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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (19 Oct 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 940. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if in the absence of a new control plan for fish landings not being approved by the European Commission, if a peri plan or interim arrangements will be introduced in order that fish landings can be facilitated under control and to allow for in-factory weighing. [51208/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee which deals with marine and fishing will next meet. [47859/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Taoiseach basically said in his reply that there is no specific committee meeting on marine and fishing. We are the only island state, which will hopefully be a nation in the near future, in Europe. There are two junior Ministers in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, neither of whom deals specifically with fisheries and the marine. That indicates the level of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Everything I said today was based on facts. They were absolutely 100% facts.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: They are facts. He said I was sloganeering but they are facts.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (3 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am going to reiterate some of the points I made to the Taoiseach earlier about the reality of what is happening around our coast today. I will put it back on the record. The Irish fishing fleet is allocated 15% of the quota in fish in our own waters under the Common Fisheries Policy. The other 85% is allocated to the fishing fleets of other EU member states. This is under the relative...

Finance Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I had the opportunity earlier today to raise again with the Taoiseach the crisis in our fishing industry. What has caused this? If we look at our waters under the jurisdiction of the Common Fisheries Policy, 15% of the fish quota in these waters has been allocated to the Irish fishing fleet every year for years. The other 85% is given to the fishing fleets of other European member states....

Finance Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Double the tax on second homes.

Finance Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is not a reaction.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (2 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 806. To ask the Minister for Health if the Northern Ireland planned healthcare scheme in its current model in providing healthcare will extend beyond 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52097/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Areas of Conservation (2 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1227. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that public access to Estat Mhic Manusa, the Coillte managed forest at Rossylongan, Donegal Town and its status as a special area of conservation will be reinstated as soon as possible. [52922/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (2 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1240. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the completion works for the breakwater at Greencastle Harbour, County Donegal; and when the works will be completed. [52939/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (2 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1241. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Donegal County Council has contacted his office or his Department in relation to the need for urgent investment and urgent improvement works at Rathmullan Pier, County Donegal. [52940/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (2 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Iceland, Norway, and the Faroe Islands have not availed of the quota of bluefin tuna allocated to them by ICAAT in recent years; and if he will engage with his European counterparts and these three countries and territories to work towards a reasonable and sustainable quota of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (2 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1243. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of fish quota in the Irish EEZ that has been allocated to the fishing fleets of EU member states who joined the EU in the past two decades; and the way this allocation corresponds with the relative stability justification for the huge quota of fish in the Irish EEZ that has been allocated to the fishing fleets of other...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (4 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 335. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will grant a visitor’s visa in respect of a person (details supplied) to visit with their ill child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53794/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not agreed. There is real concern about the manner in which the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, appointed two close colleagues to the Climate Change Advisory Council. There has clearly been no formal public appointments practice involved with those two appointments. We have been through the Katherine Zappone affair and the Oireachtas was...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We need the Taoiseach to tell us when the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, will come before this Dáil and make a statement outlining the process that led to those two appointments. We need to know if he will come in at the earliest opportunity and if the Taoiseach will ask him to come in.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It only came to public attention over the weekend in newspaper reports.

Regional Transport Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I want to show the Minister of State a map which he may have seen before. It is a map the Northern and Western Regional Assembly published a number of years ago. If one looks at it the deficit in infrastructure in the north-west of Ireland, working its way down to the west, is very clear. Let us look at it. There is no motorway network to the fourth largest city on the island, Derry, and...