Results 41-49 of 49 for sligo speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Seanad: Report on Children's Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (30 May 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...continuously failing our children. We need to drill down into the detail of this issue now, and with urgency. Take, for example, community healthcare organisation, CHO, area 1, which covers counties Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Cavan and Monaghan. A parliamentary question tabled by my colleague, Deputy Louise O'Reilly, last June found that staffing levels in CHO 1, which is my area, were at...

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (15 Nov 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...in a bed which is not specific to their needs. Many are forced to be on trolleys in the hospital. The waiting list runs to almost 17,000. If we include those waiting in south Donegal to access Sligo hospital, one in eight people in my home county is on a waiting list that is growing all the time. I note that the previous Minister, now Senator James Reilly, acknowledged that there had...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Staff Recruitment (13 Apr 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...and children have type 2 diabetes. We need a team of endocrinologists and nurse specialists who can deal with children and adults. We need a centre of excellence in the north-west region of Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim. The nearest centre of excellence for diabetes care is in Limerick and the paediatric endocrinologist at Sligo University Hospital has left her position to work in the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Staff Recruitment (13 Apr 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...that it has been well documented that diabetes care will prevent long-term interventions such as amputations and long-term conditions such as loss of sight. The paediatrician endocrinologist at Sligo University Hospital has moved to the centre of excellence in Limerick. The failure to deliver a centre of excellence in counties Donegal and Sligo, as justified by the numbers involved, has...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Apr 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...prevents very serious conditions from occurring down the line. Not only has the crisis not been addressed, it has got worse. We have learned this morning that the paediatric endocrinologist in Sligo who is responsible for providing the pump therapy clinics in Letterkenny for children in County Donegal will move to a new position and not be replaced. Children in County Donegal who...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Fire Service (15 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 559. To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish that the guidelines that were agreed by the chief fire officers in counties Donegal, Leitrim and Sligo fire service, ambulance service, Health Service Executive West, Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim and CAMP West, to identify the circumstances when it is appropriate for the call taker receiving the emergency call to request the attendance of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Incidence (19 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...for Health the number of children who have high medical and / or care needs, while they are fighting cancer, and attending children's wards, in Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal and Sligo Regional Hospital [7460/15]

Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: .... Such is the extent of that crisis that the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has said they are the worst conditions it has seen in 15 years. Patients across the county are being diverted to Sligo Regional Hospital. I ask the Tánaiste to state whether the Government will remove the moratorium and allow the management of Letterkenny General Hospital to allocate the...

Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (17 Jul 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 896: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is considering the proposed Sligo to Derry rail link as part of the pilot project bonds European Union investment package. [34825/12]