Results 2,981-3,000 of 9,291 for speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (16 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 870. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person availing of a NCT later in 2020 that has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic crisis will be covered from the new date or the originally scheduled date. [11197/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (16 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1010. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person caring for two persons can claim a higher level of carer’s allowance than a person caring for one person; and if not, the reason. [11196/20]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The next issue I wish to raise is the investment that will be required in the health service as we emerge from this crisis. I will take the opportunity to give the example of my home county of Donegal, with which we are both familiar. Letterkenny University Hospital is the sixth largest hospital in the State and a major acute hospital. Let us consider the situation before this crisis...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am sharing time with Deputies Browne and Tully. We will take five minutes each. I will raise two issues with the Minister. The first is the issue of carers, which has previously been mentioned. They are obviously a vital group in our society but they have not got the appreciation they deserve over the past three months. They have taken on incredible responsibility and been under...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made on advancing to the construction phase of the new school buildings for a school (details supplied). [9782/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (9 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the additional income provided to students that were working part-time and are now in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment will be factored into their income eligibility for student grants under SUSI in 2021. [9783/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (9 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 232. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the proposed draft legislation to replace sworn affidavits with statements of truth; and the difference between the proposed statement of truth and a sworn affidavit in practical and operational terms and in terms of legal consequence and validity. [10092/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Inspections (9 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 265. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the necessary health and safety inspections by the HSA of workplaces will commence; and if the HSA has been resourced with the requisite number of staff to meet these responsibilities. [9786/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Services (9 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 274. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will encourage the employment agencies of the State to proactively engage with the private and community enterprises across County Donegal in textile and other sectors to develop their potential to continue to manufacture personal protective equipment, hospital scrubs and other health service garments and to sustain this...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sports Events (9 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 471. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if assurances will be provided to the organisers of pigeon racing that birds from Northern Ireland can be transported here for the purposes of racing; and the point of contact in his Department for queries on this matter. [9966/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 548. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the efforts being made to facilitate the return to work of driving instructors; the timeframe for same; and if he will work with his counterpart in the Northern Ireland Executive to ensure the return to work for the sector is at the same time across the island of Ireland in order to not disenfranchise driving instructors based in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (9 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 549. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for the recommencement of the driver test system nationwide. [9792/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (9 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 726. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will make contact with the Spanish Government to offer assistance to Valladolid City Council and the team undertaking works to locate the resting place of Red Hugh O’Donnell (details supplied); and if she will pursue the objective of returning the remains back to County Donegal. [9787/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 562. To ask the Minister for Health if mental health workers in the public, private and community sectors returning to work are being prioritised for Covid-19 testing; and if not, the reason therefor. [8575/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (3 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 563. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing campaign by families of persons with amyloidosis here to be provided with the drug patisiran as is the case in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8576/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (3 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1166. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the current and long-standing issue of the recruitment and retention crisis within the fire and rescue services nationally and that the last meaningful engagement with significant improvement for retained firefighters was the composite agreement which took place in 1999; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (3 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1167. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the mass exodus of fully trained and experienced firefighters from the fire and rescue service over the past number of years well before retirement age due to their inability to have a work-life balance and the 50% drop in calls nationally that in turn makes it not financially viable to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (3 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1168. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that fire calls are being vetted by fire service management (details supplied); if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that fire service call charges differ from county to county not only in amounts charged to the public and that some counties have call charges and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (3 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1169. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the fire and rescue service is the best geographically placed organisation to deliver on the co-responder project which would help in reducing the death toll in cardiac arrest and respiratory emergencies in rural areas; and if he will work with the Minister for Health to complete the memorandum of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (3 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1170. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied) that stated that the retained fire service was not fit for purpose; and his plans to ensure that the proposals will now be implemented. [8440/20]