Results 701-720 of 9,329 for speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (1 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 539. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses based at Shiel Community Hospital, Co. Donegal, County Donegal in each of the years 2004 to 2024, in tabular form. [39106/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (1 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 540. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses based at St Joseph’s Community Hospital, County Donegal in each of the years 2004 to 2024, in tabular form. [39107/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if allowances can be made for students applying for SUSI grants if they are from defective block homes and availing of the enhanced defective concrete block grant scheme in the affected counties of Donegal, Mayo, Clare and Limerick. [39021/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The standard that underpins the defective concrete blocks scheme is IS 465. It is widely agreed that this standard is now not fit for purpose. Indeed, it is discredited. Despite this, engineers acting on behalf of the State through the Housing Agency have overruled more than 100 recommendations from qualified engineers representing homeowners. We now have confirmation from the National...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: IS 465. This standard will now take account of pyrrhotite internal sulfate attack. I ask the Tánaiste and his colleague, the Minister for housing, to urgently ask the engineers in the Housing Agency to pause this overruling that has no credibility and to await the outcome of the National Standards Authority of Ireland developing a standard we can trust so we can move forward together.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: So, you will pause this practice.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (25 Sep 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 101. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have a procedure carried out at Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37999/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (25 Sep 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 102. To ask the Minister for Health when a home care package or short-term care bed will be available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38000/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Correspondence (24 Sep 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when his Departmental officials will respond to correspondence from the family of a person (details supplied); and if he will examine their points of concern as they pertain to the responsibilities of agencies in this jurisdiction and consult with the Road Safety Authority as to a substantive response. [37890/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Sep 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the application by a school (details supplied) for a new building, having witnessed its seriously inadequate school facilities and amenities for herself, and given that the school’s board of management can provide an alternative and appropriate site for a new school at no cost to the State. [37640/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (24 Sep 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports available to primary schools across the State to provide important life skills such as swimming lessons. [37641/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (24 Sep 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 345. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how officials from his Department and Bord Iascaigh Mhara can engage with the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland to ensure that fishermen can avail of financial supports and loans that compliment financial assistance from Bord Iascaigh Mhara or his Department and that help those fishermen to sustain their businesses in a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (24 Sep 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 347. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he expects that a quota in white pollock will be available to the Irish fishing fleet next year. [37956/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I support the request from Deputy Murphy. There has been report after report of the use of Irish sovereign airspace to transport munitions to be used in the genocide of the Palestinian people and all the issues that flow from that. This has caused widespread concern among the Irish people. We do not have clarification from the Ministers for Foreign Affairs or Transport about what are the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Services (18 Sep 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the application from the City of Derry Airport to have Government support for the Derry to Dublin airlink reinstated. [36935/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: EU Funding (18 Sep 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a progress report on the Trans-European Transport Network project for Donegal. [36936/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (18 Sep 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 191. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing a reduced rate of VAT for the sale of hand-weaved or hand-knitted products in Ireland, to provide an incentive to maintain these important heritage traditions across our country. [36762/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Sep 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on the demand from school transport escorts for fair pay and conditions, to reflect the importance of their work for young people with disabilities and their families. [36576/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (18 Sep 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure the 10% increase in the cap for the enhanced defective concrete block grant scheme is available to all homeowners who have already been granted support under the scheme, in line with the established principle of retrospective payments and fairness to all. [36937/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (18 Sep 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the engagement between his Department officials and an organisation (details supplied) to establish further financial supports, zero-interest loans, and upfront payments to homeowners availing of the enhanced defective concrete block grant scheme. [36938/24]