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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (3 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1166. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the current and long-standing issue of the recruitment and retention crisis within the fire and rescue services nationally and that the last meaningful engagement with significant improvement for retained firefighters was the composite agreement which took place in 1999; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (3 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1167. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the mass exodus of fully trained and experienced firefighters from the fire and rescue service over the past number of years well before retirement age due to their inability to have a work-life balance and the 50% drop in calls nationally that in turn makes it not financially viable to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (3 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1168. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that fire calls are being vetted by fire service management (details supplied); if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that fire service call charges differ from county to county not only in amounts charged to the public and that some counties have call charges and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (3 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1169. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the fire and rescue service is the best geographically placed organisation to deliver on the co-responder project which would help in reducing the death toll in cardiac arrest and respiratory emergencies in rural areas; and if he will work with the Minister for Health to complete the memorandum of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (3 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1170. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied) that stated that the retained fire service was not fit for purpose; and his plans to ensure that the proposals will now be implemented. [8440/20]

Covid-19 (Local Government): Statements (27 May 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister of State is responsible for local government. The local authorities in Donegal and Mayo have hundreds of homes that will possibly have to be rebuilt. Will he ensure the Government directly supports those local authorities?

Covid-19 (Local Government): Statements (27 May 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will speak for three minutes and allow the Minister of State a minute to respond. He will know that there are many thousands of homeowner families across the State who have been devastated by a range of serious latent defects in their homes, from the pyrite crisis in Dublin and north Leinster to the scandal of Priory Hall and the mica and pyrite problems in Donegal and Mayo, as well as the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (27 May 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 568. To ask the Minister for Health the locations of antenatal and maternity clinics in County Donegal in each of the years 2000 to 2020, in tabular form. [7696/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (27 May 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 569. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will reinstate antenatal and maternity services and clinics to Inishowen, County Donegal. [7697/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 570. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE advice on the wearing of masks changed for health workers caring for older persons over recent months. [7698/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 May 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 663. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that the level of financial support being offered to owners of fishing vessels to support them through the Covid-19 crisis compares favourably with the financial supports being offered by other EU states and the UK Government. [7606/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Foreshore Issues (27 May 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 662. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the construction of a road approximately 400 metres in length along the foreshore of Lough Foyle at Clar, Redcastle, County Donegal without planning or consultation; and if his Department can co-operate with the Loughs Agency to protect the foreshore of Lough Foyle on the Inishowen side. [7605/20]

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister acknowledged that the Government allowed workers to avail of the temporary wage subsidy scheme. As she well knows, a large number of employers in the hospitality sector and a range of other sectors had poor cash flows. They laid off their workers, being aware that they could avail of the PUP. One business person in Donegal told me a story. A chef working for that business had...

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is not true.

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Minister knows, I represent County Donegal. There are large numbers of workers resident in Derry, west Tyrone and Fermanagh who work and pay taxes and social insurance in Donegal, making a major contribution to the county's economy. They have been left blowing in the wind by the Minister and her Department, which is absolutely disgraceful. They were told to go across the Border into...

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To be clear, I am asking the Minister about cross-Border workers. Please respond to that question.

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I ask the Minister to respond to my question in my time.

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I would have more time then.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (20 May 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for delays being experienced in progressing a project to provide additional classroom accommodation at a school (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the impact the stalemate has been having on the ability of the school to meet the accommodation and the educational needs of students; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 May 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to find a suitable site to house new school buildings for a school (details supplied). [6000/20]