Results 1-20 of 314 for long speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Order of Business (27 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There are three long-delayed Bills in the justice area. The Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill is a big issue for people who were convicted of very minor offences in their youth and who now face a barrier to employment. It has been delayed for far too long. The second Bill is mediation legislation, which will be very important with regard to family law. It would mean people would...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Often, when we engage with legislation, it involves amending a range of different Acts rather than waiting for an Act to be comprehensively changed because that can take a long, long time. This is a very welcome and long overdue reform of this area but I do not understand why the Minister cannot deal with all the issues that are before her rather than wait for the comprehensive reform of the...

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (8 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: My understanding is that, historically, we would not have a Government slot of an hour and 20 minutes for leaders' statements. It would be a very long time before the Opposition could respond. It is too long and unwieldy. I ask that the Government reconsider.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Co-operation (7 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...cross-Border co-operation between the public hospitals at Altnagelvin, Letterkenny, Enniskillen and Sligo on a range of medical procedures and operations for patients in the region to prevent long waiting lists, long distances to travel and the increasing cost of referring patients to private care options. [47577/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (24 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will move to a compulsory purchase order of land in Buncrana, County Donegal to secure the long delayed sites for new schools and campuses for schools (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the emergency this long delay has created for the teachers, children and students; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (6 Dec 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...children's hospital at the Mater Hospital site in Dublin; and his views that the number planned will be adequate to accommodate all those parents in view of the fact that they have had to travel a long distance and therefore have no choice but to stay in the hospital, whose children are in an inpatient ward for the long term and whose children are in intensive care. [38612/11]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Common Fisheries Policy (8 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...aware on 12 November last, it was reported that two Dutch-registered monster vessels were fishing off the Donegal coast. One was a super-trawler and the other was a factory ship. One was 470 ft long and the other was 414 ft long. They hoovered up fish. There are widespread concerns about sustainability. How can the Minister talk about sustainability of fisheries when vessels of this...

Issuing of fixed ticket charges and exercise of Garda discretion: Statements (21 May 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ..., superintendent, chief superintendent, all the way up to himself? Is it common practice for a Garda Commissioner to report to the Minister when people have been stopped and not charged on a matter? How long did this meeting last because it seems the Minister went through a great deal of minutiae? Do these general briefings take a long time because it seems like a long series of...

Overseas Development Aid (13 Jul 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...for strategic thinking about how we could deploy some of the many people on the live register with specific skills in this area to address the need to find and develop water infrastructure in the long term. This is not a one-off problem but one which will arise repeatedly in future. The United Nations has stated that focusing on the development of agriculture and water infrastructure is...

Hospital Services: Motion (5 Jul 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...with the State-wide picture, I intend, as a Deputy representing Donegal North-East, to focus my comments on its local hospital, Letterkenny General Hospital. The Minister will be aware that not long ago 15,000 people gathered together in a county that previously had not been renowned for massive public protest. They gathered in the pouring rain to seek equality in cancer care, to ask for...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Staff Recruitment (13 Apr 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...is a 21-month waiting time for repeat referrals for adults with type 1 diabetes in County Donegal. This is a serious issue, given that it has been well documented that diabetes care will prevent long-term interventions such as amputations and long-term conditions such as loss of sight. The paediatrician endocrinologist at Sligo University Hospital has moved to the centre of excellence in...

Written Answers — Tourism Promotion: Tourism Promotion (31 Mar 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the details of the proposed marketing campaigns in emerging long-haul markets set out in the programme for Government and the proposed revamped tourism strategy. [6206/11]

Order of Business (29 Jun 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: So the promises made a long time ago do not count. These are promised changes. The Taoiseach's party promised it could change these cuts.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Sep 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...268: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will ensure that the exceptional needs payment is available to persons on the local authority housing list who are offered a home under a long-term lease agreement. [25972/11]

Overseas Development Aid (4 Oct 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am just clarifying that long-term solutions are needed.

Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Nov 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister gave a long and spirited defence of his position.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Government Deputies have been screaming and shouting all night long. The Ceann Comhairle is a bit late calling everyone to order now.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Reserve (7 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yesterday, a question I had tabled was not reached because Priority Questions took such a long time. I will leave it at that and come back to the Minister with my question later.

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...that you are chairing this session, Deputy Mathews, being one of the people who warned about the huge challenge of private mortgage debt in the State. You have evangelised about this issue for a long time.

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (6 Mar 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I may not need that long.