Results 241-260 of 8,962 for speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (5 Nov 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding provided to each port in the State since 2014 through the Connecting Europe Facility, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45237/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (5 Nov 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the current arrangement for sraithpictiúir in the Leaving Certificate Irish oral exam, whereby 10 pictures are required to be learned for assessment, will remain in place for academic year 2026 (details supplied), or if it will return to the 20 picture assessment as was the requirement pre 2022; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (5 Nov 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 33 of 25 September 2024, if the analysis of the survey relating to school caretakers’ work pattern, terms and conditions has been completed and reviewed by her Department; if the Minister or her officials have or intend to engage with the relevant union representing school caretakers on foot of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (5 Nov 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the enhanced defective block grant scheme to allow homeowners to have their engineer fees reimbursed if that qualified engineer has recommended a remediation option under the previous scheme. [44792/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (5 Nov 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a family who have been forced out of their primary home due to unsafe conditions brought about by defective concrete blocks can avail of the enhanced defective block grant scheme, having moved to another property. [45249/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (5 Nov 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she will introduce the legislation for cohabiting couples to gain access to the widow’s, widower’s and surviving civil partner’s contributory pension following the Supreme Court decision on 22 January 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44020/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (5 Nov 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 825. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will seek a derogation from the ban on pollack fishing for some limited categories of inshore and island fishers that can demonstrate that they utilise low-impact methods of fishing. [44173/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (5 Nov 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 828. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to specify the funding that is pre-committed under the National Development Plan for fishery harbour centre improvements in each of the years 2025 to 2030, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44239/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (5 Nov 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 829. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to specify the pre-committed funding under the National Development Plan that was expended on fishery harbour centre improvements in each of the years 2021 to 2024 and for future years until 2030, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44240/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (5 Nov 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 830. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding committed to Ireland under the European maritime, fisheries and aquaculture fund in each of the years 2023 to 2027, with a breakdown of funding committed by EU funds and co-funded by the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44241/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (5 Nov 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 831. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding committed to Ireland under the European maritime, fisheries and aquaculture fund in each of the years 2023 to 2027 that will be dedicated to funding the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44242/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Gender Proofing of Policies (5 Nov 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 930. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has developed an online reporting system for the 2024 gender pay gap reporting cycle, which will consist of a central portal where all employer reports will be uploaded and can be accessed publicly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44531/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (5 Nov 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1252. To ask the Minister for Health if provision has been made within the recent Budget announcement for women who are required to take hormone blocking medication such as zoladex and letrozole as part of their cancer treatment, in the same manner that provision has been made for women to receive free HRT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45128/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (5 Nov 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1330. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there are plans to increase the wage allowance to community organisations participating in the community services programme to reflect the increasing costs for participating organisations. [44177/24]

Thirty-Fourth Report of the Standing Committee of Selection: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move: That Dáil Éireann, pursuant to Standing Order 34, and with effect from 23rd October, 2024— (1) approves the Thirty-Fourth Report of the Standing Committee of Selection, copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 18th October, 2024, and discharges a member from a Committee and appoints a member to a Committee accordingly, and (2) appoints Deputy...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Government Chief Whip will know, we dissented from the schedule last week. What I want to raise right now is the poll in The Irish News today that reveals that for the first time there is no longer a majority in favour of remaining in the union. In 2015, the figure was 59.1%. Now it is 48.6%. Will the Government hold statements on this matter and to commit to it? We need to talk...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (22 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 585. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when approval from the European Commission and/or his Department will be obtained for the hundreds of applications for funding under the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund provided by the seven voluntary FLAG boards around the coast. [42381/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 717. To ask the Minister for Health when a person in County Donegal (details supplied) can expect to receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42677/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (22 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 721. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the current shortage of ambulance service managers in the north west, including the specific number of vacancies at assistant chief ambulance officer, operations resource manager, and paramedic supervisor levels; and the reasons behind these vacancies, as well as the plans and timelines for filling each of these positions. [42684/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Services (22 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 833. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the working practices of first responders in Donegal have changed in relation to first responder vehicles now having to be based at ambulance stations and not at the home of first responders, as was the normal practice. [43244/24]