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Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...cost billions of euro. It is a ten-minute bus ride from the terminal at Knock Airport to Charlestown station. Is it a policy of Mayo County Council to develop the Knock to Galway and Knock to Sligo rail links? This would provide sustainable travel connectivity to Knock airport in an affordable way. If one goes to Luton Airport, one has to get a bus. If one goes to Dublin Airport, one...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Regarding the hubs around Ballina, Castlebar and Westport, would there be any reason to believe that going further north into Sligo would not add critical mass to rail freight in the region? If this was available, rail freight could be transported down the western corridor to Foynes Port. Is the thinking that Sligo would not add to the critical mass and it would not get the same demand as...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ..., railways, etc. One of the things that is of major concern to me, as a Deputy representing Galway West, is that we see every day people coming to University Hospital Galway from counties Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim and all the way down the coast. For them, because the hospital is the centre of excellence for the west, travel is onerous and a lot of them would like to travel by rail where...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (1 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the capital funding he intends to provide this year for the upgrade of the rail line from Athenry in County Galway to Collooney in County Sligo so that work can continue on the reopening of this vital rail link; the purposes for which the funding will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4539/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (30 Nov 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...of the railway line from Claremorris to Collooney? Will he preserve the entire route in order that not only will it be connected to Ballina, it will also connect to an even bigger town or city, namely, Sligo?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Grants and Bridging Finance for Community Groups: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...' organisations give bridging loans to all of these organisations. I am curious. The LEADER programme covers virtually all of rural Ireland, including large towns such as Castlebar, Ballina, Sligo and so on. How much demand do the witnesses see from the deprived urban areas as opposed to from rural areas? Is there disproportionate demand from the lesser populated rural areas where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Grants and Bridging Finance for Community Groups: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ballina and Sligo were in the revitalising areas through planning, investment and development, RAPID, scheme. Does the commission find that it gives bridging loans in more rural areas because they have the capacity to get their projects together to get the money or grants and that the more deprived urban areas in all the schemes lag behind?

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rail Network (19 Apr 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 186. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of money spent under the original CLÁR programme funding for the clearing of the railway line between Collooney in Sligo and Athenry in Galway by Iarnród Éireann; the years in which the work was carried out; if he will provide details of the work that was done and the issues encountered; and if she will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenways Provision (2 Mar 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...Knock Airport from Charlestown? Furthermore, if that section was completed - it is there so it only has to be reopened - it would deliver the longest freight line on the island, the whole way from Sligo. The Minister rightly keeps mentioning Ballina but Sligo has huge potential for rail. If we consider south County Donegal and all of the timber and everything there, the line could be...

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...put on the motorways. We should always watch the small print. On the news this morning, "main routes" were mentioned but this refers to motorways. The reality is that this means the counties of Sligo, Mayo, Roscommon, Leitrim, Donegal and Cavan will once again be excluded.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (10 Nov 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to continue the work ongoing on the western rail corridor connecting Foynes to Westport, Ballina and Sligo; the progress made to date in upgrading these lines for both passenger and freight; the reason for the delay in progressing construction, particularly on the sections of the lines closed at present; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (15 Sep 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... It is a simple question. What measure is going to be taken to clear the local improvement scheme backlog in County Clare? In asking that question I could also say counties Roscommon, Leitrim, Sligo, Galway and many more because the backlog is horrendous.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (11 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...that a lot of the Minister's staff are following the instruction to work from home. In this context, has the Minister looked at remodelling her Department? At the moment the pensions unit is in Sligo, the child benefit unit is somewhere else, the unit dealing with carers is located in Longford and so on. Has she considered allowing people to work in different places? Somebody may work...

Local Government Bill 2018: From the Seanad (23 Jan 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...that often outweigh the so-called expert factors. If it was as simple as the Minister of State says and if this logic of amalgamating Galway city and county was so overridingly good for everybody, then of course we would have to amalgamate Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon to provide critical mass because the same principles that the expert would be looking at would apply there. I know why...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Flooding at Ballycar on the Galway-Limerick Railway and Investment in Heavy Rail: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... That relates to another issue in Iarnród Éireann's port. I am always a little puzzled by this "intercity" tag. I mentioned this to our guests previously. We keep talking about the trains from Dublin to Galway, from Dublin to Sligo and from Limerick to Galway as intercity. I would hazard a guess that the customers on some of those lines are like passengers travelling from...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...the biggest centre of population in County Donegal. Many people living in a 35 mile radius of the town work, go to hospital or attend the third level institution there. In the south of the county many people travel to Sligo for similar reasons. I would bet that there are very poor morning and evening commuter services between Letterkenny and places such as Dungloe and Gweedore. If it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Western Development Commission: Chairperson-Designate (27 Jun 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...quietly. Has the WDC done a study on the positive and negative impacts of decentralisation? Is it difficult or does it give rise to inefficiency? Are the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection's offices in Sligo, Carrick-on-Shannon and Buncrana and the Department of Finance's office in Galway much more inefficient than those Department's offices in Dublin? The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Burning of Land: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The situation is extraordinary in that we spent years negotiating for access to the hills in Sligo. Deputy Scanlon knows about it. The main area that got burnt in Connemara for which people were penalised is a very small commonage with an enormous number of shareholders. The Department said the fines should have been deducted from the payment. I do not believe that should have happened...

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... While broadband is of paramount importance for local people, it is also paramount to attract the high net worth individuals who need constant contact to these places. They tend to gravitate to west Sligo, to the Achill's of this world. There are so many good reasons to connect every house, and the more isolated it is, the more important that is, both to the local and to the visitor....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...that are in the ownership of the OPW and that have not yet been built on? Will the OPW representatives also send details of all the office properties that the Department has throughout the country in places such as Sligo, Bundoran, Buncrana, etc., that are not being fully utilised? Could the OPW provide details of all the properties rented in the greater Dublin area that are leased, the...