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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There are three positions for endocrinologists, all unfilled.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will come back to the Minister on the three-school campus on another day. In respect of the issue before us, she mentioned the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, but she is the Minister for Education. I want to be clear. Is she saying that in the days ahead, her Department is going to issue a letter of intent to the proposed contractor? Will that be followed very quickly by the signing of a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on when construction will commence on new school buildings (details supplied). [16349/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: My question is about when construction on a new school building in Scoil Íosagáin, Buncrana, will finally commence. The school has been waiting approximately 20 years now for this to happen. I cannot stress enough how appalling the conditions within the school buildings are. The Minister has been sent an email from the board of management containing more than 100 pages of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am struggling to find words here. I have just told the Minister that a 114-page document has been sent to her. I have seen it and it contains photographic evidence of the absolutely appalling conditions that teachers and children have to endure. Planning permission was lost because two contractors did not proceed to tender stage. There has been a lack of urgency in the Minister’s...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not agreed. On the schedule here today, we have a motion without debate about the EU asylum and migration pact. I appeal to the Taoiseach to facilitate the maximum amount of debate in this House on a serious matter. The Government has made a shambles of the whole immigration area. Communities all across this State have been failed. The asylum seekers themselves are being failed. We...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (9 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We should have gone to the country. We do not agree to the Government's schedule.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (9 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not agreed.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (9 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is very clear that when the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, went to the park last night, we should have been going to the country today-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (9 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The people should decide who our next Taoiseach is, not the assembled numbers here in government. The people should have their say. This should not be happening today.

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am going to raise an issue with the Minister of State, Deputy Butler. She will have been requested to meet the community in Carndonagh, County Donegal, which has lost day services in the community hospital. It is unacceptable that, rather than upgrade the facilities, the hospital has been relocated, causing serious dismay. There was a packed public meeting in recent times. On a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Everybody must agree the scenes of asylum seekers being moved from tents on Mount Street to tents on the Dublin mountains in recent days were absolutely appalling. It is the latest chapter in the shambles the Government has made of international protection. Be it the disrespect for local communities, the lack of engagement or consultation throughout the State or the enrichment of a small...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Obviously, neither the Minister for housing nor the Ministers of State in that Department are present today, but the Minister of State, Deputy Patrick O'Donovan, is from Fine Gael and his party has been in government for 13 years now. I want to tell him what that has meant for the people of Donegal. In 2002, 560 social houses were either built or acquired in just one year. That was in 2002...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Ceann Comhairle will be aware, last week on behalf of Sinn Féin I made a request that the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, come before the Dáil to answer questions from the Opposition on this whole mess with RTÉ and the effective sacking of Siún Ní Raghallaigh. The Government did not agree to this last week. It did not facilitate any questions being asked...

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Feb 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thought I had time left.

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Feb 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I was present earlier when my party leader, Deputy McDonald, questioned the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, about the Government's approach to all of this and he proceeded to read out statistics in soft language. I want to testify to the reality in my home county of Donegal for children with mental health challenges. We have a defective block crisis. It has been described as an earthquake...

Paediatric Orthopaedic and Urology Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Feb 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: A Cheann Comhairle, this Government amendment is completely unnecessary. This is about an approach from parents of children in pain, with scoliosis, who have been failed by this State in a shameful way. Under Standing Order 83(3)(b), I propose that the vote be taken by other than electronic means.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Feb 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is shameful.

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To be clear, in terms of the shape of the draft deal that has been presented to the Irish fishing industry, the Minister is very clear that he will oppose any deal between the European Commission and Iceland, as the Irish fishing industry is united in demanding.

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To be clear, the Minister is committing to stand by the Irish fishing industry and not agree any deal with the European Commission unless it is in agreement with it. That is the Minister's position today.