Results 161-180 of 8,362 for speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Period Poverty (17 Jan 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1818. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of the €0.5 million allocated to each further and higher education institution in Budget 2024 for free period products, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56559/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Period Poverty (17 Jan 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1819. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the nine further education and training colleges that undertook the ‘Worryfree’ pilot delivering free, sustainable period products and dispensers for students in participating ETBs, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56595/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inshore Fisheries (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 15. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the immediate financial support measures he can put in place for the Irish inshore fishing sector to address the deepening crisis in the industry that is threatening the livelihoods of inshore fishermen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55722/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inshore Fisheries (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister knows that the inshore sector has been struggling. There has been a failure to look at giving herring and mackerel a broader fishery. The impact of Brexit has made that more difficult. There has been the failure of the Government to provide a fuel subsidy. We have huge increases in fuel costs. Now the latest is the collapse of the market for brown crab. Deputy McConalogue,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inshore Fisheries (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will know that this is the optimum time of year for the crab fishery. It has been devastating for them to hear that the factories have said they cannot take any more and just do not have a market. I think the European market has collapsed and the Chinese market has been impacted. This is, it appears to me, an unprecedented crisis when everything else is added. I appreciate...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inshore Fisheries (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister is right that it is crab and lobster on the east coast. It is razor clam and whelk, and indeed crab and lobster, right around the coast. The inshore sector is an industry that is struggling. The formation of the producer organisations is welcome. The engagement with the representative organisations is welcome. The Minister and I are both from coastal communities. We are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister referred to the 2013 agreement. The difficulty was that agreement was made in the context of all waters beyond the 12-mile limit being under the jurisdiction of the Common Fisheries Policy. Rockall was under the Common Fisheries Policy. Both Governments had an interest in allowing fair access. It is extraordinary the trade and co-operation agreement allowed the British...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 5. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the projected financial loss to the vessels of the Irish fishing fleet arising from the actions of the UK and Scottish Governments in blocking them from fishing in their traditional fishing grounds around Rockall for the past number of years; and to provide an update on the status of negotiations with the UK and Scottish Governments,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister and I have debated and discussed this issue on numerous occasions. I refer to the continued outrageous blocking by the British and Scottish Governments of our Irish fishermen from fishing in their traditional grounds around Rockall. Rockall is an uninhabited rock. A six- or 12-mile zone cannot be put in place around an uninhabited rock. It could not be more clear in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister may know that a recent report in The Guardian newspaper covered this issue. I actually spoke to the journalist who covered it, namely, Mr. Rory Carroll. He has been advised that this issue may be moving towards a solution and that people in previous positions wanted to resolve it. I am going to say "Who?". Ms Nicola Sturgeon, the former Scottish First Minister, apparently...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Parks (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 237. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the monument at An Grianán of Aileach, County Donegal has been closed to visitors for the past three weeks. [55926/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 505. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to be transferred from Letterkenny University Hospital to Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56127/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 510. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway can expect to receive an appointment from Cappagh Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56205/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yesterday, at Letterkenny University Hospital eight ambulances were backed up outside. Patients were in the back of those ambulances rather than being cared for in the hospital. This is not a rare occurrence. A week previously a similar number of ambulances were outside and I am sure the Minister will agree that this is utterly unacceptable. I received a report late last night that an 88...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (12 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an Irish citizen who passed a driving test in Ireland, held an Irish driver's licence, subsequently moved to the USA and held a licence there, before returning to Ireland, can renew the Irish licence without having to re-sit the test. [55102/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (12 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person is in receipt of carer's allowance and works part-time and is paid monthly, how her Department determines a person's weekly hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55309/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (12 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 597. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in the BISS payment being made to a person in County Donegal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54452/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (12 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 710. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if urgent respite can be provided for a person (details supplied) in Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55265/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (7 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish written confirmation from the Banking and Payments Federation that homes remediated or rebuilt under the enhanced defective concrete block grant scheme will be mortgageable or remortgageable once completed. [54172/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (7 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline why defective concrete block homeowners in counties Donegal, Mayo, Clare and Limerick have been offered support through another limited grant scheme rather than an actual redress scheme similar to the pyrite remediation scheme. [54171/23]