Results 81-100 of 109 for speaker:Charles Ward

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Parking Provision (9 Apr 2025)

Charles Ward: 147. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the car park at Glenveagh National Park, Donegal was last resurfaced or remarked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17719/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (9 Apr 2025)

Charles Ward: 211. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when works on the new Smooth Point Phase 3 at Killybegs Fisheries Harbour Centre will commence; the estimated timeframe for this work to be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17716/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (9 Apr 2025)

Charles Ward: 212. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when works on the new passenger embarkation pontoon at Killybegs Fisheries Harbour Centre will commence; the estimated timeframe for this work to be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17717/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Apr 2025)

Charles Ward: 255. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to provide a specialist lymphedema clinic in Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17681/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Apr 2025)

Charles Ward: 257. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the hepatitis C home testing kits; the number of kits that have been dispatched; if this scheme is proving successful; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17693/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 Apr 2025)

Charles Ward: 258. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant geriatricians attached to the Donegal integrated care programme for older persons in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17694/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (9 Apr 2025)

Charles Ward: 259. To ask the Minister for Health the rate of theatre utilisation in Letterkenny University Hospital for 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17701/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Apr 2025)

Charles Ward: 260. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant psychiatrists and clinical psychologists based in Donegal CAMHS services in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17702/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (9 Apr 2025)

Charles Ward: 296. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of each individual project approved under the town and village renewal scheme in County Donegal in 2024; the grant approved for each project, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17703/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (9 Apr 2025)

Charles Ward: 297. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of each individual project approved under measures 1, 2 and 3 of the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme in Donegal in 2024; the grant approved for each project; the current status of each project; the completion date for each project, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17704/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (8 Apr 2025)

Charles Ward: 300. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered basing the Barnesmore Gap Greenway in the Finn Harps carpark; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17012/25]

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Charles Ward: We welcome this motion from Labour. There has been a complete failure on the part of the Government to adequately plan for school places for children with special and additional educational needs. This comes up every year without fail. It is across the whole country and yet the Government fails to plan for it. Every year, there is no change. Parents should not be forced to try to...

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

Charles Ward: The revised national planning framework includes many great suggestions, such as improving local connectivity to broadband, energy, transport and water networks, recognising Letterkenny as an important cross-border network for regional development and addressing the town and village rural population decline by encouraging new roles and functions for buildings, streets and sites. However, it...

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

Charles Ward: When visiting Letterkenny University Hospital last week, the Minister’s colleague, the Minister for Health, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, said the location of the new surgical hub has not been decided yet. Donegal is in desperate need of a surgical hub. Patients across the county are forced to travel very long distances to access essential and life-saving care. Letterkenny University...

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Charles Ward: I support the Sinn Féin motion on childcare. There is a serious crisis of childcare in this country that has been ongoing for years, yet the Government continuously failed to address it. Parents not only struggle to afford childcare, but also to access it. Accessing childcare is an enormous challenge facing many families across the country but particularly in Donegal. A recent survey...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (29 Apr 2025)

Charles Ward: 1332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current position of the technical review of the enhanced defective concrete blocks scheme announced on 6 November 2024; if the scheme will not provide a mechanism to bypass the statutory right to appeal as set out in the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (29 Apr 2025)

Charles Ward: 1331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason as of April 2025, none of the six appeals that were confirmed to be in progress as of early December 2024 under the enhanced defective concrete blocks scheme have been heard; the status and expected timelines for the resolution of these appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20696/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Road Projects (8 May 2025)

Charles Ward: 457. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will make additional funding available in 2025 for additional roads in Donegal to be resurfaced on the local improvement scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23091/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Road Projects (8 May 2025)

Charles Ward: 458. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will provide a list of the number of roads in each municipal district in Donegal waiting for the local improvement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23092/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Road Projects (8 May 2025)

Charles Ward: 459. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will provide a list of all funding for Donegal to spend on the local improvement scheme in each municipal district in Donegal over the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23093/25]