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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 994. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will amend the Covid-19 aquaculture support scheme to include those recent entrants to the industry with sales on their books from 2020 and who have been seriously financially affected by the global pandemic; and if he will engage with an association (details supplied) and other representative bodies in relation to the way...

Covid-19 (Childcare): Statements (4 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Minister of State and appreciate her response. As per meetings with previous Ministers, the difficulty has been that, unfortunately, the HSE in County Donegal is continuing to take up the financial flack. Therefore, it will be necessary for central government to release funding to assist with this.

Covid-19 (Childcare): Statements (4 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I want to raise a very important issue from my constituency of Donegal, namely, the plight of the Bluestack Special Needs Foundation, which is based in Donegal town and serves south County Donegal, and iCARE, based on the Inishowen Peninsula. Both organisations have provided a tremendous service to children and young people with disabilities and their families for about 20 years. For 18...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fishing Industry (4 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 41. To ask the Minister for Finance if all share fishermen in the State are being treated in the same manner by the Revenue Commissioners in accordance with the High Court judgements of October 2001 and subsequent tax and duty manual published following same; if section 2.5 is being applied, that is, capital allowances shared between boat owners and crew on the same basis in different...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (4 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he supports the growing international calls for the release of a person (details supplied) from prison in India on bail on humanitarian grounds. [6043/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (4 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 91. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the consular and counselling support from his officials and other Departments provided to the family of a person (details supplied); and if he will establish with his Indian counterpart if the ongoing trial of the man accused of the murder can be included in the fast-track special courts for expeditious disposal of rape and POSCO act...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (4 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 207. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the National Ambulance Service plans to replace the interim additional ambulance cover measures for the Inishowen peninsula, County Donegal with permanent rostered staff in a permanent base in Buncrana, County Donegal; the way in which the National Ambulance Service plans utilising the six staff sanctioned; and the level of cover the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (4 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagements he has had with his European counterparts to secure support for the amendment 269 worded operations located in the remote Irish Islands, Greek Islands and in the Croatian islands of Dugi Otok, Vis, Mljet and Lastovo in the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Vessel Safety (4 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he and his Department will re-engage with a person (details supplied) to examine possibilities to compensate as a result of stability issues which were discovered on a vessel that they purchased from another European state rendering the vessel unfit for sea and unsafe and which left them in serious financial hardship; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Issues (4 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 246. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the arrangements that have been agreed with the UK Government to allow Irish fishers to fish inside the 12 nautical mile limit in Northern Ireland; if any Irish vessels have been registered to date; the number that have sought to be registered; when these arrangements will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (4 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 247. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to seek increased quotas to fish stocks during upcoming European negotiations following the Brexit trade deal which will have a significant impact on Ireland’s TAC’s in future years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6117/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (4 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will seek increased share of fish quotas for species haddock, monk fish, hake, nephrops and mackerel based on the amount of fish caught by Irish vessels averaged over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6118/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (4 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 249. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when fishers will be informed of their allocated quota for horse mackerel in 2021; the reason there has been a delay in releasing this quota to Irish fishers when fishers from other European member states have received their allocation and have been fishing since the beginning of January 2021; when the allocation will be finalised...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Licences (4 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 251. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered the feasibility of issuing non-transferable transition Irish fishing licences to the fishers based in this State and who hold a UK fishing licence as suggested by some campaigners. [6130/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (4 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 252. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quota allocation or financial benefit accruing to the Irish fishing industry from the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the EU and Greenland and a new protocol that will strengthen fisheries co-operation for the next four years with the possibility of a two-year extension. [6134/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We are in unprecedented times. The Dáil is unique in the world in sitting in an alternative Parliament. We have halved the sitting hours every week and the Opposition has co-operated and accepted this very reluctantly. We have a solemn responsibility to represent the people who voted for us. We have a solemn responsibility in a democracy to hold the Government to account. The very...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UN Security Council (3 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 311. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which Ireland’s seat at the UN Security Council can advance the formation of a Palestinian state in line with the votes of Dáil and Seanad Éireann. [5006/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UN Security Council (3 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 312. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which Ireland’s seat at the UN Security Council can assist with the humanitarian crisis in the Tigray region of Ethiopia and towards a peaceful resolution of the conflict there. [5007/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (3 Feb 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 327. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of negotiations with the UK Government in respect of asserting the rights of Irish fishers to fish within the 12-mile limit around Rockall. [5464/21]