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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will be aware that we dealt with the pre-legislative scrutiny at the last meeting and with the lower threshold for conviction than the threshold of beyond a reasonable doubt. Obviously, every citizen in the State would expect to be convicted beyond a reasonable doubt, which is the globally understood threshold, yet we have in place a threshold of the balance of probabilities,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister is probably limited in what he can say but I know him as a colleague in County Donegal for a long time. I think he knows that it is appalling that this report has been leaked and reported on at national level and the industry has had no chance to defend itself by seeing the actual evidence. The industry protests that it is the most regulated. The submission from the Irish Fish...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Middle East (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In the 1980s, the Dunnes Stores' workers started confronting the apartheid regime then in power in South Africa. Ireland then led the way in taking on that regime. Here we are today, and we cannot even ban goods from the criminal, illegal settlements in the occupied territories. That is what we have become. From a giant in the 1980s, we have become a minnow. The challenge now is for the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Middle East (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Apartheid is defined as "inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them". Human Rights Watch has published a key report on this issue, of which I am sure the Minister is aware. It follows reports from Israeli human rights organisations B'Tselem and Yesh...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On the same issue, I remind the Taoiseach that when this issue was brought to his attention by the Opposition, he said that we had to move on and that it was urgent. Last week, the vote that was scheduled on this was postponed. The Government could have used that week, as the committee requested, to invite representatives of the inshore fishermen and the environmental NGOs to have their say...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It was two weeks ago-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Two weeks ago.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 223. To ask the Minister for Finance when he will meet with a group (details supplied) to discuss its concerns regarding double taxation for workers in Border regions and the impact this will have on inward investment to some of the most economically disadvantaged parts of the island. [23623/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 417. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the communications the UK Royal Navy has with its counterparts here in relation to the ongoing movements and exercises of its submarines in the Irish exclusive economic zone but just outside Ireland's territorial waters; and if he will assure Irish fishers that they are not endangered by these practices while fishing in the waters around the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 848. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a Covid-19 vaccine. [24343/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Does the SFPA believe that a person or persons facing charges that impact on their reputations and livelihoods have a right to be presented with the evidence so that they can defend themselves?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Any person who is facing charges that would damage his or her reputation or livelihood would expect the evidence that had led to those charges to be presented to him or her so that the person could defend himself or herself. Does the SFPA agree with that as a right or as a principle of law?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am asking Dr. Steele a question. If I were levelling charges against her or any of her officials that damaged their reputations or livelihoods, would she expect that I would present them with the evidence to justify those charges? I will turn it around in that way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Dr. Steele. Apparently, the European Commission audit that was made available to the SFPA and the Government in 2018 covers the period from 2012 to early 2015. This audit was presented to the SFPA, which then chose to carry out an administrative inquiry. I am not sure about the SFPA's administrative inquiry, but the audit has been leaked to a range of national media. There have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is it acceptable that three national media outlets have reported on alleged mass illegality in the Irish fishing industry, including overfishing to the tune of tens of thousands of tonnes, which will cost tens of millions of euro? It could not be more damaging to the reputation of the industry, yet none of the industry's representatives have seen the report or had a chance to defend...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: My final question in this round is on the weighing systems. In recent times, I have observed the weighing systems at a factory in Killybegs, County Donegal. I want to describe the scenario there. The weighing device the fish go over is state of the art. It is virtually impossible to tamper with it. It is sealed. There is closed-circuit television. The weighing system is monitored round...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The four producer organisations present today collectively wrote to the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, when SI 318 was introduced by the Taoiseach who was Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine on an interim basis between Ministers. As far as I am concerned, the four core points about this proposed legislation still stand. The normal threshold for conviction for most citizens is beyond a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Future of Ireland: Discussion (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Reverend Karen and Mr. Lunn for their important contributions. Their contributions are important in the sense that often we focus on the politicians, particularly those in the DUP and Ulster Unionist Party, as representative. They remind us that unionism is not just the elected politicians of the DUP and the Ulster Unionist Party, and that there is a much broader unionism that we...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maritime Safety (6 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 260. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of his review of the decision not to proceed with the sea survival centre at a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23542/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mica Redress Scheme (5 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: VAT is a sore point, but there is also the replacement issue. The Minister talked about keeping the original windows and doors in the houses. Why can these people not avail of a Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, grant? They are building new homes, but the Minister wants to build them to standards from 20 years ago. The scheme is not fit for purpose, which we have been telling...