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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to establish a designated telephone helpline or allow access to the Oireachtas passport query service for members of the Legislative Assembly in Northern Ireland, since it is restored and functioning, allowing members of parliament to query passport applications on behalf of Irish citizens in the North of Ireland; and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if any briefings with members of the Legislative Assembly in Northern Ireland, members of parliament and their staff will be provided ahead of the summer months to assist constituency offices in the North of Ireland to provide up-to-date information on the passport process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18520/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 112. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications queried through the members of the Legislative Assembly passport online portal since it was launched in April 2023, by month, in tabular form; the current waiting time for a query response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18521/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department will open a passport office in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18522/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is satisfied that the current online passport application system processes queries on paperwork or requests for additional documentation as quickly as possible; his views on whether queries should be put back for significant time periods when queries arise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18523/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (23 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline what role Inland Fisheries Ireland plays regarding the by-catch in relation to bass, sea trout, salmon, kelts and salmon smolts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18012/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health and Safety (23 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will assist the board of management of a school (details supplied) to ensure that the entire site at the school is surveyed and cleared of any potentially explosive devices following the discovery of same on the site last November. [17494/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (23 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 498. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what research has been carried out on the link between the decline in the sea trout population and sprat fishing in south Kerry; what the allowable by-catch is as a percentage of the total sprat catch in south Kerry; the volume of the total sprat for each of the years since 2007 in south Kerry, in tabular form; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (23 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 499. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the current law regarding mesh size in the brailers for use in the south Kerry region; if the Sea Fisheries Protection Agency monitor the use of brailers to ensure mesh size requirements are being adhered to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18011/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (23 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 551. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has finalised his policy and legislative proposals for a tenth equality ground of socioeconomic status; when he will make public these proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17743/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (23 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 634. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for vestibular physiotherapy at Tallaght University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17741/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 635. To ask the Minister for Health the process for a disabled person to apply for a personal assistant through the HSE; if it is the same process in all CHO areas; what is the process for allocating hours to a person once a decision is made that a person qualifies for a personal assistant; if he will provide, in tabular form, a guide to the number of hours that can be allocated to a person...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 672. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with type 1 diabetes attending the adult diabetes service in Letterkenny University Hospital; the number waiting fewer than 12, between 12 and 24 and waiting more than 24 months for an endocrinology appointment; and the longest waiting time for an appointment. [17970/24]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have a letter that was sent to the Taoiseach this morning from the chairperson of the County Donegal branch of Diabetes Ireland, Paul Gillespie. In the letter he states, "Resources have deteriorated to such a level for Type 1 Diabetes care in LUH that we are concerned that patient safety of care is now beyond critical." The Minister, Deputy Charlie McConalogue will confirm everything I am...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No, it is much broader than that.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There are three positions for endocrinologists, all unfilled.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will come back to the Minister on the three-school campus on another day. In respect of the issue before us, she mentioned the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, but she is the Minister for Education. I want to be clear. Is she saying that in the days ahead, her Department is going to issue a letter of intent to the proposed contractor? Will that be followed very quickly by the signing of a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on when construction will commence on new school buildings (details supplied). [16349/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: My question is about when construction on a new school building in Scoil Íosagáin, Buncrana, will finally commence. The school has been waiting approximately 20 years now for this to happen. I cannot stress enough how appalling the conditions within the school buildings are. The Minister has been sent an email from the board of management containing more than 100 pages of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am struggling to find words here. I have just told the Minister that a 114-page document has been sent to her. I have seen it and it contains photographic evidence of the absolutely appalling conditions that teachers and children have to endure. Planning permission was lost because two contractors did not proceed to tender stage. There has been a lack of urgency in the Minister’s...