Results 1-20 of 49 for sligo speaker:Thomas Pringle

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (27 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the additional funding of €1 million which his Department has sanctioned to support Sligo County Council, which he referred to in Dáil Éireann on 19 October 2016, is only being made available to Sligo; if his Department will consider providing similar additional funding to Donegal County Council,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles (26 Mar 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 1092. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to establish a wheelchair accessible bus route between County Donegal and Sligo IT for students living in County Donegal taking up courses in Sligo; if students can block book accessible buses for each semester instead of having to book each journey 24 hours in advance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13351/19]

Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: ...Letterkenny University Hospital have access to an insulin pump. This week, I received a letter from a constituent who, after living with diabetes since he was eight years old, was approved for a pump. However, Sligo University Hospital is the only place adults from Donegal can have a pump fitted. Letterkenny University Hospital does not have staff to fit pumps. My constituent was...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: ...contacted me in recent times about the delay in being able to access insulin pumps due to the chronic underfunding of diabetes services in the Saolta Hospital Group hospitals in Letterkenny and Sligo. For example, there is a waiting list of more than 80 referrals in Sligo alone. It is affecting people’s quality of life. I have been raising the various aspects of the diabetes...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Thomas Pringle: ...south west and another for the north east, as was the case previously, which would ensure Donegal was reunited as a functioning area. It seems the reason this was not done at this time related more to Sligo-Leitrim than to Donegal, because in order for Donegal to be reinstated as two constituencies or a single, whole-county constituency, an equivalent area would have to be taken from...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (24 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 610. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the western rail corridor from Derry to Letterkenny, Sligo and Galway, thereby creating a Derry to Cork western rail corridor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11857/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (9 Jun 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 507. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the National Broadband Plan; when the roll out will commence in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9661/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 740. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for the home support grant which were approved in counties Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo and Mayo in the period 2011 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46355/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Services for People with Disabilities (12 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: ...and Sport the plans the NTA has in place to provide wheelchair accessible buses and infrastructure on the route 64 service from Galway to Derry, specifically at the Donegal town, Ballyshannon and Sligo stops; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7076/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Library Services Funding (4 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has offered Sligo County Council additional support of €200,000 per annum to resolve the crisis in the library service; if similar support will be provided for the Donegal library service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28617/16]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (11 Jul 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 919. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a carer's benefit by a person (details supplied) County Sligo has been received in April 2019; when the application will be processed; when a decision will be made on the application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31219/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Thomas Pringle: Recently, a constituent of mine wrote to me for the third time in less than a year. She stated: This month will mark one year since I joined the waiting list for an insulin pump in Sligo University Hospital, and still there is no end in sight. In fact, I have been informed that almost no one has been taken off this list in the past year and I am essentially in the same position I was in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (13 Jul 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 100. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any further plans have been or are being developed to bring passenger rail services from Derry to Donegal Town, Sligo, Galway, Limerick and Cork in order to provide a working railway service along the west coast of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38181/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 May 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 836. To ask the Minister for Health if ophthalmic care can be established in Letterkenny University Hospital to cater for patients in North and West Donegal who currently have to travel by car to Sligo University hospital for treatment and routine appointments, which is up to two hours’ drive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24818/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (27 Nov 2018)

Thomas Pringle: 304. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 305 of 20 November 2018, the extra bed capacity in the direct provision centre in County Sligo for overnight stays for residents from a centre (details supplied) in County Donegal travelling en route to Dublin for interviews arranged by the Reception and Integration Agency and the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (29 May 2018)

Thomas Pringle: ...Minister for Health the reason there has been little progress to date on the appointment of consultants to Letterkenny University Hospital, including a consultant paediatric post vacated in County Sligo over a year ago still not approved by CAC with the incorrect calibre level of consultant being advertised; if the crisis in diabetes care in County Donegal will be addressed; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Strategy (28 Nov 2017)

Thomas Pringle: ...better future together 2016 to 2026; if his attention has been drawn to the inequalities facing pregnant women in County Donegal forced to birth in exclusively obstetric led units in Letterkenny or Sligo hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50299/17]

Written Answers — Regeneration Projects: Regeneration Projects (16 May 2012)

Thomas Pringle: ...of the expenditure of regeneration funding on consultants, firms providing professional services and organisations providing community support in respect of a regeneration project in County Sligo, for the years 2008 and 2009; the names of the said consultants, firms or organisations; the sum that each received; the service that each provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (20 Jan 2016)

Thomas Pringle: ...Agency Ireland-sponsored visits to County Donegal and accordingly increase the county's share of job creation numbers within the north east and the north west regions, given that counties such as Sligo and Louth experience higher numbers of agency-sponsored visits, yet are grouped in the same regional category as County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2078/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (27 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: ...No. 244 of 4 October 2016 and his statement in Dáil Éireann of 19 October 2016 (details supplied), if he will clarify matters and confirm his Department will be providing additional funding to Sligo County Council to pay for the additional six library staff; if he will consider providing similar additional funding to Donegal County Council for staff; and if he will make a...