Results 3,121-3,140 of 9,291 for speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (26 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yes, it has been moved, but I ask the Minister to address the issues I have raised rather than the amendment.
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (26 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I wish to be clear - I have the press release in my hands now. There is nothing in this press release to suggest that everyone who was present at the meeting last Thursday was in agreement that they supported the legislation. That is not what it says. I spoke to the Irish Fish Producers Organisation and the National Inshore Fisheries Forum this evening before I came to the debate. They...
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (26 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I cannot be clear enough. The press statement does not say they have signed off on these amendments. It does not say that.
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (26 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am not referring to a veto.
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (26 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The principle those of us on this side of the House are seeking is for the Minister to engage in meaningful dialogue to attempt to address the concerns of these people. The Bill will be before the Dáil on Thursday. I know the Minister wants to get this legislation through. I think there are many positives around the legislation. We want to reinstate access for Irish boats of a...
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (26 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Will the Minister respond?
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (26 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is one issue the Minister did not address. One issue the legislation does not permit is the allocation. It allows access but it does not increase quotas or give access to the Irish stocks for quota.
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (26 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will set out what I am going to do. I am willing to withdraw the amendment on the basis that the Minister will engage in further discussions in the coming days. The Minister is aware of where the amendment comes from and what the concern is. I call on the Minister to reflect on this at least. There will be conversations with other political parties in the coming days. This call will...
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (26 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What about the others?
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (26 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister is absolutely ruling out any further conversation. Is that correct?
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (26 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Will the Minister reflect on it?
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (26 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: If the Minister could even say he is reflecting on this, that would leave us open to more conversation tomorrow.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I second the proposal to amend the Order of Business to take only Committee Stage of the Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017. We could have tabled a proposal that the Bill not be discussed at all today but this is a compromise amendment we are putting to the Government. We debated the Bill two years ago. I have with me detailed submissions made by pretty much all the fishing representative...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Everything is in chaos across the water. The Government has not consulted in any meaningful way with these organisations during the past two years.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Nothing was done for two years until last night. No efforts were made to address the fishing organisations' concerns. We will debate the amendments on Committee Stage, but before the Government deals with Report Stage, it must demonstrate it has engaged in meaningful consultation with the fishing organisations who presented to the Oireachtas committee, and whose contributions are all on the...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This has taken two years.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not a single thing has been done for two years and not a single fisherman was spoken to in two years.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not at all. There has been two years of nothing.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On a point of order to correct something-----