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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (24 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Deputy Doherty and I were here last Tuesday, and no notification was given that the Minister for Health would not be present. We asked that the matter be deferred. That is a whole week. We fully expected the Minister to be present. He is aware of the crisis at Letterkenny University Hospital. He knows that 78 GPs have cosigned a letter. He knows that 11 consultants have cosigned a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (24 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 547. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) cannot avail of light therapy treatment for a skin condition at Letterkenny University Hospital. [46315/23]

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This year is the 75th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe when the Palestinian people lost their homelands and society and 700,000 people, the majority of Palestinians, were permanently displaced, and the world looked the other way. The Tánaiste spoke about the UNRWA and the UN refugee camps. He knows there are 3 million Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Syria and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 228. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the location of each emergency accommodation centre for international protection applicants across the State; and the number of international protection applicants at each centre, in tabular form. [45442/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (18 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 254. To ask the Minister for Health if respite services (details supplied) in County Donegal are fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45435/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I apologise. Whenever the Minister for Health is not available when a Topical Issue comes up, the protocol is that we are to be made aware that the Minister is not available. That has not happened in this case. We cannot proceed. The Minister for Health has not notified us.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is the protocol. It is clearly established. I am the Sinn Féin Whip. The protocol is that we are to be made aware of it.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister for Health has to be-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Of course.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We ask that it be deferred to tomorrow when the Minister is available. That is the established protocol.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In fairness to the Ceann Comhairle, he has made a stand on-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is against the protocol that has been established-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, met with some of the parents who presented yesterday in Donegal. The CDNTs have collapsed. The vacancy rate is approximately 57% in the two areas in north Donegal It is an absolute disaster and it has real implications. The presentations yesterday from parents of children with disabilities were absolutely harrowing. We had senior HSE officials,...

Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Many years ago, when I was the Sinn Féin justice spokesperson, I met Lucia and Jim O'Farrell for the first time. Lucia took a framed photograph of her beloved son with her, which was set up on the table during the meeting. I have been a public representative for about 21 years. In all those years, I have rarely seen somebody so impacted by an injustice. The darkness that was brought...

Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 177. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 151 of 10 October 2023, the reason the Minister of State for the OPW makes no commitment to meet with the elected members of the Inishowen Municipal District, Donegal County Council, as they have repeatedly requested, to examine how the flood defence works at Burnfoot, County Donegal, can be more...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline what the 2024 budget is for assisting families availing of the enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme; if he is satisfied that this amount will be sufficient to cover the costs of all those who wish to avail of the scheme. [45233/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will provide the necessary funding to Donegal County Council to allow it to commence the process of remediating its housing stock affected by defective concrete blocks. [45234/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will respond to correspondence from a person (details supplied) seeking urgent clarification in relation to assurances from Irish banks and financial institutions that homes that are remediated under the enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme will be mortgageable or re-mortgageable for existing homeowners or...