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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.

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.

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...

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...

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]

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]

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is obviously a division on the question. There should be a vote.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We read with interest the comments of the Taoiseach's Government's kingmaker, Michael Lowry, in The Sunday Times, where he boasted about the rota of Ministers who come before his group. He chairs those meetings. Is it not about time the Government published the deal it did with Michael Lowry's group for the programme for Government and took statements and questions and full accountability...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I asked a legitimate question about the Order of Business-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: -----as did the Members who raised Standing Order 35(3). They are totally within their rights to do that. Those questions have not been answered. Four different questions were not answered.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 109. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the need to urgently review the relevant parts of Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 that cover the structure and operation of the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority to ensure a harmonisation of regulation with the rest of the European Union (details supplied). [25830/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This question asks the views of the Minister of State, Deputy Timmy Dooley, on the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006. The Minister of State will know already from his brief the serious concerns of people in the fishing and seafood industry about the approach of the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, in comparison to other regulators across Europe. I want to have an...