Results 1-20 of 388 for long speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1314. To ask the Minister for Health what short-term and long-term plans are in place to care for those awaiting eye surgery at Letterkenny University Hospital. [14058/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (21 Mar 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...ensure that a dedicated outpatient neurology service is provided by a consultant neurologist at Letterkenny University Hospital to avoid the need for neurology patients in Donegal to have to travel long distances for care. [13481/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Mar 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...the HSE officials who made the decision not to allocate the ANP; the reason for ANP for adult diabetes services has not been agreed and appointed at Letterkenny University Hospital, considering the long waiting lists for diabetes patients at the hospital. [11419/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (27 Feb 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 584. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the number of patients, both long-term and short-term, who are resident in a hospital (details supplied), in tabular form. [9150/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (27 Feb 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 619. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an ANP for adult diabetes services has not been agreed and appointed at Letterkenny University Hospital, considering the long waiting lists for diabetes patients at the hospital. [9275/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (27 Feb 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 620. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will sanction and appoint all the requested podiatrist posts, as requested by Letterkenny University Hospital, considering the long waiting lists for diabetes patients at the hospital. [9276/24]

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...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 year old woman had been on a hard seat all day long, waiting for care, as had a 79 year old man. Recently the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, came up to Donegal and met with GPs and consultants who had been seeking such a meeting for weeks. When...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...Skills to provide urgent clarification on the timeline for the construction and handover of the new three-school campus at Buncrana, County Donegal, in response to recent media reports that this long-delayed and vital project will not be completed until 2030; and if she will honour the previously-made commitments to fast-track this project. [51162/23]

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Minister of State knows, long before the recent disastrous events in Palestine and Israel, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and B'Tselem designated Israel as an apartheid state. On 18 July 1984 Mary Manning, a shop worker at Dunnes Stores on Henry Street, here in Dublin, refused to handle South African goods in protest against its apartheid regime. Three years later Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Co-operation (7 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...cross-Border co-operation between the public hospitals at Altnagelvin, Letterkenny, Enniskillen and Sligo on a range of medical procedures and operations for patients in the region to prevent long waiting lists, long distances to travel and the increasing cost of referring patients to private care options. [47577/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...corporation, Parlevliet & Van der Plas B.V., which is a major international fishing corporation. It is the owner of three of the largest fishing vessels in the world. Annelies Ilenais 145 m long and the Margiris is 136.1 m long. These are the two largest fishing vessels in the world. These were joined by the Helen Mary, with all three vessels under the one company. Two are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (17 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...between Sligo University Hospital and Letterkenny University Hospital (with almost 40,000 inpatients combined annually) and to support the ability of surgeons and consultants to work through the long waiting lists for surgical procedures at both hospitals and to deliver equality of access to healthcare for the people of the north west. [45005/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...locations for a surgical hub, due to its location between Sligo University Hospital and Letterkenny University Hospital and to support the ability of surgeons and consultants to work through the long waiting lists for surgical procedures at both hospitals and to deliver equality of access to healthcare for the people of the north-west. [44007/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: State Bodies (3 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what plans he and his Department have to renew or offer a long-term lease which will expire soon at a building (details supplied) in Howth, County Dublin, that is currently operating as a seafood retail outlet and training centre, in conjunction with Bord Iascaigh Mhara; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42449/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: State Bodies (26 Sep 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 461. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what plans he and his Department have to renew a long-term lease on the Bord Iascaigh Mhara coastal training centre based in Howth, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41520/23]

Retained Fire Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...They have to look after their families and deal with massive costs. We know all about the house prices and rent prices. We have taken the salt of the earth of our country for granted for far too long. These are people with civic pride. They are agonising about this strike because if a fire or a road traffic collision happens in their community, they know the people involved. It is...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...dealing with a massive burden of diabetes patients in Donegal. The clinical advice is the waiting time for an appointment should be six months for an adult with diabetes, and that is long enough. In Donegal, they are waiting 24 months, which is extremely dangerous. All the work on diabetes shows earlier intervention and more supports going in mean less impact down the line. We had one...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Airport Policy (2 Mar 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...be able to take trips to Dublin and on to the rest of the world. It is a critically important connection. As the Minister of State will know, the A5 has been stuck in a legal quagmire for too long and we do not have a rail connection. We do not have a motorway or rail connection to the north west so this is critical. The former Taoiseach, Deputy Micheál Martin, committed to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Airport Policy (2 Mar 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will reiterate some of my points. Disastrously, the A5 project has been stuck in a quagmire for too long. In fairness to the Irish Government, in the St. Andrews Agreement, it committed to co-funding that project. I am hopeful that it will eventually get started and that the Irish Government will co-fund it. There is a lot of precedent for the Irish Government co-funding strategically...

Future of Regional Pre-Hospital Emergency Care: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...talk about the situation in Donegal. We have a significant challenge with our ambulance service across the county. On too many occasions, people in life-threatening situations have waited for too long and in some instances they have lost their lives unnecessarily. One proposal that has been put forward to the Government again and again relates to fire and rescue personnel. In Donegal,...