Results 2,641-2,660 of 9,291 for speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (4 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will seek increased share of fish quotas for species haddock, monk fish, hake, nephrops and mackerel based on the amount of fish caught by Irish vessels averaged over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6118/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (4 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 249. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when fishers will be informed of their allocated quota for horse mackerel in 2021; the reason there has been a delay in releasing this quota to Irish fishers when fishers from other European member states have received their allocation and have been fishing since the beginning of January 2021; when the allocation will be finalised...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Licences (4 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 251. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered the feasibility of issuing non-transferable transition Irish fishing licences to the fishers based in this State and who hold a UK fishing licence as suggested by some campaigners. [6130/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (4 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 252. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quota allocation or financial benefit accruing to the Irish fishing industry from the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the EU and Greenland and a new protocol that will strengthen fisheries co-operation for the next four years with the possibility of a two-year extension. [6134/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We are in unprecedented times. The Dáil is unique in the world in sitting in an alternative Parliament. We have halved the sitting hours every week and the Opposition has co-operated and accepted this very reluctantly. We have a solemn responsibility to represent the people who voted for us. We have a solemn responsibility in a democracy to hold the Government to account. The very...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UN Security Council (3 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 311. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which Ireland’s seat at the UN Security Council can advance the formation of a Palestinian state in line with the votes of Dáil and Seanad Éireann. [5006/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UN Security Council (3 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 312. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which Ireland’s seat at the UN Security Council can assist with the humanitarian crisis in the Tigray region of Ethiopia and towards a peaceful resolution of the conflict there. [5007/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (3 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 327. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of negotiations with the UK Government in respect of asserting the rights of Irish fishers to fish within the 12-mile limit around Rockall. [5464/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (3 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 916. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts he has made to secure a share of the bluefin tuna for Irish fishers for 2021 through engagements with the EU Commission and International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna, ICCAT; and the details of the outcome of engagements on the matter. [4999/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Foreshore Issues (3 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 917. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 662 of 27 May 2020, the outcome of the report drafted by the marine engineering division on the construction of road approximately 400 m in length along the foreshore of Lough Foyle at Clar, Redcastle, County Donegal. [5000/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (3 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 918. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all sectors of the fishing industry including the producer organisations, fishing co-ops, inshore fishing organisations and islands fishing organisations will be represented on the task force that he has announced for the industry. [5001/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maritime Safety (3 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 919. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the review of the decision to not proceed with the sea survival centre at the fisheries school at Greencastle, County Donegal. [5002/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (3 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 920. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the review of the request from Donegal County Council to centrally fund the completion of the breakwater at Greencastle Harbour, County Donegal and the development of the harbour to increase the potential for fisheries and tourism. [5003/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (3 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 922. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of recorded landings by UK-registered vessels at each harbour nationwide in each of the years 2016 to 2020, in tabular form. [5053/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (3 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 923. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider extending the landing times for UK-registered vessels at some designated ports nationwide from Monday to Friday to seven days a week with regard to the safety of fishers and the limitations of the weather that impacts on their livelihoods. [5054/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Functions (3 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 934. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will release a full contact directory of roles and responsibilities within his Department for the marine sector, including persons responsible for various roles to Opposition spokespersons as other Ministers and Departments have done. [5302/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jan 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is four and half years since the vote on Brexit in the UK and we are a year into this Covid-19 crisis. Both crises have demonstrated the folly of partition and its huge impact on our island. In the last week, an opinion poll published by The Sunday Timeshas demonstrated that a majority of the people of the North are in favour of a referendum on Irish unity within the next five years....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry (27 Jan 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if HGV drivers whose licences are due for renewal and are currently facing difficulties accessing medical assessments due to Covid-19 restrictions will be granted an extension of time to allow for completion of these medical assessments. [4392/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Capital Assistance Scheme (27 Jan 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to the capital assistance scheme in the past three years; the breakdown in funding by local authority; the amount drawn down in each year; the number of applications made; the number of the applications specifically made to housing projects for persons with disabilities in tabular form; and if...