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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have asked the witnesses to spell that out. I have said that I understand the authority has the ability to carry out covert surveillance. There is clearly much overt surveillance, which I mentioned and which the witnesses can confirm. The authority also uses covert surveillance. It really has huge power.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The authority does not have the power to use covert surveillance jointly with other agencies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The answer is "No" and the authority has never availed-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am asking if those powers include joint covert surveillance with An Garda Síochána and the Revenue Commissioners. If it is in law, surely I can be told?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The authority has really significant powers and has attained oversight of the factories with CCTV to an unprecedented level that does not exist anywhere in Europe. It is seen as the strongest regulator in Europe. However, we cannot get a solution to what is going on at Killybegs that is acceptable to the authority. It has the highest reputation in Europe as regulators and it is seen as the...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We support the homeowners.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (31 May 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 323. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will issue in time for their intended travel date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27608/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (31 May 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 361. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that a passport application for a child (details supplied) will be processed by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28123/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (31 May 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 829. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 874 of 10 May 2022, the way that he will be reinvesting the €9 million that was saved by his Department back in to fishing communities in the State. [27810/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (31 May 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 838. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the agreement entered into between Ireland, France and Belgium in which responsibility for weighing and inspection of all fish landed into Irish ports by French and Belgian-registered fishing boats passed from the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority to their control agencies; if the the European Commission was...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (31 May 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 839. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority ensures that vessels fishing under the flag of France or Belgium but which are not under French or Belgian ownership follow the requirements of the agreement of the permitted scheme for landing fish into Irish ports. [28099/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (1 Jun 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that a passport application for a child (details supplied) will be processed by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28450/22]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Sinn Féin is opposing the Order of Business because of the last-minute introduction of an amendment to the Electoral Reform Bill 2022. It is an old-fashioned stroke, to be quite frank. There is no time to debate it. The Government wants to push through a motion. What is it about? It is about Fianna Fáil being blocked in the court, following the actions of a private citizen,...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Deputy Fitzpatrick is out of order.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: If the Opposition did that, they would not be-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Why not scrutinise it now?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Where did Fianna Fáil come from? What happened in Cork in the 1920s?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Cabinet signed off today on the updated defective blocks scheme, which we are told will cost up to €2.7 billion. For the life of me, I cannot understand why the Government has not clearly said there will be full scrutiny of the legislation, given that €2.7 billion of taxpayers' money is involved. In 2020, as the Taoiseach knows, we had a so-called 90:10 scheme, which was a...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We learned the hard way.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is the Taoiseach agreeing to scrutiny?