Results 1-20 of 348 for long speaker:Frank Feighan

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Facilities (5 Mar 2024)

Frank Feighan: ...in people's lives and one such sports club is Sligo Rovers Football Club in my area. The Acting Chair will know how important it is to the community. It is a community-based football club with a long and proud history. It is one quarter-owned by the people of Sligo and is supported by people in Sligo, in the north west, from Sligo, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon and Donegal, and by people all...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (24 Jan 2024)

Frank Feighan: ..., Heather Humphreys, but we need more money from the Department of Transport. Last year, €30 million went to local authorities under the LIS, and now the scheme is fully subscribed, with a long waiting list. It is now time a similar funding budget was put forward for the CIS. Under the LIS we have done our bit, but we need to start a fund for some of these very important rural...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2024)

Frank Feighan: ...CCMA and HSE discuss how they are now consulting the DPOs on new models of independent living? With regard to the multi-annual funding, the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People noted long-term funding streams must be clarified and connected to deliver appropriate services and supports. Will the witnesses discuss and highlight how needs are being assessed and how services can...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Frank Feighan: 973. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people on jobseekers allowance who are long-term unemployed and who had penalties applied to their payments in 2023 due to failure to engage with her Department's labour activation services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1680/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Frank Feighan: 975. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps her Department intends to take in 2024 to ensure that long-term unemployed persons are encouraged to take up employment given the labour shortages being experienced in many sectors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1682/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Frank Feighan: ...from control work in respect of jobseekers allowance payments for each year between 2013-2023; the savings she estimates her Department will achieve in 2024 from control measures in relation to long term jobseekers allowance payments, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1683/24]

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Frank Feighan: ...this week. Sinn Féin is caught in a cynical battle for votes between the so called far left and far right. However, the centre will hold and it must hold. The Minister, Deputy McEntee, follows a long list of strong Fine Gael Ministers for Justice who took on the organisations and individuals who wanted to overthrow and destabilise this State, people like Kevin O’Higgins,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network (22 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: This is a long-running saga. I recall 30 years ago coming to Leinster House to fight for the survival of the Dublin-Sligo train line. We are very proud of the line but I do not think it gets the attention it deserves. Something is happening in Sligo and the north west. I always say Sligo is the new Galway of the north west. The number of talented young people who have come to our area,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Frank Feighan: ...since the late 1960s. Anybody from Northern Ireland who wanted to avail of third level education went to the UK and they did not come home. There are huge challenges there. In the north west, along with Magee campus of Ulster University and the funding, there is a huge challenge. There are also challenges regarding accessibility. The A5 is great but it takes five hours and maybe...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (15 Jun 2023)

Frank Feighan: 127. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline what short and long-term measures his Department is currently seeking to ease the burden of energy costs for the constituents of Sligo Leitrim South Donegal and North Roscommon. [28876/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives of Truth Recovery Process (4 May 2023)

Frank Feighan: ...and Mr. Green, is the commemoration of the First World War. A very poor signal was sent out from the Twenty-six Counties when we air-brushed nearly 50,000 men out of our history. We have come a long way in the last ten years in respect of commemoration. It sends out a powerful signal. I was in Sligo last Friday at the commemoration at the Great War Memorial Garden. There were 620 men...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Frank Feighan: ...engagement group and was a bit disappointed that the project had not started, but one can see that it is moving ahead. I would like to see it start. We have been talking about this for quite a long time. The shared island unit has engaged with many communities. I always feel that the local authorities, higher education bodies and the all-island sports bodies have an important role....

Irish Sheep Sector: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Frank Feighan: ...It generates multiples in economic activity and I know this from my work over the years. The sheep sector is in crisis. As has been said, sheep farmers were the inventors of the circular economy long ago before the term was invented. I do not know what it was called then but they were very loyal to the towns and villages they grew up and farmed around. I want to put this on the record....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (2 Mar 2023)

Frank Feighan: ...identifying a site if required. The local authority is now developing and updating the Carrick-on-Shannon town development plan. It is good to know that the Department has been considering the long-term needs of the school. We need to review the demographics on the Carrick-on-Shannon school planning area. The technical report on the condition of the school, which followed a visit to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (8 Dec 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...programme has been challenging for many stakeholders, in particular, for children and young people using the service as well as for their families. These challenges have resulted in unacceptably long delays for families to access much-needed therapies for their children. The Minister of State with responsibility for disabilities would like me to take this opportunity to reiterate on her...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (8 Dec 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...acknowledge that while many children with disabilities and their families are accessing services, too many families are reporting an unsatisfactory experience. Some families are experiencing long waiting lists and others report varying degrees of consistency in the services they are receiving. We understand and recognise the distress this causes and I can assure the House that the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Dec 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...an exchange of good practice from the British Ireland Council work sector on drugs and the EU drugs strategy and action plan. We are examining alternative approaches to coercive sanctions. We have come a long way. Again, I thank everyone who has worked so hard on the national drugs strategy. It is my roadmap until we discuss these issues at the citizens’ assembly.

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: General Practitioner Services (24 Nov 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...of general practice to commence shortly. The review, with stakeholder input, will examine the issues facing general practice and set out the measures needed for a sustainable GP service across the country in the long term.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (23 Nov 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...of necessary consultations with medical professionals to discuss suitable contraception for individual patients and to enable prescription of same; - The cost of fitting and/or removal of various types of long-acting reversible contraception (LARCs) plus any necessary checks, by medical professionals certified to fit/remove same; - The cost of training and certifying additional...

Dublin City Safety Initiatives and Other Services: Statements (Resumed) (17 Nov 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...46A back in, sitting up at the top of the bus. We went to all the usual places. They cost nothing. You can walk down Grafton Street or around Merrion Square or the Phoenix Park or just take a walk along the Liffey or through Temple Bar and you realise that Dublin is a beautiful city. There was huge positivity here today, and that is lovely to see. I think of places such as Trinity...