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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ministerial Meetings (21 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 2470. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of meetings either he or his officials had with the Minister for Foreign Affairs in advance of that Minister’s meeting with the French President and German Chancellor in December 2020 in the critical period running up to the Brexit Agreement of 24 December 2020; the dates of these briefings and copies of any...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (21 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 2471. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to secure a tuna quota for Ireland in view of the fact that some EU partners are seeking an expansion to their existing tuna quotas; the tonnage of tuna caught within Ireland’s EEZ waters; the countries fishing for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18677/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (21 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 2533. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the migration research on Atlantic bluefin tuna being conducted by the Marine Institute over recent years can be utilised by his Department to make the case for a reasonable share of the EU quota and TAC of this species to be allocated to the Irish fleet. [20011/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (21 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 2472. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of French vessels inspected, detained, prosecuted and fined for fishing infringements within Ireland’s territorial waters EEZ from 2010 to date; the amount of fish quota French vessels caught in the same waters during the period in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18678/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Development (21 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 2537. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an updated national strategic plan for sustainable aquaculture development will be published. [20057/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (21 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 2538. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce an amendment to section 49 of the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 to ensure that the final report of a complaints officer as part of the complaints procedure of the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority is made available to the complainant and the authority. [20069/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Tánaiste, as a former Minister for Health, will be aware that, in County Donegal, we have iCARE on the Inishowen Peninsula and Bluestack Special Needs Foundation in south Donegal. For the past 20 years, both organisations have provided a vital service to children with disabilities and their families in north and south Donegal. They did so without State funding for a long time but,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Development (22 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 218. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reopen the Covid-19 aquaculture support scheme to allow for the scheme to cover the period from 30 June 2020 onwards; if the eligibility criteria of the scheme will be widened to include aquaculture producers of other species excluded in the previous scheme, that is, abalone, trout and bottom mussels; and if the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Development (22 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider additional financial supports for the oyster sector which is facing a second year of its production cycle with difficulties in finding and accessing markets for its produce (details supplied). [20956/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (22 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 225. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will honour the commitment in the Programme for Government to work to retain factory weighing of pelagic fish in the context of negotiations on the new EU control regulation; the position regarding the current oversight of weighing systems in Irish fish production factories including tamper-proof systems that are observed by...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Some 45 minutes has been scheduled on Thursday for the Opposition to engage on the national marine planning framework, NMPF. As the Taoiseach knows, serious concern was conveyed to the Government through the Business Committee from a range of Opposition Members, including Sinn Féin. The NMPF is a major planning framework. It has legal consequences for our coastal communities,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is an absolutely derisory response.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It was a draft plan.

Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017: Restoration to Order Paper (28 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 198, the Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017, which lapsed on the dissolution of the 32nd Dáil, shall be restored to the Order Paper at Order for Committee Stage.”

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Drug and Alcohol Testing (28 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which his Department decided on the drug driving limits in regard to cannabis and the testing procedures that apply. [21844/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (28 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1139. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of efforts by his Department working with Donegal County Council to secure the necessary funding to complete the breakwater at Greencastle Harbour, County Donegal, mindful of the huge outlay of public funding already invested in a half finished project. [21445/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (28 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1140. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure the immediate publication of the European Commission 2018 audit and the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority administrative enquiry that has led to the revocation of the derogation for the fishing industry to weigh fishery products following transport away from the place of landing; and his views on whether it is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (29 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 164. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he and his Department are pursuing a multi-fund approach of both EU funding (details supplied) and the EU Recovery and Resilience fund as well as national funding such as the Rural Regeneration Fund, Shared Island Fund and town and village renewal scheme among others in order to help in alleviating the dreadful consequences for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (29 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 168. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the shortage of staff in the ERAD division of the regional office in Raphoe, County Donegal; if his attention has been further drawn to the knock-on impact of these staff shortages to farmers awaiting co-operation from his Department with a range of applications and financial supports; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (29 Apr 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 169. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of staff positions that are currently vacant in the regional office of his Department in Raphoe, County Donegal; and the plans to have these positions filled. [22505/21]