Results 201-220 of 2,712 for speaker:Marian Harkin

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Export Controls (10 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide assistance on an issue with regard to exports (details supplied); [30274/24]

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: For more than eight years, the constituent whose name was best known in both my offices, in Brussels and in Sligo, was Lucia O'Farrell. I will be honest. At times I wondered how Lucia O'Farrell could keep going, but every time she contacted me I knew why. What astonished me was that each time she contacted my office the list of errors, mistakes, omissions, misjudgments, gaps in...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: First, I welcome this legislation. It tackles a specific and important issue in regard to student accommodation. This is the requirement that students must be able to rent their accommodation for 41 weeks of the year whereas previously many students had to rent it for 51 weeks of every year. This was an extortionate practice by those accommodation providers who were trying to extract the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: Time, Deputy.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: I listened to the Taoiseach's various responses on the totally unacceptable situation where workers at the NAS have no option but to strike. At the end of the four-day engagement last week, the highly respected independent chair put forward a proposal that was accepted by the union but not by management. There seems to be real intransigence on the part of management and the Department in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (9 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: 224. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the monies spent by the OPW in procuring lands, sites or houses of historical/archaeological significance, on either a county or a regional basis in the past ten years, in tabular form. [23800/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: 659. To ask the Minister for Health for a timeline on the provision of extra transport services to a day centre in County Sligo (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29130/24]

Report of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Motion (4 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: I may not use all of the eight minutes. I am here because I have known Dan Brennan for a long time. I am not a member of the agriculture committee. I congratulate its Chair and the various members of the committee for their tireless and unceasing work on this. It gives me great faith in the committee and in the workings of this House that we can get to this point. I will come back to the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: The Tánaiste and I us agree on the historical aspect. My question is about how the State in some way tries to compensate a little bit for some of the awful experiences of those children in its care. I looked at the review clause in the legislation and I am not sure there is actually a possibility to extend it. However, section 49 states that the Minister, in considering whether an...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: Yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: I will raise the case of a person who spent five years of his early life in Nazareth House, Sligo. While his situation is unique to him, many others found themselves in the same circumstances so my ask is a general one. Nazareth House was an orphanage and care home but this person was not an orphan. Some three days after giving birth to him, his mother was forced to emigrate by her family,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (4 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister for his reply. For the past couple of years, we have been waiting for this final all-Ireland rail review. People are waiting with bated breath because, as Deputy Kenny said, we have to look at the western economic corridor. What are we talking about here? Earlier, I asked the Minister about the N17; we are now speaking about the western rail corridor. Those plans...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (4 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: I hear what the Minister is saying about safety and towns. I will come back to that in a minute. It is also important to remember that the N17 is a strategic economic corridor for the north west. That cannot be left out of any calculations. Regarding safety schemes on the N17 and national roads, one of the issues raised with me is that, rather than having a minor improvements scheme,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (4 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: 4. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on progress in upgrading the N17 from Knock to Collooney. [28723/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (4 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: I am looking for an update on progress in upgrading the N17 from Knock to Collooney. This is a major issue of concern from a strategic, economic perspective and a safety perspective. Progress has been slow. It is the main artery from Galway to the north west so I want to hear what progress is being made.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (4 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: From what the Minister said, he is talking about bypasses of Tobercurry and Charlestown and nothing else. While that is fine, there are a number of really dangerous stretches on this road, especially between Curry and Tobercurry. I do not know whether he is familiar with the road. There are also some very dangerous sections between Tobercurry and Collooney. Work needs to start on those...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (4 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: It has to be.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (4 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: 67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the proposed new Local Link bus service from Kinlough, County Leitrim to Grange, County Sligo via Ballintrillick; the timeline for when the service is due to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28347/24]

Tackling All Forms of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (3 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: Last Tuesday week, I attended an event in Manorhamilton, County Leitrim, which had been organised in the previous 48 hours simply to respond to the sentence handed down to the man convicted of brutally assaulting Natasha O'Brien. About 200 men, women and children turned up at very short notice. They recognised that gender-based violence has become an epidemic and has seeped into the lives...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: Sligo University Hospital houses the oldest renal unit in the country. I am requesting an update on the new unit. In February this year, the HSE informed me that the feasibility study on the unit is to be completed within a two-month period and that was two months ago. The response also states that national capital approval will be submitted at stage 1, quarter 2, 2024. We are now in...