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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (21 Mar 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1437. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment in Crumlin Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13480/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (23 Mar 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will agree to Donegal County Council's request for more families in County Donegal to be able to avail of the ancillary grants (details supplied) in advance of the commencement of the enhanced scheme on humanitarian grounds. [14408/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (23 Mar 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he and his Department will urgently find a solution to a serious problem (details supplied) that has arisen for some homeowners who have commenced the demolition and rebuild of their homes under the existing defective concrete block grant scheme. [14409/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Taoiseach might have to fight as well.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Could the Leas-Cheann Comhairle ask both sides that, in fairness?

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On both sides.

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will give a number of examples from Donegal in which the decision to refer these projects to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform has caused real anger and genuine concern. The Minister for Education will be aware that a range of schools across Donegal have waited for many years for badly needed improvements and new school projects. I will...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Swimming Pools (28 Mar 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 263. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding will be provided for the replacement of equipment at a leisure centre (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15234/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (28 Mar 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a scientific paper (details supplied) published in the number-one internationally ranked journal for building and construction; if he will outline what implications this paper has for the IS 465 that he and the Government have based a multi-billion remediation scheme on; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Mar 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse the recent late decision to delay the commencement of the building project at a school (details supplied) in County Donegal that comprises entirely of temporary accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15347/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (28 Mar 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 753. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a written statement with an update on his plans to ban fishing vessels of a certain size from fishing within the Irish 6nm limit. [14653/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (28 Mar 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 754. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that the following super trawlers (details supplied) all owned by the Dutch corporation, have recently been fishing in the Irish EEZ with quota allocated under the Common Fisheries Policy; the amount of pelagic quota that these vessels have been allocated both within the Irish EEZ and throughout the waters across...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (29 Mar 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the numerous breakdowns on 20 March 2023 on the Bus Éireann route 32 from Dublin to Letterkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15598/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Mar 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 332. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to receive an appointment for an operation in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15997/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Mar 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 333. To ask the Minister for Health when a person in County Donegal (details supplied) will expect to receive a date for an operation at St James's Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15998/23]

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The area of vacant homes is a shocking failure by the Government. I want to share with the Minister the situation in Donegal just to illustrate the madness of the way the Government approaches housing. We have well over 7,000 vacant homes in Donegal. Those are not holiday homes but vacant homes and this is at a time when we have a profound housing crisis. There are 2,500 families on the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 81. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how the current system of allocating the Irish public quota of fish species such as mackerel, herring and spurdog to the Irish fishing fleet is compliant with the principles of Article 17 of the Common Fisheries Policy; and if he will outline his future plans in this regard. [18343/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I ask the Minister to meet his responsibilities under Article 17 of the Common Fisheries Policy, CFP. There are representations to the Minister from the National Inshore Fishermen's Association, the Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation and environmental organisations asking him to examine how quotas, which are a public resource in Ireland, are allocated and how he is going to pull all...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have two points. The inshore sector has been denied access to traditional salmon fisheries for quite a while and has been asked to make a living almost entirely from crab and lobster fisheries. It has been struggling. There is talk that a quota may be introduced around the area of crab. I am aware that studies by the Marine Institute are ongoing. The inshore sector needs a reasonable...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister may be surprised to hear that I welcome the change in approach on the part of some of his Department officials and his efforts to work with the industry around the blue whiting issue. The industry united and put in a tremendous effort. It was constantly out in Europe making the case for more fish and for fairness. I went to some of those meetings; it is asking for fairness....