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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Implementation of Irish Inshore Fisheries Sector Strategy 2019-2023: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The reason I ask the questions is that the view of the sector is that there is a very significant decline in that period and we need to be able to measure that. I appreciate the Minister does not have the information but I ask that it be sent on to me so we can measure the scale of the problem that is there. Of course, as the Minister has acknowledged, the prices for crab, lobster and right...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Implementation of Irish Inshore Fisheries Sector Strategy 2019-2023: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In the development of this new strategy, can it, or would it have the permission, to examine this issue of dedicated European funding? Deputy Collins has talked about how, in the agriculture sector, we have a form of subsidy in place over many years through the Common Agricultural Policy. Measurable demands are made of farmers regarding environmental measures and so on. Can this next phase...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Implementation of Irish Inshore Fisheries Sector Strategy 2019-2023: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will know regarding issues such as fuel subsidies that the Government was criticised for not bringing in measures that were brought in in other European member states. Has the Department carried out an examination of the supports available in other member states, both looking back and in recent times? Obviously, there has been profound market disturbance. The Covid pandemic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Implementation of Irish Inshore Fisheries Sector Strategy 2019-2023: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The difficulty is that the tie-up scheme would not have been available to the inshore sector. It would have been available to offshore fishers. The criticism from the inshore sector was in terms of the overall BAR, about which the Minister has responded in respect of parliamentary questions. There was a significant amount of BAR funding that had to be returned. Their argument is that they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Implementation of Irish Inshore Fisheries Sector Strategy 2019-2023: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have a couple of questions here and obviously there has been engagement with the sector in advance. What is the status of the brown crab working group? I am advised it has not been established yet and can that be expedited?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Implementation of Irish Inshore Fisheries Sector Strategy 2019-2023: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There are a couple of representative bodies, such as the SFPA consultative committee and the Celtic Sea herring committee, that the inshore sector is not yet on. As the Minister knows, there are issues with the north-west herring committee. There is conflict there which hopefully can be resolved. We all want to minimise conflict within the fisheries sector and to try to get agreement....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Implementation of Irish Inshore Fisheries Sector Strategy 2019-2023: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have two final issues and thank the Chairman for his forbearance. I have been asked about a safety grant where money was taken back. I seek clarification on that, if that makes sense. The final question is around the issue of bottom mussel seed. The sector has zero mussel seed available and that means it will have zero sales in the year ahead. If the Minister does not have a ready-made...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Implementation of Irish Inshore Fisheries Sector Strategy 2019-2023: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I might table a parliamentary question to the Minister with more specifics.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It has been publicly announced that Deputy Chambers will become the Minister for Finance, but that is obviously subject to being presented to the Dáil. When does the Taoiseach intend to do that? I understand it is on the schedule for tomorrow. At what time, and so on, will it be?

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister is a TD like the rest of us. I like to believe that he is speaking to his constituents like the rest of us. They are facing this impossible burden, especially people who struggle to pay their rents, mortgages and bills every week. The increased cost of electricity and gas is an impossible burden. Our small businesses face exactly the same burden. This did not happen out...

Pre-European Council: Statements (26 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There has been a very positive recent development in the fishing and seafood industry. The producer organisations, Killybegs Fishermens Organisation, Irish Fish Producers' Organisation, Irish South and West Fish Producer's Organisation and the Irish South and East Fish Producer's Organisation, have united with the Irish Fish Processors and Exporters Association. That is five major...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the gap is less than ten and as this motion has such serious consequences for the Irish people, I am asking for a vote by other than electronic means.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (25 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 318. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will immediately engage with the producer organisations representing the Irish fishing industry to discuss their concerns about the recent agreement on north-east Atlantic mackerel fishing between the UK, Norway and the Faroe Islands; and if he will then act on those concerns at European level. [26998/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Registration of Deaths (25 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 536. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the current regulatory framework that applies to funeral directors and crematoriums; and if he plans to introduce legislation to regulate the industry. [26859/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Registration of Deaths (25 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 538. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the current regulatory framework that applies to funeral directors and crematoriums; and if he plans to introduce legislation to regulate the industry. [27282/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Registration of Deaths (25 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 539. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the current regulatory framework that applies to funeral directors and crematoriums; and if he plans to introduce legislation to regulate the industry. [27283/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (26 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 206. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults with type 1 diabetes attending Letterkenny University Hospital, Mayo University Hospital, and Galway University Hospital; the number of those patients in each hospital awaiting an annual OPD diabetes review appointment for less than 6, 6-12, 12-24, and over 24 months; the longest patient waiting time for an appointment to see an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (26 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 207. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults with type 1 diabetes attending Letterkenny University Hospital, Mayo University Hospital and Galway University Hospital who have received an appointment for an annual OPD diabetes review in 2024 by hospital; the number who have already had their appointment in 2024, by hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27510/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (26 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 208. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults with type 1 diabetes attending Letterkenny University Hospital, Mayo University Hospital and Galway University Hospital who had an annual OPD diabetes review in 2023, by hospital; the number who had no appointment in 2023, by hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27511/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (26 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 209. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals that provide virtual OPD appointments to patients attending their adult diabetes service; the number of virtual appointments were provided in each hospital in 2023 and 2024; if this service will be extended to all hospitals with an adult type 1 diabetes service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27512/24]