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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Will the Minister meet the Donegal branch of Diabetes Ireland? As he knows, it is highly respected. He needs to meet its members face-to-face to get their account of what is happening so he can best address the issues.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Donegal branch of Diabetes Ireland is urgently requesting a meeting with the Minister. He met the group briefly in a hotel in Donegal in 2022. The group was hoping to meet with the Minister last year, but the situation has got even worse since the meeting happened in 2022. The issue concerns adults with type 1 diabetes and the lack of endocrinologists, podiatrists and advanced nurse...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What the Minister has just read out does not tally with the request for the meeting that has been sent to him. The Donegal branch of Diabetes Ireland has said that the situation with patient safety at the hospital is "beyond critical". There is currently no endocrinologist in the hospital and there are three vacant posts. There are no advanced nurse practitioners. Two posts were not...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Do not get me started. I want to raise the issue of Scoil Mhuire National School, Milford, County Donegal. The Minister, Deputy Foley, visited the school last year. I do not raise it lightly today. It was a school built in the 1950s for the town that was there at the time. Today it is 215 children. If the Taoiseach visits Donegal, I ask him to see it to believe it. It is a totally...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (1 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 210. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has confidence in the fisheries sales notes system to deliver robust and accurate fisheries data in order that Ireland can comply with its obligations under the Common Fisheries Policy and other EU regulations. [19689/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (1 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 211. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what supports he intends to introduce to support fishermen affected by the restrictions on directed fishing for pollack as is the case in the UK under its fisheries and seafood scheme. [19690/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (1 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 212. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a social impact analysis has been carried out, prior to the closure of the targeted pollack fisheries in ICES areas 6 and 7. [19691/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (1 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 213. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that the pollack ICES benchmark report listed a significant number of issues with the data used to base the closure decision; and the steps being taken to address these shortcomings at a national level. [19692/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (1 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 214. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that there is a risk that a future ICES pollack benchmark without appropriate representative inshore survey data being collected will result in prolonged closures with significant social impacts; and the steps being taken to address this. [19693/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (1 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 215. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures being introduced to incorporate fishermen's traditional knowledge into fisheries co-management, in order to improve knowledge and outcomes. [19694/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (1 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 216. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has a plan to prioritise selective low-impact fishing practices such as line caught fishing during future fishery negotiations. [19695/24]

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will know that the worst affected sector of the economy since Brexit has been the fishing community. The losses have been devastating. It in not just the offshore sector. The National Inshore Fishermen’s Association has been before the joint committee and in the audiovisual room to make presentations on the serious crisis in the industry. Fishermen have repeatedly...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 153. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that two child passports will be processed on-time for two siblings (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19288/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (30 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision not to grant a school (details supplied) funding under the emergency works scheme. [19462/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will meet with the board of management of a school (details supplied) to discuss their serious concerns at the failure of her Department to consider inclusion of the school in the forthcoming school capital building programme. [19463/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (30 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 737. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support and implement the call from a group (details supplied) for a consultant neurology service to be based in Letterkenny University Hospital.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19466/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 738. To ask the Minister for Health the reason memory assessment support services for persons with dementia and their families has not been rolled out in County Donegal. [19467/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (30 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 739. To ask the Minister for Health when the Saolta University Healthcare Group will meet with TDs, Senators and HSE forum county councillors in County Donegal to update them on the progress made in addressing the grave concerns of over 100 GPs and hospital consultants in the county about the level of health services being provided at Letterkenny University Hospital and the solutions that...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to establish a designated telephone helpline or allow access to the Oireachtas passport query service for members of the Legislative Assembly in Northern Ireland, since it is restored and functioning, allowing members of parliament to query passport applications on behalf of Irish citizens in the North of Ireland; and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if any briefings with members of the Legislative Assembly in Northern Ireland, members of parliament and their staff will be provided ahead of the summer months to assist constituency offices in the North of Ireland to provide up-to-date information on the passport process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18520/24]