Results 1-20 of 627 for sligo speaker:Marc MacSharry

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2024)

Marc MacSharry: ...is aware of the concerns of middle earners and families in the north west region, that the ceiling price for the first home scheme (FHS) is insufficient and that there are no new homes currently in Sligo town eligible for this scheme; if the ceiling price will be reviewed at the next scheduled review of the FHS (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12880/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (14 Feb 2024)

Marc MacSharry: ...with regard to public service in the face of the greatest housing and accommodation crisis the State has ever had. We need a strategic approach. I will give one example of a housing application in Sligo, which is for one three-bedroom detached house. It is on half of a site that currently has full planning permission for two semi-detached houses. It is on zoned serviced land, and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Jun 2023)

Marc MacSharry: ...flawed tender issued by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and won by a UK-based fund that owns student accommodation at Benbulben Court and Milligan Court in Sligo to house Ukrainian refugees, in the latest manifestation of our at times absurd approach, is set to progress to contract, thus displacing 500 students, which constitutes a full 25% of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (20 Jun 2023)

Marc MacSharry: ...not done that. A figure of €400,000 is derisory. It would not cut the grass verges on the N17 as it is at the moment. The fact is that I have in writing in front of me one chief executive in Sligo County Council communicating with his counterpart in Mayo and outlining that the Minister said there would be no funding available for the scheme for many years. The people of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (20 Jun 2023)

Marc MacSharry: ...with the national investment framework for transport in Ireland and the road safety strategy 2021-2030. God knows, we are awash with cash at this moment in time. The Minister recently attended Sligo County Council where he met the CEO and management team, along with some of the elected members. It was outlined, in a letter that was addressed to Kevin Kelly, the chief executive of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (2 Mar 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is prepared to immediately increase services on the S2 bus route in Sligo that services Rosses Point, among other locations in Sligo, which is insufficient at current capacity given the effective doubling of the population on the Rosses Point peninsula due to accommodation of Ukrainian refugees, such that school children and...

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Marc MacSharry: ...is a sensitive and complicated issue but you can see why frustration will build. Equally, when we are seeking to build and appeal for solidarity, which I want, building modular units to deal with the housing crisis in Sligo exclusively for Ukrainian refugees when there are 1,500 people on the housing list in the county will do nothing to build solidarity. We need to acknowledge some...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tourist Accommodation (15 Feb 2023)

Marc MacSharry: ...such as Bundoran, it is approximately 75%. On average, throughout the north west and along the Wild Atlantic Way, the figure is 60%. There are particular issues in areas outside Galway city and Sligo town. As the Minister of State will be aware, 2019 was the last proper year for tourism before the Covid-19 pandemic. We had tourism revenues of €5.2 billion. A reply to a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Schemes (18 Jan 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 271. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will include a rural location (details supplied) in County Sligo for the new pilot subsidised hackney service scheme for rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1776/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (13 Dec 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a child (details supplied) who is attending an autism unit in County Sligo but has yet to receive confirmation of a place on the school bus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61785/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Overcrowding (22 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: ...demand. We have a bed occupancy rate of about 110%, which is well over the national average of 90% and very dangerously over the acceptable international level of 85%. In other words, people in Sligo are dying because we cannot live up to rates that can be guaranteed to be below 85%. That is a fact. An unprecedented number of senior consultants serving the catchment area from SUH...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: This question is for the Taoiseach. As part of the nation's welcome efforts to accommodate Ukrainian refugees running for their lives, in an unprecedented development, on Sligo County Council-owned lands, the OPW and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth have invoked emergency planning regulations to erect 24 very fine modular homes exclusively for Ukrainian...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: A word to the families in Sligo.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: Once we look after everybody else, we will look after the people in Sligo.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 125. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the additional 23 specialist nurses in adult neurology services who will be allocated to Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52462/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Sep 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 443. To ask the Minister for Health when the early-intervention youth service for counties Sligo and Leitrim will be finalised (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46631/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Marc MacSharry: I have to say, with the best of respect, that the one thing that has been missing in this, and the Minister can ask my parliamentary assistant and secretarial assistant in Sligo, or each of the representatives present, or everybody throughout the House, or indeed county councillors, and this is why I announced the successes at the beginning and welcomed them so that the Minister did not have...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Jun 2022)

Marc MacSharry: ...his review group, who seem to think people should either move closer or die, or if the Government will commit to funding immediately the provision of a cardiac catheterisation laboratory facility at Sligo University Hospital.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 May 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made in relation to a proposed minor change to a school bus route to a post-primary school (details supplied) in County Sligo to facilitate additional students who wish to attend the school in question in September 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24436/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans for the July provision programme 2022 for a school (details supplied) in County Sligo; if a pupil attending that school who availed of the programme up until Covid-19 restrictions were implemented will be able to avail of the programme this summer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23325/22]