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Seanad: Flooding: Statements (21 Feb 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: He has listened to Senators from all over Ireland but is not being given a chance to respond to the points made.

Seanad: Flooding: Statements (21 Feb 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I must protest.

Seanad: Flooding: Statements (21 Feb 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Some of us have sat through the entire debate.

Seanad: Flooding: Statements (21 Feb 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Acting Chairman is in charge. Some of us have sat through the entirety of this debate waiting for the Minister of State to respond to the issues we raised. It is very unfair to us and the Minister of State to give him only a minute or two to wrap up at the end.

Seanad: Flooding: Statements (21 Feb 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Some other contributors should have been cut then.

Seanad: Flooding: Statements (21 Feb 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: When will it return to the House?

Seanad: Flooding: Statements (21 Feb 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is it agreeable to the Minister of State?

Seanad: Flooding: Statements (21 Feb 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is unfair to the Minister of State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: A startling set of statistics that was presented to the committee and which is available in the public domain in recent times tells its own story. According to the statistics, 42% of farms in the west of Ireland have closed in the past 20 years, the vast majority of which were small family farms. At European Union level, the European Court of Auditors found that 1,000 farms are lost every...

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".

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I said, just to calm-----

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To calm Senators down, I said "in the future". There are many things for which we have aspirations for the future, but today we are debating the local and European elections and the ability of young people to participate in them. Senator Murnane O'Connor, if you ring your colleagues on Donegal County Council this evening and ask them what they think of the Donegal Youth Council, what they...

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Of course. I was interrupted.

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Acting Chairman will appreciate why I responded. I will just say that this is an opportunity for us in this Chamber to stop patronising young people, to involve them in a real way in the political process and, perhaps, God forbid, to capture the imagination of young people across the State and, in a tangible way, empower them to be involved in who represents them at local and European...

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?