Results 1-20 of 129 for sligo speaker:Brendan Smith

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (18 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: ...are working on in County Cavan. It will be multi-sport and will cater for many sporting disciplines. As the Minister of State is well aware, there are no major sporting centres between counties Sligo and Dublin and Belfast and Galway. A centre in Cavan could cater for people from three provinces - Ulster, Connacht and Leinster. It would be an ideal place for competitions to be held and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (19 Oct 2023)

Brendan Smith: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her estimate of the number of secondary students in counties Cavan, Monaghan, Leitrim, Sligo and Donegal that will benefit from the introduction of free school books next year; the number of primary students that are currently benefiting from free school books in each of the counties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46042/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (19 Oct 2023)

Brendan Smith: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how much the increased capitation announced in budget 2024 will be worth to schools in counties Cavan, Monaghan, Leitrim, Sligo and Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46043/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (27 Jun 2023)

Brendan Smith: 245. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cumulative value of the investments to be made in counties Cavan, Monaghan, Sligo, Leitrim, Louth and Donegal, respectively under the timeframe of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; the estimated funding drawdown to date in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30807/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (25 May 2023)

Brendan Smith: ...dissidents and that is still around. There are unique policing demands in a border region. We have a long land border with Northern Ireland. The model proposed by the Commissioner will have Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim in one division and a reduction in the number of operating superintendents who are out there in uniform, meeting the people. It is the same in Cavan, Monaghan and Louth....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (25 May 2023)

Brendan Smith: ...with people who find themselves in that predicament. At the moment the only hostel accommodation available for victims from Cavan-Monaghan is in Dundalk or Meath and for north-west Cavan it is in Sligo. If a person or family has to leave their home it is a very difficult situation. It is even more difficult when there are children attending school because they are dislocated from their...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (24 Jan 2023)

Brendan Smith: ...if he will provide an update on the operation of the temporary business energy support scheme to date; the number of businesses in each of the counties Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Leitrim, Louth and Sligo that have applied; the number of businesses in each county that were successful in their applications; the estimated value or worth of the support to date for each county; and if he will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (22 Sep 2022)

Brendan Smith: A project that I have discussed with the Minister previously is the proposed east-west route from Sligo to Dundalk, via counties Fermanagh, Cavan and Monaghan. Parts of that road have been upgraded. It carries a large volume of traffic. It is an important artery in the Border region and the northern half of our country. I sincerely hope that dedicated funding can be provided in 2023 to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (26 Apr 2022)

Brendan Smith: ..., we need a greater delivery of acute hospital services on a cross-Border basis. I am thinking of right across the Border area. South-West Hospital in Enniskillen should be co-operating with Sligo, Cavan and Monaghan hospitals. In the north east, Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry should be co-operating with Drogheda and Dundalk hospitals. I think there is great potential there to bring...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Co-operation and Working Together (10 Feb 2022)

Brendan Smith: ...the general hospitals? I know that in my local hospital, Cavan general hospital, we have nurses who are doing their nursing degree in Dundalk Institute of Technology. I assume it is the same in Sligo. Could there be a specific project to try to train more people? I hope more people would take up jobs in the area where they are trained. It is not easy to attract young clinicians to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Brendan Smith: ...urgent that a dedicated refuge centre be established in Cavan-Monaghan because if people need accommodation at the moment in such a centre, they have to source the accommodation in Louth, Meath or Sligo, which is totally unsuitable for families who want to ensure their children can still attend school while going through such trauma.

Violence against Women: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Brendan Smith: ...pushing for a dedicated refuge centre for Cavan-Monaghan. The nearest refuges in which victims of domestic abuse in the Cavan-Monaghan area can be accommodated are in counties Meath, Louth or Sligo. It is horrendous for people to have to leave their home. When there are children involved and they have to travel a distance, in many circumstances those children cannot go back to their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Cross-Border Further and Higher Education Sectors: Discussion (19 Nov 2020)

Brendan Smith: ...they do in preparing programmes? The education architecture is set out regarding Connacht–Ulster through the proposed Connacht–Ulster alliance and the technological university involving GMIT, Sligo IT at LYIT. Mr. Hannigan told us the application would be submitted in January. When are decisions expected regarding the success, or otherwise, of such technological...

Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (13 May 2020)

Brendan Smith: ...a vast region such as Cavan-Monaghan, made up of two large rural counties, we have no refuge to support women leaving situations of domestic abuse. I know of women who have had to travel to neighbouring counties such as Sligo, Meath and Louth to seek emergency accommodation. This is a tragic situation. We should be able to support these people in our own counties at a time they are very...

Domestic Violence: Statements (11 Dec 2019)

Brendan Smith: ...the neighbouring counties of Louth and Meath, where the centres are already under huge pressure. Women in north-west Cavan have to seek out accommodation or specialist support from services in County Sligo. Similarly, in our neighbouring county of Monaghan, people must look to the services in counties Louth or Meath for help. That is not acceptable. Like Deputy Troy, I acknowledge the...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (17 Oct 2019)

Brendan Smith: ...could be allocated tenancy of them. This is bad housing policy. I welcome the increase in home help hours but it is not adequate. In the region that the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and I represent - Sligo, Leitrim, Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan - there are lengthy waiting lists for home help provision. Applications are being approved but people have to wait up to, on average, 80 days for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Administration (9 Jul 2019)

Brendan Smith: ...from local authority nominees to education and training boards; if membership of such boards varies; if so, the composition of the Cavan and Monaghan ETB, the Louth and Meath ETB, and the Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim ETB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30046/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Challenges Facing Cross-Border Authorities: Discussion (4 Apr 2019)

Brendan Smith: ...to some of the members of that assembly on the day we were in the Guild Hall and they were very glad about it. The counties in the north and west regional assembly are Cavan, Monaghan, Leitrim, Sligo, Roscommon, Mayo and Galway and it is very important that the group works with its neighbours, namely, Derry and the part of Tyrone that is in the Donegal catchment area. There are many...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: ...the exact situation will be should Britain leave the European Union without a deal. Thankfully, there are many people who have come back to live in Border counties, be it Donegal, Cavan, Monaghan, Sligo, Leitrim and Louth, and also in the midlands in Deputy Troy's constituency. We have all had callers to our clinics to inquire about the status of their driving licence post 29 March. The...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Brendan Smith: ...heavy goods vehicles and we have a road infrastructure that is not adequate to minimise transport costs for business. I have continued to raise with the Minister for Transport the need for the east-west route, from Sligo, through Enniskillen, Cootehill in Cavan, Carrickmacross and on to Dundalk, to be upgraded. It goes right through the central Border region. Some parts have been...