Results 1-20 of 31 for sligo speaker:John Paul Phelan

Seanad: Local Government Funding: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...balanced budget is the single most important duty that elected members of local authorities are called on to carry out each year. As I speak, 29 of our 31 local authorities have agreed a budget. Sligo County Council and Waterford City and County Council are the final two authorities to agree a budget. They are scheduled to meet tomorrow and next Thursday, respectively. The decisions...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Signage (3 Dec 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...widely recognised and markets itself to visitors. It is, therefore, appropriate that there should be a mechanism or process that allows local people to express their views on such a matter. Sligo County Council has contacted officials in the Department and expressed an interest in holding a plebiscite to determine the official placename that should be assigned to the town of...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (First-Time Buyers) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Nov 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...is higher than the European average, does not take that category of people into account. Deputy Scanlon is right that there is under-utilised housing stock in this city and in other parts of the country, like Sligo and Kilkenny. There are several schemes for renovations, some of which have proved more successful than others and some of which are promoted more by some individual local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (27 Nov 2019)

John Paul Phelan: My Department is supporting Sligo County Council to meet the ambitious objectives for Sligo as envisaged in the National Planning Framework. To this end, I visited Sligo earlier this year with a multi-disciplinary team from my Department to meet with a similar delegation from Sligo. The Council has ambitious plans itself and my Department is working with the Council to support their...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (5 Nov 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...; 21,329,311.63 MEATH € 27,537,594.37 € 30,431,809.28 € 65,915,825.02 € 33,210,826.78 MONAGHAN € 10,522,660.74 € 17,745,018.19 € 19,835,869.21 € 12,983,194.92 OFFALY €...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates Data (2 Jul 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...29/03/2012 01/03/2012 31/12/2014 Kildare 23/11/2015 30/10/2015 15/09/2017 Leitrim 23/11/2015 30/10/2015 15/09/2017 Longford 23/11/2015 30/10/2015 15/09/2017 Offaly 23/11/2015 30/10/2015 15/09/2017 Sligo 23/11/2015 30/10/2015 15/09/2017 Westmeath 23/11/2015 30/10/2015 15/09/2017 Roscommon 26/01/2016 30/10/2015 15/09/2017 South Dublin (2nd Revaluation) 29/07/2016 30/10/2015...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Election Management System (21 May 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ... Limerick City and County Patrick Wallace, The Courthouse, Ennis, Co. Clare. Cork County Sinead McNamara, 3rd Floor, 6 Lapps Quay, Cork. Cork City Martin A Harvey, 33 Washington Street, Cork. Donegal Sligo Geraldine O’Connor, Circuit Court Office, Courthouse, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. Dublin City Joseph Burke, 13 Fownes Street, Dublin 2. Dún Laoghaire-...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (8 May 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...first revaluation of rateable commercial and industrial properties has already been completed in the Carlow, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Longford, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, South Dublin and Westmeath County Council, and Dublin City Council, Waterford City and County Council and Limerick City and County Council, rating authority areas. I am pleased to...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...to cities, for example, from Connemara to Galway and from Navan and Drogheda to Dublin. There are also well developed plans to introduce improved bus services in a number of other urban centres, such as Drogheda, Sligo and Carlow as well as in Kilkenny City, which Deputy Eamon Ryan's colleague, Councillor Malcolm Noonan, and I sought for many years. These new and expanded services are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Property (9 Apr 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...earmarked for the Fund up to the end of 2022. The URDF, targets the regeneration and rejuvenation of Ireland’s five cities and other large towns. URDF support of €8.2m have been approved in principle, for projects in Sligo and Leitrim.   In terms of commercial rates, legislative provision is made for the refund of rates paid on vacant commercial properties in...

Seanad: European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (6 Mar 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...otherwise remains unchanged. The second is the four-seat Midlands–North West constituency comprising counties Cavan, Donegal, Galway, Kildare, Leitrim, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Roscommon, Sligo and Westmeath, and the city of Galway.While the number of MEPs in the Midlands-North-West constituency does not change, its geographical territory is reduced by the transfer...

European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (6 Feb 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...seat but remain geographically unchanged. A four-seat Midlands-North-West constituency will comprise counties Cavan, Donegal, Galway, Kildare, Leitrim, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Roscommon, Sligo and Westmeath and the city of Galway. While the number of MEPs in the Midlands-North-West constituency will not change, its geographical territory is reduced by the transfer of...

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Second Stage (30 Jan 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...a premises, for example, a small shop, above which, or at the back of, the owners are living will not be subject to a minimum rate being paid, even if the premises is vacant. Tubbercurry in County Sligo and Callan in County Kilkenny are two of the towns mentioned by the Minister for Rural and Community Development, Deputy Ring. He is right that they are similar in the sense that they...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (24 Jan 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...;   17,274,479 15,617,612 Leitrim    12,057,534 6,423,446 Limerick City and County  182,956,027 * 78,596,434 Longford    11,139,631 9,106,010 Louth    25,084,015 21,644,185 Mayo    41,873,633 38,189,175 Meath    26,433,914 32,129,575 Monaghan    18,896,478 22,953,736 Offaly    19,211,939 6,267,313...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Divisions Report (24 Jan 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...15,000. I have accepted the recommendations of the report in relation to municipal district configuration which are in line with overall policy objectives, with four exceptions in counties Tipperary, Sligo, Wexford and Kerry, where the desired policy objective of an urban focus was not fully realised in the Committee's proposal and, in the case of Wexford, to better reflect...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (22 Jan 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...128,884.00 361.84 MAYO 48,569,230.57 130,507.00 372.16 MEATH 81,728,733.99 195,044.00 419.03 MONAGHAN 31,857,085.49 61,386.00 518.96 OFFALY 26,412,505.16 77,961.00 338.79 ROSCOMMON 21,142,322.13 64,544.00 327.56 SLIGO 34,156,831.63 65,535.00 521.20 TIPPERARY 80,046,316.30 159,553.00 501.69 WATERFORD 77,477,396.42 116,176.00 666.90 WESTMEATH 35,028,703.90 88,770.00 394.60 WEXFORD...

Local Government Bill 2018: Instruction to Committee (4 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: ...Bill to redo the 2011 provision in both languages, with a view to then commencing Part 18 of the Local Government Act 2001, as amended. This will facilitate the planned holding of a plebiscite by Sligo County Council on a proposal to change the placename of Inishcrone, or for some people, Enniscrone. I also bring to the attention of the House a further proposed amendment to the Bill,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (13 Nov 2018)

John Paul Phelan: ...711,086.92 22,174,627.95 Offaly Co Co 5,078,585.90 31,944,245.56 0.00 0.00 18,823,531.87 1,058,113.53 56,904,476.86 Roscommon Co Co 1,260,594.98 23,755,738.23 0.00 695,939.00 4,312,678.62 0.00 30,024,950.83 Sligo Co Co 11,561,905.42 59,383,441.00 11,999,999.98 0.00 17,226,456.36 3,733,401.99 103,905,204.75 South Dublin County Council 44,933,512.85 21,578,792.20 0.00 33,997,426.82...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (8 Nov 2018)

John Paul Phelan: ...,028,842.42 40,703,223.20 20,109,398.72 MONAGHAN 37,055,444.11 25,816,895.25 26,954,471.97 23,079,895.38 OFFALY 42,649,428.46 28,255,622.50 25,579,520.94 15,589,024.73 ROSCOMMON 32,890,927.72 28,115,994.26 23,830,433.52 17,657,261.50 SLIGO 45,032,243.03 33,403,741.65 25,694,556.69 24,767,582.61 TIPPERARY 78,009,333.96 78,916,259.76 74,794,852.25 39,734,204.79 ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (13 Jun 2018)

John Paul Phelan: ... Monaghan 34,845,191 32,694,721 30,581,711 29,145,993 North Tipperary 53,477,681 50,901,703 49,640,649 47,898,142 Offaly 66,958,610 64,320,895 62,517,377 59,805,560 Roscommon 14,573,427 14,997,227 26,010,553 23,577,842 Sligo 73,744,717 69,756,187 76,759,641 79,951,950 South Dublin 261,526,564 247,270,126 240,862,951 233,717,692 South Tipperary 68,981,434 69,105,132 68,027,034...