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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inshore Fisheries (31 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The success of the Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation, IIMRO, in obtaining producer status was welcome. Deputy Ó Cuív made a good, practical and important proposal. Any of us who engage with the IIMRO knows that it is an impressive representative and advocate. This is a critical matter. Speaking as Sinn Féin's fisheries spokesperson, that fishing is central to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (31 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No doubt this funding announcement was very welcome. I met with the fishermen there on numerous occasions over the years, including in recent times, and they were completely disillusioned with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. There was a sense that they were the poor relation between the major ports of Killybegs and Castletownbere and they had been left behind. It is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (31 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 118. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the serious crisis in the fishing industry due to the huge increase in fuel costs; if he will report on the engagements he has held with the European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries on this matter; and if he will make an urgent intervention for fishermen in Ireland similar...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (31 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Minister knows, there was already a serious crisis in our fishing industry before the energy crisis we are now facing. Six weeks ago, I asked the Minister in a parliamentary question what he would do to assist our fishermen. He said he was prevented from doing anything by the European Commission directive. Since then, France and Spain have made serious interventions to assist their...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (31 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The inshore and offshore fishermen to whom I speak, including those in County Donegal, are telling me that with prices tripling, they just cannot afford to go to sea. If you look at what happened in France before Article 26 was triggered, you will see that France intervened by providing a direct subsidy to its fishing industry, which was some kind of assistance. Similarly, Spain has now...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (31 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As I have said, the Spanish Government has announced €68 million in direct aid to be granted in the form of discounts of 20 cent per litre of diesel for three months at least; deferments in the payment of social security contributions; credit lines in the Spanish official credit institute and the Spanish state agricultural society; and €50 million from FEMPA, which is linked to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Fisheries Policy (31 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 132. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will argue the case for an economic link to fish quotas under the Common Fisheries Policy as opposed to the current proliferation of fish quota from a wide range of European Union member states into the control of a small number of corporations to the detriment of coastal communities across the European Union. [16791/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Fisheries Policy (31 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 174. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quota allocated to the Irish fishing fleet in each of the EEZs of other European Union member states under the Common Fisheries Policy. [16790/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (31 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 256. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will be processed on time for date of travel for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17124/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (31 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 325. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the very positive impact of a project (details supplied); and if he will ensure that this project can be centrally funded by his Department or the HSE after their current funding runs out in the next six months. [17170/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (31 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 382. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses per patient in every ward at Letterkenny University Hospital in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and the way that these numbers compare to considered safe ratios of nurses to patients. [17168/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (31 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 383. To ask the Minister for Health the number of positions in the community intervention teams for County Donegal that are currently not filled; the titles of those posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17169/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I raised this issue with the Tánaiste last week. University Hospital Letterkenny has a serious crisis. The representatives of nurses, doctors and paramedics have spoken about the impossible conditions they are being asked to work in. There is one nurse for every 20 patients. Some patients have been waiting between ten and 14 hours in ambulances outside the emergency department,...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht), 2022: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Ireland's position of military neutrality is an honourable tradition. As we speak in this Chamber, we are surrounded by the busts of the heroes of 1916, who took their stand in the midst of the First World War. In that awful war, tens of thousands of Irish nationalists and unionists were slaughtered. That has been burned into the minds of the Irish people ever since, such that when we...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (30 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 45. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that the relevant officials in his Department will view the recording of the recent European Parliament webinar on the impact on family homes of defective concrete products organised by two affected homeowners from County Donegal and academics (details supplied); and if those officials will act on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (30 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will identify the experts who are currently reviewing IS 465 of 2018 in conjunction with the National Standards Authority of Ireland; if this review will seek the input of the Irish and international experts who presented at the recent European Parliament webinar, the impact on family homes of defective concrete...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (30 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that the current review of IS 465 of 2018 by the National Standards Authority of Ireland will widen the scope of the standard and protocol to detect all deleterious minerals including pyrrhotite in the concrete blocks and foundations of affected homes in line with best international practice. [17099/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Common Travel Area (29 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I consider this to be repugnant to the Good Friday Agreement and an attack on that agreement. The peace process was underpinned by the seamless Border on the island and the free movement of goods, people and capital on the island of Ireland. I am thankful we continue to be a member of the European Union and the North of Ireland, for all intents and purposes, is still within the Union. It...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Common Travel Area (29 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It will be no surprise to the Minister that this issue is being raised by three Donegal Deputies. It is a particular issue for our county. How are we supposed to attract investment into what are called the gateways of Derry and Letterkenny? Thousands of people travel across what is, thankfully, a seamless Border every day for work and education. That is how our Border region functions....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (29 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 351. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15783/22]