Results 17,321-17,340 of 23,978 for speaker:Charlie McConalogue

Other Questions: Diabetes Strategy (21 Jun 2017)

Charlie McConalogue: It is welcome that the Minister is due to meet the Donegal Diabetes Association next week and has met its representatives previously. Commitments were made to try to ensure services would be improved. My question focuses on what the Minister and the Government are doing to support diabetes services in County Donegal. In particular, what is the position on the Minister's commitment to...

Other Questions: Diabetes Strategy (21 Jun 2017)

Charlie McConalogue: For children with diabetes, there is no centre of excellence in paediatric diabetes care north of the Limerick to Dublin line. Services are quite limited and in no way sufficient to meet the number of children in the county or the north west who need them. It is often considered at official level that if a service is provided in Galway, patients in County Donegal are covered. I know that...

Other Questions: Diabetes Strategy (21 Jun 2017)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister and look forward to discussing the matter further with him with the Donegal Diabetes Association next Wednesday. I highlight the impact on children with diabetes in County Donegal of not having a paediatric consultant endocrinologist in Sligo. It means that insulin pump therapy is not available to newly presenting children under the age of five years with type 2...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)

Charlie McConalogue: The Taoiseach will be aware that the expert panel on mica reported in the last couple of weeks. Its report indicated that between 1,000 and 5,000 homes in Donegal are affected by defective blocks as a result of high mica content and that 700 homes in Mayo are affected by defective blocks as a result of pyrite content. Unfortunately, at all stages over the past three or four years the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (21 Jun 2017)

Charlie McConalogue: 77. To ask the Minister for Health if the necessary funding will be provided in order that St. Joseph's, Ramelton and Lifford community hospitals in County Donegal can meet HIQA standards and at a minimum retain their existing bed capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27784/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Fish Quotas: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the witnesses for their attendance today and for their very comprehensive presentations. I will deal first with the voisinageissue. There has been quite a bit of concentration by all of the presenters on what the reinstatement of the agreement would mean. I ask the witnesses to elaborate further on their experience of what it has meant until now, in terms of its practical...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Leader Programmes (20 Jun 2017)

Charlie McConalogue: 71. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the value of projects approved fully to date in 2017 under the Leader programme 2014 to 2020 in County Donegal; the expenditure by her Department on projects to date in 2017 in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27607/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration (20 Jun 2017)

Charlie McConalogue: 336. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will instruct the Revenue Commissioners to apply a temporary exemption from VRT to employees working for an organisation (details supplied) in Northern Ireland that reside here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28848/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (20 Jun 2017)

Charlie McConalogue: 411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review his Department's school transport policy in order to allow students from an area (details supplied) to avail of free school transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26537/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Fees (20 Jun 2017)

Charlie McConalogue: 412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make arrangements with Bus Éireann to facilitate families to have the option of making payments on school transport fees on a monthly direct debit basis in order to help families that find the cost of making such payments in two instalments difficult; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26569/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (20 Jun 2017)

Charlie McConalogue: 428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) is eligible for panel rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26653/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (20 Jun 2017)

Charlie McConalogue: 442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider introducing one administration day per week for school principals in cases in which there is no walking principal; the cost of this measure; the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26748/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff Appeals Mechanism (20 Jun 2017)

Charlie McConalogue: 452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an appeal by a school (details supplied) will be upheld in view of the negative impact losing a member of staff will have in the long term on this school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26771/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (20 Jun 2017)

Charlie McConalogue: 488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27165/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Jun 2017)

Charlie McConalogue: 558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the Buncrana three school campus project (details supplied); if he will report on a recent meeting between his department and Donegal county council to discuss site acquisition; if he will meet with a delegation to discuss the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28108/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (20 Jun 2017)

Charlie McConalogue: 580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a psychological assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28333/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (20 Jun 2017)

Charlie McConalogue: 644. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the monetary value of an asset which was gained via inheritance during the reference year is seen as reckonable income in the assessment of a student grant application; the reason for this approach to inherited assets in view of the fact that additional assets not gained by inheritance are not seen as reckonable income; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Indemnity Scheme for Landowners (20 Jun 2017)

Charlie McConalogue: 919. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on introducing a national indemnity scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28454/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (20 Jun 2017)

Charlie McConalogue: 1031. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the HSE's deliberations on the provision of a drug (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26619/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (20 Jun 2017)

Charlie McConalogue: 1053. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hip operations carried out in Letterkenny University Hospital to date in 2017, in tabular form; the number of these operations carried out in each of the years 2014 to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26717/17]