Results 81-100 of 8,956 for speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (20 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 480. To ask the Minister for Health whether there were any assessment of needs applications that were closed without receiving an assessment of needs in County Donegal in 2022, 2023 and 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13201/25]

Report of the Housing Commission: Statements (Resumed) (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I want to talk to the Minister of State but the issue of defective concrete blocks, not just in my home county of Donegal but in the west of Ireland. As he knows, the National Standards Authority of Ireland is tasked with coming up with a standard we can trust. Why is this a crucial issue now? When we go to hospital and we have a cancer diagnosis, we trust the diagnosis and the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We want to form committees.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Why will the Taoiseach not respect the Ceann Comhairle's decision? Michael Lowry-----

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 576. 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. [10877/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 704. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update from her Department’s officials on what action they propose to take to remediate the extension to a school (details supplied). [12005/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 716. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans she has in place to build an extension with additional classrooms at a school (details supplied), so that they can facilitate the growing numbers of pupils at the school. [12104/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 727. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 33 of 25 September 2024, if the analysis of the survey relating to school caretakers’ work pattern, terms and conditions has been completed and reviewed by her Department; if she or her officials have or intend to engage with the relevant union representing school caretakers on foot of the survey;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 737. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how her Department can further financially assist schools that are enthusiastically implementing the Green School Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12387/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 893. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will introduce a legislative amendment to clear the way for the Housing Agency to conduct technical reviews and issue second appropriate remediation option determination to the local authority under the defective concrete block grant scheme. [11611/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 880. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a motion passed by Donegal County Council (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11434/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 918. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the support and resources provided by both his Department and from central Government to local authorities across the State to help them implement the WRC agreement reached between a trade union (details supplied) the Government, an organisation and on the pay and working conditions of retained firefighters. [11892/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in Roads Policing Units, by division, in January and February 2025; the number of additional gardaí that were assigned to Roads Policing Units, by Garda division in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11024/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1110. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí attached to the roads policing unit in Donegal in February 2025; and the number of those Gardaí who are active members, in tabular form. [11026/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1115. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department will return to publishing figures on its website on the number of Gardaí assigned to each divisional roads policing unit, with updates on a monthly basis, in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11230/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Reviews (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1259. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reverse the approach to the Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017; if the Bill will be allowed to progress in 2025, if re-introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11128/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1294. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason delays in issuing payments are occurring under the schemes funded through the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund ( EMFAF) ; as the EMFAF scheme launched in June 2024, to give the reason why applicants are waiting for their grant aid; for confirmation that no funding issue exists, assure the sector that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1295. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the necessary resources will be provided to the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board in order that decisions can be made in a reasonable timeframe. [12835/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1296. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the necessary resources will be provided to the Marine Institute in order that appropriate assessments for aquaculture licence applications can be completed in a reasonable timeframe. [12836/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1297. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will work on a framework for State assistance, for those in the aquaculture industry who endure serious financial loss, in circumstances beyond their control, similar to those in place in the wider food and agrifood sectors. [12837/25]