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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: London Fisheries Convention: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I want to know the entire catch by all nations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: London Fisheries Convention: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What percentage does the Irish fleet have of the overall catch? Is it true that 80% of fish taken from Irish waters is not even landed in Irish ports?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: London Fisheries Convention: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: With respect, I need the Minister to clarify this point. He is accompanied by senior departmental officials. Surely, they know what percentage of the entire catch in Irish waters is caught by the Irish fleet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: London Fisheries Convention: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is a reference to Irish waters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: London Fisheries Convention: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is a massive point. The Minister's senior officials cannot tell the committee what percentage of all fish caught in our waters is caught by our fleet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: London Fisheries Convention: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not about language. The Minister knows that. It is not a level playing pitch.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: London Fisheries Convention: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I seek clarification. In the context of the London Fisheries Convention announcement, has the Government been in contact with the British Government on the specific issue of Lough Foyle? In fairness, the Government has not made provocative statements about Lough Foyle. The British Government has done so. The whole of Lough Foyle is within the United Kingdom so if the Minister marries that...

Seanad: Report of Seanad Special Select Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Motion (12 Jul 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I commend the Seanad committee on its tremendous work in terms of the number of hearings it held and in regard to the compilation of this report. I particularly welcome that the report calls for special EU status for the North of Ireland and for the Good Friday Agreement to be protected. I would like to focus my contribution on the announcement by the British Government that it intends to...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jul 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On a bonfire in east Belfast in recent days, there was a coffin with a picture of Mr. Martin McGuinness, deceased on it, and in other parts of the Six Counties there were bonfires with election posters of SDLP, Sinn Féin and Alliance candidates, some of whom are elected MPs, MLAs, MEPs, our national flag and various other effigies. A couple of years ago, when a priest sadly took his...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Building Regulations (27 Sep 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: With the Leas-Chathaoirleach's assistance, my colleague, Senator Conway-Walsh, will take the supplementary question because, obviously, it pertains to Donegal and Mayo. Is that agreeable?

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Building Regulations (27 Sep 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yes. Is that okay?

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Building Regulations (27 Sep 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I appreciate that. The Minister of State is very familiar with this issue. I know he has visited Donegal a number of times and met affected families. He knows it very well at this stage. Even though it had limited terms of reference, the expert panel report, which was published almost four months ago, clearly demonstrated that there was a profound failure in State oversight of the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Building Regulations (27 Sep 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: When the report was published-----

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Building Regulations (27 Sep 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There was a very different -----

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On the debate on Brexit, I want to note that the British Labour Party's shadow Secretary of State yesterday endorsed the view that special European status should be given to the North. That is in line with the findings of Oireachtas reports and a vote in the Dáil. I would like our Government to put that proposition much more firmly in future. It is clearly a common sense proposition...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I second Senator Rose Conway-Walsh’s amendment to the Order of Business. My home area of Inishowen was badly affected by floods in August, particularly two important community amenities, Swan Park, Buncrana, and Glenevin Waterfall, Clonmany. In Swan Park, the old bridge in the middle of the park was destroyed, as well as all of the green and walking areas. Donegal County Council...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Minister Davitt.

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (4 Oct 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I second the proposal.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (12 Oct 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I would like to raise for the third time an issue I have raised in each of the past two weeks. I ask Senators to think of the major parks in their own cities, towns and communities. Swan Park, which is an important amenity for tourists at the core of my home town of Buncrana, has been destroyed by floods and will be closed to the public for an indefinite period. It has been estimated that...

Seanad: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (18 Oct 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." This Bill is to be known as "Jake's amendment". On 20 March 2013, shortly after being prescribed the antidepressant, Prozac, 14 year old Jake McGill Lynch ended his own life using a firearm. Jake, who was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, was given the antidepressant drug despite research stating that it has no benefit for children with...