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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Sep 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Following on from Deputy McConalogue's earlier questions on aquaculture licensing, I receive regular feedback of considerable frustration around the length of time it takes to make decisions on these matters. Are there resource issues within the Department? The Minister has just talked about trade delegations, planning two and three year budgets and looking at new market opportunities....

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Regional Airports (28 Sep 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will be aware that the City of Derry Airport serves not just Derry but the entire region of 500,000 people. It is the only region on the island that has no rail link, no motorway link and, now, no air link to our capital city, Dublin. In the City of Derry Airport, 40% of the passengers, approximately 140,000 to 150,000 per year, are from Donegal. Since 2010, the Irish...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Regional Airports (28 Sep 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Apologies, it was my fault.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Regional Airports (28 Sep 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It would be helpful if the Minister of State could do that. I would appreciate it if the Minister could meet Senator Ó Donnghaile and I to discuss this issue. I ask the Minister and Minister of State to meet the board and management of City of Derry Airport. The Minister of State mentioned Donegal Airport in Carrickfinn, which is a fine airport that should be supported. However, if...

Seanad: Economic Growth: Motion (28 Sep 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is reassuring for us.

Seanad: Economic Growth: Motion (28 Sep 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion and, in particular, to argue in favour of Sinn Féin's amended motion. Our amended motion reflects the experience of workers under the last Government. I recall the workers in Lagan Brick, Vita Cortex, TalkTalk, La Senza, Clerys, Dunnes Stores and many more companies who were denied basic rights and had to engage in sit-in protests....

Seanad: Economic Growth: Motion (28 Sep 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It should indicate how we can have strong public services paid for by fair general taxation, offering a coherent alternative to the Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael conservatism that has failed so many people in our country and their brothers in other countries.

Seanad: Economic Growth: Motion (28 Sep 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is my appeal. We can heckle at each other or we can take on board the appeal from Senator Higgins.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I echo the comments made by colleagues on the extension of the deadline for slurry spreading. The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine dealt with this in recent weeks. It is a major issue for the farming community and this is a practical way farmers can be assisted through the difficult times they face. The substantive issue I want to raise today is na...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: He didn't inhale.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I agree 100% with the comments made by Senator Paul Daly. He passionately explained the crisis that faces tillage farmers across the country. The crisis is not just confined to that sector. The common denominator across all of the farming sectors is price, an raise raised whether talking to farmers at the National Ploughing Championships or, as I have done in the past week, in Donegal....

Seanad: Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement: Motion (5 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an gCathaoirleach Gníomhach. I commend Senator Alice-Mary Higgins and the Civil Engagement group for tabling this important motion and welcome the chance to speak to it. I am glad to see that it has received broad support from other Senators. I wish to outline my deep reservations concerning the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will briefly respond to Senator Gallagher, who is also a Donegal man. As party leader, Deputy Micheál Martin made it clear that we were not fit for Government-----

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We never received the phone call so the negotiations were never available to us.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Unfortunately, that is what he said and he repeated it again and again so I do not need to remind Members of that. The substantive point I want to raise today concerns the north west - Derry, Donegal and Tyrone. I am proud to say that in a number of weeks' time, a radiotherapy unit will open in Derry that will service 500,000 people in the region. It is an example of cross-Border...

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There are people all over the city and in other parts of the State this evening getting ready to join queues outside properties in an attempt to try to put a roof over their heads. There are also dozens seeking a spot in a doorway or in an alley, where the open, starry sky will provide their roof for the night. The rental market in Dublin and other cities in Ireland is in absolute chaos....

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I should be clear. Rent certainty is not rent control. Rent certainty provides protection for both tenants and landlords. The only way to deal with rapidly rising rents is through legislative change. If we attempt an economic solution to an economic problem, there will be only one outcome. That is the outcome we have witnessed in the past few years because we have refused to act. The...

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The speech of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, mentioned that the centre must hold. Fine Gael is not at the centre. It is not centrist to abandon hundreds of thousands of our people to the private sector and the whims of landlords. Everybody here represents people.

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is no ownership of decency here.All Members know the stories from their areas. They know the stories of landlords who say, "I cannot take you on board if you are on the social" or "I can't take you on board if you are going on the housing list". Members know what is happening out there. There is serious abuse going on and if we abandon our people to that, it will be a massive...