307. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will amend the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 to include the remediation of apartments impacted by defective concrete blocks. [33238/25]
123. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will designate Greencastle harbour as a pelagic landing port for catches over ten tonnes. [32919/25]
207. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport the timeline for reinstating the Dublin to Derry airlink, and if it can be brought forward from the projected October 2026 timeframe to reflect the long delay in reinstating this important service for the northwest region. [32017/25]
401. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education and Youth when a board of management will be reinstated at a school (details supplied). [32013/25]
479. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport when he will provide the funding to rebuild the Buncrana Leisure Centre, County. Donegal; if he is aware of the serious impact on the community of 40,000 people living in Inishowen, from the closure of this key community amenity for over a decade. [32022/25]
492. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a site has extensive growth of an invasive species, and the landowner deliberately and recklessly disrupts and spreads the contaminated soil onto neighbouring properties, public footpath road; other sites, then, what does it take for the National Parks and Wildlife Service to take action to investigate and enforce relev…
493. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the policies in place that local authorities must comply with and enforce when a site with a planning application has significant non-native invasive species growth, specifically Japanese knotweed; the responsibilities of the planning authority for planning applications for such sites; the person or body responsible for en…
494. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a site has extensive growth of invasive species, the conditions or stipulations that must be applied to the granting of permission prior to commencement of construction such as, should a knotweed management plan be mandated prior to construction especially when an expert report submission advocates for one. [31812/25]
463. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the names of the members of the technical committees, TC 63 and TC 73 committees within the NSAI and the organisations, Government departments or State bodies who nominated them. [29765/25]
464. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if a business (details supplied) is eligible to make an application for pre-seed start fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29878/25]
800. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will amend the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 to ensure that homeowners who are willing to reduce the size of their homes for the rebuild are not financially penalised for doing so and are paid an amount that reflects the square meterage of their existing home. [2957…
820. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his response to the motion recently passed by Donegal County Council (details supplied). [29761/25]
1035. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his views on the motion passed by Donegal County Council in December 2024 calling for an independent statutory judicial public inquiry into the Creeslough explosion that led to the deaths of ten people on 7 October 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30203/25]
1193. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive the necessary documents in order to progress an assessment of needs application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29853/25]
1308. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health to confirm, in view of the fact that the renal dialysis unit in Letterkenny University Hospital (LUH) is running at maximum capacity for a long time, the cost of out-sourcing additional demand for dialysis to NHS hospitals in the north of Ireland (inclusive of both transport and dialysis costs) in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 for patients from…
1309. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health to confirm, in view of the lack of capacity in the laboratory department in Letterkenny University Hospital, the cost of outsourcing routine blood samples to private laboratories from January 2025 to date. [29146/25]
1310. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health to confirm the expenditure on private ambulances by Letterkenny University Hospital for 2024. [29147/25]
1311. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the amount of money paid to private hospitals via the NTPF from the outsourcing of waiting list elective in-patient and day-case surgeries at Letterkenny University Hospital, for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. [29148/25]
1312. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health to confirm, given that over 60% of hospital consultants have now signed the new contracts which significantly enhances their salary and contains a clause on weekend working, the number of hospital consultants that are now rostered for duty on weekends in the overall band 3 and 4 acute, secondary-care hospitals funded by the HSE (including voluntary hosp…
1415. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when capital approval will be granted to transition Radharc na Sléibhte, Carndonagh, County Donegal from a residential model to a recovery focused crisis intervention/ set down facility, supported with 24-hour staff cover, as requested by the HSE’s Donegal mental health management team. [29567/25]
1536. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if she will urgently meet with a delegation from the 171 doctors in Donegal who have requested this meeting to discuss their calls for a surgical hub to be located at Letterkenny University Hospital. [30056/25]
1681. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht his response to the motion recently passed by Donegal County Council (details supplied). [29762/25]
388. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware that homeowners who cannot complete the remediation of their homes under the enhanced defective blocks grant scheme, within the required timeframe, on genuine and certifiable medical grounds, must reapply to the scheme; and how he proposes to resolve this issue. [28479/25]
389. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is considering amending the turnkey purchase of housing developments for social housing to allow for stage payments to the building developers. [28494/25]
482. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to consider introducing a subsidy scheme for inshore and islands fishermen, similar to those schemes available to farmers over many years. [28496/25]