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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Come off it.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (10 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a library will be returned to its original location in a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23428/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (10 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 566. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is flexibility around carer’s allowance means testing for couples who are partners, considering they cannot avail of tax breaks in the same way as married couples. [23353/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (10 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 726. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an assessment of needs in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22763/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Measures (10 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 850. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the deadline for the coming into force of the Sea Fisheries Act 2022; and if the deadline set by his Department of 3 May 2022 will be extended for masters and skippers who are Irish citizens to apply for acceptance of their application for registration onto the Irish Fishing Master Register. [22764/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (10 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 874. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 559 of 4 May 2022, if he will reinvest the €9 million, saved to his Department by this announcement back into investing in other piers and harbours in County Donegal or into the further development of Greencastle Harbour [23354/22]

Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Security: Statements (12 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I want to start my comments by revisiting the issue of Killybegs and the scandal of how it has been handled. The Minister was at a public meeting there in recent weeks and he saw at first hand the scale of the anger and frustration. That is not just today or yesterday as it has been building up for many years. There has to be a solution to this. What is being asked of our industry,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (12 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 167. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the future of snap net fishing on the river Suir following its closure a number of years ago; and if his Department will engage with fishermen in the area who wish to examine options for the future. [23905/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (12 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 343. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment with the children’s disability network team in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24029/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry (12 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 357. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that all applications under the current aquaculture licensing system undergoing statutory consultation are subject to fair and due process throughout the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23903/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 appears again on Thursday's schedule so there may be time then.

Just Transition: Statements (18 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I want to outline to the Minister of State why the Minister, his party leader, is so deeply unpopular in rural Ireland and why he is so out of touch with rural Ireland. I want to describe to him the practical realities for people in Donegal. We have a situation whereby two thirds of homeowners in Donegal rely on home heating oil to heat their homes. Even more rely on solid fuel. They...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (19 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 251. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25456/22]

Journalists in Conflicts across the World: Statements (24 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The response of the Israeli state after the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh was consistent with its response to all sorts of similar events over the years. We have seen the imagery of the young man in the white t-shirt showing heroism under gunfire from Israeli snipers in rescuing her body. Those images do not lie and it is very clear what happened here. There must be an independent...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is praise indeed.

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (25 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Today is the 31st anniversary of the assassination of Councillor Eddie Fullerton. The Minister will be aware I have made a number of speeches in his presence about that case and the Minister is familiar with it. I will focus on the case of Councillor Eddie Fullerton again here today to illustrate what I believe is the serious bad faith by the British Government and the British state and how...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: State Bodies (24 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will seek clarification from the relevant Department that the costs of judicial review by a State agency, that is a statutory consultee in the aquaculture licensing process will be funded by public expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26424/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Policies (24 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 341. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will facilitate representations to his office from MLAs and MPs, on behalf of their constituents in the North of Ireland on Irish passport applications on a similar basis to TDs and Senators in this State, to reflect the reality that they represent Irish citizens also and the high volume of passport applications from Irish citizens...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (24 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 483. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that an application for working family payment was disallowed for a person in County Donegal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26398/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 619. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that there is no pay parity between clinical scientists and medical laboratory scientists given that both professions perform the same duties often working side by side in the same laboratory. [25950/22]