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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 510. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway can expect to receive an appointment from Cappagh Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56205/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yesterday, at Letterkenny University Hospital eight ambulances were backed up outside. Patients were in the back of those ambulances rather than being cared for in the hospital. This is not a rare occurrence. A week previously a similar number of ambulances were outside and I am sure the Minister will agree that this is utterly unacceptable. I received a report late last night that an 88...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (12 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an Irish citizen who passed a driving test in Ireland, held an Irish driver's licence, subsequently moved to the USA and held a licence there, before returning to Ireland, can renew the Irish licence without having to re-sit the test. [55102/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (12 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person is in receipt of carer's allowance and works part-time and is paid monthly, how her Department determines a person's weekly hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55309/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (12 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 597. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in the BISS payment being made to a person in County Donegal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54452/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (12 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 710. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if urgent respite can be provided for a person (details supplied) in Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55265/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (7 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish written confirmation from the Banking and Payments Federation that homes remediated or rebuilt under the enhanced defective concrete block grant scheme will be mortgageable or remortgageable once completed. [54172/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (7 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline why defective concrete block homeowners in counties Donegal, Mayo, Clare and Limerick have been offered support through another limited grant scheme rather than an actual redress scheme similar to the pyrite remediation scheme. [54171/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will increase the rate of pay for school transport escorts to a level commensurate with special needs assistants; and the reason school transport escorts continue to have to sign on for unemployment benefits when schools are on holidays. [54246/23]

Renters: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Considering the importance of this vote for thousands of families facing the increases in rent across the State and to give Deputies who voted with the Government another chance to consider their position, I propose that, under Standing Order 83(3)(b), the vote be taken by other than electronic means.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (5 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 436. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will publish, in tabular form, the number of registered inshore and offshore fishing vessels in the ranges under 10, 10 to 12, 12 to 15 and over 15 metres licensed to catch fish for commercial reasons in Ireland for the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53417/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (5 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 437. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the nature of the business relationship between Fexco and Bord Iascaigh Mhara in administering funding schemes for the fisheries sector; if there are direct employees of BIM available to answer queries the applicants may have on these schemes and particularly the application and drawdown of funding process; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (5 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 438. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he and his Department officials have considered introducing a market disruption fund for shellfish fishermen from EMFAF funding streams due to significant market disturbance in the last while; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53419/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (5 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 439. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will publish the basis and rationale for any proposed cut to the total allowable catch for pollock; if there are any scientific studies behind that proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53420/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (5 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 521. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the following information in modular form the percentage of inpatients (excluding day cases) who were discharged after one day in hospital, for each Model 3 and Model 4 hospital, in each of the calendar years 2020, 2021 and 2022. [53281/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (5 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 522. To ask the Minister for Health to provide, in modular form, the average length of inpatient stay (for all inpatients) for each Model 3 and Model 4 hospital, in each of the calendar years 2020, 2021 and 2022. [53282/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (5 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 585. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug phesgo can be administered by general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53579/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (30 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school transport escorts that are employed by schools across the State in each of the years 2016 to 2023, in tabular form. [53106/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (30 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount of grants provided to schools for the employment of school transport escorts in each of the years 2016 to 2023, in tabular form.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53107/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (29 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 146 of 4 October 2023 and his assertion of an understanding that “once a home has been certified as being remediated under the scheme that it will be viewed by banks in the same way as other properties and therefore homes will not be required to be remediated to current building...