Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Hospital Staff Recruitment

Pádraig MacLochlainn

779. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has advertised for a consultant urologist for Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal, to replace the previous consultant (details supplied) who resigned in February 2015. [38020/15]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Pádraig MacLochlainn

780. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number on waiting lists at Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal, awaiting surgery under its urology department for the years 2011 to 2014, and in 2015 to date. [38021/15]

Cancer Services Funding

Pádraig MacLochlainn

781. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if referrals of breast cancer patients can be extended beyond County Donegal to increase the number of these patients at Letterkenny General Hospital to facilitate the appointment of a second consultant breast surgeon and further to secure the long-term viability of breast cancer services at the hospital. [38022/15]

Hospital Staff

Pádraig MacLochlainn

782. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if the service level agreements between the Health Service Executive medical education and training unit and the College of Anaesthetists, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland require the colleges to ensure the fair and equal distribution of training posts for junior doctors to hospitals throughout the State, and reflects the service requirements of the executive in hospitals across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38023/15]

Cancer Services Funding

Pádraig MacLochlainn

783. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health his views that the centralisation of breast cancer referrals from general practitioners in County Donegal to University Hospital Galway and away from Letterkenny General Hospital is good practice; and if this practice is consistent with securing the long-term sustainability of breast cancer services at Letterkenny General Hospital. [38024/15]

Health Services Provision

Pádraig MacLochlainn

797. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive requires a receipt with proof of travel as part of the application for reimbursement of financial expenses for patients from here who have availed of medical procedures or operations across the Border; his view on whether forms that are completed by the relevant hospital or clinic confirming that a procedure or operation took place on a given date should suffice. [38074/15]

Further Education and Training Colleges

Pádraig MacLochlainn

951. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Question No. 656 of 6 October 2015 regarding accountability and transparency in further education grading procedures, if she will note that the policies and guidelines available on the Quality and Qualifications Ireland website at www.qqi.ie make no provision for further-education students to receive an explanation of the reasons they have been awarded a particular overall grade on coursework they have submitted, in contrast to policies and guidelines governing higher education students, for whom such a provision does exist, as published on the this website in 'Assessment and Standards, Revised 2013' by the Higher Education and Training Awards Council. [37647/15]

Harbours and Piers Maintenance

Pádraig MacLochlainn

1146. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is aware that two boats, a 30 m mussel dredger and a smaller fishing boat, have been abandoned and are derelict at the quay at Ramelton in County Donegal; the assistance his Department will provide to remove these. [37396/15]

Air Services Provision

Pádraig MacLochlainn

1148. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the application from the City of Derry Airport for his Department to co-fund the re-instatement of the Derry to Dublin air connection, along with the British Government Department for Transport and the airport itself; and if he will accede to this request in acknowledgement of the infrastructural deficits in linking Donegal and Derry to Dublin, in comparison to all other major cities and regions. [37230/15]

Cross-Border Co-operation

Pádraig MacLochlainn

104. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has held discussions with the Minister of Justice in the Northern Ireland Assembly, Mr. David Ford, on the proposal by the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly, BIPA, for the establishment of a permanent cross-Border task force aimed at targeting organised criminal gangs involved with cross-Border illicit trade; and if she supports the proposal. [35320/15]

Legislative Measures

Pádraig MacLochlainn

115. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will advance the long-awaited mediation Bill through the Houses of the Oireachtas. [35309/15]

Oireachtas Joint Committee Reports

Pádraig MacLochlainn

139. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the Government's response to the March 2013 report on penal reform from the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality. [35311/15]

Garda Investigations

Pádraig MacLochlainn

141. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will meet with the sister of a child (details supplied) who disappeared from her Donegal home in 1977 to discuss recent developments in this case. [35310/15]

Legislative Measures

Pádraig MacLochlainn

143. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will advance the long-awaited Judicial Council Bill through the Houses of the Oireachtas. [35308/15]

Sentencing Policy

Pádraig MacLochlainn

145. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider legislating for the introduction of a sentencing council similar to that in place in England and Wales. [35307/15]

Community Employment Schemes Eligibility

Pádraig MacLochlainn

188. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will consider a special dispensation for retired members of the Defence Forces, with no other means other than their pension, to avail of social welfare supports, and participation in various schemes. [36443/15]

Garda Station Closures

Pádraig MacLochlainn

376. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the decision to close 139 Garda Síochána stations will now be reviewed, following her confirmation that theses closures have only saved the State an average of €4,000 per station per year. [35319/15]

Care of the Elderly Provision

Pádraig MacLochlainn

439. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health his plans, to construct a 100-bedroom care facility for the elderly in Letterkenny in County Donegal; that this facility will serve the elderly population across County Donegal [36155/15]

Health Services Provision

Pádraig MacLochlainn

440. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health his plans to address the growing number of men in County Donegal who have to travel to County Galway to receive treatment for prostate cancer; if he will confirm that Letterkenny General Hospital will be provided with the requisite staff to serve these patients [36156/15]

Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists

Pádraig MacLochlainn

441. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of children in County Donegal presently awaiting orthodontic treatment; and the length of time they have been on the waiting lists [36157/15]