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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not agreed. Energy companies are lining up to fleece customers again. There will be big increases after increases. The Government is steadfastly refusing to introduce an energy credit again in the budget. We need an urgent debate in this house about its failure to get a grip on the energy companies fleecing customers and on the wider cost-of-living crisis. We need an urgent debate on why...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 988. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the ongoing 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; and her views on whether it is acceptable that school transport escorts have to sign on for social welfare supports during school holidays. [46760/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason homeowners that have appealed the remediation options provided to them under the defective concrete blocks grant scheme are waiting inordinate lengths of time for those appeals to be held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46709/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 2199. To ask the Minister for Health the number of health care assistants in Donegal employed by the HSE’s home help department who have left the service since July 2024, when the pay and numbers strategy commenced; and the number of new home care assistants who have been recruited by the HSE in Donegal since July, 2024, in tabular form. [45043/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Properties (8 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 2396. To ask the Minister for Health whether a premises (details supplied) is still in the ownership of the HSE; if so, the future plans for the building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45815/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (29 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 3079. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatients per annum in each hospital across the State in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025, in tabular form. [43113/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review the 20-year claw back for owners who seek to remediate their properties that are not their primary home, under the defective concrete block grant scheme. [40233/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 393. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if compensation under the victim’s payment scheme paid out to persons resident in the State, as a result of the ‘troubles in the North’ is disregarded as means for the assessment of the disability allowance. [40289/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (16 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 281. To ask the Minister for Health when it is envisaged that tubeless diabetic pumps will be made available to children to assist in managing type 1 diabetes, who are currently required to use cumbersome wired diabetic pumps; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40029/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (16 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 304. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the senior radiographer post at Carndonagh Community Hospital, County Donegal has been delayed by two years; when this post will be filled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40128/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It has everything to do with the Order of Business.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is not correct.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is there in black and white. The dissent was recorded in black and white.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am asking for the Government Chief Whip to correct the record.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The dissent is in black and white.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Chief Whip has just said there was no dissent.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not at all. The sentence was completed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No. Six months on, this really is a do-nothing Government. Hundreds of families in Donegal and the west of Ireland have waited ten months for it to honour its promise to bring in a simple amendment to legislation to ensure the increase in the cap for defective block homeowners applies to people already in the scheme. That means they cannot make the final payments to builders. The...