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Seanad: Order of Business (19 Apr 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Ah, now.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Apr 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Lies, damn lies and statistics.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Apr 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Leader is not comparing like with like in terms of investment in our public health system.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Apr 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Leader is better than that.

Seanad: Northern Ireland and 20th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (18 Apr 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We will take three and a half to four minutes each.

Seanad: Northern Ireland and 20th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (18 Apr 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will pick up where Senator Richmond concluded. As somebody from Buncrana, my peninsula of Inishowen is intrinsically linked to Derry city. It is our city, and the difference between the way it was during my childhood and what it is today is absolutely incredible. Hearing Brexiteers in England, some of them senior politicians, talking about the Good Friday Agreement being dismantled is...

Seanad: Fodder Shortage: Motion (18 Apr 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Sinn Fein welcomes the motion. With regard to the analysis of how we got to this point I cannot see how anyone could argue with the wording of the motion. I also cannot see how anyone could argue with the solutions proposed. They are completely in keeping with what the farming organisations and the farmers, as representatives across rural Ireland, are telling us. We could not see anything...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Job Creation (29 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In recent years, I have had submitted to the Minister and her predecessor a number of parliamentary questions to try to understand foreign direct investment, FDI, and IDA-supported jobs in Donegal. In July 1999, County Donegal had lost more than 1,000 jobs in the textile industry. Companies such as Fruit of the Loom, which was a significant employer, was on the verge of leaving the county...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Job Creation (29 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As I anticipated, we now need to get to the core of the issue. That is the reason I had those questions tabled and why I am probing the issue. Pramerica is a fantastic story in Donegal. It employs more than 1,500 jobs and has local Donegal leadership. I was at the launch of the fantastic new building, known as the Rock. It is a great story but it is not enough. Why are we not building...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Job Creation (29 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Jobs grew every year during it. The recession has nothing to do with it.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is Senator Conway-Walsh.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No, she is my leader.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I ask the Leader to raise my first issue with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade. Ms Danielle McLaughlin was a young women from my home town of Buncrana in County Donegal. I know her family very well. Just over a year ago, she was murdered in the most appalling circumstances in Goa, India. Liaising with her mother, Andrea, and her family was a real education for me. I learned...

Seanad: An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What about Deputy Martin Ferris?

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Like myself, the Leader will have looked at the Taoiseach and the Ministers in the United States over the past week raising the issue of the undocumented Irish.It is a just and important cause. I do not think anybody in the Chamber does not have family who fit that category. However, one has to compare our approach to the undocumented Irish to our approach to those who come to this country...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Hear. Hear.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I strongly support the Bill because of my direct experience. I had hoped Senator O'Donnell might be able to stay for a few minutes.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Perhaps the Senator can read the transcript later to see what I have to say. A number of years ago the Donegal Youth Council was established. If the Minister of State speaks to his colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy McHugh, he will discover that he was one of the people who advocated the council back in the day. It has been a tremendous success. Students elected their...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I do not know what it is to be a young person, to grow up in the social media age, to be bombarded with imagery of what one should be, what one should speak like or how one should dance or any of those things, just like the middle-aged people in my time did not know what it was like when I was a teenager. The Minister of State is a thoughtful guy. I have always thought so in all my times...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I said "in the future".