Results 1-20 of 36 for sligo speaker:Catherine Connolly

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (17 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...threshold for persons living on offshore islands as part of the assessment relating to eligibility for medical and GP cards. Deputy Marian Harkin - To discuss the construction of a new Garda station in Sligo town. Deputy Verona Murphy - To discuss the chronic coastal erosion issue, in Wexford in particular. Deputy Réada Cronin - To discuss the modular accommodation promised and...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (16 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...Deputy Mattie McGrath - To discuss the need to progress three autism spectrum disorder, ASD, class projects in County Tipperary. Deputy Marian Harkin - To discuss the construction of a new Garda station in Sligo town. Deputy Verona Murphy - To discuss actions to address the chronic coastal erosion issue in Wexford in particular. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae - To discuss the serious...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (21 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...ile National School, Limerick. Gary Gannon - To discuss the proposed closure of Phibsborough post office, Dublin 7. Marian Harkin - To discuss the crisis in the dental treatment services scheme in counties Sligo and Leitrim. Mick Barry - To discuss protests by staff in technological universities over pay issues. Pat Buckley - To discuss unauthorised developments along the waterways. Thomas...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (14 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...disability services in Cavan and Monaghan. Gary Gannon - To discuss open drug dealing and anti-social behaviour in Dublin's north inner city. Marian Harkin - To discuss the construction of the new renal dialysis unit in Sligo University Hospital. Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire - To discuss the proposal to split Owenabue Educate Together National School, Carrigaline. Mick Barry - To discuss the...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (31 Jan 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...Ireland under the temporary protection directive than applicants for international protection. Deputy Marian Harkin - To provide a timeframe for the construction of the new renal dialysis unit in Sligo University Hospital. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan - To discuss wastewater treatment issues in Dunmanway. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - To discuss the need to ensure there are...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (22 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...O'Sullivan - To discuss granting an exemption to allow instream works in the Glashaboy River to facilitate emergency floor relief work. Deputy Frankie Feighan - To discuss the need for extra train services on the Sligo to Dublin route. Deputy Joe McHugh - To discuss measures to assist mainstream schools that are catering for children with additional educational needs. The matters raised by...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...was "construction suspended." It did not start again until 2020 or 2021, and we wonder why there is a housing crisis. On the deficit in democracy, various people have said it. Just two weeks ago in Sligo, the association that represents councillors nationally made very in-depth presentations on the deficit in local democracy compared with other countries. A presentation from a Dr....

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...tenancy rule change whereby married couples both require ten years' tenancy in order to avail of the tenant purchase scheme. Deputy Frankie Feighan - to discuss planning and progress on the Sligo, Leitrim and northern counties railway greenway to enhance the infrastructure of the North-West region. Deputy Chris Andrews - to discuss the recently released review of the sports capital...

Safe Staffing Levels in Hospitals: Statements (23 Mar 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...of this week have been among the highest so far this year. On Tuesday, 21 March, the number was the third highest. Of that 665 people waiting for a bed, 56 were in Galway. As Dr. Hickey of Sligo University Hospital has not only told us, but continuously tells us, more than 300 people, at the very least, die every year as a direct result of the time they spent on trolleys. On 17...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (25 Jan 2023)

Catherine Connolly: .... Deputy Darren O'Rourke - To discuss the delay in opening a new autism spectrum disorder unit at Ratoath Junior National School, County Meath. Deputy Marian Harkin - To discuss the NowDoc Service in the Sligo-Leitrim area and the provision of after hours service from Carrick-on-Shannon to Sligo. Deputy Pat Buckley - To discuss using the retained fire services as first responders in east...

Transport in Galway and Other Areas: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...colleagues have acknowledged that. It is about transformative action and focuses specifically on the OECD report. Indeed, the OECD did not choose Galway, which is significant, but chose Cork, Dublin, Sligo and Kildare. It also pointed out that transformative action was required not just in cities but in all rural and urban areas. The Minister raised the question of what the two managers...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (22 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...discuss teacher recruitment in Coolmine Community School where many students lack access to metalwork, woodwork and technical graphics. Deputies Marian Harkin and Marc MacSharry - to discuss staffing and services in Sligo University Hospital. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan - to discuss the provision of school bus tickets in west County Cork. Deputy Thomas Gould - to discuss the loss of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regional Development (4 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...unchecked, the trend of growing inequality between regions would have a damaging impact on the economic and social well-being of all regions in Ireland. We are talking about counties Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Roscommon, Donegal, Leitrim and Monaghan. Has the region been downgraded to a lagging region? The Minister referred in his answer to a transition. Could he clarify the terminology? It...

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...has been on a trolley for seven days. People have been waiting for two years to get a triage assessment. That could be done in the private hospital in Kilkenny or whatever hospital they use in Sligo. That is a two-year wait for a triage assessment and then a further two-year wait for the surgery, if the person is lucky. This is a city that saw two of its operating theatres go out of...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...in a very cynical way in this context. None of its amendments have ever referred to the number of people who die each year from poverty, bad housing or being left on hospital trolleys. Dr. Hickey in Sligo has said at least 300 deaths every year are directly related to the person having spent two or three days on a trolley. In my city, people are being left for seven or eight days on a...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (22 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...in hospitals; (11) Deputy Marc MacSharry - that the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media immediately directs Fáilte Ireland to maintain a regional tourism office in the gateway city of Sligo and reverse plans to replace manned offices nationwide with automated tourism information points alone; and if she will make a statement on the matter; (12) Deputy Matt...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (2 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Marc MacSharry - to discuss the recruitment of additional nurse specialists in neurology for Sligo University Hospital; (2) Deputy Brendan Griffin - the review of south Kerry child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS; (3) Deputy Cathal Crowe - to discuss an elective-only...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (26 Jan 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...; (6) Deputy Marc MacSharry - that the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, directs the National Transport Authority and provide the necessary funding to ensure the urgent commencement of the third Sligo town bus route known as S3 to provide essential public transportation and access to services for the population of the west ward, which includes many elderly and vulnerable people...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (25 Jan 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...Jackie Cahill - to discuss the postponed route selection process for the Cahir to Waterford M24; (18) Deputy Marc MacSharry - to discuss provision of funding by the National Transport Authority to commence the third Sligo town bus route, known as the S3; (19) Deputy Pat Buckley - to discuss the progress of the school campus build in Carrigtwohill, east Cork; (20) Deputy Maurice Quinlivan -...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (1 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...Éamon Ó Cuív - to discuss the need to ensure sufficient home carers to provide all home care hours and home care packages approved; and (17) Deputy Marian Harkin - to discuss the unacceptable working conditions at Sligo University Hospital. The matters raised by Deputies Ó Ríordáin, Christopher O'Sullivan, Creed and Guirke have been selected for discussion.