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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (17 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 885. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the decade-long failure of his Department to complete the construction of a breakwater at Greencastle Harbour, County Donegal; and if his Department will engage proactively with Donegal County Council on its plans to complete the breakwater submitted to the Department of Rural and Community Development as an...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (17 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 886. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the decision not to proceed with the sea survival training centre at the National Fisheries College in Greencastle, County Donegal, will be reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36434/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (12 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Ms O'Donoghue and Mr. Duffy for their presentation. The Community Foundation for Ireland will provide over €15 million in grants to communities. They are exploring future all-Ireland co-operation between community, voluntary and charity groups post Brexit. It has contacted some of us for clarification on the role the unit emphasises for civic society engagement; the possible...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Census of Population (10 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We understand the public health concerns of the CSO's director general and agree that it makes sense to postpone the census. However, under the EU framework regulation, Ireland is required to submit census data to EUROSTAT with a reference date next year. What accommodation has been made with EUROSTAT to allow Ireland to push the taking of the census into 2022? On a related matter,...

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The issue of late sittings is one we are working to resolve. I hope that soon we will not be sitting later than 10 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. That is a shared concerned across the Houses. Sinn Féin Private Members' time tonight is Opposition speaking time of two hours' duration during which the Government would normally have 20 minutes' speaking time. I have received...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (10 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 313. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 80 of 17 September 2020, the policy or legislative changes he plans to make to the Disabled Drivers Passengers (Tax Concessions) Regulations 1994 and the related primary medical certificates following the Supreme Court ruling of 18 June 2020. [34831/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (10 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a PPSN; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34862/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (10 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a PPSN application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35274/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (10 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 531. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a PPSN application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35277/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Funding (3 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Nobody in Donegal would argue that Letterkenny University Hospital should get the same allocation per inpatient as the likes of Beaumont, the Mater, St. James's or University Hospital Galway. That is accepted. Let us look at one comparison. In Letterkenny we had more inpatients in 2019 than St. James's Hospital, with Letterkenny having the sixth largest number and St. James's having the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Funding (3 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 92. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Letterkenny University Hospital had the sixth highest number of inpatients in hospitals across the State in 2019 but only received the 13th highest budget allocation of the hospitals across the State, just 36% of the highest budget allocation to a hospital, the 14th highest allocation of consultants in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Funding (3 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Letterkenny University Hospital is the sixth largest hospital in the State yet it only has the 13th largest budget allocation and the 13th to 14th greatest number of nurses and doctors. That is discrimination. I wish to engage with the Minister on that now.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Funding (3 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No, I absolutely do not accept that. This is the first chance the Minister and I have had for an engagement about Letterkenny University Hospital but I assure him it will be the first of many. What the Minister's colleagues who wrote this response did not tell him is that the 24,141 inpatients seen in the hospital last year make it the sixth largest hospital in the State. They have...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I just want to reiterate-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There may be a solution. I am trying to be helpful. In terms of what is being proposed by the Government, why do we not split it in half?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Government is saying 16 minutes. What about splitting it two rounds of eight minutes for ourselves and two rounds of seven minutes for the other groups?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is the same. The Government proposed 16 minutes for Sinn Féin and 14 minutes for the other groups. I am proposing two rounds and splitting them in half. It is exactly the same thing in two rounds.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That was what was proposed. Deputy Griffin has asked a question and I will respond to him. The Business Committee-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Members opposite have asked for clarification.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not agreed.