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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Back in the 1980s, Ireland led the way against the South African apartheid regime, starting with the Dunnes Stores workers and then Ireland was the first country to put in place sanctions against the South African apartheid regime. Human Rights Watch recently published a report comprehensively demonstrating that Israel is an apartheid state, and this follows the report from the respected...

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I met with Irish Water, along with my colleagues, Councillors Terry Crossan and Gerry McMonagle, about our concerns over the south Inishowen water supply from the Eddie Fullerton Dam and the development of Letterkenny, the major gateway town in the county. I left that meeting with a clear view that Irish Water is utterly under-resourced. There is clearly no plan in place to address how...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (19 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is a fish counter in operation by Inland Fisheries Ireland for recording salmon stock on the rivers Suir, Nore and Barrow; if so, if he will release the data recorded from these counters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26850/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fishing Industry (19 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of salmon drift netting licences that were not bought out under the compulsory buy out scheme introduced in 2007; the details of same by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26851/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Strategies (19 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 185. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of implementing the outstanding recommendations of his Department’s commissioned reports Steering A New Course 2006, Harnessing Our Ocean Wealth 2012 and Focusing The Future and Maximising The Value of the Irish Seafood Industry 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26846/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (19 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 186. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a voluntary decommissioning scheme for fishing vessels and their owners who wish to leave the fishing sector of their own will; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26847/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulatory Bodies (19 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 187. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of implementing the recommendations of the Review of the Organisational Capability of the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26848/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry (19 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 188. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of implementing the recommendations of the 2017 report from the Independent Aquaculture Licensing Review Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26849/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Taoiseach is doing stand-up now.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I support the request made by Deputy Cian O'Callaghan. The Minister should absolutely come into the Chamber this week to deal with that matter. It is repugnant to the families who have been squeezed out of the housing market that that has happened. I want to put on the record that all of the parties at the Business Committee last Thursday asked that we would get back to the Dáil...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (18 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 385. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the growing tensions in County Donegal in relation to the serious problems that families are experiencing with the defective concrete blocks grants scheme and the ongoing awarding of business to the companies that manufactured the defective products by public bodies such as Donegal County...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (18 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will accede to requests for a public inquiry into the circumstances that led to the defective concrete block crisis in County Donegal that has devastated and traumatised thousands of families in private and public housing. [25948/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Fines Administration (13 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 372. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of speeding fines issued across County Donegal in each of the years, 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the locations of the alleged speeding offences; and the time of day that the alleged offences took place in each instance in tabular form. [25227/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will be aware that we dealt with the pre-legislative scrutiny at the last meeting and with the lower threshold for conviction than the threshold of beyond a reasonable doubt. Obviously, every citizen in the State would expect to be convicted beyond a reasonable doubt, which is the globally understood threshold, yet we have in place a threshold of the balance of probabilities,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister is probably limited in what he can say but I know him as a colleague in County Donegal for a long time. I think he knows that it is appalling that this report has been leaked and reported on at national level and the industry has had no chance to defend itself by seeing the actual evidence. The industry protests that it is the most regulated. The submission from the Irish Fish...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Middle East (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In the 1980s, the Dunnes Stores' workers started confronting the apartheid regime then in power in South Africa. Ireland then led the way in taking on that regime. Here we are today, and we cannot even ban goods from the criminal, illegal settlements in the occupied territories. That is what we have become. From a giant in the 1980s, we have become a minnow. The challenge now is for the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Middle East (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Apartheid is defined as "inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them". Human Rights Watch has published a key report on this issue, of which I am sure the Minister is aware. It follows reports from Israeli human rights organisations B'Tselem and Yesh...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On the same issue, I remind the Taoiseach that when this issue was brought to his attention by the Opposition, he said that we had to move on and that it was urgent. Last week, the vote that was scheduled on this was postponed. The Government could have used that week, as the committee requested, to invite representatives of the inshore fishermen and the environmental NGOs to have their say...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It was two weeks ago-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Two weeks ago.