Results 21-40 of 49 for sligo speaker:Thomas Pringle

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (9 Jun 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 507. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the National Broadband Plan; when the roll out will commence in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9661/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (11 Jul 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 919. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a carer's benefit by a person (details supplied) County Sligo has been received in April 2019; when the application will be processed; when a decision will be made on the application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31219/19]

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: ...with disabilities, if such public transport were wheelchair-friendly. Ms Vicki Matthews was successful last week in her campaign for a wheelchair-friendly bus seat on route 480 from Donegal to Sligo, which is an Expressway route and not a local route. Ms Matthews gathered more than 8,000 signatures to highlight the restrictions the lack of access to public transport in rural areas places...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles (26 Mar 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 1092. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to establish a wheelchair accessible bus route between County Donegal and Sligo IT for students living in County Donegal taking up courses in Sligo; if students can block book accessible buses for each semester instead of having to book each journey 24 hours in advance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13351/19]

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: ...pointing out that at the height of the Troubles we were still able to cross the Border. I will continue to use the Border crossings when travelling up and down to Dublin; I certainly will not be going through Sligo to get here because that would be an absolute disaster. Regarding social welfare, under the terms of the convention, all existing arrangements with regard to recognition...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Services for People with Disabilities (12 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: ...and Sport the plans the NTA has in place to provide wheelchair accessible buses and infrastructure on the route 64 service from Galway to Derry, specifically at the Donegal town, Ballyshannon and Sligo stops; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7076/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (27 Nov 2018)

Thomas Pringle: 304. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 305 of 20 November 2018, the extra bed capacity in the direct provision centre in County Sligo for overnight stays for residents from a centre (details supplied) in County Donegal travelling en route to Dublin for interviews arranged by the Reception and Integration Agency and the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (29 May 2018)

Thomas Pringle: ...Minister for Health the reason there has been little progress to date on the appointment of consultants to Letterkenny University Hospital, including a consultant paediatric post vacated in County Sligo over a year ago still not approved by CAC with the incorrect calibre level of consultant being advertised; if the crisis in diabetes care in County Donegal will be addressed; and if he will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rural Development Policy (21 Feb 2018)

Thomas Pringle: ...says it all. In the space of six years, since Fine Gael was elected in 2011, Donegal has experienced the highest rate of population decline in the country, at -1.5%, while every other county bar Sligo and Mayo experienced a population increase. The Minister's county, therefore, experienced a population decrease. This is because the Government has not offered any support to rural...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Strategy (28 Nov 2017)

Thomas Pringle: ...better future together 2016 to 2026; if his attention has been drawn to the inequalities facing pregnant women in County Donegal forced to birth in exclusively obstetric led units in Letterkenny or Sligo hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50299/17]

Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: ...the local issues, but that is only part of the problem. The Tánaiste has outlined the record spending, and I anticipated this response to my question. The issue, however, is not about staff in Sligo University Hospital but about the hours of the staff being cut. It is not a recruitment issue but rather bad management, bad planning and complete neglect by the Government and the HSE...

Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: ...Letterkenny University Hospital have access to an insulin pump. This week, I received a letter from a constituent who, after living with diabetes since he was eight years old, was approved for a pump. However, Sligo University Hospital is the only place adults from Donegal can have a pump fitted. Letterkenny University Hospital does not have staff to fit pumps. My constituent was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Library Services (29 Nov 2016)

Thomas Pringle: ...raised regarding staffless hours in libraries across the country, including the fact that the Local Government Management Agency report on the pilot project in libraries in counties Offaly and Sligo showed small numbers of staffless hours usage; the way in which he is certain that the provision of capital funding for local authorities to introduce staffless hours is in fact in the best...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (27 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the additional funding of €1 million which his Department has sanctioned to support Sligo County Council, which he referred to in Dáil Éireann on 19 October 2016, is only being made available to Sligo; if his Department will consider providing similar additional funding to Donegal County Council,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (27 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: ...No. 244 of 4 October 2016 and his statement in Dáil Éireann of 19 October 2016 (details supplied), if he will clarify matters and confirm his Department will be providing additional funding to Sligo County Council to pay for the additional six library staff; if he will consider providing similar additional funding to Donegal County Council for staff; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Library Services Funding (4 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has offered Sligo County Council additional support of €200,000 per annum to resolve the crisis in the library service; if similar support will be provided for the Donegal library service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28617/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (24 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 610. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the western rail corridor from Derry to Letterkenny, Sligo and Galway, thereby creating a Derry to Cork western rail corridor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11857/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (20 Jan 2016)

Thomas Pringle: ...Agency Ireland-sponsored visits to County Donegal and accordingly increase the county's share of job creation numbers within the north east and the north west regions, given that counties such as Sligo and Louth experience higher numbers of agency-sponsored visits, yet are grouped in the same regional category as County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2078/16]

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: ..., we find we are not investing in rural communities. The Government has made it unsustainable to live in rural Ireland. While 36,000 premises in the north west, including counties Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim, have access to high speed broadband to date, 85,900 premises have to rely on the national broadband scheme to provide services for them. Building of the network will not begin until...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (9 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: ...if she is aware that a number of protesters were held against their will, unable to exit a small enclosure sealed by An Garda Síochána, during the unveiling of the statue in Ballymote, County Sligo, on 9 May 2015 dedicated to Irish men who fought for the union army during the American Civil War, despite there being co-operation up until that moment between the protesters, An...