Parliamentary questions

Social Welfare Benefits

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

303. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Social Protection if there are any State supports available to a family whose home has been seriously damaged by a lightning strike and who may lose out financially due to the gap between the insurance pay out and the actual cost of repair. [9202/24]

Harbours and Piers

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

381. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for a progress report on the west wharf extension and return project for Dunmore East Harbour, to which €300,000 was allocated in the Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme 2023, but which has no allocation in the 2024 Development Programme, and with, I am advised, no works having been carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8845/24]

Harbours and Piers

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

382. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the €150,000 funding announced for a new retaining wall along cliff in the Fishery Harbour Centres and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme 2024 is a reannouncement of funding for the same project committed to in the development programme for 2023 or if it is additional monies for further expansion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8846/24]

Harbours and Piers

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

383. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a full breakdown in tabular form of all funding spent and committed to in the Fishery Harbour Centres and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programmes at the six State-owned fishery harbour centres since 2020; if he will provide details of any projects that were announced but not commenced or completed during those years; the amount of funding that was allocated to projects but then did not proceed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8847/24]

Hospital Services

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

583. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when physiotherapy and occupational therapy services will be reinstated for patients and residents at a hospital (details supplied). [9149/24]

Departmental Data

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

584. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked 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]

Dental Services

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

585. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when dental services will be reinstated for patients and residents at a hospital (details supplied). [9151/24]

Healthcare Policy

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

586. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health to clarify the current policy of step down and convalescent patients being transferred from a hospital (details supplied). [9152/24]

Hospital Services

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

587. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when the day centre service will be reinstated to a hospital (details supplied). [9153/24]

General Practitioner Services

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

597. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when the HSE will reinstate the five-days-a-week doctor-GP service at the Churchill Health Centre, County Donegal. [9203/24]

Healthcare Infrastructure Provision

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

612. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if he will ask the HSE or Saolta University Health Care Group to commence the process of identifying a site in Letterkenny, County Donegal, for a two-theatre elective surgery hospital to support the team of surgeons at Letterkenny University Hospital and to reduce waiting lists for patients in Donegal. [9239/24]

Hospital Facilities

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

618. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will deliver a minor injury unit to be based at Carndonagh Community Hospital as part of the plan to reduce attendances at the crisis-laden emergency department at Letterkenny University Hospital. [9274/24]

Hospital Staff

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

619. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked 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]

Hospital Staff

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

620. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked 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]

Hospital Facilities

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

622. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health his views on whether it is acceptable that ten years since the major flood at Letterkenny University Hospital, the onsite outpatient clinic has not been reinstated at the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9279/24]

Health Services Staff

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

628. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has not appointed a child psychologist to work with children living with diabetes in Donegal, as would be normal practice across the State. [9306/24]

Defective Building Materials

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

173. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the NSAI has received research results and-or statements from the research partners engaged by the GSI to investigate the issue of defective concrete in Ireland. [8521/24]

Defective Building Materials

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

174. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if in the interest of transparency for families impacted by the defective concrete crisis, he will ensure that all research results, whether interim or final, and all statements received by the NSAI to date from the Geological Survey Ireland and research partners are published forthwith. [8522/24]

Defective Building Materials

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

175. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if all research results, whether interim or final, and statements from the independent research partners commissioned by Geological Survey Ireland into the issue of defective concrete are being acted upon with due diligence with immediate effect by his Department, NSAI and the Housing Agency. [8523/24]

Defective Building Materials

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

176. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on his Department, the NSAI, the Housing Agency and local authorities persisting to administer the multi-billion euro defective concrete block scheme based upon a flawed desktop study, without prudently and immediately taking into account the clear scientific evidence from independent researchers that the primary cause of defective concrete in all counties is internal sulphate attack. [8524/24]