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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 760. To ask the Minister for Health his views regarding allegations that a number of staff at Letterkenny University Hospital had to battle for two days in the week beginning 9 November 2020 to have a Covid-19 sweep of testing for all staff undertaken after a patient was diagnosed with the illness; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the test had been denied and all requests...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 761. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff and personnel at Letterkenny University Hospital who are currently off duty as a result of testing positive for Covid-19, self-isolating or recovering from the virus; and the number of staff and personnel at the hospital who have tested positive for Covid-19 since 13 March 2020. [36500/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 762. To ask the Minister for Health the policy of Letterkenny University Hospital regarding staff members wearing masks throughout the hospital campus; and if complaints have been received from the public about staff and personnel not wearing masks in the hospital over recent weeks or months. [36501/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (17 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 771. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that will be provided to increase capacity in overnight respite care for persons with disabilities from the current four beds for the entire Inishowen region, County Donegal; his future plans for meeting the needs of the service users and their families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36739/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 803. To ask the Minister for Health the health and therapy services that can operate under level 5 restrictions; and if biomagnetic pair therapy is permissible to operate under level 5 restrictions. [36819/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (17 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 804. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that organisations (details supplied) have only received a fraction of the budget they require from the HSE over recent years to provide vital disability support services to families across County Donegal; and the actions that will follow after the meeting between the managers of the organisations and the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Seafood Sector (17 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 884. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the legislative basis for the bottom grown mussel consultative forum and joint management of the bottom grown mussel natural resource following the Supreme Court judgment of 27 October 2016 (details supplied). [36432/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (17 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 885. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the decade-long failure of his Department to complete the construction of a breakwater at Greencastle Harbour, County Donegal; and if his Department will engage proactively with Donegal County Council on its plans to complete the breakwater submitted to the Department of Rural and Community Development as an...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (17 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 886. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the decision not to proceed with the sea survival training centre at the National Fisheries College in Greencastle, County Donegal, will be reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36434/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (12 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Ms O'Donoghue and Mr. Duffy for their presentation. The Community Foundation for Ireland will provide over €15 million in grants to communities. They are exploring future all-Ireland co-operation between community, voluntary and charity groups post Brexit. It has contacted some of us for clarification on the role the unit emphasises for civic society engagement; the possible...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Census of Population (10 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We understand the public health concerns of the CSO's director general and agree that it makes sense to postpone the census. However, under the EU framework regulation, Ireland is required to submit census data to EUROSTAT with a reference date next year. What accommodation has been made with EUROSTAT to allow Ireland to push the taking of the census into 2022? On a related matter,...

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The issue of late sittings is one we are working to resolve. I hope that soon we will not be sitting later than 10 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. That is a shared concerned across the Houses. Sinn Féin Private Members' time tonight is Opposition speaking time of two hours' duration during which the Government would normally have 20 minutes' speaking time. I have received...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (10 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 313. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 80 of 17 September 2020, the policy or legislative changes he plans to make to the Disabled Drivers Passengers (Tax Concessions) Regulations 1994 and the related primary medical certificates following the Supreme Court ruling of 18 June 2020. [34831/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (10 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a PPSN; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34862/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (10 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a PPSN application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35274/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (10 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 531. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a PPSN application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35277/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Funding (3 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Nobody in Donegal would argue that Letterkenny University Hospital should get the same allocation per inpatient as the likes of Beaumont, the Mater, St. James's or University Hospital Galway. That is accepted. Let us look at one comparison. In Letterkenny we had more inpatients in 2019 than St. James's Hospital, with Letterkenny having the sixth largest number and St. James's having the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Funding (3 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 92. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Letterkenny University Hospital had the sixth highest number of inpatients in hospitals across the State in 2019 but only received the 13th highest budget allocation of the hospitals across the State, just 36% of the highest budget allocation to a hospital, the 14th highest allocation of consultants in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Funding (3 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Letterkenny University Hospital is the sixth largest hospital in the State yet it only has the 13th largest budget allocation and the 13th to 14th greatest number of nurses and doctors. That is discrimination. I wish to engage with the Minister on that now.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Funding (3 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No, I absolutely do not accept that. This is the first chance the Minister and I have had for an engagement about Letterkenny University Hospital but I assure him it will be the first of many. What the Minister's colleagues who wrote this response did not tell him is that the 24,141 inpatients seen in the hospital last year make it the sixth largest hospital in the State. They have...