Results 1-20 of 27 for sligo speaker:Malcolm Noonan

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (23 Apr 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...7 4 €266,002.00 Monaghan County Council 3 2 €32,558.10 Offaly County Council 9 5 €370,393.44 Roscommon County Council 8 4 €260,000.00 Sligo County Council 7 5 €357,900.00 ...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...plans, led by the local community development committees, LCDCs, are important to this, as are works around the town centre first policy. Town teams have been established in quite a few towns. Sligo and Dundalk come to mind. A huge amount of work is ongoing. When the Deputies talk about buildings and spaces being available, many are in private ownership. We have seen the exit of banks...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Facilities (5 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...facilities that are currently being provided under the SCP and LSSIF. Similarly, if we are to develop elite sportspeople, we need to invest at grassroots level, and it is at grassroots level that clubs such as Sligo Rovers develop players - men and women, boys and girls - who can go forward and onto national teams, and perhaps overseas as well. It is hugely important that Sligo Rovers...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Facilities (5 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...for all successful LSSIF applicants to publish their similar access policy, in respect of men and women having access to the facilities on similar terms in order for LSSIF funding to be awarded. I understand that Sligo Rovers Football Club has received planning permission for the development of The Showgrounds. This was hugely welcome and a really significant step in the implementation...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Regeneration Projects (5 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: .... A fantastic piece of work was done by Alison Harvey who led the collaborative town centre health checks. It got all the data people were looking for in the participating towns, including Sligo, Dundalk, Tipperary town and other places. It provided data on vacancy rates both in retail and above-shop premises. We need that data. I agree with Senator Garvey and I will take back to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (24 Jan 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta as an gceist seo a ardú. I thank the Deputy for bringing the question forward. We were wandering the roads of Sligo together last Friday. I thank him for the hospitality shown to me last week. I understand the Deputy’s question relates to the community involvement scheme which provides financial assistance to local communities for repairs...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Weather Events (13 Dec 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...status wind warning was issued along the west coast for Clare, Galway, and Mayo. Status yellow wind warnings were also issued for Cavan, Dublin, Kildare, Leitrim, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo and Westmeath, with potential impacts of difficult travelling conditions and debris and loose objects being displaced. Leitrim village, which is close to the borders of...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...and South Dublin; and the city of Dublin. 4 Midlands-North-West The counties of: Cavan, Donegal, Galway, Kildare, Laois, Leitrim, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo and Westmeath; and the city of Galway. 5 South The counties of: Carlow, Clare, Cork, Kerry, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Wexford and Wicklow;...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ... South Dublin; and the city of Dublin 4 Midlands-North-West The counties of: Cavan, Donegal, Galway, Kildare, Laois, Leitrim, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo and Westmeath; and the city of Galway. 5 South The counties of: Carlow, Clare, Cork, Kerry, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Wexford and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Community Development Projects (21 Nov 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: My Department currently supports a programme of large-scale regeneration projects in Limerick, Dublin and Cork and smaller projects in Tralee, Sligo and Dundalk. These regeneration projects target the country's most disadvantaged communities and seek to address the causes of disadvantage in these communities through an holistic programme of physical, social and economic regeneration. As the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (4 Oct 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: ...1 Louth 1 1 1 Mayo 6 5 4 4 11 13 Mayo and Mayo Sligo Border 2 12 Meath 2 3 Monaghan ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: World Heritage Sites (28 Sep 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: ...County Clare; 3. Trans-Atlantic Cable Ensemble: Valentia, County Kerry-Heart's Content, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; 4. Royal Sites of Ireland; 5. The Passage Tomb Landscape of County Sligo; 6. Glendalough Valley, County Wicklow (Wicklow County Council subsequently paused their application pending completion of the Glendalough Master Plan). In July 2021 I...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: World Heritage Sites (21 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: .../ Holy Island), County Clare; 3. Trans-Atlantic Cable Ensemble: Valentia, County Kerry-Heart's Content, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; 4. The Royal Sites of Ireland;  5. The Passage Tomb Landscape of County Sligo; and  6. Glendalough Valley, County Wicklow. I established an independent Expert Advisory Group (EAG) to evaluate each of the applications based on their ability to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Promotion (14 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: .../ Inishcaltra / Holy Island), County Clare; 3. Trans-Atlantic Cable Ensemble: Valentia, County Kerry &Heart's Content, Newfoundland, Canada; 4. The Royal Sites of Ireland;  5. The Passage Tomb Landscape of County Sligo; and  6. Glendalough Valley, County Wicklow. No application was received in respect of the Historic City of Dublin, in effect removing itself from...

Short-term Lettings Enforcement Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 May 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: ...were out of order. Deputy Boyd Barrett mentioned the issue of the large urban centres. However, as we have heard all Deputies contributing this evening, this is an issue that is affecting regional towns such as Sligo, Drogheda and Wexford and throughout the country. It is not just the larger urban centres. It is something that we are committed to dealing with. On the points raised...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: World Heritage Sites (1 Mar 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: ...further technical assessment of the applications to a new Tentative List. The following six applications were received by the deadline of 30 June 2021:  - The Passage Tomb Landscape of County Sligo - Inis Cealtra, County Clare - Transatlantic Cable Ensemble: Valentia-Heart’s Content, County Kerry and Newfoundland, Canada - The Cultural Landscape of the Burren...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Joint Committee
Update from Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Dec 2021)

Malcolm Noonan: ...x20ac;13 million, which is an increase on last year's. In conjunction with the Heritage Council, my Department delivers the historic towns initiative, which is providing €1.5 million to a number of towns in 2021, including Ballyshannon in Donegal, Listowel in Kerry, Sligo town, Roscommon town, Ballina in Mayo, Birr in Offaly, Tramore in Waterford and Callan in my own county of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Defective Building Materials (2 Dec 2021)

Malcolm Noonan: ...week. It is a very expansive scheme, with 100% redress as requested. There are some concerns about the sliding scale but it contains many other elements that I hope will lead families in counties Sligo, Mayo and Donegal to see this as a very positive development. Hopefully then we can apply this to Country Clare. I will give the Department's official response but there has certainly...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (2 Dec 2021)

Malcolm Noonan: ...care. The bid was based on a valuation by OPW and on an archaeological and operational assessment that the monument would be an excellent addition to the portfolio of monuments in state care in Sligo, adding to the ensemble of Neolithic passage tombs, many of which are already in State care, and which characterise the Sligo landscape. Unfortunately, the vendor chose to not accept the bid...