Results 1-20 of 52 for sligo speaker:Paddy Burke

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Paddy Burke: I understand what the Minister is saying and fully appreciate that the EPA will be responsible for licensing. Let us consider Sligo County Council, which has no landfill and takes its waste to landfills in County Mayo. It is possible that running a landfill will become so expensive that Sligo County Council could easily be compelled to bring its waste to an incineration facility. The Minister...

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (2 Jul 2008)

Paddy Burke: ...a satellite unit at Letterkenny General Hospital and under the responsibility of the Galway Centre of Excellence; retain existing safe, high quality cancer services as at Mayo General Hospital and Sligo General Hospital as satellite units under the responsibility of the Galway Centre of Excellence; ensure that all Centres of Excellence and satellite units are the subject of an annual HIQA...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2011)

Paddy Burke: I welcome Councillor Joe Leonard from County Sligo to the Gallery.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2014)

Paddy Burke: Senator Marc MacSharry has proposed an amendment to the Order of Business: "That a debate with the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government on reports that he intends to abolish Sligo County Council be taken today." Is the amendment being pressed?

Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2015)

Paddy Burke: Senator Paschal Mooney has moved an amendment to the Order of Business: "That a debate with the Minister for Health to address the issue of the approval of a CAT lab facility in Sligo General Hospital be taken today." Is the amendment being pressed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Procurement Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Paddy Burke: There will be many different frameworks, such that a local authority could be signed up to a Galway-Mayo-Clare framework in respect of some services and to a Mayo-Sligo-Donegal framework for other services. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Paddy Burke: Does this mean people from Mayo, Sligo or Donegal have to travel to Galway if they want to deal with someone from the bank in person?

Seanad: Project Ireland 2040: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Paddy Burke: .... The plan will also help the north west and the western region which did not see the same level of investment as other regions during the boom years. The roads from Mullingar to Westport, Mullingar to Sligo and from Sligo to Donegal need to be greatly improved greatly. This plan provides that the Westport to Turlough section of the N5 will be funded over the next two years. The road...

Seanad: Rail Services and Related Transport Matters: Statements. (14 Nov 2002)

Paddy Burke: ...good enough. CIE and others are encouraging people to use the railway system. How can one encourage them to do so when a train of this standard is provided? Senator Ulick Burke said the link from Sligo to Limerick has been broken on the northern side of Athenry. I travelled on the last passenger train from Claremorris to Limerick a number of years ago. Ever since that line was closed the...

Seanad: Development of the West: Statements (24 Feb 2009)

Paddy Burke: ...be done. With regard to fishing, we have the greatest lakes and rivers in the west and we are lacking in our promotion of those areas. Senator O'Toole mentioned the rail link from Limerick to Sligo, and this line should surely be extended to Sligo and up to Donegal and Derry so we can have a rail link around the country. Spain is economically similar to us and since 1992, it has had...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (3 Feb 2015)

Paddy Burke: ...to raise the following matter: The need for the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to acknowledge the total inadequacy of funding for smaller local authorities, including Sligo, noting that larger authorities with surplus requirements have up to €100 million on deposit, and to outline an emergency plan for the provision of additional resources for Sligo...

Seanad: Patient Safety: Statements (22 Apr 2008)

Paddy Burke: .... It is outrageous that the Minister for Foreign Affairs should even be associated with this statement. If there were to be any centre of excellence along the Border, it should be placed in the Sligo-Leitrim-Fermanagh area in that blackspot which has no hospital cover. The golden hour is not covered in many cases in the north west. When will the centres of excellence be established and...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2008)

Paddy Burke: ...looked at a map on which the National Roads Authority has published its programme for 2008. There are no national primary routes or any works in the NRA programme planned for Counties Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim, Donegal, Cavan, Monaghan, Longford and most of Roscommon in 2008. This House should have an urgent debate on the Transport 21 programme which is falling far behind schedule. The...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (13 May 2014)

Paddy Burke: ...Adjournment of the House today, he proposes to raise the following matter: The need for the Minister for Education and Skills to reconsider his refusal to allow Gaelscoil Chnoc na Ré, Ballydoogan, Sligo, to expand from a one-stream school to a two-stream school.I have also received notice from Senator Mary Moran of the following matter:The need for the Minister for Education and...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (17 Sep 2014)

Paddy Burke: ...he proposes to raise the following matter: The need for the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to respond to media reports that a section of her Department located in Tubbercurry, County Sligo, would be relocated to the social protection office in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, following the decision of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government...

Seanad: Business of Seanad. (20 Sep 2011)

Paddy Burke: ...MacSharry of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to clarify the situation regarding the upgrade of the N4, between Castledaldwin and Collooney, County Sligo, to a dual carriageway status, in line with the previously stated commitments of the Government. I regard the matters raised by Senators Clune and Ó Clochartaigh as suitable for discussion...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: ...to bring forward some of that investment, which would make sense. He informed us that all of the hybrid trains that are currently used will be used on the long services, such as from Cork, Galway, Sligo, Westport and Ballina. He said that the new trains which are being purchased will all be electric and will be used on shorter routes, such as to Maynooth, Drogheda, Dún Laoghaire and...

Seanad: National Spatial Strategy: Statements. (23 Feb 2005)

Paddy Burke: ...town and there is no back-up from the Government as regards proper access to roads, rail, air or whatever transport for the ensuing ten years, what will be the position? Senator Kitt mentioned the Sligo to Ennis rail link, or as some people like to call it, the Sligo-Waterford link, which would be part of a European rail network. There is no reason why there could not be a linkage from...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (7 Dec 2011)

Paddy Burke: ...also received notice from Senator Susan O'Keeffe of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the status of the plan at St. Angela's College, Sligo, to complete the long awaited work to ensure access for the disabled across the entire campus. I have also received notice from Senator Thomas Byrne of the following matter: The need for...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Oct 2020)

Paddy Burke: ...'s driver licence online. I ask the Minister to have a serious look at this because someone from my county of Mayo got an appointment to renew their licence in Citywest, while another got one in Sligo. When we have county lockdowns, people should not have to travel from one county to another, but having to travel from Mayo to Dublin to renew one's driver licence in this day and age is...