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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...

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will carry out an urgent review of the financial assistance offered by the State under the defective concrete blocks grant scheme on the basis of the applications received to date by Donegal County Council and the serious concerns of affected families across the county. [22859/21]

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I ask the Minister to urgently review the defective concrete blocks scheme as it applies in Donegal. He will be aware that a large number of families have engaged with the scheme, which is simply not fit for purpose. I ask him to listen to the many voices from Donegal he is hearing and to urgently carry out a review of the scheme to see how it can be made fit for purpose and help families...

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Minister knows, the Mica Action Group campaigned for many years. The Minister referred to the pyrite scheme for families in Dublin and north Leinster. That scheme was 100% funded. We in Donegal have always felt let down in that our scheme was 90% funded. We were, however, relieved to have some type of a scheme. The difficulty right now is that the limits for a complete rebuild of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (5 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it will be ensured that persons who lost their employment temporarily due to the Covid-19 pandemic and who will be returning to work in the near future can avail of the tenant purchase scheme without further delay; the guidance provided by his Department to local authorities on the way to administer the scheme during the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Vessel Safety (5 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 696. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 245 of 4 February 2021, if he will communicate with the Department of Transport that advised in a subsequent Parliamentary Question that it has no role in providing financial compensation to the fishing sector and that such matters are within the remit of his Department and that the person...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (29 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 164. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he and his Department are pursuing a multi-fund approach of both EU funding (details supplied) and the EU Recovery and Resilience fund as well as national funding such as the Rural Regeneration Fund, Shared Island Fund and town and village renewal scheme among others in order to help in alleviating the dreadful consequences for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (29 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 168. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the shortage of staff in the ERAD division of the regional office in Raphoe, County Donegal; if his attention has been further drawn to the knock-on impact of these staff shortages to farmers awaiting co-operation from his Department with a range of applications and financial supports; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (29 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 169. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of staff positions that are currently vacant in the regional office of his Department in Raphoe, County Donegal; and the plans to have these positions filled. [22505/21]

Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017: Restoration to Order Paper (28 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 198, the Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017, which lapsed on the dissolution of the 32nd Dáil, shall be restored to the Order Paper at Order for Committee Stage.”

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It was a draft plan.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is an absolutely derisory response.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Some 45 minutes has been scheduled on Thursday for the Opposition to engage on the national marine planning framework, NMPF. As the Taoiseach knows, serious concern was conveyed to the Government through the Business Committee from a range of Opposition Members, including Sinn Féin. The NMPF is a major planning framework. It has legal consequences for our coastal communities,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Drug and Alcohol Testing (28 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which his Department decided on the drug driving limits in regard to cannabis and the testing procedures that apply. [21844/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (28 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1139. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of efforts by his Department working with Donegal County Council to secure the necessary funding to complete the breakwater at Greencastle Harbour, County Donegal, mindful of the huge outlay of public funding already invested in a half finished project. [21445/21]