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Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Pat Gallagher: I welcome the Minister of State and compliment him on hitting the ground running. He has visited most parts of the country and has been very accessible to all organisations and to Members of the Houses and that is important. It is important also that he has delegated responsibilities. I recall the days when I had them back in the early noughties and it was vitally important. It is great...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Pat Gallagher: Sorry, okay. I do not think any of us are so naive as to think the review of the Common Fisheries Policy will resolve all our problems. We all thought we were going to achieve that but, unfortunately, we are fighting against other maritime states because if we are to gain, they are to lose.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Pat Gallagher: I am sorry I missed the Minister of State's contribution on aquaculture. There are no quotas when it comes to aquaculture and those are the opportunities that we should take. It is important that a one-stop-shop be established when it comes to aquaculture processing. As far as I understand, the Minister of State does not have it in his total remit to process applications. There are other...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Pat Gallagher: I am committed to doing an interview on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta and I am watching the clock. I welcome those who are with us this morning, both here in person and online, giving an overview of the implications of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement of 19 May. Of course, that was heralded as being a very welcome agreement by all except the fishing sector. It has a great...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)

Pat Gallagher: I welcome the witnesses. Like my colleagues, I refer to the presentation. It is very readable, rather than all of it being scripted. Others could possibly learn from this. I look at the €1.4 billion turnover. Unfortunately, I am around long enough to remember when we thought it was an historic day when BIM was in Ballsbridge - a long time ago before it transferred to Dún...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)

Pat Gallagher: I will just finish up now. With regard to the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, there was short window open from June 2024 to October 2024. When do the witnesses expect another opportunity from the European fund?

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)

Pat Gallagher: Can I ask one question before we-----

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)

Pat Gallagher: It was rightly said that we are the only EU country producing salmon at the moment. However, we have to acknowledge that we learned a lot from Norway and Scotland over the years. We can develop this sector. We are not curtailed by TACs or quotas, and we have ideal conditions around our coast to do that. The big hindrance is the fact that we have to go through too many hoops from the date...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board: Chairperson Designate (17 Jun 2025)

Pat Gallagher: I wish the chairman well in his brief. This is a follow-up on Deputy Mac Lochlainn's contribution. Is there anything within the legislation or the guidelines that says a decision must issue within a certain period? We are frustrated when it comes to An Bord Pleanála. The process lasts as long as a piece of cord. It goes on and on. I do not know whether the witnesses can do...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board: Chairperson Designate (17 Jun 2025)

Pat Gallagher: Thirty calendar days.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board: Chairperson Designate (17 Jun 2025)

Pat Gallagher: How much time does one have to appeal from the time the licence is issued or refused?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Free Legal Advice Centres (18 Jun 2025)

Pat Gallagher: I thank the witnesses for their presentations on this very important issue of the bereaved partner's pension. Did I understand correctly that the witnesses said this only pertains to the contributory pension rather than the non-contributory? In the past, those who had become widows or widowers, as we knew it then, could apply for non-contributory pension schemes. Can someone in this...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Free Legal Advice Centres (18 Jun 2025)

Pat Gallagher: Would it make much of a financial difference if this were to include non-contributory? Has anyone been at a loss as a result of not being included in non-contributory schemes?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Free Legal Advice Centres (18 Jun 2025)

Pat Gallagher: If no children are involved, it is the non-contributory element of the scheme.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: Road Network (24 Jun 2025)

Pat Gallagher: Cé atá ag dul le glacadh an cheist, an Aire nó an Aire Stáit?

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: Road Network (24 Jun 2025)

Pat Gallagher: Is ceist fhíorthábhachtach í seo. Níl mé róshásta ach caithfear glacadh leis an Aire atá agamsa anseo anocht. Ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a chur in iúl as ucht an deis atá agamsa chun an cheist seo faoin A5 a phlé anseo sa Teach mar aon leis an chinneadh a rinne an Breitheamh McAlinden i gcúirt i mBéal Feirste ag tús...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: Road Network (24 Jun 2025)

Pat Gallagher: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I hope it will be too long before a meeting is convened between the Tánaiste, First Minister and respective Ministers. There is only one positive I can take from the judgment, which is that "The shortcomings and shortcuts in the decision making highlighted in this judgment are capable of being remedied". I hope that can be done but this...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Defective Building Materials (24 Jun 2025)

Pat Gallagher: 550. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of defective concrete block appeals he has received from Donegal; the number processed to date; the number of appeals that have been successful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34445/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Pat Gallagher: The programme for Government pledges to explore the provision of an additional surgical hub for the north west in a timely manner. On 24 February, I attended a meeting with HSE executives, who, after pressing, indicated that Sligo was the preferred choice. Shortly after that, the Minister visited Letterkenny. She came in listening mode. She listened to the professionals there and met the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Pat Gallagher: I know I am being squeezed out-----