Results 1-20 of 54 for sligo speaker:Seán Canney

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

Seán Canney: .... In Galway, we are blessed with a fine university, and now a second university in the Atlantic Technological University. The latter has campuses in Castlebar, Mountbellew, Letterkenny, Sligo and Letterfrack. The problem in all of these places is accommodation. We have willing lecturers and management within the colleges to deliver the education that is required and students who...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Canney: ...for a public health nurse going out visiting people. They should know and be reassured there is backup. We have plenty of colleges that are now training nurses. There is St. Angela's College in Sligo. It is also being done in Castlebar, Galway, Athlone and Letterkenny. We have all of that, but we do not seem able to attract the requisite number of students and, importantly, retain...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Impact of Climate on Public Finances: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (28 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: ...so the guy or the family buying the electric car will get the nice experience of being able to use it rather than having a stressful issue about where to charge the car if travelling from Galway to Sligo and back again. That is the type of thing we come across. On transport also, I am involved in a campaign to reopen our western rail corridor. It was mentioned by Deputy Conway-Walsh...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: ...and a bathroom at the end. We still have that in Galway, a centre of excellence. Investment of approximately €1.5 billion is needed in Galway if we are to provide a proper centre of excellence to help Sligo, Donegal, Mayo, Roscommon, Leitrim and Clare. That needs to be done, not talked about and not going through processes. It needs to be driven. We have the money to do it. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessibility: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Seán Canney: ...people are using it more often on the basis that it is the right way to travel. It is important, when we are doing this, that we plan for what is going to happen. It is beginning to evolve. From Sligo to Galway to Limerick and down to Cork, the western rail corridor provides access for people, especially older people and people with mobility issues. To develop that infrastructure would...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: ...to service such an industry when it comes. Let us take the outer bypass in Galway, which we could write a book on, and the fact that we need to join up our railways in the west of Ireland, from Sligo right down to Galway and Limerick. We need to deal with all of that. We need to put in sewerage systems and make sure that land is serviced for future development. Last year or the year...

Transport in Galway and Other Areas: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: ...the Department and the Minister for getting on with that work. This is another project he can do now. Further, the Minister should make it categorically clear the line north from Claremorris to Sligo is protected for rail until a decision is made on extending the railway up there. If a greenway is to be put in it should be put in complementary to, rather than instead of, a rail line. ...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: ...out where is the population growth. There is something fundamentally wrong with how the funding is allocated when there is such variance. In County Roscommon it is €97 per head and in County Sligo it is €87 per head. We are down to €46. There is no logical explanation for it. I would like to see a transparent way of doing this so every county gets a fair share.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Canney: ...to have balanced development. The argument here is not about the amount of the reduction; it is about the basis on which we are being funded and how much we are getting per capitacompared to everybody else. I do not begrudge Sligo, Roscommon, Mayo or Leitrim, or any other county, what it is getting but when one sees what they are getting compared to what we are getting, there are many...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Seán Canney: ...McGrath, in regard to what he was going to spend next year and in the two or three years after that. The European Union has downgraded the north and west of our country, serving the counties of Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Roscommon and Leitrim, the five counties alone in Connacht, along with Monaghan and Donegal. Ours is now a region that is lagging, and that is because we have fallen way...

Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion [Private Members] (8 Dec 2021)

Seán Canney: ...hole and a licence may be issued years later. That needs to go, if we are serious about climate action and serious about realising the country's potential. This is not just an issue for Galway, Mayo or Sligo; it is a national issue. We need to give this issue a commercial steer. The Minister outlined the development of ports and other infrastructure within the country as well as...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance (23 Sep 2021)

Seán Canney: ...the region. If this project were to be successful, we would need to make sure that we are building the required infrastructure, including the outer bypass of Galway city, upgrading our roads to Sligo, creating rail lines and improving the rail networks that exist, because we are talking about up to 10,000 people. There is a challenge but also an opportunity. How will the Government deal...

Rural and Community Development: Statements (18 Nov 2020)

Seán Canney: .... I want to bring that closer to home and comment on what is actually happening. If we take the north and west region, which consists of eight counties, namely, Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo, Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal, it has the highest level of regional inequality in Europe. That information is coming from the European Commission. The EU Commission has also noted that...

Regional Airports: Motion [Private Members] (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Canney: ...should grasp the nettle and solve this problem now. If we do, by making the airports the centres of our business and the hubs from which we fan out, and if we connect to the urban centres of Galway, Sligo, Limerick, Cork and Athlone, we will create a network whereby tourists and businesspeople can all access the regions. An article in one of the newspapers today refers to the number...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Authority Staff Data (13 May 2020)

Seán Canney: ...@monaghancoco.ie Offaly County Catriona Hilliard chilliard@offalycoco.ie Roscommon County Annemarie Johnston ajohnston@roscommoncoco.ie Sligo County Nigel Carter ncarter@sligococo.ie South Dublin County James Naughton Jnaughton@sdublincoco.ie Tipperary...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector Funding (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Canney: ... €133,312 €146,600 €146,600 €73,300 Longford Volunteer Centre €64,923 €90,000 €95,000 €95,000 Louth Volunteer Centre €103,730 €114,100 €114,100 €114,100 Mayo Volunteer Bureau €102,242 €112,500 €112,500 €112,500 Meath Volunteer Centre €100,552...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Mobile Telephony Services (30 May 2019)

Seán Canney: ...45,000) 1 (€15,000) Limerick County 4 (€60,000) - Longford County 1 (€15,000) - Louth County - - Mayo County 4 (€60,000) - Meath County 1 (€15,000) 3 (€45,000) Monaghan County - 2 (€30,000) Offaly County 2 (€30,000) - Roscommon County 1 (€15,000) 3 (€45,000) Sligo County 1 (€15,000) 1 (€15,000)...

National Broadband Plan: Statements (9 May 2019)

Seán Canney: ...;151 million in Mayo. We are going to empower thousands of people to make ensure that they can join the digital age. Our students cannot live at home at the moment, having instead to live in Galway, Athlone or Sligo because they cannot do their dissertations and projects due to a lack of access to broadband. Farmers cannot fulfil their obligations in terms of online payments because...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dormant Accounts Fund Grants (10 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: ..., and has enabled the following organisations to purchase Public Service Vehicles since 2017: Year of approval Organisation Funding approved 2017 Community of Lough Arrow Social Project (Co. Sligo) €21,600 2018 Galway Centre for Independent Living €73,920 2018 Lucan Action Group €35,109 2018 Vantastic (Dublin) €50,880 The 2018 projects were...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Mobile Telephony Services (2 Apr 2019)

Seán Canney: ... - Local Authority Blackspots 1 Carlow 36 2 Donegal 6 3 Galway County Council 66 4 Kerry 56 5 Kildare 6 6 Leitrim 18 7 Limerick 59 8 Longford 84 9 Mayo 7 10 Meath 9 11 Roscommon 19 12 Sligo 4 13 Tipperary 29 14 Waterford 4 15 Westmeath 9 16 Wicklow 9 17 Cork County 12 Total 433