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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is no relationship-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Donegal County Council has it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It does exist.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Stop. Try living in Donegal.

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Who oversees that? It is a Tory Government.

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am sharing time with Deputies Mythen, Patricia Ryan, Gould and Clarke. I know a little more than most about this subject. I was on the national executive of the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed many years ago when these job clubs and local employment services were being put together. We were part of the team that worked around a community based response, working with people...

Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (30 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is an important opportunity for us to unite on all sides of this House to condemn what is an attack on what we recognise as democratic standards and the rule of law internationally. In any democracy the role of NGOs in holding the government to account is absolutely critical. All of the six civil society organisations and non-governmental organisations that have been designated as...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (30 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What about the Housing Agency?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (30 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What about the Housing Agency?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (30 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Why is it not running the entire scheme?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (30 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I welcome the Ceann Comhairle back. On the commitments in the programme for Government on defects, the Housing Agency has been tasked with overseeing the pyrite resolution scheme. Over 2,000 families in Dublin and north Leinster have availed of the scheme. The Housing Agency does the testing, makes the prognosis, engages with building contractors and assists with rental accommodation....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Contact tracing in schools effectively ceased at the end of September. Since then the level of infection has more than trebled among primary school children although in the absence of properly collected data by the health system, the incidence rate may be higher. No satisfactory explanation has been provided by the Government as to how schools went from being safe to unsafe virtually...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (30 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Taoiseach is aware, I and many other Opposition Deputies have raised the issue of the Minister, Deputy Ryan's, controversial appointments to the Climate Change Advisory Council. I wish to raise these matters again today in the hope the Taoiseach will address our specific concerns. As the Taoiseach is aware, the Government rejected a Sinn Féin amendment to the Climate Action and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can the Business Committee convene to sort these issues out?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Have we agreed to schedule a meeting of the committee?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Will we hear from the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Taoiseach has heard from Deputies Doherty and Pringle. I can tell him that there are serious concerns coming from Donegal and other counties in the west of Ireland on the square foot issue. The Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, urgently needs to come before the House to make a statement and take questions about this. He needs to give urgent clarification. There is serious concern...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Why not run the whole scheme?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Let the Housing Agency run the whole scheme.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What is the answer?