271. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will ensure that aquaculture is taken under the remit of the Maritime Area Regulatory Agency given that it will be essential for the fair and correct development and management of the marine space. [10628/22]
176. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that two letters addressed to him on 18 and 19 October 2021 from the chairperson of Donegal Education and Training Board on supports for children affected by the MICA defective block crisis did not receive a response from him. [10139/22]
107. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the Housing Agency oversees the pyrite resolution scheme process for homeowners from start to finish; and the reason this is not being proposed for the updated defective concrete block grant scheme. [10133/22]
106. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if second homes that are not registered with the Residential Tenancies Board by a particular date are excluded from availing of the pyrite resolution scheme as is proposed for the updated defective concrete block grant scheme. [10132/22]
105. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the works carried out on homes under the pyrite resolution scheme are up to 2007 building standards as is being proposed by his Department for the updated defective concrete block grant scheme. [10131/22]
196. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport when the State will ratify the 2012 Cape Town Agreement for Fishing Vessel Safety. [9649/22]
980. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the consultation that he has undertaken with inshore and island fishermen around the coast on the sustainability of the crab species; and if this includes a ban on the use of crab meat for whelk bait. [8256/22]
979. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider opening a public consultation on the distribution and allocation of the mackerel and herring quota in this State. [8255/22]
978. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that the recently agreed European Union Control Plan for fish landings in piers and harbours across the State is published in full; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8254/22]
977. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the next industry briefing from the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8253/22]
368. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to increase the maximum grant allowed for housing aid for older persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8094/22]
181. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will implement the recommendations of the Sea Food Sector Taskforce report as it pertains to investment in piers and harbours across the State and supplement the Brexit Adjustment Reserve investment with central Exchequer funding; and if he will remove the recently announced limit of expenditure on individual piers and harbours under the Brexit Adjustment Reserve investment funds. [6870/22]
156. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that Ireland has not secured any of the substantial increases in Atlantic bluefin tuna quota allocated to the European Union fishing fleets over recent years; and if he will publish all correspondence from his Department to the relevant European Union authorities over recent years aimed at securing such quota for Ireland. [6869/22]
103. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the Government continues to tolerate the actions of the British Government in blocking access for Irish fishermen to their traditional fishing grounds around Rockall; and the estimated financial costs of this action to Irish fishermen in 2021. [6887/22]
181. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the huge increase in the running cost for fishermen in relation to the cost of their fishing vessels over the past year; and the financial supports or interventions he plans to make to address this. [7102/22]
345. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of the homeowners affected by MICA and pyrite defective blocks at the lack of detail in the information supplied to homeowners in relation to the scheme; and if he will re-establish a working group of officials who can liaise with families in counties Donegal and Mayo to address the information gaps in relation to the scheme. [6733/22]
344. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the updated MICA and pyrite redress scheme does not have one full-time employee working on the scheme in his Department; and the details of the persons who will serve on the proposed implementation group for the updated scheme. [6732/22]
343. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the National Standards Authority of Ireland has been asked to review IS 465 to include testing for pyrrhotite and other deleterious minerals in concrete blocks and foundations, in addition to pyrite and MICA; and if this is the reason his Department is not agreeing to the demolition and rebuilding of homes in County Donegal under the defective concrete block grant scheme at this time. [6731/22]
320. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps he can take with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to address the large-scale bureaucracy required to be completed by local authorities when they are looking to carry out necessary dredging works at piers and harbours under their control. [4403/22]
165. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education the reason the plans for the new three-school campus at Buncrana (details supplied) do not include sporting grounds and facilities, considering the lengthy delays that that this school build project has faced; the number of other new school build projects across the State, delivered in recent years that have included sporting grounds and facilities; and if she will request that her Department secure additional land adjacent to this site at Buncrana for this purpose. [4594/22]
77. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the next Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme 2022-2024 will open for applications. [3808/22]
526. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of staff who are currently on the diabetes pro-wellness team at Letterkenny University Hospital; the person who is the lead staff member; and the number of staff who have been relocated to Covid-19 care in recent times. [2887/22]
525. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the status of the paediatric diabetes shared centre of excellence between Letterkenny University Hospital and Sligo University Hospital. [2886/22]
524. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if care for adult diabetes patients at Letterkenny University Hospital has evolved to include insulin pump starts; the number of adult diabetes patients with pumps that are attending the hospital; and the frequency with which they get review appointments. [2885/22]
523. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the waiting list for review appointments for diabetes patents at Letterkenny University Hospital. [2884/22]
522. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of consultant endocrinologists for adults who are based in Letterkenny University Hospital. [2883/22]
280. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the board for Waterways Ireland will be fully reinstated. [3034/22]
266. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the financial support that her Department can provide to a club (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the significant financial cost for the club associated with participating in the European club championships. [3062/22]
1583. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when the North-West Regional Centre for Neurology at Sligo University Hospital will have a full complement of seven neurology nurse specialists in line with international best practice to service patients across the region. [1028/22]
1507. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the measures he and the HSE can take to improve the difficulties that paramedics encounter when they are looking to transfer from the ambulance service in Northern Ireland or Britain over to the National Ambulance Service in this State. [63456/21]
1286. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice her plans to implement a recommendation (details supplied) from the 2018 report, The Future of Policing in Ireland. [1970/22]
1076. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total budget in his Department for the Traveller and Roma communities and the Traveller unit and considering the scale of the challenges across the country for the Traveller and Roma communities; the way his Department made the decision to allocate only a 3% increase; and the percentage increase in funding that had been requested. [63283/21]
521. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the assistance that his Department can provide to Donegal County Council to assist it with an emergency housing plan to address the crisis presented by mica defective blocks over the time ahead particularly in the northern half of the county. [1398/22]
520. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will urgently increase the housing assistance payment rent limits for County Donegal to reflect the real cost of rent across the county and the impact of the mica defective blocks crisis on housing in the county. [1397/22]
514. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the clarification sought by Donegal County Council from his Department in relation to proposed remedial works in the context of test results, geologist reports and engineer's reports will be forthcoming to allow stage 1 applications under the defective concrete blocks grant scheme to proceed. [1190/22]
316. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Finance the estimated financial contribution from tax revenue to the State from a company (details supplied). [1041/22]
152. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his attention has been drawn to the serious concerns of the local community in the Inishowen peninsula, County Donegal at plans for gold mining in the area; and if he will provide an update on the current licence application for his decision. [1956/22]
130. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the estimated financial contribution of zinc and lead ore royalties to the State from a company (details supplied). [1041/22]
808. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he has not added 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. [61912/21]
807. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the hours of landing at the designated piers and harbours in the State for fishing vessels registered in Northern Ireland to weekends. [61911/21]
786. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the share of the fish quota in the Irish EEZ under the CFP for the Irish fishing fleet on a species basis in tabular form; the overall share or percentage of the fish quota in the Irish EEZ under the CFP allocated to the Irish fishing fleet; and the overall share and percentage of the fish quota in the Irish EEZ under the CFP allocated to the fishing fleet of all other EU member states on a member basis. [61668/21]
769. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he plans to establish the proposed stakeholders forum to review the Common Fisheries Policy from an Irish perspective; the number of members he plans to place on the forum; the criteria that will be set in place to become a member; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61333/21]
587. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the prioritisation of persons with learning disabilities regarding access to day services in Buncrana, County Donegal; the criteria for this prioritisation; the person or body that decides the priority list; and the location in which it is published in order that service users and carers can read and understand the prioritisation of the service user. [61350/21]
373. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Defence if the Naval Service made similar requests in relation to compliance with the European Union Common Fisheries Policy to the skippers of fishing vessels of other European Union member states that were fishing in the same area off the south coast of Ireland as an Irish registered fishing vessel (details supplied) when they were requested to return to harbour by the Naval Service on 30 November 2021; and if not, the reason. [61348/21]
265. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the Housing Agency is not being given responsibility for the delivery of the mica and pyrite defective block redress scheme in the west of Ireland from start to finish as it has been with the pyrite remediation scheme. [61374/21]
264. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage if he will extend the rent pressure zones to include electoral areas in County Donegal to reflect the recent sharp increases in rent in some areas of the county and the knock-on impact of the mica defective concrete block crisis. [61373/21]
231. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Finance when Dáil Éireann will be updated on his recently announced extension to the temporary Covid-19 waiver on transborder workers' relief and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61892/21]
230. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Finance when the Revenue Commissioners will issue updated guidance to transborder workers' relief following his announcement that the temporary Covid-19 waiver would be extended. [61891/21]
229. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Finance when Dáil Éireann will be updated with full details of the extension following his recent announcement that the temporary Covid-19 waiver on transborder workers' relief will be extended. [61890/21]
327. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that organisations (details supplied) receive the necessary allocation of core funding as requested to allow same to continue to provide a vital service to large numbers of children and young adults with special needs and their families. [60992/21]