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Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Strategy (8 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 261. To ask the Minister for Health the steps which will be taken to ensure the speedy implementation of the National Maternity Strategy 2016-2026 at Letterkenny University Hospital, including the supported care pathway which specifies provision for home birth. [29376/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (8 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 319. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the organisational review of the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority that was carried out and his plans to implement the recommendations. [29274/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Election of Vice Chairman (8 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is it be possible for those of us nominating members for the role to make our arguments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Election of Vice Chairman (8 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: My understanding is that it has become customary in the Oireachtas that if a Cathaoirleach is from the Government then the Vice Chairman will be from the Opposition and vice versa. In this case, it would be customary that the Vice Chairman would be from the Opposition, in order to have a committee that is a collective and consensual. It is good practice. This is the first argument. I have...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (7 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount the OPW has paid a private firm to maintain the gate at Grianan of Aileach Fort, County Donegal. [29222/20]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To be clear again, I am asking for statements on Thursday. That is a request from our spokesperson, Deputy Conway-Walsh.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I believe there could be an opportunity in the Dáil so I make my request again.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On Thursday's business, the Taoiseach would have to agree that there have been extraordinary developments in recent weeks that we could not have foreseen at the Business Committee on a Thursday. One of them is the issue of calculated grades. I appreciate that we had the Minister for Education and Skills before us last Thursday night. The chance to have statements was welcome but there was...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is breaking news from Portlaoise. Kilminchy Lodge nursing home has confirmed 31 cases, 21 of whom are patients. This is deeply disturbing. The entire State has gone into level 3. I appreciate that we meet every Thursday to try to agree a Dáil schedule for the week ahead but there are developments happening that require urgent adaptation by this House, and there needs to be...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Policy (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that the City of Derry Airport is included in the forthcoming regional airports programme to reflect that 40% of the passengers, that is, 200,000 per year, are from County Donegal; if he will restore the PSO for the Derry-Dublin air route to reflect the reality that there is no rail or motorway connecting the north...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his vision for the way in which the communities from the south west, the west and on to counties Sligo, Donegal and Derry can be connected by rail and his plans to advance this vision. [28756/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding required to deliver an integrated constructed wetland as a treatment system for the village of Glen, County Donegal as applied for under the rural water programme in 2019. [28776/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 544. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of applications (details supplied) for PPSNs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28775/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 717. To ask the Minister for Health if a vaccine or medical procedure can be administered on a mature minor, that is, over 16 years of age with an intellectual disability without the consent of the parents following the enactment of recent laws. [28666/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 802. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details on any fish and shell fish quota swaps that the State has made with other EU States in each of the years 2010 to 2019 and to date in 2020; if he will provide the basis for these swaps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28761/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 803. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the tonnage and value of the full annual catch of fish that has been registered as taken from Irish waters under the Common Fisheries Policy for each of the years 2000 to 2019, inclusive, and to date in 2020 including the nationality of the boats landing the catch. [28762/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 804. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that none of his predecessors signed off on the equivalent of SI 318 of 2020 this year, before An Taoiseach did so on 26 August 2020. [28763/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 805. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the criteria on mileage and usage for vehicles that were used by the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority and then auctioned by Irish Machinery Auctions; the estimated amount that was raised by the sale of the vehicles and where the funds were allocated. [28783/20]

European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 318 of 2020): Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is a sorry saga. I will give the Minister genuine advice across the floor. He urgently needs to get a grip of the people who run the marine section in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. In all of my eighteen and a half years in politics, I have never come across such wall of distrust between those who a Department are supposed to represent and the Department itself....