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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fishing Industry (8 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Fishers all around our coast were shocked and outraged when they learned that the Taoiseach had signed off on the statutory instrument introducing regulations containing a penalty point system. Those fishers learned about this 11 days ago and I have spoken to many of them since. I was speaking to fishermen on Arranmore Island yesterday and they are absolutely shocked that the Taoiseach...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fishing Industry (8 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Minister. I wish him well in his brief and look forward to working with him constructively. He is, like me, from a coastal county and knows well the concerns of fishermen and the sense that they have been criminalised. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has been focused on enforcing rather than facilitating and supporting our fishing community to take the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Measures (8 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 688. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to amend the legislation that results in the registration of babies that have died at birth being recorded privately rather than publicly; and if her attention has been drawn to the hurt caused to parents that do not have the option to record the birth of their child publicly and for the information of future...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (8 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1452. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will provide the €3 million to BIM that will be required to upgrade ice plants at various harbours nationally. [22216/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (8 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1453. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the number of harbours that his Department are responsible for to include Greencastle Harbour, County Donegal. [22217/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (8 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1454. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications for funding from his Department submitted by local authorities for piers and harbours; the locations of the piers and harbours that funding has been sought for; and the amount of funding sought in each case in tabular form. [22218/20]

Report of the Committee of Standing Orders and Dáil Reform: Motion (10 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not agreed. As the Ceann Comhairle will be aware, we have had some dialogue today and my party has made a submission which would permit all Dáil business to return to Leinster House. The optics of us being in this cavernous space while we are asking hundreds of thousands of workers and students to wear masks and keep 1 m apart if they cannot achieve 2 m are not good. It is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We requested the Government to publish the draft regulations that will replace the regulations which will soon expire and which are having such a profound impact on people's lives, and that we would debate those regulations in this Chamber. I am aware that the Government is hiring additional public relations companies to assist it with its message, but yet it cannot come into this Chamber to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is not the case.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On a point of order, the Taoiseach knows well that there were five dissenting voices at the Business Committee when it came to agreeing the schedule.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We also raised this issue last Thursday. We are asking hundreds of thousands of workers, students, teachers, doctors and nurses to work in conditions that we are not demanding of ourselves in these Houses. The imagery from the Convention Centre is appalling. It is a cavernous space with huge gaps between us. It is not sustainable so our party has put forward proposals for the third time....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can I respond to that?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Today, we were presented with a paper that rebutted the very proposition we were agreeing last week so I do not see the necessary progress and we will push this to a vote.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is an incredible shambles. Members had been informed on social media that the Dáil was adjourned until next Tuesday. I work with a team of 37 Deputies, and there are 160 Deputies in total. There was a clear schedule of business, including questions, statements, and a Private Member's motion. It was hours of business. We were trying to relay the information we were given in a...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What I am interpreting, based on the Ceann Comhairle's guidance, is that the Government's advice to him left him with no option but to make the call that he made. That is the interpretation I take from that. Then no whip on the opposition side, and there are seven in total, or leader was communicated with directly, apart from Deputy Alan Kelly's conversation with the Taoiseach. There was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inshore Fisheries (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 114. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the implementation group of the inshore fisheries sector strategy last met; his plans for future meetings to implement the strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23768/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inshore Fisheries (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I referred earlier to the Irish inshore fisheries sector strategy which was launched in January of last year. In dialogue I have had with the inshore fisheries sector, questions are being asked as to when the implementation group last met and the plans to implement the strategy.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inshore Fisheries (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am sure the Minister will agree that it is absolutely stunning that the last time the implementation group met was November 2019. The whole country has gotten used to conducting meetings online. We have all conducted countless meetings online every day. Could this group not have met online? The aforementioned report refers to an industry-led approach, which was really welcome and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inshore Fisheries (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I ask that the Minister would include in his diary for the upcoming period a meeting with the National Inshore Fishermen’s Association, NIFA. I met them online in recent weeks and they raised a wide range of issues with me. They feel utterly abandoned by the Government with regard to supports during the Covid crisis and the price of produce. I cannot stress enough that they are in...