Results 1-20 of 113 for sligo speaker:Joe McHugh

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Apr 2024)

Joe McHugh: 671. To ask the Minister for Health the reason dermatology services at Letterkenny University Hospital and Sligo University Hospital have not been included as priority areas of focus in the national waiting list action plan, given the high proportion of patients waiting over 18 months, per the National Treatment Purchase Fund, for dermatology services in both hospitals; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Court of Auditors: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Joe McHugh: ...more in the south east, where there are many great roads. However, my colleague, Deputy Harkin, and I live in the north west. Delivery of the TEN-T is not specifically relevant on the way up to Sligo but for the twin towns bypass on the Letterkenny-Lifford Road linking into the A5, these are game-changing moments. From an accountancy point of view, we are talking about Ireland being a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Representatives of the European Committee of the Regions (15 Jun 2022)

Joe McHugh: ...meet in the committee rooms. Formally, we have to meet in the precincts of Leinster House but we may have a conversation in private session about visiting Tipperary, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown or Sligo. Maybe Councillor Blaney will have us in Donegal with his big connections up there. We will leave that decision to the delegates. Members of the committee would be happy to meet them...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Passport Services (18 May 2022)

Joe McHugh: ...last week, this week and every week on the A5, which is still not a dual carriageway. If we are going to be saying to the citizens of Donegal, Tyrone, Derry, or even further afield into Fermanagh and Sligo and all these surrounding counties, that we are going to provide a service equal to the service that people in Kerry, Limerick, Cork or Dublin and its wider environs get, then they must...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Conference on the Future of Europe: Discussion (11 Nov 2020)

Joe McHugh: ...terms of local authorities. The past engagement and the physical one-to-one contact was important. I know that as a former MEP, Deputy Harkin will have had many people from counties Donegal and Sligo over in Brussels to see how things worked in the mechanics of Europe. Perhaps now is the time to look at online opportunities and facilitate and continue that conversation to help people...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jul 2020)

Joe McHugh: ...resources and the capacity in the third level sector or in terms of facilitating young people to build a home on land in their own county if that is what they wish. We need a clever, creative and nuanced debate about how we can facilitate and keep our young people at a local level. That is why the new Connacht-Ulster alliance is such an important venture. The presidents of IT Sligo,...

July Education Programme: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Joe McHugh: ...engaged intensively with the Connacht-Ulster alliance. My colleague, the Minister of State, Mary Mitchell O'Connor, has been very proactive. She has been to Galway a number of times. She has been to Sligo and has been up to LYIT in Letterkenny. Dr. Seán Duffy has been appointed as executive lead. I agree with the Deputy that he has the experience and skill set to drive it...

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Joe McHugh: Regarding the Connacht-Ulster alliance, we now have GMIT, Sligo and Letterkenny in agreement on where they want to be, which is to have an application ready for quarter 4. I will not give a timeline after that because there is toing and froing in that process.

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Joe McHugh: ...to work with them on that. The Deputy referred to the Mayo campus and its importance. He has raised that issue several times with me, as well as the integral connection between Galway, Mayo, Sligo and Donegal in the context of the new Connacht-Ulster alliance. He requested an update on that alliance. He is correct that Dr. Seán Duffy has been appointed and has been working...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (27 May 2020)

Joe McHugh: ...other TU development consortia continue to work towards the submission of applications under the Act. The Department understands that theConnacht Ulster Alliance consortium of Letterkenny IT, IT Sligo and Galway Mayo IT, is planning, subject to meeting the eligibility criteria, to submit an application by the end of this year. The consortium comprising Athlone IT and Limerick IT has a...

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (20 May 2020)

Joe McHugh: ...of the future technological university. To reassure people in Killybegs and those working there, where sometimes they might have felt on the periphery of Letterkenny, they will now be between Sligo and Letterkenny in terms of the new technology.

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (20 May 2020)

Joe McHugh: ...on a cross-Border basis on one level and then building towards a technological university at another level. If we continue with those relationships on a cross-Border basis, it will benefit Sligo, Mayo and Galway as well as Letterkenny.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Cross-Border Educational Provision (5 Mar 2020)

Joe McHugh: ...the legislative basis for any such arrangement. Letterkenny Institute of Technology is part of the Connacht Ulster Alliance (CUA) TU development consortium together with Galway Mayo IT and IT Sligo, which is working on plans to submit an application seeking an order for establishment as a technological university under the Technological Universities Act 2018.  It is understood...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Administration (4 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department has looked into this matter and can advise that the school in question is registered on the Department's system as having a postal address in Co Sligo. We are currently liaising with the school authority in relation to their official title and address. As the Summer Works Scheme is not administered on a county quota basis, my Department will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: University Status Applications (21 Nov 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...collaborative projects. The majority of this investment, €11.8 million, is aimed at progressing the creation and expansion of TUs. The Connacht Ulster Alliance (CUA), comprising the Galway Mayo, Letterkenny and Sligo Institutes of Technology, was allocated €2 million under this call bringing total Exchequer funding to date for their project to €5.92 million. In total...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...in the south east. The Minister of State in the Department of Education and Skills, Deputy Halligan, is constantly highlighting it. Those engaged in the process are CIT and IT Tralee, GMIT, IT Sligo and Letterkenny IT, and more recently Limerick IT and Athlone IT. There is momentum at a general level, but the momentum in the south east needs to be maintained. That is why we made a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Staff (17 Oct 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...particular. One of those men was a butcher and the other was a construction worker. They have moved into training to become SNAs. We are lucky to have a great place like St. Angela's College in Sligo, which the Acting Chairman will be familiar with. It is inspiring to see these men who have gone from traditional sector work into this work. It is transformative and they feel they are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (1 Oct 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...benefits in terms of energy efficiency.  Major projects approved under this programme to date include an upgrade of the North and South Blocks in Dundalk Institute of Technology and upgrade of Blocks K & L in IT Sligo.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (1 Oct 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...on my Department’s Capital Programme to provide permanent accommodation for the school referred to.  In order to progress this project, a new site is required. In this regard, officials in Sligo County Council are working under the Memorandum of Understanding for the acquisition of school sites to secure a site for the school.When a suitable site is identified and agreed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Data (9 Jul 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...(Preliminary Design) 08/03/2018 Meath 20191V St. Peter's N.S.Dunboyne Stage 1 (Preliminary Design) 01/01/2019 Meath 20444B Trim ETNS Stage 1 (Preliminary Design) 01/01/2018 Offaly  72530L Ard Scoil Chiarain Naofa, Clara Stage 1 (Preliminary Design) 01/10/2018 Sligo 65180T Ursuline College, Sligo Town Stage 1 (Preliminary Design) 01/07/2018 Wicklow 20080M Gaelscoil an tÍnbhir...