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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We are asking people to take on the remediation option recommended by engineers working for the Housing Agency, who operate under IS 465, which many Engineers Ireland members believe is not fit for purpose because those engineers are indemnified. Is this not crazy? Basically, intelligent engineers who are indemnified are making recommendations and following the guidelines to the letter even...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have a question for the BPFI representatives. Obviously, while the BPFI has a duty of care to ensure sound loans and investments, are its representatives concerned about the professional view of Engineers Ireland on IS 465 being unfinished, the failure to test foundations and the federation's having to operate on the basis of a certificate of remediation in this environment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am going to say it again. The other point is that we are facing the biggest redress scheme in the history of the State. When we throw in apartments and everything else, it is going to be multiple billions for the generation or generations to come. I ask Mr. Owens again if he does not find it astonishing that, essentially, we had to have an affected homeowner, who is a professor in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Absolutely. My last question is to Ms Murdock. I have asked Mr. Hayes and Ms Byrne about their concern about what we have heard. Mr. Garrett has given important evidence to the committee today. Right now, the State essentially says that the foundations are okay and that we are not required to test them. If a homeowner is recommended for option one, they just rebuild on the existing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Ms Murdock. That is clear. Both the representatives of the insurance and banking industries are concerned about the evidence here today. Engineers Ireland has deep concerns on behalf of its members about getting to the point where we have science we can rely on that is robust and everybody can move forward on that basis. We are in a mess and hopefully we will find our way out of it.

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will know that the worst affected sector of the economy since Brexit has been the fishing community. The losses have been devastating. It in not just the offshore sector. The National Inshore Fishermen’s Association has been before the joint committee and in the audiovisual room to make presentations on the serious crisis in the industry. Fishermen have repeatedly...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 153. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that two child passports will be processed on-time for two siblings (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19288/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (30 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision not to grant a school (details supplied) funding under the emergency works scheme. [19462/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will meet with the board of management of a school (details supplied) to discuss their serious concerns at the failure of her Department to consider inclusion of the school in the forthcoming school capital building programme. [19463/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (30 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 737. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support and implement the call from a group (details supplied) for a consultant neurology service to be based in Letterkenny University Hospital.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19466/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 738. To ask the Minister for Health the reason memory assessment support services for persons with dementia and their families has not been rolled out in County Donegal. [19467/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (30 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 739. To ask the Minister for Health when the Saolta University Healthcare Group will meet with TDs, Senators and HSE forum county councillors in County Donegal to update them on the progress made in addressing the grave concerns of over 100 GPs and hospital consultants in the county about the level of health services being provided at Letterkenny University Hospital and the solutions that...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to establish a designated telephone helpline or allow access to the Oireachtas passport query service for members of the Legislative Assembly in Northern Ireland, since it is restored and functioning, allowing members of parliament to query passport applications on behalf of Irish citizens in the North of Ireland; and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if any briefings with members of the Legislative Assembly in Northern Ireland, members of parliament and their staff will be provided ahead of the summer months to assist constituency offices in the North of Ireland to provide up-to-date information on the passport process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18520/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 112. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications queried through the members of the Legislative Assembly passport online portal since it was launched in April 2023, by month, in tabular form; the current waiting time for a query response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18521/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department will open a passport office in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18522/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is satisfied that the current online passport application system processes queries on paperwork or requests for additional documentation as quickly as possible; his views on whether queries should be put back for significant time periods when queries arise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18523/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (23 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline what role Inland Fisheries Ireland plays regarding the by-catch in relation to bass, sea trout, salmon, kelts and salmon smolts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18012/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health and Safety (23 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will assist the board of management of a school (details supplied) to ensure that the entire site at the school is surveyed and cleared of any potentially explosive devices following the discovery of same on the site last November. [17494/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (23 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 498. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what research has been carried out on the link between the decline in the sea trout population and sprat fishing in south Kerry; what the allowable by-catch is as a percentage of the total sprat catch in south Kerry; the volume of the total sprat for each of the years since 2007 in south Kerry, in tabular form; and if he will make...