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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Seirbhísí Farantóireachta (25 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 27. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development cad é stádas an bháid farantóireachta nua atá saincheaptha d’Oileán Thoraí; cén uair a bheidh an bád réidh le seoladh; an mbeidh sí sásta cruinniú a bheith aici le muintir an oileáin; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [21491/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (25 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 218. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the efforts by the OPW to secure a site for a new Garda station at Carndonagh, County Donegal. [28172/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flood Risk Management (25 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 565. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is providing financial assistance to farmers who are managing flood prevention infrastructure arising from land reclamation measures under the Irish Land Commission initiatives of the past. [28340/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (20 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 68. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the negotiations with his EU counterparts to secure a fair burden sharing of the fish quota loss that has arisen from the EU- UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement. [27056/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (20 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 74. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the full State and EU funding that will be available to the fishing industry to implement the recommendation that will come from the Seafood Taskforce; and the estimated amount of funding available. [27057/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Thousands of family homes in Donegal are falling apart due to reckless practices in the industry in the 2000s. There was a huge housing boom and self-regulation was the order of the day. In the case of pyrite, the State stepped up and put in place the pyrite remediate scheme, which is fully funded, which is as it should be. In counties Donegal and Mayo, however, the families have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (19 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Taoiseach will be aware the last Dáil and Seanad voted on four motions calling for a public inquiry into the circumstances that led to the death of Shane O'Farrell in August 2011. Rather than implement the will of the Dáil and Seanad, the then-Government introduced a scoping exercise led by Judge Haughton. That was to have been completed by May 2020, then September, then...

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]