530. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of beds at Lifford Community Hospital, County Donegal in each of the years 2004 to 2024, in tabular form. [39097/24]
529. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of beds at Shiel Community Hospital, County Donegal in each of the years 2004 to 2024, in tabular form. [39096/24]
528. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of beds at Killybegs Community Hospital, County Donegal in each of the years 2004 to 2024, in tabular form. [39095/24]
527. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of beds at Dungloe Community Hospital, County Donegal in each of the years 2004 to 2024, in tabular form. [39094/24]
526. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of beds at Donegal town Community Hospital, County Donegal in each of the years 2004 to 2024, in tabular form. [39093/24]
525. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of beds at Ramelton Community Hospital, County Donegal in each of the years 2004 to 2024, in tabular form. [39092/24]
524. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of beds at Carndonagh Community Hospital, County Donegal in each of the years 2004 to 2024, in tabular form. [39091/24]
523. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of beds at Buncrana Community Hospital, County Donegal in each of the years 2004 to 2024, in tabular form. [39090/24]
425. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if a cost containment instruction and recruitment ban is in place for the CHO1 region of the HSE that is preventing the recruitment of additional healthcare assistants/ home support workers and home support resource managers; and if this applies to all CHO regions. [39089/24]
424. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of healthcare assistants/home support workers per home support resource manager in every county across the State, in tabular form. [39088/24]
423. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the percentage of home care support for older persons that is provided directly by the HSE; and the percentage of home care support for older persons that is provided indirectly by private home support companies in every county across the State, in tabular form. [39087/24]
422. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of additional healthcare assistants/home support workers and managers required to reduce the waiting list for older persons who require healthcare assistants/home support workers in County Donegal to zero, in tabular form. [39086/24]
421. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of older persons currently on the waiting list for healthcare assistants/home support workers in County Donegal, in tabular form. [39085/24]
279. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of ongoing issues in relation to the State regarding boundary disputes arising from the digitisation of land maps; and if he plans to implement the recommendations of the 2014 report of the Inter-Professional Task Force on Property Boundaries. [39147/24]
276. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will urgently engage with the Housing Agency on the need to pause all of its decisions to overturn the recommendations of engineers acting for homeowners, under the enhanced defective concrete block grant scheme, following confirmation from the National Standards Authority of Ireland that it intends to amend the standard I.S. 465 to make provision for internal sulphate attack (ISA) and testing to identify ISA, pyrrhotite alteration and other highly reactive forms of iron sulphide. [39022/24]
221. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education if she will reinstate the support services for children in DEIS rural schools. [39016/24]
102. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when a home care package or short-term care bed will be available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38000/24]
101. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have a procedure carried out at Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37999/24]
347. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he expects that a quota in white pollock will be available to the Irish fishing fleet next year. [37956/24]
345. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how officials from his Department and Bord Iascaigh Mhara can engage with the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland to ensure that fishermen can avail of financial supports and loans that compliment financial assistance from Bord Iascaigh Mhara or his Department and that help those fishermen to sustain their businesses in a challenging time for the industry. [37895/24]
187. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education the financial supports available to primary schools across the State to provide important life skills such as swimming lessons. [37641/24]
186. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education the status of the application by a school (details supplied) for a new building, having witnessed its seriously inadequate school facilities and amenities for herself, and given that the school’s board of management can provide an alternative and appropriate site for a new school at no cost to the State. [37640/24]
110. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport when his Departmental officials will respond to correspondence from the family of a person (details supplied); and if he will examine their points of concern as they pertain to the responsibilities of agencies in this jurisdiction and consult with the Road Safety Authority as to a substantive response. [37890/24]
809. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the report by the national critical care programme on critical care facilities at Letterkenny University Hospital, LUH, where it clearly states that existing facilities for critical care at the hospital are suboptimal, and highlights the lack of critical care beds and isolation rooms as particular problems; and if he will now urgently release the finances, as requested, to expand the critical care unit at LUH with ten additional beds, comprised of six intensive care unit and four high-dependency units. [36944/24]
689. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if an appointment in Manorhamilton Hospital for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36322/24]
653. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if, in relation to the amyloidosis model of care submitted in August 2020 and approved in October 2022, preparations are underway to reapply for the new service development submission that did not secure funding; if so, when the application will be submitted; and if it is realisable or acceptable for the national clinical advisor and group lead and assessment officer to attempt to implement the key areas nationally in the absence of funding. [36050/24]
652. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health to outline, in relation to the amyloidosis model of care submitted in August 2020 and approved in October 2022, the areas identified in the model of care that required funding in order to progress to implementation; and the reason the application for the new service development submission did not secure funding. [36049/24]
421. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the engagement between his Department officials and an organisation (details supplied) to establish further financial supports, zero-interest loans, and upfront payments to homeowners availing of the enhanced defective concrete block grant scheme. [36938/24]
420. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will ensure the 10% increase in the cap for the enhanced defective concrete block grant scheme is available to all homeowners who have already been granted support under the scheme, in line with the established principle of retrospective payments and fairness to all. [36937/24]
321. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education when a decision will be made 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. [36576/24]
191. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing a reduced rate of VAT for the sale of hand-weaved or hand-knitted products in Ireland, to provide an incentive to maintain these important heritage traditions across our country. [36762/24]
162. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport for a progress report on the Trans-European Transport Network project for Donegal. [36936/24]
161. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport the current status of the application from the City of Derry Airport to have Government support for the Derry to Dublin airlink reinstated. [36935/24]
1946. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when the two advanced nurse practitioner posts for adult type 1 diabetes care at Letterkenny University Hospital that have been applied for will be agreed to and filled. [35940/24]
1632. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when a parent in County Donegal (details supplied) can expect to receive a response from CAMHS in Ballyraine, Letterkenny. [34045/24]
1624. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect a decision on their primary medical certificate application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33989/24]
2482. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the negotiations that have taken place involving Ireland as part of the BeNeLuxA initiative for purchasing Skyclarys containing omaveloxalone, which is used in the treatment of Friedreich's ataxia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33166/24]
2108. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if the current home care package for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can be increased to include weekends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31605/24]
2075. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the geographical assignments for public health nurses in the Inishowen peninsula, County Donegal; and to provide a comparative of same with each of the years 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [31393/24]
2056. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when the necessary consultants, doctors and support staff will be appointed at Letterkenny University Hospital to address the growing waiting lists for dermatology patients in County Donegal. [31258/24]
1783. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the progress he has made to date in transposing the pay transparency directive into Irish law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31614/24]
1782. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth , further to Parliamentary Question No. 551 of 23 April, when he will publish his Department’s legislative proposals arising from its wider review of the Equal Status Acts 2000-2018 and the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31613/24]
1781. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the current home care package for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can be increased to include weekends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31604/24]
1717. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has had any talks with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment with a view to introducing increased cost-of-business supports for the aquaculture industry, given the significant increase in input costs over the past two years aligned with increased production losses; to provide any costings developed on introducing such a scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33485/24]
1635. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to publish a full outline of all funding provided to all fish producer organisations under the current financing arrangements; if he has provided any upfront funding to any of the named organisations for the years 2015 to 2024 inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31465/24]
1634. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a full breakdown of the annual budget for the Marine Institute for each of the years 2020 to 2024, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31464/24]
1628. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding provided to all fish producer organisations under the current financing arrangements; if upfront funding has been provided to any of the named organisations for the years 2015 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31321/24]
1627. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the moneys spent and allocated to the fishing industry and the associated fisheries representative agencies, such as the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority, Bord Iascaigh Mhara, the Marine Institute and Bord Bia, in the current European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund Operational Programme 2021-2027; the full breakdown for 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the future spending for following years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31320/24]
1485. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice the way an American citizen who holds a UEFA B qualification in football coaching would be treated for the purposes of attaining visa status to enter Ireland for work purposes in the football community; the visa entry options allowing work that are open to this individual; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31466/24]
1198. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on Ireland’s progress with the directive (details supplied); the funding he is identifying to ensure tertiary treatment is rolled out for all coastal wastewater treatment plants - specifically plants adjacent to bays and harbours where shellfish production is carried out to sustain food safety, rural jobs and enterprise; to outline costs of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33486/24]