Results 181-200 of 339 for sligo speaker:Marian Harkin

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: I raise the shock announcement of the loss of 80 jobs at the B. Braun facility in Collooney in County Sligo. This is a hammer blow for the workers, their families and the entire community in Collooney, which is about 1,700 or 1,800 people. B. Braun has said it will retain a specialist research and development unit in Sligo so this may present an opportunity to resource and grow the research...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Emergency Services (1 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: 272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Sligo Airport will be specifically named as one of the four bases in the new tender process for the national air-sea rescue service in line with the recent Cabinet decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4871/22]

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Marian Harkin: ...County Council has confirmed that more than 90% of Leitrim properties requiring intervention in the national broadband plan will not be connected until 2025 or 2026. I looked at the figures for Sligo and saw that by the end of this year it will be approximately 16% and at the end of 2023 it will be about one third, but for 2025 to 2026, 60% of all premises will still not be connected. I...

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Marian Harkin: My question is about Sligo and Leitrim. While I am on my feet, the Minister might answer both together. I looked at the figures for Donegal. We are looking at 80% of homes in Donegal not being connected until 2024 or 2026. To revise, 90% of homes in Leitrim will not be connected until 2025 or 2026, 60% of homes in Sligo will not be connected until 2025 or 2026, while the figure for...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2022)

Marian Harkin: Last week, during Questions on Promised Legislation, I emphasised to the Tánaiste the need to ensure that Sligo Airport in Strandhill is included in the new tender as one of the bases for search and rescue services. At that time, the pretender notification stated a minimum of three bases. In his response he said: "I can say what we expect to be the outcome." He also said that the...

Leaving Certificate: Motion (25 Jan 2022)

Marian Harkin: ...forward this motion, which allows us to discuss and debate an extremely important issue, which is the format of the 2022 leaving certificate examination. As a former maths teacher at Mercy College Sligo, and as somebody who corrected State exams for more than 15 years, I am not an expert but I do have some insight. We are having this debate for very valid reasons, because of the very...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jan 2022)

Marian Harkin: A pre-qualification tender for the provision of the Irish Coast Guard aviation service was published before Christmas. It specifies at least three bases nationally. Currently, there are four - Sligo, Shannon, Waterford and Dublin. It is absolutely essential the R118 emergency service continues to operate from Sligo Airport. For the past two years, on the basis of call-outs, Sligo has been...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Policy (20 Jan 2022)

Marian Harkin: 94. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the potential funding streams or supports that are available to Sligo County Council and a group (details supplied) in view of the findings of a top level feasibility study which envisages Sligo Gaol as a flagship tourism and heritage attraction bringing in 55,000 visitors annually, in realising the potential of this valuable...

Gender-based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2022)

Marian Harkin: ...issues I would like to raise but I must return to a matter I have raised on at least four occasions in this House, which is the fact there is no dedicated refuge for victims of domestic violence in Sligo-Leitrim. The Domestic Violence Advocacy Service, DVAS, in Sligo-Leitrim and west Cavan continues to advocate, if not beg, for a dedicated emergency domestic violence refuge for victims of...

Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (16 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: .... I looked at the Irish Patients Association website, which monitors the most overcrowded hospitals. Two of the top three were in the north west, namely, Letterkenny University Hospital and Sligo University Hospital. Letterkenny hospital is in second place and the Sligo hospital is in third place, with 166 patients on trolleys for the week ending 10 December. That did not only happen...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: ...people think homelessness is largely an urban issue, but is also a rural issue. Nationally, the Simon Communities of Ireland published a study, Locked Out, which surveyed 16 areas, two of which were Sligo and Leitrim. Specifically in Leitrim, of the 13 properties that were available to rent at the time of the survey, not one property came within the housing assistance payment rate for...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: The Government has placed the passage tombs in Sligo on a list of properties that are considered suitable for nomination as UNESCO world heritage sites. Earlier this year, a folio of land at Cairns Hill in Sligo was put on the market. I raised the issue locally and was told that the OPW was going to bid for the site and asked not to go public on the matter. Had the latter not happened, I...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (8 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: 43. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the provision of funding for the new S3 Sligo town bus route designed by the National Transport Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60657/21]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Programmes (7 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: ...funding. I agree with the Minister on the funding figures but in my constituency the reality is, if we take inflation into account, which is not high at only 10% since 2007, there is a 28% cut in Sligo and Roscommon and a 47% cut in Leitrim since 2007. Yes, Leitrim Development Company, Roscommon LEADER Partnership and Sligo LEADER Partnership do great work, but these cuts mean they have...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (7 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: 245. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has been made on the inclusion of County Sligo in the defective concrete blocks grant scheme and the pyrite remediation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60173/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: 536. To ask the Minister for Health when the current shortfall of nurse specialists in neurology in Sligo University Hospital (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60052/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Family Resource Centres (3 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: ...across the country. While the two centres in south Leitrim do really good work they are too far away and their focus is, rightly, on their communities. There are four electoral areas in County Sligo and each one of them has a family resource centre. There are three electoral areas in County Leitrim but only two of them have a family resource centre. In north Leitrim, over a distance of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: Yesterday an Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation protest at Sligo University Hospital was averted at the last minute because there is to be an emergency meeting of the Workplace Relations Commission and an independent assessment of staffing requirements. We should never have allowed this situation to fester to this point. Today's Trolley Watch figures show a total of 25 patients waiting...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Marian Harkin: ...Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands has asked the Minister to halt this process. Why will she not do so? Second, I have consulted job clubs and local development companies in Sligo, Leitrim and across the north west and they are very dissatisfied because they do not believe their views or those of the sector were taken on board in the consultations referred to by...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2021)

Marian Harkin: Apology accepted. In recent weeks, 50 townlands in or near Lough Melvin, County Leitrim and 69 townlands near Templehouse in the Ox Mountains, County Sligo, were finally officially designated special areas of conservation, SACs. That means there are approximately 37 different constraints on these lands. For example, they apply to any construction, alteration or removal of stone walls,...