Results 1-11 of 11 for sligo speaker:Rónán Mullen

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...not think this is a very fair reflection on the reality on the ground, because the problems with the operation of the levy are not the making of local authorities. Several councils which have registered sites, such as those in Donegal and Sligo, have expressed doubts about how realistic it is to expect development on those sites in future, on the grounds of demand both from developers and...

Seanad: Technological Universities Agenda: Statements (2 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: ...in the State based on numbers of students. I am very pleased to see matters progressing on all fronts. The merger of Athlone and Limerick institutes of technology is well advanced, and GMIT, IT Sligo and Letterkenny IT are also set to merge. I believe that a formal application was expected there before the end of the year. The proposals for a south-eastern technological university has...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Rónán Mullen: ...has an off-farm job. The report shows graphically that most of the financially unviable farms are concentrated in the Connacht-Ulster Border area, with up to 45% in Cavan, Donegal, Monaghan, Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon. The human cost is that 7,000 farm families are not making enough money to allow them to get by or to stay in business in the medium term. In western counties such as...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2015)

Rónán Mullen: ...raised all sorts of questions about the HSE's tendering procedure requirements and whether they were being followed. The Saolta University Health Care Group includes major hospitals in Donegal, Sligo, Mayo, Roscommon and Galway, and it had been in trouble previously for similar reasons. In fact, one member of its board resigned after the first controversy in June last year. The problem...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2014)

Rónán Mullen: .... We have a problem here which has arisen before in relation to this hospital group and the tendering for contracts. This hospital group includes - and Senator Ó Clochartaigh raised this previously - major hospitals in Donegal, Sligo, Mayo, Roscommon and Galway. Previously there was a contract for a report on the provision of maternity services. Again, only one body or group was...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2014)

Rónán Mullen: ...Ahascragh. Two parishes in Galway are part of the Elphin diocese, Ahascragh Caltra and Ballygar in Newbridge. We could have had a session of the Seanad because the Seanad was well represented in Sligo on Sunday. Senators Henry, Susan O'Keeffe, Comiskey, Leyden and myself were all present. In fact there were more present than in many a debate in the Seanad.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: ...am loth to congratulate the Taoiseach, however, on the very day that the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill comes to a vote in the House. The person I congratulate is Matt Lyons, a member of Sligo County Council who, to borrow Deputy Creighton's words, stepped outside the groupthink and led the local authority to vote its disapproval of dangerous and unjust legislation which, for...

Seanad: Unfinished Housing Developments: Statements (13 Jul 2011)

Rónán Mullen: ...the upper Shannon rural renewal scheme introduced by Charlie McCreevy in 1998 which resulted in a proliferation of unfinished estates in Leitrim, Longford, west Cavan, north Roscommon and south Sligo, all of which were covered by tax incentives. It was a classic example of planning failure and lack of foresight which reminds me of Ben Bernanke remark about having to be the person to come...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jun 2011)

Rónán Mullen: ...The Government is being very short-sighted on this issue. The focus should not be on the number of passengers but the nature of the passengers and the importance of regional airports, Galway and Sligo in particular, to the national spatial strategy and to the cause of balanced regional investment. A senior manager with Boston Scientific visiting a plant in Galway which has several...

Seanad: End of Life Care: Motion (29 Sep 2010)

Rónán Mullen: ...useful if we could look at the state of mortuaries, particularly at a time when there is emphasis on providing care for greater numbers in larger centres. It is clear that in some places such as Sligo mortuary facilities are very small and inadequate. Considering what people must experience when visiting mortuaries, it is important that there be a preferential option for end of life...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Rónán Mullen: ...and so on. A report about asylum seekers was published yesterday in The Irish Times which mentioned dozens of asylum seekers having difficulties with conditions in an accommodation centre in Sligo, with a child regularly getting a urinary tract infection and so on. There is a challenge in the way we deal with immigration but we must never lose sight of a fundamental principle that...