Results 1-20 of 48 for sligo speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 769. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE had provided a taxi transport service for a person in County Donegal (details supplied) to attend Sligo University Hospital for intravitreal injections, the reason this service will no longer be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10733/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 770. To ask the Minister for Health if a person from County Donegal (details supplied) attended Sligo University Hospital for intravitreal treatment, can this person receive this treatment in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10734/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 Feb 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...supports are available from the State to patients in County Donegal who have to travel for hospital treatment outside of their county; and if he can clarify whether the transport for patients to Sligo Hospital Eye Clinic has now been curtailed or cancelled. [6318/24]

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1142. To ask the Minister for Health what efforts he has made to examine 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]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (24 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...it is a model 3 hospital but had more inpatients in 2022 than five model 4 hospitals. It should be a model 4 hospital. We have talked about the surgical hub that is needed for Letterkenny and Sligo. Given that such hubs have been announced for regions below the infamous line running from Galway across to Dublin, which everybody is aware of, we are being treated as second-class citizens....

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...ask the HSE to urgently review the decision not to include a surgical hub for the north west and to consider Donegal town as one of the locations for a surgical hub, due to its location 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...

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 565. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary total hip and primary total knee replacement surgeries performed at Sligo University Hospital during each of the calendar years 2018 to 2022, in tabular form. [45043/23]

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 566. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary total hip and primary total knee replacement surgeries outsourced by NTPF from Sligo University Hospital to the private sector during each of the calendar years 2018 to 2022, in tabular form. [45044/23]

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 568. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the total value cost of NTPF funding for outsourcing surgical patients from Sligo University Hospital to undergo all surgical procedures in the private sector during each of the calendar years 2018 to 2022, in tabular form. [45046/23]

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 556. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ask the HSE to include Donegal town as one of the 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...

A5 Route Upgrade: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: All too often, systems that are in place fail our people. The planning system in the North of Ireland has profoundly failed the people of the north west - Donegal, Derry, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Sligo, Cavan and Monaghan. There is an overwhelming desire to have equality of access and infrastructure for our people with the rest of the island. When we look at the map we can see, rightly so,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (13 Jun 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1281. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect an appointment from Sligo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28342/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 May 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...County Donegal ophthalmology service that have vacated their positions in recent times; and if the newly appointed consultants for this service will be based in County Donegal rather than County Sligo to oversee the full ophthalmic teams there, in order that they can continue, at the very least, to deliver the same level of care to an enormous existing service and to reduce the growing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (2 Mar 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...the west, but we can only describe this as sheer neglect. When we take out the map of rail infrastructure in Ireland, it is clear we need to connect the west, as I said, from Galway through Mayo, Sligo and Donegal, and up to Derry. Unfortunately, the failure was in the North with the British Government and with our own Governments historically. This is an opportunity to put right...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (2 Mar 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...? There is a particular interest in the west. If we look at the map we see an historic failure and neglect to connect the west. Our vision is to have a connection from Derry through Donegal, Sligo and Mayo to Galway. The dream is to have a rail connection established from Derry in the north-west directly through Portadown and on to Dublin.

Council Development Levies: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Independent Group for tabling this important motion. In County Donegal, as well as in counties Mayo, Sligo, Clare and Limerick, thousands of families are living in defective concrete block homes. For many years, they were stymied and held back from getting justice and a redress scheme that would allow them to rebuild their lives. They did nothing wrong. Due to light-touch...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jan 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...remediation works based on up-to-date regulations and whole apartments being done, are all very welcome but there is a significant hurt, as the Tánaiste must be aware. In counties Donegal, Mayo, Sligo, Clare and Limerick, people who live in defective concrete block homes have legislation that is not giving any of that. Will the Government urgently amend the Remediation of Dwellings...

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...xd3; Broin. I cannot for the life of me understand why the Minister of State will not task the housing agency and local authorities, be they in Donegal, Mayo, Clare, Limerick and, soon, it is hoped, Sligo and other counties, with assisting families stuck in homes that are not fit for human habitation. How can he force families to remain in those homes this winter? Why is he not helping...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (4 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...only received circa 10% of the recent funding approved by the HSE for congregated settings under the capital developments scheme across community healthcare Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan and Sligo. [22281/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...County Donegal ophthalmology service that have vacated their positions in recent times; and if the newly appointed consultants for this service will be based in County Donegal rather than County Sligo to oversee the full ophthalmic teams there in order that they can continue at the very least to deliver the same level of care to an enormous existing service. [12669/22]