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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition Law and Trade Associations: Discussion (1 Oct 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Towards the end of Mr. O'Leary's presentation, he focused on the producer organisations. If I am missing something, I ask him to correct me. What I am taking from the presentation and the responses today is that the commission obviously operates under European and Irish law and implements it as an authority. The terms of reference - the framework the commission has been given as an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition Law and Trade Associations: Discussion (1 Oct 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is a fair point. To clarify, I mean fitness for the purpose of addressing the issues pertaining to the recent beef crisis. Is that fair enough?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will place on record a profound failure of policing in my home county of Donegal. I have agreed with the victim's family that I will give this brief account. There is a long-established housing development in a town in Donegal. A number of years ago, two persons moved into a house in the development, one of whom, a man, has a long criminal record and has been convicted of dealing drugs...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: All I can say is-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: -----that I have seen incontrovertible video evidence. I accept the guidance of the Cathaoirleach. I will wrap up. I thought long and hard before I decided to read this into the record. The whole community in the area in question is asking why this criminal thug, who violently assaulted a pensioner, has not been arrested. The pensioner in question was taken to a Garda station yesterday....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is a very good point. Well said.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jul 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There are serious concerns in the south Inishowen area at activities on what was known as Grianán Estate. It is the largest farm in the country. This estate was purchased by Glenmore Estate in 2017 and earlier this year The Irish Timesreported that it was estimated that hundreds of trees including ash, sycamore, birch, whitebeam and willow, had been destroyed and miles of hedgerows...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am not a member of the committee and the protocol is non-members ask their questions last, as is right and proper. I appreciate the opportunity to contribute to the discussion. I was asked by the Inishowen Childrens Autism Related Education, iCARE, organisation in Buncrana, County Donegal, from where I come, to attend the meeting and tell its story as part of this dialogue. The issues...

Seanad: EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (3 Jul 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yes. We will take five minutes and three minutes.

Seanad: EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (3 Jul 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I propose we take five minutes and three minutes, respectively.

Seanad: EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (3 Jul 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Minister will know, the Amazon rainforest represents half of the world's remaining rainforest. Last month, an area of 739 km2 was destroyed which equates to two football pitches every minutes. She is doing commerce with one of the most right-wing political leaders in the world, President Bolsonaro.

Seanad: EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (3 Jul 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: President Bolsonaro is a climate change denier and is up to his neck with the ranchers and people who are destroying the rainforest whom he funds and backs. He has made no secret of the fact that this is his agenda. Farmers in Donegal and any other county in this State live up to very onerous environmental legislation and regulations and inspectors check farms of all sizes. Farmers rely on...

Seanad: EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (3 Jul 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We absolutely did, given the waters that we gave away. I suppose it was always going to come to this, but we are now selling out the farming sector. Beef farmers have been struggling for so many years under the cheap food policy of the EU, as my colleague Senator Marshall mentioned. We have forced farmers into a market where the meat factories, supermarkets and corporations dictate the...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I accept that our amendment has been ruled out of order, but I hope the Minister of State, Deputy Breen, will note the sentiment behind it. He referred last week to the review that is being conducted. He may be aware that we had some lively discussion in this House earlier today on issues relating to the Defence Forces. We have asked that the Taoiseach come to the Seanad to address our...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I conveyed my condolences to the Leas-Chathaoirleach on the loss of his mother in person but I would like to do so again in the House. I agree with Senator Davitt that the Leas-Chathaoirleach is highly regarded in this House. We are very sorry for his loss.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank our guests for their presentations. While the ACCA commented only on the annual returns and audits elements of the Bill, the association and the Centre for Co-Operative Studies are broadly in agreement on the legislation. There is an acceptance among those putting forward the legislation of the need for amendments to clarify the annual statements dimension. Our guests from ICOS...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Does Ms Farrell accept that predominantly the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society is focused on the agriculture, food and others sectors and that, as pointed out by Ms Carroll on behalf of the Centre for Co-operative Studies, it may be important or necessary to lower the minimum for its models to be successful?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Fair enough.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jun 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Leader is familiar with the many tragedies we have had at sea around our coast over the years. As a Donegal man, I have heard of far too many of our fishermen losing their lives. We were delighted in 2016 when it was announced by Bord Iascaigh Mhara that it would fund a €1.5 million sea safety and survival training centre at the National Fisheries College at Greencastle. The...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Rockall Island Ownership (19 Jun 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This House debated the Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill earlier this year. The central premise of the Government's argument was that it was important to permit UK-registered vessels to have access to Irish fisheries right to the shoreline and to reinstate the principle of voisinage agreements ahead of Brexit, to build good relations with the British Government. In recent weeks, the Scottish...

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