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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 911. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, EMFF, funding for Ireland per year during the current programme since 2014; the amount of unspent moneys returned to the EMFF in each year; the percentage that goes solely to the fishing sector on an annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24188/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Bodies (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 912. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current membership of the Celtic Sea herring advisory committee; the representation of the membership of the committee in relation to the proportional size of the fleet; when the committee last met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24189/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 913. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an impact study has been carried out to examine the financial implications for Ireland’s fishers of the EU decision to remove tariffs on the imports of US lobster; the supports that can be put in place to mitigate these measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24190/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 914. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions his Department has taken with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to ensure that all stakeholders and partners are consulted and are involved in the process to establish marine protected areas in Irish fishing waters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24191/20]

Report of the Committee of Standing Orders and Dáil Reform: Motion (10 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not agreed. As the Ceann Comhairle will be aware, we have had some dialogue today and my party has made a submission which would permit all Dáil business to return to Leinster House. The optics of us being in this cavernous space while we are asking hundreds of thousands of workers and students to wear masks and keep 1 m apart if they cannot achieve 2 m are not good. It is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fishing Industry (8 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Minister. I wish him well in his brief and look forward to working with him constructively. He is, like me, from a coastal county and knows well the concerns of fishermen and the sense that they have been criminalised. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has been focused on enforcing rather than facilitating and supporting our fishing community to take the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fishing Industry (8 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Fishers all around our coast were shocked and outraged when they learned that the Taoiseach had signed off on the statutory instrument introducing regulations containing a penalty point system. Those fishers learned about this 11 days ago and I have spoken to many of them since. I was speaking to fishermen on Arranmore Island yesterday and they are absolutely shocked that the Taoiseach...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Deputy is a charlatan.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Deputy McGrath is a political bluffer and everyone knows it.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Measures (8 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 688. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to amend the legislation that results in the registration of babies that have died at birth being recorded privately rather than publicly; and if her attention has been drawn to the hurt caused to parents that do not have the option to record the birth of their child publicly and for the information of future...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (8 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1452. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will provide the €3 million to BIM that will be required to upgrade ice plants at various harbours nationally. [22216/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (8 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1453. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the number of harbours that his Department are responsible for to include Greencastle Harbour, County Donegal. [22217/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (8 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1454. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications for funding from his Department submitted by local authorities for piers and harbours; the locations of the piers and harbours that funding has been sought for; and the amount of funding sought in each case in tabular form. [22218/20]

Speaking Arrangements: Motion (30 Jul 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am. I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That" and substitute the following: "notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, and unless the Dáil shall otherwise order, the following compromise speaking arrangements for Second Stage of a Bill as put forward by Sinn Féin at the meeting of the Business Committee on 30th July, 2020, suggesting: Government 20 minutes,...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: For weeks the various political parties and groupings on the Dáil reform committee and Business Committee have debated the issue of proportional speaking, dealt with the issue of committee formation and a range of other issues to try to make this place work for everybody and be fair to everybody. The secretariat brought forward proposals a number of weeks ago relating to modelling for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (30 Jul 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 475. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grant scheme for local authorities in relation to localised sewerage and wastewater treatment plants; the number of local authorities that have applied for the grant; the number that have been successful; and the applications outstanding. [20034/20]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I ask the Taoiseach to pay particular attention to those who provide school transport. They were left blowing in the wind for months and the Taoiseach is now asking them to step up and support the initiative he announced in recent days. I particularly draw his attention to the plight of bus and coach operators in that sector, especially in rural counties like Donegal who fill significant...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Voluntary Homeowners Relocation Scheme (28 Jul 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 283. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funding allocated for works to be carried out at the residence of persons (details supplied) under the voluntary homeowners' relocation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18881/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (28 Jul 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 634. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the second tranche of funding will be released to applicants to the Covid-19 stability fund for community and voluntary organisations, charities and social enterprises; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18880/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (28 Jul 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 939. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the distress caused to young persons and their families in County Donegal by the long journeys they regularly have to make for appointments in Dublin with a paediatric rheumatology consultant; and if his Department and the HSE can ensure that paediatric rheumatology consultants can hold regular clinics in Letterkenny...