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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the witnesses. My concern is there is no level of oversight that is good enough. I note in the submission it is acknowledged that you cannot get into comparisons. I believe our industry is the most regulated in all of Europe, that our fish producers and fishers are the most regulated in all of Europe. This report was leaked in the national media earlier this year at a time when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is important that we emphasise this reset of relationships. As an Oireachtas Member, I am conscious there are other interested parties out there, such as environmental NGOs and a range of people who are interested in the marine. I have been a spokesperson for my own party on fisheries and the marine for about a year and I have engaged extensively, including with the SFPA, to try to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have one question. If the SFPA is not the most effective and strongest regulator in Europe then which is?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 193. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) was refused the employment wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34005/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (24 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 224. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will assist in expediting the construction of all homes at a location (details supplied) in recognition of the defective blocks crisis in County Donegal in that it can provide additional accommodation as soon as possible. [34006/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (24 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 225. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications being processed by his Department for the construction of social housing in County Donegal; and the geographic breakdown of same. [34007/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (24 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has received an analysis of the amount of public housing in County Donegal which is impacted by the construction with defective blocks. [34008/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (24 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to surveys carried out by Donegal County Council on its housing stock; if so, if a detailed breakdown will be provided of the results of any analysis to date, that is, visual surveys or core testing on each building; and the breakdown by district electoral division of the number of houses...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Taoiseach will have seen the trawlers across the water as he came to the convention centre today. There are fishermen and fishing families from all over Ireland here today. We have 12% of the waters of the European Union and we get 4% of the fish, one third of what we really should be getting. This costs us tens of thousands of jobs across coastal communities and hundreds of millions...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (22 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 621. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to adjust the policy for allocating the mackerel quota given that the current 400 tonne quota for hook and line catch by the smaller inshore fleet has been already exceeded in 2021 and he has now closed the 2021 mackerel hook and line fishery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32974/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (22 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 622. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the policy of burden sharing post-Brexit and subsequent loss of fishing quota for Irish fishers has been responsible for the early closure of the 2021 mackerel hook and line fishery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32975/21]

Fisheries and Coastal Communities: Statements (17 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister has heard the remarks of his party colleague, Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan. I commend the Deputy on the graphs providing a visual display of the utter injustice in terms of the allocation of quota to the Irish fishing fleet. The current percentage of Irish waters that are within the overall jurisdiction of the Common Fisheries Policy is 12%. We have 12% of the waters but...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (17 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the changes that have been introduced with respect to the regulation and monitoring of product standards for building blocks since the publication of the Report of the Expert Panel on Defective Blocks in 2017; the measures put in place to ensure that the widespread use of such defective blocks in counties Donegal and Mayo...

Pyrite and Mica Redress Issues: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move: “That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — during the Celtic Tiger building boom, light touch building regulation, poor oversight of construction products and reckless practice by some developers, builders and suppliers have left thousands of homeowners with significant building defects; — in Donegal, Mayo and Clare, thousands of homeowners continue to be...

Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The difficulty with this Bill is that it is being rushed through, as was the national marine planning framework. The case of the national marine planning framework was extraordinary because many years of work went into its preparation, yet Government members of the Oireachtas committee voted to push it through without further scrutiny. Environmental NGOs and inshore fishermen wanted to have...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (15 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 450. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if provision has been made in the National Development Plan for the full cost of making homes in counties Donegal and Mayo safe under the defective concrete blocks grant scheme; and if he will ensure that these costs are covered in the review of the National Development Plan. [31685/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Standards Authority of Ireland (15 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the regulations that are currently in place to ensure that manufacturers here do not allow deleterious minerals such as pyrite or MICA to be present in the constituent aggregate of concrete blocks; the person or body that is responsible for enforcing these regulations; and if he is satisfied that they are enforcing same....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (15 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has consulted with the Health and Safety Authority to establish its role in liaising with Donegal County Council or Mayo County Council on the safety of families living in private or public homes affected by mica or pyrite defective concrete blocks. [31415/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (15 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review will be completed of the submission received from a group (details supplied) in County Donegal in April 2021 and its proposals acted upon. [31416/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (15 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 726. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of progress being made with the new school buildings for a school (details supplied). [30852/21]