Results 181-200 of 233 for cork speaker:Joe McHugh

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Ex-Prisoners and Conflict Transformation: Discussion with Community Foundation for Northern Ireland (21 Nov 2013)

Joe McHugh: ...numbers. It was stated that it is not just a Six Counties problem, which is correct. To turn it the other way, the solution is not just a Six Counties solution. The flag is also being flown for Cork. I know the good work that all the witnesses are doing to try to move things forward. This committee is trying to provide space for everyone involved. In two weeks time, we will have...

Youth Employment: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Nov 2013)

Joe McHugh: ...bright in the bright, young teenagers in secondary schools in Donegal? In the realistic corner the statistics are stark. We have the third highest number on the live register, behind Dublin and Cork. Average income is the lowest in the country. However, most of the new and emerging jobs in the IT sector can locate to remote regions as long as there is good broadband. If this is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)

Joe McHugh: ...look at all the inter-city connectivity from the capital to areas throughout the country and see all the good work the NRA has done, providing fantastic roads to Galway and Limerick, the south east and Cork. Then we look at the missing pieces of the jigsaw. This is not about entitlement. There may have been a bit of parochial politics today but this is more than that. It is about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)

Joe McHugh: That is interesting. I ask Mr. Barry to elaborate. The TEN-T corridor is the Belfast-Dublin-Cork route.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Roads Authority: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)

Joe McHugh: ...we get nothing, but the work the NRA has done in linking the major intercity routes has been fantastic. As a Donegal man, I have no problem acknowledging this because the motorways from Dublin to Cork, Limerick, Galway and Belfast are phenomenal infrastructural projects. In County Donegal the infrastructural work done on the Clar Barnes route, the bypass in Donegal town, the N56 and the...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: ...investment than other parts of the country in terms of national distribution. One only has to look at the motorway systems between Dublin and Galway, Dublin and Limerick, Dublin and Belfast and Dublin and Cork. Each of those cities also has a rail service. There is a national psyche in terms of peripheral areas losing out to core areas. I use the example of my county, but when one...

Education (Welfare) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2013)

Joe McHugh: ...dignity and respect. That is the issue. If adults have the protection of anonymity on national or local radio when they can send in text messages saying they are Bill from Donegal when they are from Cork or Mick from Dublin when they are from Wexford, what message does that give to our young people?

Agriculture: Motion (Resumed) (25 May 2011)

Joe McHugh: ...elsewhere. We must examine the processing capabilities and potential in order that shellfish can be exported to India and China. Unfortunately, the country's busiest fishing port at the moment is Cork Airport in Deputy Noel Harrington's county. It is a sad indictment of our fishing industry when we are importing packaged fish products from as far away as Vietnam. That is the challenge...

Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (12 Apr 2011)

Joe McHugh: ...passports that have been issued to residents of Counties Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Cavan and Monaghan since 2006 by county, and to annualise the figures; the number of passports issued in Counties Cork, Waterford, Tipperary, Kerry and Limerick in the same period, and to provide the information in the same format. [7681/11]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 Oct 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 272: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will facilitate a patient who wishes to transfer from a location (details supplied) to a suitable facility in County Cork or County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37361/10]

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joe McHugh: ..., independent and different local institutions. A credit union institution in one part of County Donegal is different from one in another part of the county, never mind from others in County Cork or in the Minister of State's constituency of County Clare. They are unique and fundamentally democratic and they are the solution for forward looking banking sector reform.

Northern Ireland: Statements (9 Feb 2010)

Joe McHugh: .... We are making statements on Northern Ireland here today but if one asked a member of the public from Athlone or any area further south, such as the constituency of the Minister, Deputy Martin, in Cork one will find there is an attitude towards Northern Ireland, namely, that we should let it look after itself. Many people just do not want to know about it. We have to change that mindset....

Rail Network. (9 Dec 2009)

Joe McHugh: Question 27: To ask the Minister for Transport the proportions of the €39.6 million of trans-European cross-border funding that were spent on the Belfast to Dublin and Dublin to Cork sections of the Belfast to Cork railway line improvements; his expenditure of trans-European cross-border transport funding on the nascent DART underground project; if further trans-European transport network...

Rail Network. (9 Dec 2009)

Joe McHugh: ...by two former Deputies, Mr. Breen and Mr. McHugh, who would have been advocates of the western rail corridor along with members of my political party. This summer, I travelled on the Midleton to Cork railway line, which cost a total of €75 million. One cannot question the Minister's dedication to rail travel but the problems lies in connectivity.

Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (19 Nov 2009)

Joe McHugh: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Transport the expenditure on the Belfast to Cork rail line of the €39.64 million funding designated to his Department by the EU's Ten-T transport agency in the period 2002 to date in 2009; if the figures will be broken down into two categories Dublin to Cork and Dublin to Belfast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42434/09]

Accountability of Government Agencies and Companies: Motion (10 Nov 2009)

Joe McHugh: ...where this money was spent. The Minister must indicate, either by contacting Iarnród Éireann or through the good offices of the Department, where this money was spent. Was it spent on the Cork to Dublin railway line or was it spent on the Dublin to Belfast railway line, for which it would have been intended because of the trans-European cross-Border funding mechanism? At present,...

European Union Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: ...of the trans-European transport network, TEN-T, programme. TEN-T-EA got money from the Commission to the tune of €4 million, which it spent on a cross-Border railway network between Cork and Dublin. This was by way of an application which was sold to Europe as an upgrade to the Belfast-Cork via Dublin line. The impact of the Northern Ireland conflict in the context of the Border has...

Proposed Legislation. (14 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: .... One might ask why I, as a Donegal man, am asking about the Dublin mayor but I want to know if this will be rolled out nationally. Will Dublin be a pilot? Will Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo, and Cork all have directly elected mayors? If the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government is still in office in 2010 when the mayor is elected, what will his relationship be with the...

Order of Business (23 Sep 2009)

Joe McHugh: .... In light of the Government making a dog's dinner of this matter and the creation of a VAT anomaly on a cross-Border basis, which has been commented on by Fianna Fáil backbenchers as far away as Cork-----

Criminal Law (Home Defence) Bill 2009: Second Stage (17 Sep 2009)

Joe McHugh: ...the anomaly arises. The need for this legislation is particularly pressing in Border areas which are not serviced by sufficient Garda numbers. A comparison can be made with Deputy Jim O'Keeffe's Cork area. although this is not a perfect example - places such as Glanmire, Carricktwohill, Cobh and Bandon. There is a 24-hour Garda station in Glanmire with 22 gardaí based there and 50...