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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not agreed. I heard the Taoiseach on the radio yesterday calling on influencers, whoever they are, to help build public confidence in the public health measures. Last week, he had a go at various Opposition spokespersons regarding their co-operation with Government, yet he denied the Opposition the ability to scrutinise these public health regulations. He did not agree to a debate on them....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To be clear, I am raising again the fact that the Government failed to agree to debate the draft regulations last week. This was raised at the Business Committee and here. The Government voted down the proposition. I am, therefore, asking the Taoiseach if he will make space this week to debate the issue of the Government's testing and tracing plan, or absence thereof.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is what we are here for.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Nothing was agreed in the past two weeks.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Defective Building Materials (22 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if her attention has been drawn to the widespread concerns regarding the affordability of the defective concrete blocks grant scheme; if he will amend the scheme to make it a 100% State-funded grant as was the case with the pyrite resolution scheme; and the reason the affected families in counties Donegal and Mayo have not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (22 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 813. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to calls by persons living with amyloidosis to take actions (details supplied) with reference to the HSE amyloidosis working group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25384/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inshore Fisheries (22 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 890. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of the lobster industry here in terms of landings by weight and value to ports and lobster export value in view of the recent announcement on the removal of tariffs on lobster imported from the United States of America; the number of vessels engaged in the fishery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25332/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inshore Fisheries (22 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 891. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to harmonise brown crab export health certificate requirements across Europe for the export of crab to China to ensure a level playing field for fishers here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25333/20]

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (23 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I wish to raise directly with the Minister the serious problems that have emerged with school transport in Donegal but also across the rest of the State. The Minister, in conjunction with the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Foley, overlooked the school transport challenge under the umbrella of the back-to-school plan in a very clear way. Every year at this time, families are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (23 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will engage with his counterpart in the British Government to cooperate on new legislation that would regulate the proliferation of oyster trestles on the western shore of Lough Foyle. [25735/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Foreshore Issues (23 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will engage with his counterpart in the Northern Executive to ensure that all aquaculture activity on the shores of Carlingford Lough is licensed and regulated by the Lough’s Agency. [25736/20]

EU-UK Negotiations on Brexit: Statements (24 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will be very familiar with the issue of jurisdiction over Lough Foyle. In November 2016, the then British Secretary of State, Mr. James Brokenshire, declared that the whole of Lough Foyle was within the UK. That has always historically been rejected, not just by the Irish Government, but by the Irish people. The facts are that the British Government and the Crown Estate claim...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (24 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will move to a compulsory purchase order of land in Buncrana, County Donegal to secure the long delayed sites for new schools and campuses for schools (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the emergency this long delay has created for the teachers, children and students; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the plans for a new building for a school (details supplied). [26203/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the plans for a new building for a school (details supplied). [26204/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the plans for a new building for a school (details supplied). [26205/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance (24 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 172. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26064/20]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We requested time for statements on the winter plan for Thursday and note that has been agreed. The announcement from Bus Éireann that it will close its intercity Expressway services to Galway, Limerick, Cork and Belfast is an extremely disturbing development. I ask that time be made available this week to discuss this issue and try to arrive at a solution that allows those vital...

European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 318 of 2020): Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move: That Dáil Éireann resolves that the European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 318 of 2020) be and are hereby annulled. On behalf of all the fishing organisations Sinn Féin has spoken to, we support a penalty points system being put in place - it is essential - but the system must be fair and just. It is important that I...

European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 318 of 2020): Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is a sorry saga. I will give the Minister genuine advice across the floor. He urgently needs to get a grip of the people who run the marine section in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. In all of my eighteen and a half years in politics, I have never come across such wall of distrust between those who a Department are supposed to represent and the Department itself....