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- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Sinn Féin is a republican party.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Liam Lawlor, Ray Burke, Charlie Haughey. Will we go on?
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Fianna Fáil, the republican party.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Leo's spin is-----
- Seanad: Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (15 Nov 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: While I am disappointed that the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, is not present, everything I am about to say I have said to him directly and have put in a letter to him. He has been in County Donegal on several occasions, but I will reiterate the points made today. Letterkenny University Hospital is the sixth largest hospital in the State. It caters for over 23,000 inpatients...
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Has the Minister of State seen the film, "I, Daniel Blake"?
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I would recommend that, at the earliest opportunity, the Minister of State watches this film. It will be the best two hours of her life, especially as a Minister of State who represents a working class community in Dublin. It is a film directed by the wonderful Ken Loach, who has done much for Irish history with some of the films he has made about our island. "I, Daniel Blake" is the story...
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can the Leas-Chathaoirleach confirm is that Senator McCarthy or Senator Butler over there?
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Senator's friends in the British Tory party pay that.
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Did Martin McGuinness take a decision?
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Did Martin McGuinness take a decision?
- Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Absolute hypocrites.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2017: Motion (21 Nov 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am glad that when the Minister responded to the issues around the funding of the Irish Harness Racing Association, he acknowledged that the 2015 meeting of the agriculture committee discussion of a motion similar to the matter before us here was the genesis of the Indecon report. My understanding is that a number of Deputies present had said they could not support the funding that was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2017: Motion (21 Nov 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I can clarify that aspect in a minute. I understand that the Department had the report in May but it was not published for six months, which is deeply unfair. I ask the Minister, even at this late stage, to consider providing seed funding subject to the standard assurances being supplied to the Department. I urge the Minister and his officials to work proactively with the organisation...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2017: Motion (21 Nov 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The association would also have received funding just like Horse Sport Ireland, Bord na gCon and Horse Racing Ireland, which would be only fair and appropriate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2017: Motion (21 Nov 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I reiterate that this report was submitted to the Department on 25 May 2017. Five months later, through no fault of IHRA, this was published after the budget. The Minister can see the recommendations. Indecon has rightly recommended that a number of corporate management issues be addressed in its five recommendations. It also clearly states that State seed funding could be provided on a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2017: Motion (21 Nov 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Five months seems to me to be undue. I appreciate everything the Minister has said about the people and the potential. However, he has not acknowledged that the association was waiting a long time for this report and it was submitted to his Department on 25 May. The first chance the association had to address the issues in the report and comply with the Department's funding requirements...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2017: Motion (21 Nov 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is what I am saying-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2017: Motion (21 Nov 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is why they need seed funding. I would be deeply uncomfortable supporting this motion today without some commitment that, subject to the five year plan being received and a number of corporate management issues being addressed, which I think are well under way at this stage, the Minister's Department will provide seed funding and commit to capital funding, subject to those protections....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2017: Motion (21 Nov 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Two years ago, this committee was about to not support this motion on this very issue. We are entitled to discuss it. I cannot, in good conscience, support this motion today, and hopefully my colleagues will feel the same, without some assurance that seed funding will be given to this organisation. I appreciate that it can address the recommendations in this report. It wants to meet every...