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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I also wish to express my concern about the proposal to push the statements on the vaccine roll-out to Friday. The reports today are very concerning and we need to deal with them as soon as possible. While we all want to facilitate legislation that clarifies the position regarding outdoor dining, to include another issue relating to High Court judges in the same legislative measure is not...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Data (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 67. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the numbers of persons working in IDA supported jobs in County Donegal in each of the years 2011 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [34445/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Data (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 68. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of site visits organised in County Donegal by the IDA in each of the years 2011 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form [34446/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Data (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 69. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of new companies attracted to County Donegal by the IDA in each of the years 2011 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [34447/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I welcome our guests from the SFPA. I have a number of questions but first I want to acknowledge the 14-page substantial submission the SFPA has made to the committee. I want to refer to a number of references in it and that will link in with my questions. The authority welcomed the invitation for its representatives to appear before the committee but expressed frustration that it has not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will finish my questions. My colleague had 20 questions and I have only asked one so far. I will be brief in my other questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In fairness, the Chairman has been more than fair. I will brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Chairman. I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Does Mr. O'Mahony want to come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the witnesses. My concern is there is no level of oversight that is good enough. I note in the submission it is acknowledged that you cannot get into comparisons. I believe our industry is the most regulated in all of Europe, that our fish producers and fishers are the most regulated in all of Europe. This report was leaked in the national media earlier this year at a time when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is important that we emphasise this reset of relationships. As an Oireachtas Member, I am conscious there are other interested parties out there, such as environmental NGOs and a range of people who are interested in the marine. I have been a spokesperson for my own party on fisheries and the marine for about a year and I have engaged extensively, including with the SFPA, to try to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have one question. If the SFPA is not the most effective and strongest regulator in Europe then which is?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 193. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) was refused the employment wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34005/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (24 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 224. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will assist in expediting the construction of all homes at a location (details supplied) in recognition of the defective blocks crisis in County Donegal in that it can provide additional accommodation as soon as possible. [34006/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (24 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 225. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications being processed by his Department for the construction of social housing in County Donegal; and the geographic breakdown of same. [34007/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (24 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has received an analysis of the amount of public housing in County Donegal which is impacted by the construction with defective blocks. [34008/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (24 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to surveys carried out by Donegal County Council on its housing stock; if so, if a detailed breakdown will be provided of the results of any analysis to date, that is, visual surveys or core testing on each building; and the breakdown by district electoral division of the number of houses...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Taoiseach will have seen the trawlers across the water as he came to the convention centre today. There are fishermen and fishing families from all over Ireland here today. We have 12% of the waters of the European Union and we get 4% of the fish, one third of what we really should be getting. This costs us tens of thousands of jobs across coastal communities and hundreds of millions...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (22 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 621. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to adjust the policy for allocating the mackerel quota given that the current 400 tonne quota for hook and line catch by the smaller inshore fleet has been already exceeded in 2021 and he has now closed the 2021 mackerel hook and line fishery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32974/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (22 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 622. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the policy of burden sharing post-Brexit and subsequent loss of fishing quota for Irish fishers has been responsible for the early closure of the 2021 mackerel hook and line fishery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32975/21]