Results 1-20 of 49 for sligo speaker:Thomas Pringle

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Apr 2024)

Thomas Pringle: ...no advanced nurse practitioners in adult diabetes, no podiatrists, no paediatric endocrinologists and no physiologists. There is no shared centre of excellence for children between Letterkenny and Sligo University Hospital and no access to adult insulin pump therapy due to a severe shortage of endocrinologists for over ten years. Recall waiting list times are now over 36 months in some...

Healthcare Provision in Rural Communities: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2024)

Thomas Pringle: ...the people of south Donegal, who have suffered from a lack of healthcare services for many years. A new hospital equipped to provide professional services for older people in south Donegal, north Sligo and north Leitrim is certainly welcome and well overdue. Unfortunately, however, there is still a long way to go in addressing the lack of services in Donegal. Hospitals like Killybegs...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Thomas Pringle: ...south west and another for the north east, as was the case previously, which would ensure Donegal was reunited as a functioning area. It seems the reason this was not done at this time related more to Sligo-Leitrim than to Donegal, because in order for Donegal to be reinstated as two constituencies or a single, whole-county constituency, an equivalent area would have to be taken from...

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Thomas Pringle: ...turnover rates. At the beginning of September, the overall national vacancy rate was at 34%. In Donegal the vacancy rate was over 40% in the CDNT areas of Donegal north, Inishowen and Donegal east, and Sligo-south Donegal. There is no doubt that recruitment is a major issue, however, the newly founded special needs parents network in Donegal has stated that employee retention, staff...

Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Thomas Pringle: ...increasing homelessness across the country. Homelessness in the north west is increasing significantly as well, as the Minister of State knows. In 2018, in the north west, which includes Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim, there were 371 people homeless. That had grown to 539 people by 2022, which represents 239 households. That, proportionately, is as high as it is anywhere else in the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Thomas Pringle: Recently, a constituent of mine wrote to me for the third time in less than a year. She stated: This month will mark one year since I joined the waiting list for an insulin pump in Sligo University Hospital, and still there is no end in sight. In fact, I have been informed that almost no one has been taken off this list in the past year and I am essentially in the same position I was in...

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

Thomas Pringle: ...fully support this motion and commend Sinn Féin on putting it forward. The motion calls on the Government to legislate for mandatory safe staffing levels in hospitals. The current waiting lists for Sligo and Letterkenny hospitals are completely unacceptable, and many of my constituents have reported long waiting times and understaffing in both hospitals. These hospitals are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 May 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 836. To ask the Minister for Health if ophthalmic care can be established in Letterkenny University Hospital to cater for patients in North and West Donegal who currently have to travel by car to Sligo University hospital for treatment and routine appointments, which is up to two hours’ drive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24818/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Feb 2023)

Thomas Pringle: ...floor of the Chamber have been generic. The promised follow-ups hardly ever happen. On 18 October last year, the Tánaiste told me the following in relation to rolling out insulin pump services at Sligo General Hospital: "I am not so sure it is a funding issue but I will have the matter looked into". As usual, there was no follow-up from the Tánaiste so I contacted the hospital...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: ...contacted me in recent times about the delay in being able to access insulin pumps due to the chronic underfunding of diabetes services in the Saolta Hospital Group hospitals in Letterkenny and Sligo. For example, there is a waiting list of more than 80 referrals in Sligo alone. It is affecting people’s quality of life. I have been raising the various aspects of the diabetes...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2022)

Thomas Pringle: ...most recent homelessness statistics, which show that 106 individuals, including 22 child dependants, were provided with local authority-managed emergency accommodation in counties Donegal, Leitrim and Sligo during the week of 20 to 26 July 2022. The overall statistics represent an 8.1% increase month on month, with 98 people homeless in June 2022, and an increase of 13.97% year on year,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (13 Jul 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 100. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any further plans have been or are being developed to bring passenger rail services from Derry to Donegal Town, Sligo, Galway, Limerick and Cork in order to provide a working railway service along the west coast of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38181/22]

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: ...would also seek to extend the scheme State-wide now. In reality, this is where it will end up. There is no way the defective blocks saga is confined to counties Donegal, Mayo, Clare and Leitrim. We are aware that Sligo is affected, as are numerous other counties. The scheme must be nationwide. Why is it not nationwide? It must be some attempt by the Minister's officials to make it...

Higher Education Investment and Costs: Statements (2 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: ...on this today. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome the establishment of the Atlantic Technological University, ATU, which comprises Letterkenny IT, including the Killybegs campus, Sligo IT and GMIT. I especially welcome the opportunities that this brings to the Donegal campuses. I attended the launch of the ATU in my home town of Killybegs recently. I am very excited about...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (5 May 2022)

Thomas Pringle: ...management, regional and national management levels. The one point in the report I take issue with is HIQA's assertion that this was prevalent only in the Donegal area of CHO 1. It highlights the Sligo area of CHO 1 as something of an exemplar. If there are problems with the identification, reporting and escalation of incidents of a safeguarding nature in the CHO 1 area, then to my mind...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: ...organisation’s relationship nationally. That is a key part of this issue. There are serious concerns about how residential centres are currently being managed in Donegal, in addition to Cavan, Leitrim, Sligo and Monaghan, but I also have concerns regarding HSE management nationally and how the CHOs relate to national management. We also need to address problems with HIQA. I have...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: ...in Donegal have been waiting over a year to get necessary treatment due to the lack of an ophthalmic service in the county. The ophthalmic service for the north west is now mostly based in Sligo University Hospital as Letterkenny does not currently have the required nursing and medical staff. Despite this, there does not seem to be any push in putting in place the staff and facilities...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...prior to the publication of the working-group report on the grant scheme. I can tell the Minister that they went down like the Titanicwith people in Donegal. I am sure it was the same in Mayo, Sligo, Clare, Tipperary and other affected countries. What happened only served to enrage the people in my constituency who have sincerely engaged with the processes put in place by the Minister...

Cork University Maternity Hospital: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...be the burning question today for every parent who has lost a baby in maternity wards in the State. I have contacted management at the Saolta University Health Care Group, which covers Letterkenny, Sligo and Galway hospitals, and covers my constituency, to see if they can categorically say that this situation does not exist there, and that they have checked. They have replied that they...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 740. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for the home support grant which were approved in counties Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo and Mayo in the period 2011 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46355/21]