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Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Sinn Féin Donegal TD in this Dáil since 29 November 2024

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584
questions asked
Oral and written, to government departments
50,740
words spoken in the chamber
Across 447 contributions
442
votes recorded
Each Yes, No or Abstained in a recorded vote
153
topics asked about
Across 20 departments

From the Dáil chamber only: committee meetings are not in this archive.

What they ask about

The subject headings the Oireachtas filed their questions under.

Who they ask

The departments their questions were addressed to.

Month by month

Low months are usually recesses, when the Dáil does not sit. The archive runs to 22 October 2026.

Questions asked 584 in all

Dec 2024Oct 2026

Contributions to debates 447 in all

Dec 2024Oct 2026
Show as a table
MonthQuestionsContributions
December 2024 0 3
January 2025 5 11
February 2025 43 38
March 2025 53 18
April 2025 28 39
May 2025 33 26
June 2025 37 17
July 2025 35 24
August 2025 0 0
September 2025 12 22
October 2025 38 16
November 2025 40 17
December 2025 14 42
January 2026 39 16
February 2026 35 43
March 2026 24 18
April 2026 16 29
May 2026 39 21
June 2026 40 5
July 2026 12 9
August 2026 0 1
September 2026 20 10
October 2026 21 22

Debates they spoke in most

Plus 319 contributions in the regular slots, such as Leaders' Questions and Priority Questions. Speech from the chair is not counted.

Asked about similar topics

Worked out by computer from the subject headings of each TD's questions, giving more weight to headings few TDs use. It shows shared subjects, not shared views.

Party, constituency and offices

  1. constituency Donegal 29 November 2024 to now
  2. party Sinn Féin 29 November 2024 to now
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 9 Dec 2025 · to Education
423. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the appalling conditions that students and teachers must endure at a school (details supplied). [69806/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 9 Dec 2025 · to Housing
519. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to a number of instances across County Donegal in which landowners have come into conflict with their neighbouring landowners arising from discrepancies between their original folio Land Registry maps and the maps that have emerged from the digitisation of the mapping system by the Land Regi…
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 9 Dec 2025 · to Agriculture
757. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of aquaculture licence determinations issued by him and his Department in 2025, in tabular form. [70359/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 9 Dec 2025 · to Agriculture
758. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of aquaculture licence applications processed with appropriate assessments completed by the Marine Institute and his Department in 2025, in tabular form. [70360/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 9 Dec 2025 · to Agriculture
759. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will publish an ‘Aquaculture Licensing Plan’ for the sector, similar to the ‘Forestry Licensing Plan 2024’ with key targets, projected licence applications, licence output and turnaround times in order to give certainty to the industry and licence applicants. [70361/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 9 Dec 2025 · to Health
988. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the circumstances in which no response was received from the Mater Hospital to this Deputy, regarding a transfer request for a patient from Letterkenny University Hospital to the Mater, despite repeated follow-ups; the reasons for the delay in communication; the measures being taken to ensure that urgent transfer requests are handled promptly in the futu…
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Housing
309. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider a waiver on commercial rates, or a portion of commercial rates or taxes, for the owners of commercial properties with defective concrete blocks who have no government scheme available to them to remediate their properties and have to constantly spend money on necessary maintenance. [68537/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Taoiseach
2. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Taoiseach if his Department will consider the joint proposal from Donegal County Council and Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council for financial support from the Shared Island fund to invest in important community amenities in their council areas. [66770/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Health
599. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of families of children with a moderate or severe intellectual disability who have requested psychiatric assistance from CAMHS in Donegal and have not received support in the years 2023 to date in 2025, due to the absence of a CAMHS Mental Health Intellectual Disability Service (MHID) in the county, by tabular form; and if she will make a stat…
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Further and Higher Education
708. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 1178 of 18 November 2025, his plans to provide additional student assistance funding to the Higher Education Authority for the remainder of the current 2025-2026 academic year; and if he will provide the additional allocations for each of the five Technological …
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Oral 27 Nov 2025 · to Agriculture
98. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for the December EU Fisheries Council to mitigate further losses in fish quota to Ireland's fishing fleet; his engagements over recent weeks with his counterparts in other member states to defend our interests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [66298/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 27 Nov 2025 · to Agriculture
166. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if we will engage with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss the way in which a financial support scheme will be designed to ensure that the heritage and tradition of inshore fishing can be maintained in coastal communities. [66247/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 27 Nov 2025 · to Agriculture
170. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of negotiations with the British government to reinstate access for Irish fishermen to their traditional fishing grounds at Rockall; if he will seek to go to international mediation or arbitration to resolve this long-running injustice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [66246/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 27 Nov 2025 · to Culture
339. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport following the recent announcement of €2 million to fund detailed designs and ongoing maintenance, if he will confirm that when the new Buncrana leisure centre project is ready to go to tender, his Department will provide the funding to build and complete this long-delayed important community amenity for the people of Inishowen,…
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 26 Nov 2025 · to Justice
225. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of temporary emergency centres in County Donegal with contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [66338/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 25 Nov 2025 · to Housing
105. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will release the funds to allow Donegal County Council to remediate the huge amount of homes in their housing stock affected by defective concrete blocks. [65160/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 25 Nov 2025 · to Housing
122. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the victims of defective concrete products scandals in Donegal, Mayo, Sligo, Clare, and Limerick do not receive 100% redress as is the case with the pyrite remediation scheme, available to the victims of defective concrete products scandals in Dublin and Leinster. [65159/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 25 Nov 2025 · to Culture
476. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if full funding will be provided to complete a project (details supplied) which was applied for in 2024; when the project will move to tender stage; and the timeline for construction and completion. [65679/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 25 Nov 2025 · to Housing
509. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason his Department has not sanctioned the purchase of 17 homes in Milford, County Donegal by an approved housing body to house families on the local social housing list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65206/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 25 Nov 2025 · to Agriculture
739. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Ireland intends to apply for port listing for our pelagic sector under the newly agreed EU Commission similar to listings already achieved by Denmark and Latvia; if there has been a failure on the part of his Department to take any action to date (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [66153/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 25 Nov 2025 · to Children
771. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when transitional respite arrangements will be put in place for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65572/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 25 Nov 2025 · to Health
868. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in processing an application for a person (details supplied) under the Northen Ireland Planned Healthcare Scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65608/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 19 Nov 2025 · to Agriculture
311. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will make a decision on the re-opening of the mussel seed fishery in the Long Bank for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64332/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 19 Nov 2025 · to Agriculture
312. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of aquaculture licence applications awaiting appropriate assessments at the Marine Institute; if there is a prioritisation system to deal with these applications in a timely manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64333/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 19 Nov 2025 · to Agriculture
313. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of aquaculture licence applications awaiting determination by his Department; the efforts being made to address delays in the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64334/25]