Results 21-40 of 9,328 for speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 477. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff currently working in the National Market Surveillance Office. [57072/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 478. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff are currently working for the National Building Control Office. [57073/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 479. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of construction product types the NMSO and NBCO are responsible for. [57074/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 480. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of the staff working for the NMSO and the NBCO who work for both offices, that is, the number of staff simultaneously working for both offices. [57075/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 481. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given that the NMSO was facing a national emergency according to two newspaper articles (details supplied) if the NMSO is now satisfied that they have sufficient staff to carry out their duties properly in the national office. [57076/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 482. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the NMSO is satisfied that their staff in local authorities are competent to carry out MSO activities with regard to concrete construction products. [57077/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 483. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he and the NMSO is satisfied that the NMSO will prevent any more new builds from having defective concrete going forward. [57078/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 493. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that his relevant Department officials participate in the Multi- Stakeholder Working Group including representative groups (details supplied) established to address the range of problems affecting victims of the defective concrete block crisis, given the need to restore a normal and functioning housing...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 672. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 736 of 14 October 2025, if he will clarify the statement “As these operators have access to alternative sources of mussel, it is difficult at present to fully assess the degree to which the incomes of those who fish mussel seed have been affected” given mussel fishermen are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 721. To ask the Minister for Health if she will advocate for the HSE to provide funding under Section 39 to an organisation (details supplied) to support weekly therapeutic exercise and yoga classes for people living with Parkinson's Disease in Donegal, specifically in Buncrana, Donegal Town, and Letterkenny; if she will ensure that the application is given full and fair consideration by the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 821. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body responsible for the designation and delivery of centres of excellence for diabetes care in hospitals across the State; and the criteria they adhere to. [57125/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 869. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which her Department is progressing work to make the second busiest level 3 hospital here, Letterkenny University Hospital a level 4 hospital, in view of the hospitals geographical and roads/ rail infrastructure isolation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57394/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Rural Schemes (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 922. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he is aware that funding to purchase a dedicated, fully accessible vehicle that would allow an organisation (details supplied) to safely transport disabled persons to educational programmes, recreational activities, social events, and other enriching opportunities, was recently refused, due to the failure to extend the areas...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Rural Schemes (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 923. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will consider introducing a pilot scheme for community development volunteers similar to the basic income for the arts pilot scheme. [57046/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (16 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 258. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 283 of 25 September 2025, in which he stated that the Housing Agency has confirmed to his Department that the presence of pyrrhotite is taken into consideration in their analysis, if he will confirm whether transitional applicants, those who applied under the original defective concrete...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (15 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not agreed. This in unprecedented. The Government is moving a motion of confidence, when there has been no formal submission of the motion of no confidence. We have not seen the text of the motion of no confidence, so it is unprecedented to make this move. I also add that at the Business Committee meeting on Thursday, I raised the unprecedented crisis in fisheries and seafood...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (15 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: However, time has been made available now. It has all of a sudden been created to do something that is unprecedented. There was no time for the crisis in fisheries and seafood this week, but there is time for an unprecedented move by the Government-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (15 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: -----to move a confidence motion, when there has not been a formal receipt of a no confidence motion. It is usually done to negate the no confidence motion. This is a stunt. It is cynical-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (15 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: -----and we will absolutely oppose it.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (15 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We had a debate, so that did not work.