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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 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
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]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
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]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
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]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
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]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Health
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]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 20 Feb 2025 · to Health
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]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 19 Feb 2025 · to Transport
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]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 19 Feb 2025 · to Public Expenditure
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 sol…
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 19 Feb 2025 · to Health
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]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 18 Feb 2025 · to Transport
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]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 18 Feb 2025 · to Education
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…
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 18 Feb 2025 · to Justice
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]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 13 Feb 2025 · to Housing
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]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 13 Feb 2025 · to Health
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]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Housing
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]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Housing
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]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Health
594. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the amount of the annual training grant awarded by the National Doctors Training Programme to education institutions (details supplied) from 2019 to 2024 in tabular form; and to provide a copy of the memorandum of understanding documents, if the apply to these grants. [4105/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 5 Feb 2025 · to Foreign
30. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will make urgent representations to the Indian Prime Minister to convey the serious concern of the Irish people at the ongoing delays in concluding the murder trial of the person accused of murdering an Irish citizen (details supplied) in March 2017. [2576/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 5 Feb 2025 · to Public Expenditure
355. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he is aware that over seven years since the devastating floods at Burnfoot, County Donegal, in August 2017 planning permission has still not been secured for flood defences at the village, even though many families remain displaced from their homes at Páirc an Ghrianáin; and if he will meet a …
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 5 Feb 2025 · to Tourism
529. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the projects that received funding from the recent tranche of the large-scale sports infrastructure fund which were not the identified by the relevant local authority as the number one priority for their county. [2445/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 5 Feb 2025 · to Tourism
550. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if he will carry out an urgent review of the decision by his Department late in 2024 not to provide funding to a centre (details supplied) under the large-scale sports infrastructure fund, examining all options; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3425/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 5 Feb 2025 · to Housing
601. 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. [2780/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 5 Feb 2025 · to Housing
602. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homeowners who have availed of financial support from the State under the pyrite remediation scheme from the commencement of the scheme to date in 2025; the average amount granted to each of the homeowners under the scheme; and the average level of matching financial contribution by each of the homeowners who…
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 5 Feb 2025 · to Housing
626. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the review of the existing suite of engineering qualifications in the local government sector commenced by the previous Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage in April 2024 has concluded; and when he will publish the outcome and act on any recommendations made within. [3311/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 5 Feb 2025 · to Justice
808. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice if he will implement measures in the first 100 days of Government as requested by an organisation (details supplied). [2579/25]