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National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Every Deputy will want to share with the Minister their experiences in their own constituency. My home county of Donegal has had major problems with ambulance services in recent years. There are a number of families who have lost loved ones due to the length of time it took the ambulance to arrive. There is no doubt about that. They have very courageously told their stories and campaigned...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There was an error in respect of the speaking time in the previous Sinn Féín slot. There were two and a half minutes remaining, which should have been allocated to Deputy Martin Kenny. I ask that 12 and a half minutes be allocated to this slot to make up that difference, if the Leas-Cheann Comhairle is agreeable. It is the same amount of time overall. Is that fair enough?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fisheries Protection (16 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will publish the scientific basis for the proposal that is to be put to him to introduce a conservation by law prohibiting a person from taking, or attempting to take, an arctic char salvelinus alpinus by means of a fishery engine or rod and line from the waters of the State and to prohibit killing, retention or...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Traveller Community (16 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 410. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will restore the budget for a group (details supplied). [55704/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Research (16 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 606. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has carried out investigations as to the cause of the high number of deaths from cancer over recent years in Newtowncunningham, County Donegal and Cloontagh, Clonmany, County Donegal; and if not, if the HSE is planning to do an investigation. [55924/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (16 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 607. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds available in the Inishowen peninsula, County Donegal for adults with disabilities; and if the HSE plans to increase the bed numbers. [55925/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (16 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 619. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 742 of 19 October 2021, when the referred response will issue from the HSE. [55978/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (16 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 670. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Irish vessels in the polyvalent, general trawl and seine net segments; and the gross tonnages and kilowatts for the separate categories of vessels of 12 to 18, 18 to 24 and 24 to 40 metres, respectively in tabular form. [55693/21]

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will take this opportunity to bring to the Minister's attention a matter I regard as serious and which has been ongoing for a number of years. It is an issue that arose following the digitisation of land boundaries in Ireland by the PRA, formerly known as the Land Registry. It moved to the digitisation of land maps during my first term as a Deputy. Issues with one landowner were brought...

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: My colleague, an Teachta O'Rourke, has already outlined Sinn Féin's approach to this Bill. We see it as a missed opportunity and hope the Minister of State will work with us on the substantive amendments that we will submit on Committee Stage, aimed at strengthening this legislation considerably. I want to offer my solidarity to all of the families who have found themselves in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (25 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has plans to address the problems faced by primary schools in securing temporary cover for teachers who may be unable to attend the classroom due to illness, close contacts to Covid-19 cases or for other reasons. [58148/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the three school campuses in Buncrana, County Donegal would be suitable for an accelerated build programme in view of the long delay in securing a suitable site and the very urgent need to relocate pupils from schools (details supplied) in County Donegal. [58149/21]

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: When the Minister was the Fianna Fáil spokesperson on agriculture and food, his colleague, the then Deputy, Pat The Cope Gallagher, was the spokesperson on the marine. As the Minister knows well, he had serious problems with the penalty points system that was being introduced in a statutory instrument by the then Minister, Deputy Creed. He worked with the industry to try to find a...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Minister. As he said, when he was the Opposition spokesperson for his party on this matter, he spoke on this and it is on the record what he said in the Dáil. I will let people measure what he said then and the position he is taking now.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: My recollection of the Minister's speech in the Dáil was that the statutory instrument as it is currently constituted does not reflect a fair penalty points system and there needed to be further consultation with the industry to try to come together. As he will be aware, there was a letter from the industry. When there was this hiatus between ministerial appointments and the Taoiseach...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will tell the Minister what the commitment is. It is what is in these amendments. These amendments are the position of my party.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is the commitment. Here is the thing. Given the speech the Minister gave during that statutory instrument annulment debate, people can see his position then and his position now. This is our position. We will be tested in government at some stage, hopefully, the sooner, the better, and certainly for the fishing community. We will be tested on where we stand based on these...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am saying to the Minister that this current penalty points system that the Minister is proposing to bring in is profoundly unfair. We would seek to have one that reflects the concerns of the industry, particularly on the issue of “beyond a reasonable doubt”.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is very clear.