Results 821-840 of 8,976 for speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (21 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 518. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on plans by the National Ambulance Service to develop a permanent ambulance base at Buncrana, County Donegal. [50705/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Files (21 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 584. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the release on social media of videos that show patients' medical records and files stored in unsecured premises at a hospital (details supplied); to confirm that none of the medical records that are being stored there have been stolen or removed after the recent intrusion; what security measures the hospital has deployed at the site where...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (16 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on submissions that her Department has received to date from the teacher representative unions in the State about the challenge of accommodating children and students from Ukrainian refugee families; her plans to provide the necessary resources to schools and teachers for this purpose; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (16 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline how she plans to reduce class sizes in DEIS schools across Donegal in response to the challenge for teachers in trying to accommodate a diverse range of needs in the large class groups, in particular practical subjects, due to the lack of physical space in rooms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50312/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (16 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the challenge of teacher retention and supply at schools across Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50313/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (16 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the necessary resources to ensure the availability of a comprehensive National Education Psychological Service at schools across Donegal. [50314/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (16 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 200. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he and his Department are aware of the current livelihood-threatening market disturbance to the brown crab (cancer pagurus) fishery, whereby processors are now not taking any landed produce due to there being no buyers for export live or otherwise; what measures can be taken to identify new markets; what immediate supporting...

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Minister of State knows, long before the recent disastrous events in Palestine and Israel, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and B'Tselem designated Israel as an apartheid state. On 18 July 1984 Mary Manning, a shop worker at Dunnes Stores on Henry Street, here in Dublin, refused to handle South African goods in protest against its apartheid regime. Three years later Ireland...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I raise the issue of school transport bus escorts. I met a large delegation in my constituency recently and was taken aback by the way they had been unfairly treated. It reminds me of the treatment of school secretaries and caretakers for many years in the context of pay and conditions. The other issue is that they are not paid for 69 days of the year when there are school holidays or...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (14 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the progress by the National Transport Authority on the introduction of a virtual/digital Leap card for use on smartphones; if he can provide an exact date for introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49806/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (14 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 378. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he and his Department officials will meet with representatives of the National Inshore Fishermen's Association (NIFA), the National Inshore Fisheries Forum (NIFF) and the North West Regional Inshore Fisheries Forum (RIFF) following their withdrawal from the Quota Management Advisory Committee (QMAC); if he can confirm a date...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Fisheries Policy (14 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 387. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will work to ensure that any future agreements between the EU and Third (non-EU) Countries about access to Irish waters under the jurisdiction of the Common Fisheries Policy include a stipulation that they face the same stringent control and conservation regime as the Irish fleet, particularly with regard to mixed species...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Gender Equality (14 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 461. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has developed an online reporting system for the 2023 Gender Pay Gap reporting cycle which will consist of a central portal where all employer reports will be uploaded and can be accessed publicly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49805/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (9 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the growing anger and frustration amongst affected homeowners in Donegal and other counties at the serious limitations of the enhanced defective concrete block grant scheme; and if he will immediately work on an actual redress scheme similar to the pyrite remediation scheme rather than this second limited...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff (8 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will urgently review the pay and working conditions of all of the school transport bus escorts across the State, similar to the approach taken in recent times with school secretaries and caretakers, and leading to a similar outcome; and if he will correspond with the Minister for Social Protection, seeking a seamless support...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (7 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect an invite for a test date for her driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47598/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (7 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 654. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 305 of 10 October 2023, when his Department will establish an oversight committee to address the defective block crisis that meets regularly and includes all the relevant stakeholders, including homeowner representatives, local authorities, banks, financial institutions and insurance...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Marine Protected Areas (7 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that the Minister of State with responsibility for Heritage and his Department officials urgently consult with the representatives of the fishing industry in Ireland on his proposals to introduce three new proposed marine conservation areas in the Porcupine Shelf, Southern Canyons and the north west Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (7 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1141. To ask the Minister for Health the number of agency staff that are currently employed in Letterkenny University Hospital in any capacity for more than one year combined, with the role that they are assigned to; and the additional cost involved, in tabular form. [47541/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Co-operation (7 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1142. To ask the Minister for Health what efforts he has made to examine cross-Border co-operation between the public hospitals at Altnagelvin, Letterkenny, Enniskillen and Sligo on a range of medical procedures and operations for patients in the region to prevent long waiting lists, long distances to travel and the increasing cost of referring patients to private care options. [47577/23]