Results 3,021-3,040 of 9,291 for speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mica Redress Scheme (13 May 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the necessary guidelines will be issued to allow Donegal County Council to proceed with the Mica redress scheme. [4323/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mica Redress Scheme (13 May 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Mica redress scheme will be amended to provide for funding to local authorities to make the homes in their housing stock safe. [4388/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (5 Mar 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 586. To ask the Minister for Health when the necessary staff will be appointed to allow the acute stroke unit to be opened at Letterkenny University Hospital. [2835/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (5 Mar 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 587. To ask the Minister for Health when the remaining nine beds in the short stay ward at Letterkenny University Hospital will be permanently reopened; and when the necessary staff will be appointed. [2836/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (5 Mar 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 588. To ask the Minister for Health when construction and refurbishment works will commence at Buncrana Community Hospital, County Donegal; and if additional bed capacity can be incorporated into the plans at this stage. [2837/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (5 Mar 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 589. To ask the Minister for Health if additional HSE funding will be allocated to organisations (details supplied) in addition to the core funding of €36,000 allocated to them in recent years. [2838/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (5 Mar 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 590. To ask the Minister for Health if Letterkenny University Hospital will continue to support and facilitate a person (details supplied) to carry out gastric bypass procedures at the hospital. [2841/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (5 Mar 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 631. To ask the Minister for Health the approach of his Department and the HSE to requests for persons suffering with Lyme disease or chronic Lyme disease to be properly supported by the health authorities here; and the reason there is no joint approach between health authorities and local authorities that have erected signage warning of the dangers of ticks. [2989/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (5 Mar 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 634. To ask the Minister for Health if the autism therapist post has been filled to support families in the Inishowen area of County Donegal (details supplied). [2996/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (5 Mar 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 927. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the decision to reverse funding for a facility (details supplied) will be reviewed. [2839/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers Development (5 Mar 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 928. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the breakwater at Greencastle Harbour, County Donegal, has been allowed to lie half-completed for several years; and if his Department funded and oversaw these works during the earlier construction phase. [2840/20]

Seanad: Criminal Records (Exchange of Information) Bill 2019: Second Stage (17 Dec 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Sinn Féin supports this Bill but we have a number of concerns, which I would like to raise. Why has it taken seven years for this issue to reach the Dáil and Seanad to be legislated for? An Garda Síochána has been operating the exchange of information on criminals with other police forces since 2012. Obviously, this activity was being carried out with the best of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Dec 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I second it.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We support a second home tax. That is another distortion of the truth.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Hear, hear. That is the point.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister of State spoke about hoteliers and the hospitality sector. In Donegal and rural areas throughout the west of Ireland, the sector the Minister of State would claim to champion and laud is outraged that the Government has increased its rate of VAT from 9.5% to 13.5%. The Government is treating a hotel in the top of Donegal or the west of Mayo the same as a hotel in Dublin. It...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (27 Nov 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In February this year, I raised with the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, the funding of Inishowen Children's Autism Related Education, ICARE, which serves the Inishowen area. The organisation in question works with more than 100 families, some of which have two or three children who are on the autism spectrum. Even though it is based in Buncrana, it serves the north Inishowen...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (27 Nov 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We have a serious problem here. The person in the HSE or elsewhere in the health service who drafted the Minister of State's response has his or her numbers badly wrong. I appeal to the Minister of State to sort this out. A senior official in the Department of Health needs to speak to the person who drafted the response to ask him or her why it is suggested that ICARE has applied for...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (27 Nov 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I would like to clarify that-----

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (27 Nov 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Will I get a response?