Results 41-60 of 70 for sligo speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 292. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to downgrade the accident and emergency services at Sligo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33208/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 297. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to downgrade the maternity services at Sligo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33213/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preserving Ireland's Natural Heritage: Discussion (5 Jul 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I did not ask about Irish Water. I mentioned 50% extraction, Lough Talt in Sligo and other places around the country and outflow points. I said that many are in designated areas. When one looks to put in new machinery to get better quality drinking water for people, An Taisce objects. Will this be the policy? That is my question. An Taisce is not worried about Irish Water and I am not...

Dublin Transport: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...true of the N5. We know the problems in Galway city, where the situation is worse than Dublin because of the rigmarole with regulations and rules. We have seen what has happened in Cork, Limerick and Sligo. Let us go around the country. Those places count. They matter but, unfortunately, 80% of the staff in the Department live and work around Dublin and they do not realise the rest of...

Ireland and the Negotiations on the UK’s Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (9 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...and regulations that are being introduced. I do not know whether this is being done by civil servants in other countries or whatever. Consider how fiscal rules are imposed on Ireland. Consider Sligo where, due to EU regulations, 10,000 people are at risk of not being able to have their water supplies upgraded. Consider how the EU told us last week how to undertake planning following a...

Inland Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...is going into many rivers throughout the country and that is depleting fish stocks. There are major problems in some areas. It is sickening. I have seen it over the past week or two in Lough Talt in Sligo. Water has been taken out by Sligo County Council for forty years. A submission has been made which means that the water may have to stop coming out of it. That is not good and it...

Topical Issue Debate: Western Development Commission (2 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...of State knows, down to his own town of Castlebar and on to Westport. If I leave Mullingar and there is a tractor in front of me, it is all over for me. Where is the funding for the road to Sligo? People in Donegal deserve a life. Actions speak louder than words. Instead of that, there are Departments trying to downgrade the likes of Galway port. When that is happening, we see this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the witnesses. Last Friday, I was in Sligo where I was involved in discussion on the regional strategy up to 2040. What is the National Transport Authority's policy going forward in regard to transport for the regions and is its strategy in that regard being driven by price? The statistics show that the number of private operators across the regions is increasing, including in...

Topical Issue Debate: Veterinary Inspection Service (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the Minister of State give reassurance, especially to the Deputies from Sligo, that the Sligo operation will stay as normal and be continued? It is of the utmost importance. That is also the case with the laboratory in Athlone in my constituency. The west wants to know if the Minister of State will give the assurance that it will be kept going. I will give the other Deputies time to...

Topical Issue Debate: Veterinary Inspection Service (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There is considerable confusion at the moment. In 2015 a review of veterinary laboratories was carried out. Ongoing reviews are under way in Sligo, Athlone and other parts of the country. There is much disquiet and the relevant members of staff do not know what is happening. The importance of these laboratories for farmers in the areas cannot be overestimated. Approximately 50% of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Issues: Discussion (29 Nov 2016)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...constraint scheme. If the State wants a farmer to allow flora and fauna to grow on his land, it must pay. If it does not want to pay, then it must let the farmer dig his drains. I know of a farmer in Sligo who had to pay €4,000 to put up a fence although all of the materials only cost €500. That is totally unacceptable. It is another way of making an area of trees and...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)

Michael Fitzmaurice: .... We have to consider people who may unfortunately have cancer and have to travel 300 km each way from Donegal to Galway on bad roads. There is no joined-up thinking to find a solution maybe in Sligo or in Altnagelvin to help them. Let us think of a wider area and make sure those people will not have to make the harrowing journey to Galway. I am fully in favour of centres of...

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2016)

Michael Fitzmaurice: .... I do not agree with getting permission to do something on my own land that has been done for the last 100 years. Second, if a farmer wishes to put a fence up on his or her land, as happened in Sligo, he or she is obliged to go through the county council to do so because of regulations introduced in 2011. If I have land in Sligo, Roscommon or elsewhere in Ireland on which there is a...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...to ensure his Bill would be passed unanimously in the House. Anybody who has seen what has gone on in America will note the destruction resulting from hydraulic fracturing. Let me refer to Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon, the lakelands district. The River Shannon takes 20% of the water of the landmass of Ireland. There may be so much money available from fracking but one should...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...actual sums paid for the provision by Bus Éireann of its public service obligations on the network of transport services in Athlone, Balbriggan, Cork, Drogheda, Dundalk, Galway, Limerick, Navan, Sligo and Waterford operated by Bus Éireann in each of the years 2009 to 2015, inclusive, in tabular form. [11522/16]

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...;ireann, calculated on a per kilometre basis, for meeting its public service obligations on the network of transport services in Athlone, Balbriggan, Cork, Drogheda, Dundalk, Galway, Limerick, Navan, Sligo and Waterford, for each of the years 2009 to 2015, inclusive, in tabular form. [11523/16]

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...for Transport, Tourism and Sport the individual agreed scheduled transport services to be performed by Bus Éireann in Athlone, Balbriggan, Cork, Drogheda, Dundalk, Galway, Limerick, Navan, Sligo and Waterford and to confirm for each of the years that the National Transport Authority had at all times a verifiable system in place to be absolutely certain that each of these scheduled...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Certificates (26 Jan 2016)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications that were made for non-resident firearm certificates and issued by the Garda Síochána to a gun club (details supplied) in County Sligo during the 2014 season and during the 2015 season; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2907/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (13 Jan 2016)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 503. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of day gun licences issued by An Garda Síochána to a gun club (details supplied) in County Sligo during the 2014 season and during the 2015 season; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1342/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Deer Hunting (26 Nov 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 227. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of gun day licences that were given out to a gun club (details supplied) in County Sligo in the 2014 to 2015 season by An Garda Síochána, for deer hunter day licence, and for bird hunter day licence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42127/15]