Results 121-140 of 197 for sligo speaker:Micheál Martin

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (16 Nov 2004)

Micheál Martin: ...for the construction of three, 19,500 sq.ft. privately financed technology buildings on the park. At Ballina, IDA is in negotiation with Mayo County Council for the purchase of 27 acres on the Sligo Road for the development of a business and technology park, which will be a key addition to the infrastructure of north Mayo. The State development agencies are fully committed to ensuring an...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Shared Island Unit (24 Mar 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...Government commitments include those to: Work with the Executive to deliver key cross-border infrastructure initiatives, including the A5 road, the Narrow Water Bridge, and cross-border greenways, in particular the Sligo-Enniskillen greenway. Work with the Executive and the UK Government to achieve greater connectivity on the island of Ireland. Work with the Executive and the UK...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Shared Island Unit (10 Feb 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...and include: - Working with the Executive to deliver key cross-border infrastructure initiatives, including the A5, the Ulster Canal, the Narrow Water Bridge, and cross-border greenways, including the Sligo-Enniskillen greenway; -Working with the Executive and the UK Government to achieve greater connectivity on the island, including for instance, to examine the feasibility of...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Shared Island Unit (10 Feb 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...and include: - Working with the Executive to deliver key cross-border infrastructure initiatives, including the A5, the Ulster Canal, the Narrow Water Bridge, and cross-border greenways, including the Sligo-Enniskillen greenway; - Working with the Executive and the UK Government to achieve greater connectivity on the island, including for instance, to examine the feasibility of...

Economic Competitiveness. (15 Nov 2006)

Micheál Martin: ...secured. For example, the projects approved included a €42 million expansion of the Bausch & Lomb plant in Waterford, a new 300 person customer service centre to be developed by Toucan in Sligo and the location by Zeus Industrial Products of its new European operations centre in Letterkenny. This success has continued in 2006 with, for example, projects such as Amgen in Cork, Northern...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (16 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...and include working with the Executive to deliver key cross-Border infrastructure initiatives, including the A5, the Ulster Canal, the Narrow Water Bridge, and cross-Border greenways, including the Sligo to Enniskillen greenway; working with the Executive and the UK Government to achieve greater connectivity on the island, including, for instance, examining the feasibility of high-speed...

Unemployment Levels. (21 Jun 2006)

Micheál Martin: ...attract inward investment. In Ballina, IDA Ireland has been in discussions with Mayo County Council regarding the acquisition of a site of approximately 27 acres in local authority ownership on the Sligo Road. The IDA has completed site investigation works and has obtained planning permission for site development works to ensure these lands are suitable for industrial purposes prior to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...Technological University and the Ulster universities. We told them to come back to us with proposals and we will provide some funding towards them. They are looking at both the Letterkenny and Sligo campuses for potential developments. Fundamentally, on Deputy Carroll MacNeill's point, it is about listening, meeting and talking but we have to expand it a bit more than we are doing right...

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (17 Oct 2007)

Micheál Martin: ...to assist in job creation include;— Enterprise Ireland supports the CEIM Enterprise Platform Programme, in partnership with Letterkenny Institute of Technology, the Institutes of Technology in Sligo and Border Action in providing a training programme for entrepreneurs wishing to set up their own businesses. This programme is now going into its fourth year. Enterprise Ireland, in...

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (12 Oct 2006)

Micheál Martin: ...redundant workers. This training is delivered by various means, and existing scheduled training programmes are delivered by our three training centres within the region, Letterkenny, Gweedore and Sligo, or in the case of a specialist training requirement, at any FÁS centre throughout the country. Contracted training and community based training can also be availed of. In the past, FÁS...

Written Answers — Sustainable Development Strategy: Sustainable Development Strategy (7 Feb 2006)

Micheál Martin: ..., ETAP. The ETAP is a broad ranging programme which is designed to stimulate the development and uptake of environmental products and services. In addition, my Department supported the work of Sligo County Enterprise Board in regard to improving the competitive sustainability of micro-enterprises. My Department established a multi-stakeholder working group to promote the uptake of...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (13 Dec 2005)

Micheál Martin: ...workers. This training is delivered by various means including existing scheduled training programmes delivered by our three training centres within the region at Letterkenny, Gweedore and Sligo, or in the case of a specialist training requirement, at any FÁS centre throughout the country. Contracted training and community based training can also be availed of. In the past, FÁS increased...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Sep 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...will inform phase 2. We are looking at an expansion of services across seven counties where currently there is no LES-type service. It is about providing quality employment services in Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laois and Offaly. We will need those additional services to help people navigate their route back to work. It is around the quality of service and...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (29 Apr 2008)

Micheál Martin: ...applications technologies 68 Greenfield 25-Feb-05 Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special Metals Inc Galway Manufacture & distribute wire products for medical sector 40 Greenfield 31-Mar-05 Toucan Sligo Consumer Telecoms 300 Greenfield 11-Apr-05 Engenoi Information Technologies Cork Information Storage Systems 95 Greenfield 12-Apr-05 DC Studios Dublin Video game development 50 Greenfield...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (23 Jun 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...and developed. The New Decade, New Approach agreement in particular offers a pathway to realising some of that. In the context of the shared island initiative, we have ring-fenced funding of approximately €500 million, of which we have already allocated approximately €13 million to the Ulster Canal, as well as funding for the Sligo-Enniskillen greenway. There will be other...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (19 Oct 2004)

Micheál Martin: ...-Barnesmore section of the N15. Major upgrade projects have also been completed on the M1, N2, N3, and N4, the main access routes to the north west. In addition, work is currently underway on the Sligo inner relief road, N4, the Ashbourne and Carrickmacross bypasses, N2, and the Ballyshannon-Bundoran bypass, N15. It is clear, therefore, that roads serving the north west have been major...

Pre-Budget Outlook: Motion (23 Oct 2007)

Micheál Martin: ...of the number of labour inspectors to 90 by the end of 2007 and for associated legal accounting administrative support staff. The labour inspectors will be based in Dublin, Cork, Shannon and Sligo, as well as the new head office of the authority in Carlow, which opened in July. That was a good example of successful decentralisation.

National Cultural Institutions: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: ...campaign the country has ever seen. We know now about the broken promises on Roscommon hospital, the "not another red cent" for the banks, the pledges given to students, the breast care centre in Sligo and the unit for the elderly in Lifford. It is a list that continues to grow. Another stand-out deception to add to this shameful catalogue is Fine Gael's pre-election promise that...

Written Answers — Reconciliation Fund: Reconciliation Fund (24 Sep 2008)

Micheál Martin: ...both sides of the border and a session in Glencree with trained facilitators to promote reconciliation and tolerance of cultural diversity. €5,000 Organisation Name Purpose of Grant Grant Paid Sligo Presbyterian Church Celebrations This organisation pursues an annual Christmas celebration promoting contact between Northern Ireland and the border counties. €5,000 St. Bernard's...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: ...of a home varies across the country, this will significantly help people get on the housing ladder. Based on an average price, this will deliver over 6,000 affordable homes. We also prioritised the need for a mica scheme to address the horrific situation that thousands of Donegal and Sligo families find themselves in due to faulty bricks being used to build their homes, which are now...