Results 21-40 of 49 for sligo speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...County Donegal ophthalmology service that have vacated their positions in recent times; and if the newly appointed consultants for this service will be based in County Donegal rather than County Sligo to oversee the full ophthalmic teams there in order that they can continue at the very least to deliver the same level of care to an enormous existing service. [12669/22]

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: .... They need the backing of the State. That crisis of morale feeds into the waiting list crisis. In Letterkenny alone, there are 21,500 men, women and children on the waiting lists. Adding Sligo would probably take that total to 25,000 or 26,000 people on waiting lists out of a population of 160,000, many of them for more than one year or two years. This crisis has been created out...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (25 Jan 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 525. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the paediatric diabetes shared centre of excellence between Letterkenny University Hospital and Sligo University Hospital. [2886/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Jan 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1583. To ask the Minister for Health when the North-West Regional Centre for Neurology at Sligo University Hospital will have a full complement of seven neurology nurse specialists in line with international best practice to service patients across the region. [1028/22]

Regional Transport Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...this for many years. This motion is so important because we in the west and north west of Ireland do not have a motorway or rail connection joining up the west of Ireland. Cork, Limerick, Galway, Sligo, Derry and that huge mass of population in the west has no motorway connectivity for nearly all of it and no rail connectivity for a big part of it. That has to be the priority, but from...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (19 Oct 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 108. To ask the Minister for Health if he will deliver a joint diabetes centre of excellence at Letterkenny University Hospital and Sligo University Hospital as called for by diabetes campaigners in the region. [50616/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Oct 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...the protocols that were in place at the Letterkenny University Hospital community ophthalmic service on 24 August 24 2021 when a person (details supplied) requiring urgent care was referred to Sligo University Hospital; the protocols that were in place at Sligo University Hospital ophthalmic service on 24 August 2021 that failed to deal with the patient until 8.30 pm; the reason the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Oct 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...he is satisfied that the level of ophthalmic service is in accordance with best health practice for the community of north County Donegal, where many of the patients are over 200 kilometres from Sligo Hospital. [50494/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (12 Oct 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 85. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his vision for the way in which the communities from the south-west area, the west and on to counties Sligo, Donegal and Derry can be connected by rail; and his plans to advance this vision. [49487/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...2,000 families in Dublin and north Leinster rightly received 100% redress. They did nothing wrong but were failed by the absence of State regulation and oversight. Our families in Donegal, Mayo, Sligo, Clare, Limerick and Tipperary deserve exactly the same, namely, 100% redress. The Government must send out a clear message that all of our families, no matter where they live, did nothing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...winds its way through communities that share the sorrow and anger of their families, friends and neighbours. These communities range from my own in north County Donegal, down through counties Sligo, Mayo and on to Clare, Limerick and Tipperary. On Friday, the families and their supporters will again descend on Dublin to protest to get the Government to deliver 100% redress. They should...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...Donegal, Letterkenny University Hospital, continues to endure. There are more than 20,000 people in a county of 160,000 on the waiting list. That amounts to one in eight. I am not even including Sligo hospital, whose waiting list includes people from south Donegal. That is a damning indictment of Government after Government. The issue for Letterkenny University Hospital is that...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...home is impacted by this, he or she should not be liable for the property tax. That is only fair that it would be the case. People are really hurting in Donegal and Mayo. People are also hurting in counties Clare and Sligo, who are not yet able to benefit from the scheme. They have been failed by the State in its oversight responsibilities and in more recent years in market...

Pyrite and Mica Redress Issues: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...for the manufacture of defective blocks are held to account, and that industry contributes to the overall cost of remediating defective properties.” The Minister will be aware that thousands of people from counties Donegal, Mayo, Clare and Sligo have come here to the centre of power and made their positions on this matter very clear. This motion follows the visit of Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Cross-Border Further and Higher Education Sectors: Discussion (19 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: .... I ask them to lay out how that is being undone. Obviously with the Connacht-Ulster alliance, there will be one technological university for the region comprised of GMIT, Institute of Technology Sligo, IT Sligo, and LyIT. With a cross-border partnership all the elements of a university are finally coming together. How can the witnesses assure us that the courses provided are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (12 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...air infrastructure in the region. My concern about comments that have been made about rail is that the talk is about the Belfast-Dublin-Cork connections. The difficulty is, where does that connect to Sligo, Donegal and Derry? With the focus on climate change and all those challenges, rail has come back onto the agenda again after being parked in recent years. There is the campaign in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his vision for the way in which the communities from the south west, the west and on to counties Sligo, Donegal and Derry can be connected by rail and his plans to advance this vision. [28756/20]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: .... Let us consider the situation before this crisis occurred. There were 17,000 people from the county on waiting lists for inpatient and outpatient procedures and appointments. If one includes Sligo hospital, it is one in eight of the county's population on waiting lists, and the lists are growing all the time. The acute stroke unit was delayed. The Minister will be familiar with the...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...provision receive disposable income of €20 a week. How are they expected to travel from Moville on the Inishowen Peninsula? They will need to get a bus to Letterkenny, a connecting bus to Sligo and then a bus to Dublin. This must all be done in one day because there are issues around staying overnight. This is totally impractical and it shows once again the folly of this direct...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Services for People with Disabilities (12 Jun 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...they have acknowledged that they have increased the originally planned €10 million to €16 million. They need to increase it further. They need to make sure that no young person, whether they are in Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Cavan, Monaghan or Louth, is denied the equality of access and opportunity with which other young people with disabilities throughout the country are...