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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rockall Island Ownership (10 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will be acutely aware of the impact of the outrageous blocking of access for Irish fishermen to the fisheries around Rockall by the British Government. As I understand it, this cost our fishermen more than €7 million last year. What are he and the Minister for Foreign Affairs doing about this absolute outrage?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rockall Island Ownership (10 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The problem is that we are one year on and what is happening is absolutely outrageous. I do not believe, for example, that the French President, Emmanuel Macron, would tolerate his fishermen being treated like this. We saw his response to the British Government when it pushed the boat in that scenario. It is astonishing that, one year on, I am getting exactly the same response from the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rockall Island Ownership (10 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We are one year on. I warned the Minister last year when he passed legislation that formally accepted Britain's claim over the Rockall area, which is exactly what it did, that he was strengthening the British case to block our fishermen. I watched him and the Minister for Foreign Affairs shaking their heads. Here we are, all this time later, and we still have an outrageous scenario whereby...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rockall Island Ownership (10 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is incorrect.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rockall Island Ownership (10 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: For God's sake.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (10 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 156. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that Ireland has not secured any of the substantial increases in Atlantic bluefin tuna quota allocated to the European Union fishing fleets over recent years; and if he will publish all correspondence from his Department to the relevant European Union authorities over recent years aimed at securing such quota for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (10 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 181. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will implement the recommendations of the Sea Food Sector Taskforce report as it pertains to investment in piers and harbours across the State and supplement the Brexit Adjustment Reserve investment with central Exchequer funding; and if he will remove the recently announced limit of expenditure on individual piers and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (9 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 181. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the huge increase in the running cost for fishermen in relation to the cost of their fishing vessels over the past year; and the financial supports or interventions he plans to make to address this. [7102/22]

Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (8 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: They are not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We have another report from the Police Ombudsman in the North and it makes for devastating reading. It details how eight RUC special branch agents were involved with 27 murders and attempted murders, and this follows so close on the report on Operation Greenwich, which also dealt with an elected representative from Donegal. The findings there are devastating. There is plenty of time in the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the National Standards Authority of Ireland has been asked to review IS 465 to include testing for pyrrhotite and other deleterious minerals in concrete blocks and foundations, in addition to pyrite and MICA; and if this is the reason his Department is not agreeing to the demolition and rebuilding of homes in County...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the updated MICA and pyrite redress scheme does not have one full-time employee working on the scheme in his Department; and the details of the persons who will serve on the proposed implementation group for the updated scheme. [6732/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of the homeowners affected by MICA and pyrite defective blocks at the lack of detail in the information supplied to homeowners in relation to the scheme; and if he will re-establish a working group of officials who can liaise with families in counties Donegal and Mayo to...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I referred earlier to The Fishing Daily, Marine Timesand The Skipper. It is my job and that of the Minister to read those publications every time they come out to educate ourselves on the issues affecting fishing communities. If he had done that, he would not have made the assertion he made earlier that he has never heard of those publications criticising the Department of Agriculture, Food...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am pressing the amendment.

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister, Deputy McConalogue, invited me to read into the record some parts of a speech that he delivered, so I will read it into the record now. In the annulment motion tabled by his colleague, former Deputy Pat The Cope Gallagher, he stated: We need to take on board the needs of the fishing sector. We need to avoid the possibility of it being struck down in the courts again. The...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Who did I name? The Minister accused me of personalising it. Who did I name?

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Tell me who I named. The Minister said that I personalise the issue. Who did I name? Did I name any official in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine or the SFPA? I did now what the Minister did back then. I believe that the Minister knows in his heart, as Deputy Danny Healy-Rae said, that this is wrong. It is my job as a spokesperson on fisheries and the marine to read The...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will not take accusations from the Minister and I refute what he said. If the Minister goes ahead with this tonight, he will demonstrate that he is not listening to the fishing community and that he is out of touch with them.