Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

1295. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the necessary resources will be provided to the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board in order that decisions can be made in a reasonable timeframe. [12835/25]

1296. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the necessary resources will be provided to the Marine Institute in order that appropriate assessments for aquaculture licence applications can be completed in a reasonable timeframe. [12836/25]

1297. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will work on a framework for State assistance, for those in the aquaculture industry who endure serious financial loss, in circumstances beyond their control, similar to those in place in the wider food and agrifood sectors. [12837/25]

1436. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if approval has been given on the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission code of practice on the public sector equality and human rights duty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12383/25]

1462. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health to provide the current wait times for a first chemotherapy appointment from the time of decision or consent to treat on a hospital by hospital basis, across the State, in tabular form. [10564/25]

1463. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health to outline the level of service required in each GP practice across the State as part of their public service contract; and to make a statement on the effectiveness of this for persons seeking medical assistance in a primary care setting in Donegal and across the State. [10565/25]

1472. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the measures that can be urgently taken at Letterkenny University Hospital to reduce waiting times for chemotherapy patients. [10589/25]

1679. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health how she will address the serious concerns of officers in the National Ambulance Service on the impact of Revenue’s approach to benefit-in-kind taxation towards their marked and fully equipped blue-light response vehicles; if she is aware of the negative impact this will have in many communities across the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11597/25]

1684. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of patients with a postcode in Donegal who have been recalled to the breast assessment clinic in Galway and who subsequently have had a diagnosis of breast cancer, between 2020 and the end of 2024, in tabular form. [11626/25]

1685. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of patients with a Donegal postcode who have been treated in Galway following colon screening detection of cancer, in tabular form. [11627/25]

1846. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health her approach to the growing concerns regarding the impact on the health of young people of vapes sold by vape shops in towns and cities across the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12393/25]

362. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that in recent days, there are approximately 70 large third country pelagic trawlers, from Norway, Iceland, Faroes, Russia, and the UK, fishing for blue whiting both inside EU waters and just outside the Irish 200-mile EEZ in international waters; if he will outline the level of monitoring and inspections of these vessels that has taken place and the landings made by these vessels both inside and outside EU waters, including bycatch. [10529/25]

175. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health for an update on the timelines for the construction of the new community hospital at Lifford, County Donegal. [9895/25]

218. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has been informed by the Department of Infrastructure in the North of Ireland of two discharge consent applications by a company (details supplied); if he has been informed of two water abstraction licences from the same company that would abstract half a million gallons of water per day from peatland, every day, for the next 25 years; and if he will make a formal response to these applications due to the transboundary implications of them. [9467/25]

336. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work he is engaging in to support the growth of the Letterkenny-Derry economic corridor; his plans for economic cooperation in the northwest over the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9262/25]

337. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work of the IDA in the northwest from 2016 to date, including its cooperation with Invest NI to promote investment and job creation in the cross-Border region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9263/25]

338. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work underway to create a skills network across the northwest cross-Border region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9264/25]

339. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to deliver balanced regional development and economic growth in the northwest cross-Border region, working in cooperation and partnership with his Ministerial counterpart in the Northern Ireland Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9265/25]

460. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will bring forward an amendment to the Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022, allowing the increase in the cap to be applied retrospectively to homeowners already participating in the defective concrete block grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9818/25]

461. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will respond to correspondence from residents of an estate (details supplied) on their concerns in relation to the defective concrete blocks grant scheme and their homes that were built on a flood plain. [9819/25]

48. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education when a school (details supplied) will be included in the school capital buildings programme, considering its seriously inadequate school facilities and amenities in a landlocked site, as well as the dangerous location of the school from a road-safety perspective. [8590/25]

71. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education if she is aware of the extent to which defective concrete blocks were used in the construction of school buildings across the State; the impact of the use of same on schools; the number of schools and the locations of schools which have reported or raised concerns about the presence of defective concrete blocks in their school buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8589/25]

237. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education her plans to teach the history of Ireland’s Traveller community through the school curriculum to build on this State’s recognition of traveller ethnicity in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8706/25]

271. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will release the necessary funding to local authorities in Donegal and other affected counties to remediate their housing stock that are the homes of hundreds of families affected by defective concrete blocks. [8705/25]

263. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport the number of people who have applied for a driving test in Buncrana, County Donegal awaiting the test; and the average waiting time for a driving test in Buncrana, County Donegal, in tabular form. [7716/25]