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Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Sinn Féin has very serious concerns in regard to this legislation. We acknowledge that the national marine planning framework has been established and that a number of legislative provisions follow it. As we speak, however, fishermen from Donegal are being prevented from fishing in their traditional grounds around Rockall. Eamon Gilmore, a predecessor of the Minister, Deputy Coveney,...

Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 2: In page 7, line 12, to delete "as soon as may be" and substitute the following: "within a time period allowing reasonable time for the order to be examined but not longer than 12 months". I am hopeful that the Minister will agree to these reasonable amendments. I have already referred to the unfortunate terms of the agreement of 2014. Amendment No. 2...

Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Amendment No. 1 has been disallowed.

Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister has put forward the subject of honesty and I am glad he has done so. Let us go through facts in detail. It is true that there were a number of agreements between the Irish Government and the British Government on the area around Rockall, culminating in the 2013 agreement. It was signed in 2013 and then laid before the Houses in 2014. The Minister says that the Government...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I find it extraordinary and very worrying that the Minister has put in these conditions. When it was confirmed with the campaigning families in Donegal that at long last, after years and years, they were going to be exempt from the property tax, they said it was a positive gesture, but there are more substantive issues. I note the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Issues (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a number of instances across north County Donegal in which landowners have come into conflict with their neighbouring landowners arising from discrepancies between their original folio Land Registry maps and the maps that have emerged from the digitisation of the mapping system by the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 431. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE plans to support the use of the drug zolgensma that replaces the SMN1 gene for children living with spinal muscular atrophy type 1. [31562/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I welcome our guests from the SFPA. I have a number of questions but first I want to acknowledge the 14-page substantial submission the SFPA has made to the committee. I want to refer to a number of references in it and that will link in with my questions. The authority welcomed the invitation for its representatives to appear before the committee but expressed frustration that it has not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will finish my questions. My colleague had 20 questions and I have only asked one so far. I will be brief in my other questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In fairness, the Chairman has been more than fair. I will brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Chairman. I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Does Mr. O'Mahony want to come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the witnesses. My concern is there is no level of oversight that is good enough. I note in the submission it is acknowledged that you cannot get into comparisons. I believe our industry is the most regulated in all of Europe, that our fish producers and fishers are the most regulated in all of Europe. This report was leaked in the national media earlier this year at a time when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is important that we emphasise this reset of relationships. As an Oireachtas Member, I am conscious there are other interested parties out there, such as environmental NGOs and a range of people who are interested in the marine. I have been a spokesperson for my own party on fisheries and the marine for about a year and I have engaged extensively, including with the SFPA, to try to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have one question. If the SFPA is not the most effective and strongest regulator in Europe then which is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Strand 1 of the Good Friday Agreement: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is a problem with the sound. Somebody needs to do something

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Strand 1 of the Good Friday Agreement: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the witnesses. It is good to see Mr. John McCallister again. I always thought he was a thoughtful and conciliatory parliamentarian. In terms of the submissions that are being made, the proposition is that the form of parliamentary assembly or democracy that is in place in the North is satisfactory. I think we all agree that it is not an ideal scenario. Ideally, in any democracy,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Citizenship Applications (27 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 840. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the Foreign Births Registration Office will recommence the assessment of applications such as in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40196/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (27 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 2182. To ask the Minister for Health the way County Donegal compares to other counties in the speed of the roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines. [28315/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 2610. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that will be put in place by his Department to ensure that cross-Border workers who availed of the Covid-19 vaccine in the Northern Ireland will be included in the roll-out of the EU Digital COVID Certificate in this State. [38363/21]