Results 1-15 of 15 for sligo speaker:Niamh Smyth

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (17 Apr 2024)

Niamh Smyth: 28. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how many businesses in each of counties Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo, Roscommon, Mayo and Galway have to date registered for the increased cost of business grant; when payments under the grant will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16908/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (1 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: 121. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of eligible claims currently being made for the rent tax credit made in counties Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon, Mayo and Galway, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4280/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Universal Social Charge (23 Nov 2023)

Niamh Smyth: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of taxpayers in counties Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim who will benefit from the USC reductions announced in budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51230/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (23 Nov 2023)

Niamh Smyth: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of taxpayers in counties Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim, respectively claiming the rent tax credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51229/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (5 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on a county basis of the number of businesses in Cavan, Monaghan, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal that successfully applied for inclusion under the temporary business energy support scheme, in tabular form; the estimated value or worth of the support in each county; if he has plans for any other similar scheme in the near future; and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (5 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: 117. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on a county basis of the number of people in Cavan, Monaghan, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal who are currently availing of the rent tax credit, in tabular form; if he has plans for any changes to the credit in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42871/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: ...facility to have. I understand it is the only one in community health organisation, CHO, 1. For the information of anybody listening to the debate, that includes Donegal, Cavan, Monaghan, Leitrim and Sligo. I would welcome anything the Minister of State can do. As I said, she has been very passionate about all things to do with disability services. However, if it had not been for...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Niamh Smyth: ..., which Ms Kirby referred to. It is an aspect of tourism I had not considered as a category. She is correct: we know that Lahinch has been swamped with visitors and people have been going to Sligo after "Normal People". Enniskerry has seen a surge in visitors since "Disenchanted" started filming. People have been calling for coffee or a newspaper just to see the village who might not...

Progressing Children's Disability Services: Statements (14 Nov 2019)

Niamh Smyth: ...in the context of its size, there are 129 children waiting. The initial number of children waiting for an assessment for speech and language in the Cavan-Monaghan area is 629. Compare this to the Sligo-Leitrim area where it is 170 children waiting. There are 464 children in Cavan-Monaghan between the ages of six and 18 waiting for assessments for physiotherapy, in Donegal there are none...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Effects of Brexit on Border Region: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Niamh Smyth: ...the flag for a focused, co-ordinated task force that encompasses everything they are doing, with a significant focus on the Border region, on both sides of the Border, in Cavan, Monaghan, Meath, Sligo, Tyrone, Armagh and Fermanagh. There needs to be fast action because there is a risk in what has been happening since 2016 of all that good work unravelling. We do not want to go back to...

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)

Niamh Smyth: ...for those areas that are so well facilitated with rail transport. Will Mr. Meade elaborate on or disclose some of the plans he has for north of the Galway to Dublin line? I am aware that Sligo was mentioned, and I appreciate how animated and passionate Deputy McLoughlin was about that particular line. I have a keen interest in the lines and existing lines to Navan and on to Kingscourt....

Services for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (27 Mar 2018)

Niamh Smyth: ...disability, and the figures for Cavan and Monaghan are staggering and appalling in this day and age. In the community health care organisation, CHO, area 1, which includes Cavan-Monaghan, Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim, the total number of children awaiting their first assessment of need is 178. What is very concerning for both me and parents living in the constituency is that Cavan and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Niamh Smyth: ...I do not see any mention of that in the national planning framework. That would be a massive mistake. The purpose of the east-west link is to open up the region from Dundalk to Monaghan to Cavan and on over to Sligo. The Border region is totally dependent on that. There has been a great deal of work done and investment made to bring the proposal to design stage. There is more work to...

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: ...in the Dáil Chamber, if one were to look at a map of Ireland one would see a motorway that cuts from Dublin to Galway with all other motorways to major cities south of that. North of that line - Sligo, Cavan, Monaghan - these motorways are non-existent. When it comes to developing a major road network, we have been completely forgotten. There was a plan many years ago for an...