Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

264. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport if there is a full-time driving tester based in the Inishowen peninsula, County Donegal; and, if not, if one is due to be appointed. [7717/25]

446. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education for an update on when a school (details supplied) will be included in the school capital buildings programme, considering their seriously inadequate school facilities and amenities in a land locked site and the dangerous location of the school from a road safety perspective. [8042/25]

447. 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 details of the number of schools and the locations of schools that have reported or raised concerns in relation to the presence of defective concrete blocks in their school buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8064/25]

448. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education the assistance, supports and remedies available from her Department for schools with buildings that are affected by the use of defective concrete blocks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8065/25]

486. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline, in light of his recent correspondence to an organisation (details supplied) and local authorities, including Donegal County Council, on total sulphur test methods for aggregates, the reason homeowners in Donegal are still having their homes assessed under the existing standard, I.S. 465, when seeking remediation under the defective concrete blocks grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7124/25]

593. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Social Protection if a redress payment from the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry in the North of Ireland to a person who is resident in the Republic of Ireland would impact on their State benefits; if a bilateral agreement is in place to avoid this as was the case for previous redress schemes on both sides of the border. [7563/25]

611. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider reviewing the criteria for the working family payment to assess the impact of including carer’s allowance as reckonable income, and particularly in cases where one parent is engaged in seasonal employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8051/25]

612. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider reviewing the criteria for the working family payment to assess the impact of including carer’s allowance as reckonable income, and particularly in cases where one parent is engaged in seasonal employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8051/25]

720. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the new fisherman scheme will commence; and when financial assistance will start to be released under the scheme. [8083/25]

946. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time security staff currently employed at Letterkenny University Hospital; the number of full-time security staff on each shift at Letterkenny University Hospital; and the number of full-time security staff currently off on leave at Letterkenny University Hospital, in tabular form. [7959/25]

947. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time security staff currently employed at Sligo University Hospital; the number of full-time security staff on each shift at Sligo University Hospital; and the number of full-time security staff currently off on leave at Sligo University Hospital, in tabular form. [7960/25]

948. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of violent incidents directed towards staff at Letterkenny University Hospital, for each of the years 2016 to 2025 inclusive, in tabular form. [7961/25]

949. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of violent incidents directed towards staff at Sligo University Hospital, for each of the years 2016 to 2025 inclusive, in tabular form. [7962/25]

980. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if she is aware that a person from Donegal (details supplied), who is an 84-year-old, must travel a ten-hour round trip to Galway for short appointments with a vascular doctor; her views on whether this should not be the case and that the person be assessed closer to home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8141/25]

381. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if her Department officials will work with their counterparts in the North of Ireland to examine the potential to deliver a thrombectomy service in the north west for stroke patients on both sides of the border, similar to the radiotherapy services provided at the North West Cancer Centre at Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry. [7093/25]

54. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport to detail the grants in place to support service stations across Donegal to provide electric charging points. [6762/25]

78. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the status of the application from the residents of Elm Park, Buncrana to be relocated from the flood plain alongside the Crana river and compensated to do so under the defective concrete block grant scheme; if he will work with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to find a solution that can give the residents peace of mind, fair compensation, and potentially saving the State a substantial amount of money. [6749/25]

249. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of staff in receipt of the advanced paramedic allowance in the National Ambulance Service, region by region, and by grade code from the National Director down. [6754/25]

251. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport when funding will be provided to reinstate the Derry to Dublin airlink as committed to in the Programme for Government. [6391/25]

374. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) has been granted funding for a rubber surface play area but have since been directed that they must use a hard tarmacadam surface which would be less safe for the pupils, if she will permit the funding to be used for a soft surface as originally approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6220/25]

585. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice if his attention has been drawn to the significant delays in the Donegal court system; if plans have been made to address this problem; if he has considered appointing an additional judge for Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6420/25]

200. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he intends to advertise the transboundary consultation on the proposed goldmine in the Sperrins area of outstanding natural beauty, County Tyrone. [5367/25]

291. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of the long waiting lists for dermatology patients in the north west, serviced by Sligo University Hospital and Letterkenny University Hospital; and when the necessary number of consultants and their support teams will be allocated to those hospitals. [5237/25]

354. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will commence a review of the defective concrete block grant scheme. [4106/25]

355. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the Housing Agency continues to downgrade the recommendations of engineers acting for homeowners under the defective concrete block grant scheme, applying the I.S. 465 when that standard is soon to be significantly amended by the NSAI. [4107/25]