Results 301-320 of 15,096 for sligo

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (24 Feb 2015)

Ann Phelan: ...County Council Laois County Council Ballyhoura Heritage & Environmental Ltd Mayo Co Council/ NPWS County Longford Tourism Ltd Offaly County Council South West Mayo Development Company Sligo LEADER Partnership on behalf of Miners Way & Historical Trail Management Committee Coiste Cosan na Naomh Sligo LEADER Partnership Co Ltd. & Sligo County Council...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Correspondence (2 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: I regret that the reply to Question No. 150 of 20 November 2014 contained incorrect information; an administrative error resulted in the correspondence from Sligo County Council being filed erroneously. I did receive a request from the Cathaoirleach and members of Sligo County Council as outlined in Question No. 150 of 20 November 2014. As advised in the response to that Question, I met with...

Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: With regard to the 2040 consultation, I have already made it publicly clear that this is an opportunity for the Sligo region to put forward its case for inclusion as a growth centre in the consultation currently under way. This is not a case of pitting town against town, as happened before. There are opportunities for every region and Sligo is one of those potentially very major centres,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Site Visits (16 Jan 2018)

Heather Humphreys: The following table provides details on IDA Ireland site visits to Sligo and Leitrim for the period 2012 to September 2017. Full year figures for 2017 will be available next month. The IDA continues to do its utmost to encourage clients to locate in regional areas, including counties Sligo and Leitrim. We have to remember, however, that the ultimate decision as to where to...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (30 Jan 2008) See 1 other result from this answer

Martin Cullen: To date, 177 posts have relocated from the Department's Dublin Offices to Carrick-on-Shannon and Sligo. These posts were filled by 65 Dublin based staff and 112 provincially based staff. In addition, a further 146 employees, of whom 111 are Dublin based and 35 are provincially based, have transferred to this Department's existing decentralised offices in Dundalk, Letterkenny, Longford, Sligo...

Written Answers — Regional Airports: Regional Airports (20 Apr 2010)

Noel Dempsey: ...paid to the regional airports under the Core Airports Operational Expenditure Subvention Scheme (Opex) for the year 2009 is set out in the table below. Airport â'¬ Galway 962,000 Kerry Nil Sligo 313,000 Donegal 131,000 Ireland West Airport Knock 445,000 Waterford 1,494,000 Total 3,345,000 Information on air service PSO contracts and contracted amounts in respect of the current...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Contracts (13 May 2020)

Frank Feighan: 1296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will take action at Departmental level to enable Sligo County Council to extend the current contract of works currently under way in Sligo town to upgrade O’Connell Street, the urban centre of Sligo and its public realm under Project Ireland 2040 and the urban regeneration fund; if he will take action to allow...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (21 Oct 2008)

Mary Hanafin: ...programme for the civil and public service, some 1,200 posts comprising the Department's headquarter sections and the Social Welfare Appeals Office are relocating to 6 locations — Sligo, Carrick-on-Shannon, Donegal Town, Buncrana, Carrickmacross and Drogheda. To date, 211 posts have relocated from the Department's Dublin Offices to Sligo and Carrick-on-Shannon — 72 posts to Sligo and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: An Garda Síochána (29 Jun 2023)

Niall Blaney: ...represents 698 community groups in the county and recently made representations to the Garda Commissioner, Drew Harris, on the proposed new policing network that proposes to merge Donegal with Sligo and Leitrim. It was to be the Donegal-Sligo-Leitrim division and now I believe it is to be the Sligo-Leitrim-Donegal division, which shows already where Donegal will come in the pecking order....

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (12 Apr 2005) See 1 other result from this answer

Dick Roche: The provision and improvement of non-national roads in County Sligo is a matter for Sligo County Council to be funded from its own resources, supplemented by State grants. In 2004, the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government sought applications from road authorities for funding under the 2005 EU co-financed specific improvements grant scheme. The initial selection of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. I am pleased to say Sligo has led the way in the provision of part-time education at what was IT Sligo and is now ATU Sligo. It has a very proud record. Up until now, students have had to pay significant fees to access part-time education. That simply does not make sense when we are trying the help people who are in work to upskill or help people...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

...be very important, particularly in Dublin. We are a very small economy. We do not have scale within Cork, Limerick and Galway combined. Completing the motorway from Cork to Galway and even on to Sligo should be close to the top of the list. I imagine the planning framework review will identify Sligo as a place with a strong potential for growth, and as a north west champion. On the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers Development (18 Sep 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Simon Coveney: Mullaghmore Harbour is owned by Sligo County Council and responsibility for its repair and maintenance rests with the Local Authority in the first instance. My Department, however, provides funding for the development and repair of Local Authority owned piers and slipways under the annual Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme subject to available Exchequer funding...

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (19 Oct 2016)

Marc MacSharry: ...of staff and seem to do a better job with the resources given to them. I need to put some matters in context. Very significant progress has been made regarding the financial difficulties in Sligo County Council. There has been a 37% reduction in the number of staff, and the total now stands at 374. Among the other level V counties, Roscommon has 393, Monaghan has 385 and Laois has 384...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (12 Mar 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: In August 2001, an amount of €2.9 million was allocated to Sligo County Council from the Arts and Culture Capital Enhancement Support Scheme (ACCESS I), as a contribution towards the construction costs of a proposed new purpose-built county museum. For a number of reasons the project did not go ahead. The grant was withdrawn in December 2008, following a meeting between Sligo...

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jun 2017)

Eamon Scanlon: With regard to respite services, in Sligo we had a state-of-the-art centre built at a cost of €1.35 million six years' ago and specifically built for that purpose. It has been closed and I understand it is going to be used for decongregation. This is very unfair to the service users who were using the centre. They now must travel a 320 km round trip to Carrickmacross in County...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Transport Council Meeting Briefing: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (15 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: First, we have a good train and bus service between Sligo and Dublin but several years ago, the freight service closed. That does not make sense because we have a good deal of haulage involving heavy lorries on the N4, which in parts is unfit for the volume of traffic on the road. We have rail lines that are unused overnight and on which there is reduced usage on weekends. We need to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (4 Dec 2012)

Joan Collins: ...fact that the Workforce Planning Group has recommended that between two and three directors of service in addition to a head of finance is optimal for level five local authorities which includes Sligo County Council; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Sligo County Council currently has two directors of service, in addition to two acting directors of service plus a head of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (25 May 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...the end of the month, the tables below show the percentage change in the number of persons claiming payment under the Jobseeker's Allowance Scheme between April 2012 and April 2016, for County Sligo and County Leitrim; the change in the number of persons participating in the Back to Education Allowance Scheme during this period; the number of persons from these two counties who classify as...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Tánaiste. On 28 September, the INMO branded Sligo University Hospital a safety hazard. That is not politics and it is not me saying it. The INMO does not do this lightly. That is where we are at the moment. The INMO has called for an urgent inspection by HIQA because of the increased overcrowding and safety issues for patients and staff. I hear what the Tánaiste...