Results 1-20 of 28 for sligo speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh

Appropriation Bill 2023: Second Stage (12 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...economic corridor. For it to mean something, we need the infrastructure to go with it. We need a commitment from Government on the extension from Claremorris to Collooney. This would connect the west of Ireland. It would connect Sligo to Galway, and Mayo to Sligo. People in Mayo need confirmation on the N17 and they need to know when that will progress. They also need to know about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Because I am short of time I want to ask if this is likely to happen again in the Mayo area. Is the Mayo and Sligo area in general more vulnerable to such outages? Is there any compensation in place for customers?

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...corridor and the development of the western seaboard. I ask that this line be protected and not used as a greenway but reopened and prepared for the western rail corridor to be developed up to Sligo and Collooney.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: With regard to transport, the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, comes down to Sligo and says the N17 is halted and is off the radar, when a lot of money has already been spent on it, the land has been sterilised all around it and things like that. How is that decision reached?

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...go ahead. Some of my colleagues talked about other things like the western rail corridor and the infrastructure we need. It is quite alarming when we have the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, going down to Sligo to say the N17 Knock to Collooney scheme has no funding available. That is completely contradictory to what the Minister is saying about the funding being there. One...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (13 Jun 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...Taoiseach can clear this up - is that there are mixed messages coming from the Government. The relevant Green Party Minister is going to the west and making declarations that part of the line to Sligo could be used for something else. It is important that the Taoiseach stand over his words that shovel-ready projects that can be started immediately are commenced and that we fulfil all of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: People in Mayo, Sligo, and in the west want a straight answer on the N17 Knock to Collooney scheme. The Minister visited last week and alarmed people when he said that there would be no funding available for the scheme for many years even though it had progressed to the planning and development stage. The landowners along the corridor obviously have their land sterilised in this, but people...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Funding (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...average. The region's GDP per head of population has fallen from 82% of the EU average between 2015 and 2017 to an estimated 71%. The region, which covers Mayo, Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Sligo, Donegal, Monaghan and Mayo, was downgraded from being a more developed region to being a transition region and a lagging region, making it the only part of Ireland to receive this...

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...example of the Government's complete inability to deliver capital projects. One of the schools impacted by this incompetence is Davitt College in Castlebar. It is the largest school in Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim ETB area. I went to visit this school recently. There is an absolute frustration, anger and disappointment among the management and staff there. Those feelings extend to parents...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...the Minister in Mayo on Monday. As the Minister did, I commend and acknowledge all the work that has been done there by the project team, particularly by Michael Murphy and Tom Grady from Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim ETB. They have wanted this and worked on it for so many years and it is a long-term project. I was also delighted to see Paddy McGuinness there, who has done so much for further...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...in which the DUP holds up the all-island rail review. It cannot be used as an excuse not to reopen the western rail corridor. The Minister also needs to make it clear that the line will be protected in Sligo and that the greenway will be financed separately. The two complement each other and one should not be given preference over the other.

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...town and I look forward to that. This multi-campus technological university involves thousands of students spread across locations in Castlebar, Galway city, Killybegs, Letterfrack, Letterkenny, Mountbellew and Sligo. The geographical spread and multi-campus nature of this university will mean it is very distinct from most other colleges, yet it is being given no flexibility to anyone,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Act 2019 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) Order 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...Angela's College can avail of what is on offer and amalgamate? I want to acknowledge the huge amount of work that has been done by St. Angela's College, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, GMIT, Institute of Technology Sligo, Letterkenny Institute of Technology and all the institutes in getting this to where it is today. I want to make sure we do not let the ball drop in any of those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1426. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of all speech and language therapy vacancies in counties Mayo and Sligo; if therapists already employed by the HSE in another part of the State are permitted to apply for these posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63194/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (16 Dec 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the draft Connecting Ireland plans in relation to counties Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon, Galway and Clare are entirely bus-based; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62346/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Dec 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the anticipated opening date for the enrolment for the three additional retrofit centres of excellence in counties Cork, Limerick, Clare, Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim; the location and anticipated enrolment capacity in each centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60626/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (1 Dec 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 297, 298, 299 of 25 November 2021, the overall cost of the extension to the central campus EO1 project at Sligo IT; and if it is contained in the Investment Programme Tracker October 2021 which was released as part of the NDP launch; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59335/21]

Science Week 2021: Statements (10 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...topics is a good idea. I would like to lend my voice to the call to people to make submissions before the deadline at the end of November. I am glad that the highest number of applications is from Sligo at the moment. I hope that will spur Mayo on to get more applications in. Science Week is so important, given the context of climate change. I was listening to Ulster radio few days ago...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Higher Education Authority Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...for being parochial, but is she really saying that the Mayo campus would not have representation on the governing body? Could she address that point again? Would it also mean that Letterkenny and Sligo would not have representation?