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Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 Apr 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Information in respect of the current school building programme, along with all assessed applications for major capital works, including the Co. Sligo projects referred to by the Deputy, is now available on my Department's website at www.education.ie. The priority attaching to individual projects is determined by published prioritisation criteria, which were formulated following consultation...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (17 Feb 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: Details of the schools in Co. Sligo renting temporary accommodation are given in the following tabular statement. The average annual rental cost per unit in 2007 was €10,815. From the information provided the Deputy will see that there were a total of 25 prefabricated units rented in 2007 by 11 schools. As the Deputy will appreciate the cost per unit will vary depending on the size, type...

Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (3 Feb 2010)

Brendan Smith: Ex-gratia payments issued in December 2009 to the following animal welfare organisations in County Sligo. County Sligo Welfare Organisations Amount paid in 2009 â'¬ Sathya Sai Sanctuary Trust for Nature, Castlebaldwin Co. Sligo 6,000 Irish Raptor Research Centre (Eagles Flying), Ballymote, Co Sligo. 6,000 Sligo Dog Welfare Services, Cullagbeg, Drumcliffe, Co Sligo. 8,000 Sligo...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Grants (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: The information requested by the Deputy on the number of higher education grant applications received and their current status for the current academic year in counties Sligo and Leitrim is set out in the table.  Leitrim and Sligo Applicants for the current year (2016-17) Home Address County Status Award/Ref/Can 2016-17 Leitrim Awarded 842 Leitrim Cancelled 30...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (17 May 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: ...mobility, greater flexibility and in a more focused fashion particularly with regard to various targeted police operations. As part of this programme, 12 Garda stations were closed during the period 2012 and 2013 in the Sligo Leitrim Division, as outlined. Garda stations closed in the Sligo Leitrim Division in 2012: Division District Station Sligo/Leitrim Ballymote Bunnanadden ...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 May 2021)

Marian Harkin: Sligo County Council has written to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, stating that several hundred homes, mainly in rural Sligo, are affected by pyrite. As the Tánaiste knows, this has a catastrophic effect on the stability of homes. Sligo County Council has asked that Sligo be included in the defective concrete blocks grant scheme, which...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children and Young People’s Policy Framework (1 May 2018)

Katherine Zappone: ...Young People’s Services Committees (CYPSC) are a key structure identified by Government to plan and co-ordinate services for children and young people in every county in Ireland including County Sligo . The overall purpose is to improve outcomes for children and young people by enhancing interagency co-operation at a local and national level having regard to issues including...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jan 2022)

Marian Harkin: A pre-qualification tender for the provision of the Irish Coast Guard aviation service was published before Christmas. It specifies at least three bases nationally. Currently, there are four - Sligo, Shannon, Waterford and Dublin. It is absolutely essential the R118 emergency service continues to operate from Sligo Airport. For the past two years, on the basis of call-outs, Sligo has been...

Regeneration Programme (29 Jun 2010) See 1 other result from this debate

John Perry: In 2004 the Sligo Borough Council embarked on the development of plans for the social, economic and physical regeneration of Cranmore, in Sligo city. From this overall development plan, came a social plan and a physical plan. Both these plans included ideas for economic development. The social plan was adopted September 2007. I am happy to acknowledge that it is now being implemented. The...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (9 Oct 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The Government is committed to supporting job creation and investment in the regions, including in County Sligo and the North-West as a whole. We are determined to ensure that employment and investment are distributed as evenly as possible across the country and we have set ambitious targets in pursuit of that goal. A "Landing Space" in Sligo was...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (21 Jul 2020)

Helen McEntee: ...of Public Works (OPW), which has the responsibility for the provision and maintenance of Garda accommodation. As part of the implementation of the new Operating Model, the need for a new station in Sligo has been reviewed by An Garda Síochána and, further to that review, the Commissioner has determined that a new Garda Station in Sligo is no longer justified. In relation to a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (27 Nov 2019)

John Paul Phelan: My Department is supporting Sligo County Council to meet the ambitious objectives for Sligo as envisaged in the National Planning Framework. To this end, I visited Sligo earlier this year with a multi-disciplinary team from my Department to meet with a similar delegation from Sligo. The Council has ambitious plans itself and my Department is working with the Council to support their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (25 Jan 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Both Letterkenny and Sligo University Hospitals provide diabetes services for both adult and paediatric patients. Letterkenny University Hospital has one full time Consultant Endocrinologist and one Consultant Physician with a special interest in Diabetes, supported by Clinical Nurse Specialists for adults and paediatrics. There is one Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner in the Paediatric...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...in housing is rising in all parts of our country. Decisions we took in Cabinet yesterday to spend more than €300 million of taxpayers' money will help small developers and the local authority in Sligo to build more homes. The investment in the first homes scheme will benefit young people in Sligo. The development waiver will benefit young people in Sligo. The technological...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)

Ms Carolan Lennon: -----I am responsible, as the CEO, for the poor level of service that is being offered to our customers. The buck stops with me. We have great staff in Sligo, Limerick and Cork. I said and I meant - if I said it incorrectly, I apologise - that we made mistakes and underestimated how difficult it would be to get a contact centre off the ground in Sligo. They are my...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Search and Rescue Service (26 Mar 2013)

Leo Varadkar: ..., undertaken by the Irish Coast Guards' Search and Rescue (SAR) helicopters by base are as follows: 2008 - Day Night Total Dublin 74 13 87 Shannon 141 25 166 Waterford 61 14 75 Sligo 110 17 127 2009 Day Night Total Dublin 98 10 108 Shannon 131 16 147 Waterford 103 12 115 Sligo 117 19 136 2010 Day Night Total Dublin 87 5 92 Shannon 115 25...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authorities Management (5 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: ...has been drawn to the fact that the formal calling of a council meeting must be done by notice from a meetings administrator; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the acting deputy Sligo county manager (details supplied), failed to ensure that notification was issued to the elected councillors for statutory meetings of Sligo Borough Council in October and November 2013, and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (31 Jan 2019)

Heather Humphreys: ...Business, Enterprise and Innovation, I have made regional development, enterprise and sustainable jobs growth my top priorities. I am pleased that we are making progress across all regions, including Sligo and the North West region. The Regional Enterprise Plans are crucial in meeting the Government's ambition to create an additional 200,00 jobs, of which 135,000 are outside...

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (4 Jul 2007)

Micheál Martin: In the period from January, 2006 to the end of May, 2007 there have been a total of 8 IDA sponsored visits by prospective overseas investors to County Sligo, of which 5 were in 2007 and 3 were in 2007. Although site visits are not a normal feature of Enterprise Ireland's promotional activity there were two site visits to County Sligo arranged by E.I. in 2006 and one such visit arranged in...

Topical Issue Debate: Forest Fires (10 May 2017)

Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Canny, for taking the time to be here for this debate. As he knows, substantial tracts of land have been destroyed by fire in County Sligo recently. I am sure that Deputy Connolly will outline what is happening in County Galway. Given the weather in recent weeks, some 4,000 acres in Sligo have been destroyed around Killery Mountain. I appreciate that...