Results 21-40 of 214 for sligo speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network Expansion (26 May 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...Tourism and Sport his plans to commission a study into the development of commuter rail services on existing used and disused rail lines serving the cities of Waterford, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12293/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Administration (14 Apr 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 210. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will make a decision on an application under the private contract clause submitted by a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6654/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Transfers (26 Jan 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 229. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on a private contract clause application lodged by a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3105/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Appeals (26 Jan 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 230. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered an appeal for a late application lodged by persons (details supplied) in County Sligo under the basic payment scheme; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3106/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (10 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 90. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue under the 2015 basic payment scheme to a person (details supplied) in County Sligo, the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44470/15]

Harbours Bill 2015: Second Stage (16 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ..., north of Dundalk, around the coast as far as Foynes. However, north of Foynes, along the northern bank of the River Shannon and the extremely long coastline of counties Clare, Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal, there will be no national port. I can imagine the Minister of State fulminating and saying it was a disgrace and should not be allowed to happen. His advisers will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...and very poor grazing land. The Department's star rating will give one the equivalent of a lowland sheep, but when it comes to viability in the harsher conditions of parts of Leitrim, Donegal, Sligo, Mayo and Kerry, it will not suit the GAEC. Many farmers produce their own replacement animals instead of going on the market and buying them. Will it be a big challenge for them to get...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...the land it holds along disused railway lines, and in particular if he has issued an instruction to preserve the integrity of the disused railway lines from Athenry in County Galway to Colooney in County Sligo, from Rathkeale in County Limerick to Tralee in County Kerry, and from Navan in County Meath to Kingscourt in County Cavan, and to prevent encroachment onto State lands; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driving Test Centres (6 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason there is no heavy goods vehicle driving test centre in Galway; the reason the people resident in County Galway have to go to Athlone, Sligo or Limerick for such a test; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that it takes more than two hours to drive to these centres from parts of Connemara; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Harvesting Rights: Discussion with Irish Timber Council (2 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...for rural recreation; it is also, in many cases, the key to getting to the uplands. There was a Mr. McSharry who, as some of the members might remember, did not want to allow access to his land in Sligo and we resolved that issue by reaching agreement. He had no difficulty with the public walking the mountain; he just did not want them going up past his house. With Coillte's...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... I do not think anybody is opposing the Bill or the remainder of it. Everybody in the House accepts the case for an independent commission in respect of the size and shape of constituencies. There is probably regret in Mayo that the Taoiseach decided to reduce the number of Teachta Dála or increase the number of people to be represented by Teachta Dála because it resulted in...

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...will be on providing water mains in the main urban areas. That will hit rural areas. Under the old system, rural areas were guaranteed some type of fair play, because every local authority, including those in Mayo, Leitrim, Sligo, Kerry and west Cork, was entitled to a share of the money provided. Very little consideration has been given to this issue in the Bill. I favour a national...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...the terms of reference of the commission, as he said himself. With regard to the Mayo situation, we knew Mayo could not stay as a five-seater unless it got a big slice of Galway, Roscommon or Sligo because once the number of representatives was cut to 158, no commission, within its terms of reference, could have left Mayo as a five-seater because the population does not justify it.

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...of this is that there are absolutely enormous western constituencies. If Mayo had remained a five seat constituency, which was possible, it would have had to acquire a major slice of either Counties Sligo, Roscommon or Galway. In the existing constituency, it takes two hours of hard driving to drive from Moyne Bridge outside Headford, County Galway, on the Mayo border across to Blacksod...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Expenditure Allocation 2013: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Oct 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...genuine applicants who are trying to farm with a reasonable stocking rate and those who, for example, are farming in areas such as counties Meath and Kildare and are purchasing or renting land in upland areas of counties Sligo and Donegal to keep sheep at the bare minimum stocking rate for three months of the year. There are instances of flocks of sheep moving between farms in order to...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (10 Jul 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 406: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the grade and number of all staff seeking a transfer to the Department of Social Protection in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33124/12]

Written Answers — Regional Airports: Regional Airports (1 Jun 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 69: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered a report by the Western Development Commission which argues for the retention of Sligo and Galway regional airports. [13690/11]

Government and Oireachtas Reform: Motion (31 May 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...was not a good thing. I assure him that if he checks with the Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Deputy Perry, and the other Deputies from counties Sligo and Mayo, they will report few downsides to decentralisation but a number of upsides. Nobody has shown me a shred of evidence that the decentralisation of a significant section of the Department of...

Written Answers — Electoral Management System: Electoral Management System (27 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...6-monthly Longford 95 €16,638.37 6-monthly Roscommon 137 €11,098.07 6-monthly Louth 179 €568.55 Not Applicable (State-owned property) Meath 234 €26,395.72 9 years 9 months / March 2012 Sligo 129 Nil Not Applicable (State-owned property) Leitrim 101 €3,200 3-monthly Wexford 240 €25,277.71 Monthly Total €182,523.14

Seanad: Citizens Information Service (13 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...full information on all schemes and services, including bereavement and widow's-widower's pensions. Payments and supports for widows and widowers are provided by the Department's office in Sligo which will gladly advise and provide information on an individual's claim. I have heard some complaints about telephone answering at the Sligo office and I will try to have the matter addressed....