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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (25 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 197. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancer patients who had their chemotherapy treatment delayed at Letterkenny University Hospital in each of the years 2018 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [46930/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (25 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 198. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if the second permanent breast surgeon for Letterkenny University Hospital has been ratified and agreed. [46931/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (25 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 200. To ask the Minister for Health when a person in County Donegal (details supplied) can expect to receive a date for an operation from Galway University Hospital; if and when a referral was made from Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46997/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (24 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is extraordinary there is no commitment in the response from the Minister as to when he will come to Letterkenny University Hospital to meet with the GPs and consultants. There is no acknowledgement that the hospital has been chronically underfunded in that it is a model 3 hospital but had more inpatients in 2022 than five model 4 hospitals. It should be a model 4 hospital. We have...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (24 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: They want to meet the Minister.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (24 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Deputy Doherty and I were here last Tuesday, and no notification was given that the Minister for Health would not be present. We asked that the matter be deferred. That is a whole week. We fully expected the Minister to be present. He is aware of the crisis at Letterkenny University Hospital. He knows that 78 GPs have cosigned a letter. He knows that 11 consultants have cosigned a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (24 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 547. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) cannot avail of light therapy treatment for a skin condition at Letterkenny University Hospital. [46315/23]

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This year is the 75th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe when the Palestinian people lost their homelands and society and 700,000 people, the majority of Palestinians, were permanently displaced, and the world looked the other way. The Tánaiste spoke about the UNRWA and the UN refugee camps. He knows there are 3 million Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Syria and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 228. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the location of each emergency accommodation centre for international protection applicants across the State; and the number of international protection applicants at each centre, in tabular form. [45442/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (18 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 254. To ask the Minister for Health if respite services (details supplied) in County Donegal are fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45435/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I apologise. Whenever the Minister for Health is not available when a Topical Issue comes up, the protocol is that we are to be made aware that the Minister is not available. That has not happened in this case. We cannot proceed. The Minister for Health has not notified us.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is the protocol. It is clearly established. I am the Sinn Féin Whip. The protocol is that we are to be made aware of it.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister for Health has to be-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Of course.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We ask that it be deferred to tomorrow when the Minister is available. That is the established protocol.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In fairness to the Ceann Comhairle, he has made a stand on-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is against the protocol that has been established-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, met with some of the parents who presented yesterday in Donegal. The CDNTs have collapsed. The vacancy rate is approximately 57% in the two areas in north Donegal It is an absolute disaster and it has real implications. The presentations yesterday from parents of children with disabilities were absolutely harrowing. We had senior HSE officials,...

Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Many years ago, when I was the Sinn Féin justice spokesperson, I met Lucia and Jim O'Farrell for the first time. Lucia took a framed photograph of her beloved son with her, which was set up on the table during the meeting. I have been a public representative for about 21 years. In all those years, I have rarely seen somebody so impacted by an injustice. The darkness that was brought...