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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I shared with the Minister of State my direct eyewitness account of the incredible level of oversight that the SFPA has of the industry. I witnessed in a fish factory in Killybegs CCTV cameras and access to the building at any time. Even that was not enough. I do not know of any industry where there would be cameras literally in the workplace every day, with images going directly from the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The committee met earlier today. We looked at our work plan. We will be bringing in the fishing representative organisations, the Irish Fishing and Seafood Alliance, the National Inshore Fishermen's Organisation and the Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation, which represents the inshore and islands, in order that they can have their say in how this is being implemented. We will look...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 231. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of fisheries protection officers employed by Inland Fisheries Ireland, on permanent and temporary contracts, for the years 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [25598/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 736. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide the numbers of fishery officers employed by the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (permanent and temporary contracts) for each of the years 2012 to 2025, in tabular form. [25595/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 761. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if funding will be provided in this year's Budget to fully staff the community neurorehabilitation team for the north-west in line with the Programme for Government commitment to complete the roll out of community neurorehabilitation teams across the country (details supplied). [25627/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 868. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for a procedure in St. Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25872/25]

Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We have a model of assistance for older people in their homes in Donegal that we are very proud of. It is a publicly delivered system in the main and we have not delegated it out to the private sector. Some tremendous people are working in those services in Donegal but they are being held back by the Government. Its pay and number strategy is basically a recruitment freeze. The...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: You are breaking your own law.

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: When the Dunnes Stores workers made their stand in the 1980s in Ireland, the Government eventually followed suit. It led the way in confronting the South African apartheid regime internationally with sanctions and eventually that regime and apartheid in South Africa came to an end. The Palestinian people recently commemorated the Nakba, the catastrophe, the ethnic cleansing of them from...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (22 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the review currently being carried out by his Department regarding documentation requirements for children born in Northern Ireland to EU parents will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26464/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (22 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 280. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if post-primary teachers will be entitled to pay-related jobseeker's benefit when they become unemployed at the end of this academic year in May 2025 and where they have been unable to secure an employment contract for September 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26479/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Chief Whip will be aware, every Thursday at the Business Committee in recent weeks, I have raised the issue of the defective concrete blocks scheme. Last October, the Government confirmed it was going to increase the cap by 10%. Families are tens of thousands of euro short of 100% redress. This cap must be available to everybody undertaking this scheme, not just new entrants. ...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not agreed.

Apology to Shane O'Farrell and his Family: Statements (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I acknowledge the O'Farrell family, who are in our Distinguished Visitors Gallery. I acknowledge Lucia and Jim, Shane's parents, and Gemma, Pia, Aimee and Hannah, his beloved sisters. I first met Lucia and Jim many years ago here in Leinster House. I was serving as the Sinn Féin justice spokesperson at the time. I will never forget that meeting. Lucia had a framed picture of Shane....

Gaza: Motion (28 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: A deeply disturbing opinion poll was recently published in the Haaretz newspaper of Israel. Some 82% of the Israeli public support the ethnic cleansing of the 2 million people of Gaza from their homeland. This is an almost entirely refugee community. Furthermore, 65% support the biblical amalek command that all men, women and children should be killed and cleared from the land. That is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There was a figure of 40,000.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (28 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 99. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual budget his Department allocated to organisations that save lives, for example, the Irish Coast Guard and the Naval Service and search and rescue services, in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27929/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Marine Protected Areas (28 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 234. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the initiatives that will protect our maritime cultural heritage, as committed to in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27930/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Fishing Industry (28 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 342. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide the first and full year-cost of introducing a €0.20/litre fuel aid support scheme for the Irish fishing fleet for a three month, six month, and 12 month period. [27923/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Fishing Industry (28 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 343. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide the first and full-year cost of introducing a continuity grant for the Irish inshore fishing fleet, vessels less than 18m, equivalent to 20% of turnover and based on turnover from 2021,2022,2023 and 2024. [27924/25]