Results 1-6 of 6 for sligo speaker:Joe Carey

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Flooding at Ballycar on Galway-Limerick Railway Line and Opportunities for Investment in Heavy Rail: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2019)

Joe Carey: ...know that the service is reliable. The committee sees the Galway-Limerick railway line as phase one of the western railway corridor project which we hope to see extended to Tuam and Claremorris and eventually Sligo. The committee is delighted to meet representatives from the various bodies represented at what is our third meeting on this subject. I thank committee members for supporting...

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)

Joe Carey: ...of this committee have spoken of the closure of railway lines in the Border regions including Donegal, Monaghan and Cavan, the Derry route, which gave a fast connection between Derry and Dublin, and the Sligo-Leitrim railway, some of which were closed because of the policy of the then Government of Northern Ireland. This made the remaining sections of the railway line in the South...

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

Joe Carey: ...identifiable. We need to look at the country as an island and as a whole. We need to look at Belfast and the north west, though there is welcome mention of Derry collaborating with Letterkenny. Sligo and the surrounding counties also need to be included in the region, however, and one could argue there should be a Limerick-Galway region and a Cork-Waterford region as well as a Dublin...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Funding and Budgeting of Mental Health Services: Health Service Executive (22 Nov 2017)

Joe Carey: ...produce skilled personnel, do we have enough college places and are there enough people coming out of college who can fit into the system where there are huge gaps? Deputy McLoughlin referred to Sligo-Leitrim in the context of shortcomings relating to CAMHS. I am from County Clare, which is in the mid-west. Are there shortcomings in terms of recruitment there? What are gaps exist?...

Prohibition of the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Oct 2016)

Joe Carey: ...very much on the agriculture and tourism industries. If fracking is not banned, there would be a detrimental impact on these industries in County Clare and other counties such that in which Deputy McLoughlin lives, Sligo, and also Roscommon and Leitrim. Fracking is damaging to people, communities, the land and groundwater. There has been a surge in the exploitation of shale gas by...

Tax Code. (25 Feb 2009)

Joe Carey: ...that airports in this State which had less than 50,000 departing passengers in the previous calendar year will be exempt from the travel tax. This is positive news for airports in Donegal and Sligo. The Minister's statement, posted on his Department's website, states: Concerns have been raised regarding the impact the air travel tax could have on small peripheral airports and their...