Ní féidir ach ceisteanna agus freagraí a foilsíodh tar éis Iúil 2012 a amharc anseo. Is féidir amharc de réir téarma nó dátaí ar leith ó Mhárta 2016 ar aghaidh do Ranna Rialtais. Foilsítear freagraí scríofa de réir mar a fhaightear iad ó Ranna. Chun ceisteanna parlaiminte a foilsíodh roimh Iúil 2012 a fheiceáil, cuardaigh Díospóireachtaí na Dála.
Ceisteanna agus freagraí le haghaidh gach suí
Leathanach 1 de 53
Déar, 30 Beal 2024
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Defective Building Materials
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
104. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he plans to make changes to the enhanced defective concrete block grant scheme to address the concerns of the estimated 3,000 persons who have attended public meetings in Donegal and Mayo and called for a genuine 100% redress scheme similar to that provided to the victims of the pyrite scandal in Dublin and north Leinster;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23799/24]
Déar, 30 Beal 2024
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Housing Provision
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
130. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of the long standing housing issues in Carndonagh and Milford town, County Donegal whereby Donegal County Council and affordable housing bodies cannot proceed with the purchase of a large number of properties in both towns, for families and persons on the social housing list due to his Department's limits and rules; and if he will intervene to find a reasonable solution in both instances.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23798/24]
Céad, 29 Beal 2024
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Special Educational Needs
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
81. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education if her Department will work with the board of management of a school (details supplied) to establish an ASD unit, when their change of status to a co-educational school proceeds soon; and if she and her Department are aware that the school has a long history of innovation in special education, and with an administrative principal and specialist trained SEN staff (to masters level) already in place and two classrooms immediately available for use as ASD units, alongside their spacious grounds and large sports hall, they are in an ideal position to establish an ASD unit. [24183/24]
Máirt, 28 Beal 2024
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School Accommodation
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
22. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education if she will urgently review the decision by her Department not to include a school (details supplied) in the school capital building programme. [23739/24]
Máirt, 28 Beal 2024
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School Transport
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
36. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education when she will reach a decision on the demand from school transport escorts for fair pay and conditions to reflect the importance of their work for young people with disabilities and their families. [23740/24]
Máirt, 28 Beal 2024
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
365. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will, as a matter of urgency, ensure that the European Commission establishes, by means of an implementing decision, the occurrence of an "exceptional event" in relation to the global COVID-19 pandemic, and that the operational programme for the 2021-2027 EMFAF is designed to enable the prompt and efficient drawdown of these very urgent and crucial funds needed to stabilise struggling aquaculture businesses in Ireland. [23921/24]
Máirt, 21 Beal 2024
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Disability Services
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
523. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delays in reopening respite services in the Ard Aoibhinn Unit in Carndonagh, County Donegal; when he expects a HIQA inspection to be carried out at the unit; and if he can provide an ongoing update on same, until such a time that it reopens. [22714/24]
Máirt, 21 Beal 2024
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Hospital Appointments Status
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
577. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment in Temple Street Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22461/24]
Máirt, 21 Beal 2024
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Care Services
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
616. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if the HSE can provide a post-operative bed for a person in County Donegal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22812/24]
Déar, 16 Beal 2024
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Road Projects
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
72. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide an update and progress report on the current status of the TEN-T project for Donegal. [22072/24]
Déar, 16 Beal 2024
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Air Services
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
83. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport the current status of the application from City of Derry Airport to have Irish Government support for the Derry to Dublin air link reinstated. [22071/24]
Máirt, 14 Beal 2024
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Passport Services
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
85. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if a first-time passport application (details supplied) will be processed in time for travel on 14 May 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21222/24]
Máirt, 14 Beal 2024
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Passport Services
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
86. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if a first-time passport application (details supplied) will be processed in time for travel on 14 May 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21223/24]
Máirt, 14 Beal 2024
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Grant Payments
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
101. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when clarity will be provide to the SEAI by his Department and the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications to ensure that applicants to the enhanced defective concrete block grant scheme can avail of the maximum SEAI retrofitting grant. [21632/24]
Máirt, 14 Beal 2024
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Defective Building Materials
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
376. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he plans to increase the cap for the enhanced defective concrete block grant scheme in line with increased building construction costs, as advised by an organisation (details supplied). [21631/24]
Déar, 9 Beal 2024
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Defective Building Materials
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
206. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the draft regulations pertaining to the defective concrete block scheme for social housing remediation works will be adopted and published (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21022/24]
Déar, 9 Beal 2024
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Ukraine War
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
230. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice if she and her Department will engage with the UK authorities to examine if an exemption could be allowed for Ukrainian refugee children based in Donegal and other Border counties to travel across the Border into Northern Ireland to avail of amenities such as swimming, cinemas and school tours. [21070/24]
Déar, 9 Beal 2024
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Health Services Staff
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
239. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice if she has engaged with her colleague the Minister for Foreign Affairs on what can be done to assist medical professionals working in our health service who have family back home in Sudan, by way of humanitarian assistance; and if she has received requests for humanitarian visas for family members of these medical professionals. [21076/24]
Céad, 8 Beal 2024
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Passport Services
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
67. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if a child's first-time passport (details supplied) will be processed in time for travel on 5 May 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20270/24]
Céad, 8 Beal 2024
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Departmental Budgets
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
469. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will make available the total budgeted amount allocated to each CDNT area in County Donegal (details supplied) from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20685/24]
Céad, 8 Beal 2024
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Departmental Budgets
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
470. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will make available the total expenditure of the allocated budget spent for each children's disability network team, CDNT, area in County Donegal (details supplied) from 1 January to 31 December 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20686/24]
Céad, 8 Beal 2024
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Disability Services
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
471. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current staff vacancy rates in each of the CDNT areas in Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20687/24]
Céad, 1 Beal 2024
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Fishing Industry
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
210. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has confidence in the fisheries sales notes system to deliver robust and accurate fisheries data in order that Ireland can comply with its obligations under the Common Fisheries Policy and other EU regulations. [19689/24]
Céad, 1 Beal 2024
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Fishing Industry
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
211. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what supports he intends to introduce to support fishermen affected by the restrictions on directed fishing for pollack as is the case in the UK under its fisheries and seafood scheme. [19690/24]
Céad, 1 Beal 2024
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Fishing Industry
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
212. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a social impact analysis has been carried out, prior to the closure of the targeted pollack fisheries in ICES areas 6 and 7. [19691/24]
Céad, 1 Beal 2024
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Fishing Industry
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
213. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that the pollack ICES benchmark report listed a significant number of issues with the data used to base the closure decision; and the steps being taken to address these shortcomings at a national level. [19692/24]
Céad, 1 Beal 2024
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Fishing Industry
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
214. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that there is a risk that a future ICES pollack benchmark without appropriate representative inshore survey data being collected will result in prolonged closures with significant social impacts; and the steps being taken to address this. [19693/24]
Céad, 1 Beal 2024
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Fishing Industry
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
215. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures being introduced to incorporate fishermen's traditional knowledge into fisheries co-management, in order to improve knowledge and outcomes. [19694/24]
Céad, 1 Beal 2024
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Fishing Industry
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
216. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has a plan to prioritise selective low-impact fishing practices such as line caught fishing during future fishery negotiations. [19695/24]
Máirt, 30 Aib 2024
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Passport Services
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
153. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will ensure that two child passports will be processed on-time for two siblings (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19288/24]
Máirt, 30 Aib 2024
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School Funding
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
363. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education if she will review the decision not to grant a school (details supplied) funding under the emergency works scheme. [19462/24]
Máirt, 30 Aib 2024
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Schools Building Projects
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
364. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education if she will meet with the board of management of a school (details supplied) to discuss their serious concerns at the failure of her Department to consider inclusion of the school in the forthcoming school capital building programme. [19463/24]
Máirt, 30 Aib 2024
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Hospital Services
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
737. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if he will support and implement the call from a group (details supplied) for a consultant neurology service to be based in Letterkenny University Hospital.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19466/24]
Máirt, 30 Aib 2024
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Health Services
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
738. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the reason memory assessment support services for persons with dementia and their families has not been rolled out in County Donegal. [19467/24]
Máirt, 30 Aib 2024
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Hospital Services
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
739. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when the Saolta University Healthcare Group will meet with TDs, Senators and HSE forum county councillors in County Donegal to update them on the progress made in addressing the grave concerns of over 100 GPs and hospital consultants in the county about the level of health services being provided at Letterkenny University Hospital and the solutions that they had put forward late last year; and if the Saolta University Healthcare Group will commit to a dedicated meeting with those County Donegal public representatives every three months to update them further on the progress made, as previously committed to. [19468/24]
Déar, 25 Aib 2024
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Passport Services
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
110. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs 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 if he will make a statement on the matter. [18519/24]
Déar, 25 Aib 2024
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Passport Services
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
111. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs 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]
Déar, 25 Aib 2024
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Passport Services
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
112. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs 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]
Déar, 25 Aib 2024
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Passport Services
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
113. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department will open a passport office in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18522/24]
Déar, 25 Aib 2024
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Passport Services
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
114. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs 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]
Máirt, 23 Aib 2024
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Inland Fisheries
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
112. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications 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]
Máirt, 23 Aib 2024
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Health and Safety
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
286. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education 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]
Máirt, 23 Aib 2024
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Fisheries Protection
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
498. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked 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 a statement on the matter. [18010/24]
Máirt, 23 Aib 2024
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Fisheries Protection
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
499. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked 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]
Máirt, 23 Aib 2024
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Equality Issues
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
551. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked 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]
Máirt, 23 Aib 2024
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Hospital Appointments Status
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
634. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked 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]
Máirt, 23 Aib 2024
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Health Services
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
635. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked 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 based on their needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17742/24]
Máirt, 23 Aib 2024
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Hospital Services
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
672. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked 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]
Máirt, 16 Aib 2024
oral
Schools Building Projects
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
60. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education for an update on when construction will commence on new school buildings (details supplied). [16349/24]
Máirt, 16 Aib 2024
written
Schools Building Projects
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
70. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education when she will meet the board of management of a school (details supplied) and urgently review the decision by her Department not to include the school in the school capital buildings programme; and if she has received correspondence from the board of management of the school, confirming that it can provide an alternative and appropriate site for a new school at no cost to the State. [16350/24]