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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Scoil Mhuire Milford, County Donegal, is a school that was built in the 1950s. It sits right on the corner of a very busy road junction but the facilities are completely inappropriate. You would have to see it to believe how bad it is. Somehow, the school delivers an incredible education to its children. It has secured a new site at no cost to the State. It is within the control points...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (15 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: When we go into private session, we will look at the work plan we will have over the next few years. This committee deals with the maritime section. There was a presentation from the Minister of State, Deputy Dooley, and his team yesterday on marine planning, marine regulation and the whole area of fisheries. We have great opportunities in terms of the waters around us. We have never got...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (15 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the victims of the pyrite in concrete products scandal in the east of Ireland received 100% redress under the pyrite remediation scheme while the victims of the pyrite and pyrrhotite (internal sulphate attack) in concrete products scandal have been denied genuine 100% redress in the west of Ireland. [24440/25]

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Like me, the Minister of State represents a rural constituency. As a result, he understands what a massive problem it is if a person is obliged to wait seven months - that is the current waiting time in County Donegal - for his or her driving test. In my home area of Buncrana on the Inishowen Peninsula, the waiting time has doubled in a year. We are getting representations from young...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not just about them. It is about working families. The Taoiseach is an intelligent man.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am really concerned with this response written by the Department officials. The people who wrote this were present in Donegal in recent days. They know the urgency of this. Now they are talking about adding other issues to the amendments. This could go on forever. This is straightforward. It is a simple amendment to the legislation to make sure that the increase in the cap is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It was in the spring one, too.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Last year, the then Government finally announced an increase in the cap. It was in line with the recommendations of the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland, who examined the real costings on the ground. The reality is that the Government did not apply that to people who are going through the scheme already; it was only for new entrants. That was cruel. The Government made it clear that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: He is absent.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Next Tuesday morning, 14-year-old Cara Darmody, the disability rights campaigner, will commence a 50-hour protest outside Leinster House. It is about the failure of the Government to deliver assessments of need to children within the legal six-month period. There are 15,000 children affected. Will the Minister work with the Opposition to draft a motion to go before the Dáil next week...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 219. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that a surgical hub is located at Letterkenny University Hospital. [24165/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 834. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has plans to introduce a special scheme that would provide social protection for maritime/fishing sector workers, similar to that available in Spain. [24452/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1005. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the recent announcement by the National Ambulance Service (NAS) on the recruitment of additional staff does not include any additional paramedic posts for the west/north-west region; if she will give a firm assurance that people living in the west/north-west region are being provided with the same level of service from the NAS as people living...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1099. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 406 of 27 March 2025, if she will provide a detailed breakdown of the reasons 132 of the 200 appeals to reimbursement recommendations for continuous glucose monitor sensors submitted by clinicians on behalf of their patients were rejected (details supplied); if the patients rejected on appeal were clinically confirmed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1212. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to ensure that all emergency departments across the State have a safe space for cancer patients, forced to access care through this route. [24446/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1213. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to ensure that all diagnosed cancer patients receive a medical card. [24447/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (8 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 400. To ask the Minister for Health whether younger-onset dementia is recognised within care standards as distinct to dementia in people over the age of 65; whether there is funding allocated specifically for age-appropriate dementia services for this cohort of people; if there are specific in-home and respite care supports for families where a person under 65 has dementia; and if she will...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It has now been 19 months of genocide and slaughter in Gaza. It has been more than two months of blockades, blocking food and humanitarian aid to the beleaguered people of Gaza. We now have the outrage upon outrage of Netanyahu making it clear he intends to assume full control and displace so many people. We need an emergency debate in this Chamber this week. We need the Minister and...

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will focus my comment on fisheries, the seafood sector and the wider marine space. Looking at the east coast of Ireland, we made serious mistakes as a country in developing offshore renewable energy in a way that took away the livelihoods of fishermen. That is how not to do it. However, there has been positive progress in recent years. I commend the work of the offshore renewable energy...