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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...

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: 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...

Report of the Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform on Orders of Reference and Establishment of Committees: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 1: In paragraph (1), to insert the following after "quorum of each Committee": “, save that the footnote ‘ 3 National Security encompasses cyber-defence, sub-sea critical infrastructure and related hybrid threats’ on page 5 be deleted.”.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is okay. That is a compliment.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I listened to the Taoiseach's comments about neutrality over the weekend. As he knows, the triple lock arose from two referendums the Irish people voted on where it was used as an assurance around neutrality. I ask him clearly, if he is going to reverse that, to commit to a referendum. If he is going to get rid of the triple lock, will he put it to a referendum of the Irish people and give...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Rockall Island Ownership (29 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 197. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on negotiations with the British government to reinstate access for the Irish fishing fleet to its traditional fishing grounds at Rockall; and the role that the EU Commission can play in resolving this dispute ahead of the review of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, considering the estimated total financial...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (29 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 311. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagements he has had with the ESB to examine their timelines for the rolling out of smart metres for 3 phase CT metres to ensure that there is the maximum incentive available to move to environmentally friendly energy supplies and to ensure that those who have done so already get a fair price. [20739/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (29 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 312. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagements he has had with the ESB on upgrading the electricity infrastructure in Donegal and the north west cross-Border region to avail of the opportunities provided by onshore and offshore renewable energy. [20740/25]