196. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of central Exchequer funding that he proposes to invest in piers and harbours across the State over the next number of years in addition to that invested from the BAR fund. [26032/22]
134. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to secure a share of the European Union’s quota of Atlantic bluefin tuna for the Irish fishing fleet to reflect the abundance of the species in Irish territorial waters and the Irish EEZ; and his views on whether such a quota could be of particular benefit to the inshore fishing fleet. [26031/22]
75. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if he will restore the full range of cardiac services to Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will work with his counterparts in the North of Ireland to offer an extended cardiac service at Letterkenny University Hospital to patients on both sides of the Border as is the case with the north west cancer centre in Altnagelvin, Derry. [25410/22]
29. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if he will urgently review the categorisation of Letterkenny University Hospital in order that it reflects the number of inpatients at the hospital each year; and if he will increase the level of investment in the sixth-largest hospital in the State. [25411/22]
110. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education when a decision will be made on a ASA application for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26723/22]
87. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport for a child (details supplied) will issue in time for their intended travel date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26870/22]
19. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport the pass rate of all driving test centres in County Donegal in tabular form; and the way this compares to all other centres throughout the State. [26853/22]
725. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has engaged with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and his Department officials to ensure that a reasonable proportion of the community benefit funds paid by offshore wind energy companies to meet their responsibilities under the renewable electricity support scheme is ring-fenced for the benefit of fishing communities and fishing organisations nearest to those wind energy sites. [26231/22]
620. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the reason that a medical laboratory scientist graduate, after studying an intensive course for four years and registering with their professional body (details supplied), has a starting salary of less than a medical laboratory aide who requires a minimum of a leaving certificate. [25951/22]
619. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the reason that there is no pay parity between clinical scientists and medical laboratory scientists given that both professions perform the same duties often working side by side in the same laboratory. [25950/22]
483. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason that an application for working family payment was disallowed for a person in County Donegal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26398/22]
341. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will facilitate representations to his office from MLAs and MPs, on behalf of their constituents in the North of Ireland on Irish passport applications on a similar basis to TDs and Senators in this State, to reflect the reality that they represent Irish citizens also and the high volume of passport applications from Irish citizens in the North of Ireland. [26503/22]
118. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will seek clarification from the relevant Department that the costs of judicial review by a State agency, that is a statutory consultee in the aquaculture licensing process will be funded by public expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26424/22]
251. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs when a passport will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25456/22]
780. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will announce the next tie-up scheme for boats in the Irish fishing industry from the Brexit Adjustment Reserve Fund particularly in view of high fuel costs due to the global energy crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24875/22]
779. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will announce the decommissioning scheme for boats in the Irish fishing industry from the Brexit Adjustment Reserve Fund that was announced almost one year ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24874/22]
357. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that all applications under the current aquaculture licensing system undergoing statutory consultation are subject to fair and due process throughout the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23903/22]
343. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment with the children’s disability network team in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24029/22]
167. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his views on the future of snap net fishing on the river Suir following its closure a number of years ago; and if his Department will engage with fishermen in the area who wish to examine options for the future. [23905/22]
874. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 559 of 4 May 2022, if he will reinvest the €9 million, saved to his Department by this announcement back into investing in other piers and harbours in County Donegal or into the further development of Greencastle Harbour [23354/22]
850. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the deadline for the coming into force of the Sea Fisheries Act 2022; and if the deadline set by his Department of 3 May 2022 will be extended for masters and skippers who are Irish citizens to apply for acceptance of their application for registration onto the Irish Fishing Master Register. [22764/22]
726. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an assessment of needs in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22763/22]
566. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Social Protection if there is flexibility around carer’s allowance means testing for couples who are partners, considering they cannot avail of tax breaks in the same way as married couples. [23353/22]
474. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education if a library will be returned to its original location in a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23428/22]
167. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is considering extending the eligibility of the defective concrete block grant scheme to secondary homeowners with the same conditions already indicated by the Government for some, making the property available for the rental market for a defined period of time. [22507/22]
574. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to extend the retirement age of workers in Pobal-funded community service programmes across the State. [21713/22]
559. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his announcement of €9 million of funding from the Brexit Adjustment Reserve Fund for Greencastle Breakwater, County Donegal is the same project that he announced funding for almost a year ago with a €9 million contribution from his Department. [21761/22]
542. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the reason that the cardiac radiology unit that was donated to Letterkenny University Hospital by a group (details supplied) in 2018 has not been commissioned. [22283/22]
541. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if the angiogram service will be retained in the cardiac unit at Letterkenny University Hospital and will be built upon at the hospital working on a cross-Border basis for the persons in counties Donegal, Derry and west County Tyrone. [22282/22]
540. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the reason that County Donegal only received circa 10% of the recent funding approved by the HSE for congregated settings under the capital developments scheme across community healthcare Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan and Sligo. [22281/22]
89. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will ensure that a reasonable proportion of the community benefit funds paid by offshore wind energy companies to meet their responsibilities under the renewable electricity support scheme is ring fenced for the benefit of fishing communities and fishing organisations nearest to those wind energy sites. [22011/22]
1916. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made towards adding Dunmore East to the list of designated piers and harbours in the State that can facilitate the landing of fishing vessels registered in Northern Ireland considering the presence of the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority officials at the harbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20674/22]
1915. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagements he has had with other Departments to examine opportunities for fishermen to allow for transferability of their licences between fishing and non-fishing activities, which, in the instance of offshore wind, would allow skippers to carry out maintenance and remedial works on renewable infrastructure on some days and fish others days; the amount per fisherman such an initiative may cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20673/22]
1914. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current requests for capital funding for improvement and-or maintenance work at State-owned and local authority-owned harbours and quays across the State, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20671/22]
1902. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the landing days and hours for UK and North of Ireland registered fishing vessels landing in designated piers and harbours in this State; and if his attention has been drawn to the danger to small-scale fishermen in particular from limited days and times for landing fish that may force them to fish in poor weather conditions. [20310/22]
1458. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if he will examine the possibility of nurses and other healthcare workers having the right to early retirement through a cost neutral early retirement scheme similar to that available to teachers in this State. [19685/22]
1300. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice when her Department will publish the Interdepartmental review of the atypical work permit scheme for non-European Economic Area fishers; if her Department plans to incorporate fishermen into the critical skills permit scheme; the estimated cost of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20672/22]
1042. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Social Protection the supports that are available to parents of children who are off school due to Covid-19 for time off work in this scenario. [20249/22]
1041. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason that carers in receipt of carer’s benefit or carer’s allowance are not also entitled to any illness or sickness benefit like other workers, if they are off work from their part-time work due to illness or sickness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20248/22]
744. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs when a passport will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20028/22]
652. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the timeline which the steering group NSAI Standardisation Programme - Masonry Construction that was established to oversee a review of the standard IS 465 is working to; the deadline for the completion of this review; and the international expertise it will be seeking to assist in its work. [20242/22]
542. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the level of consultation with trade unions that represent teachers and school staff regarding the changes to special leave with pay arrangements that were brought in on 6 February 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19530/22]
541. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the level of consultation with the trade unions that represent healthcare workers regarding the changes to special leave with pay arrangements that were brought in on 6 February 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19529/22]
210. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on abolishing the mandatory retirement age in some sectors of the economy and particularly in the area of community development. [20940/22]
100. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport if he will ensure that his Department's officials urgently engage with their counterparts in the Department of the Taoiseach and the board of the City of Derry Airport to provide financial assistance to the airport utilising the shared island fund. [21017/22]
288. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport will issue on time for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19073/22]
413. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason for the delay in processing a passport for a person (details supplied) submitted on 24 November 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18063/22]
383. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of positions in the community intervention teams for County Donegal that are currently not filled; the titles of those posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17169/22]
382. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of nurses per patient in every ward at Letterkenny University Hospital in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and the way that these numbers compare to considered safe ratios of nurses to patients. [17168/22]
325. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the very positive impact of a project (details supplied); and if he will ensure that this project can be centrally funded by his Department or the HSE after their current funding runs out in the next six months. [17170/22]