Frontier Management Branch Ireland West Airport Knock; Abbeyshrule Aerodrome; Birr Aerodrome; Clonbollogue Aerodrome; Connemara Airport; Donegal Airport; Inis Meáin; Inis Mór; Inis Óirr; Kilrush Aerodrome; Sligo Airport; Trim Aerodrome South Frontier Management Branch Cork Airport; Shannon Airport; Kerry Airport ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Authorities (18 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ...County Council 9 22 24 26 21 31 Roscommon County Council 16 17 18 20 14 12 Sligo County Council 7 12 14 13 17 9 South Dublin County Council 37 43 58 62 107 ...