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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (10 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 464. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the electronic logbooks input by super trawlers and monitored by the SFPA showing the total catch made by them in waters off Ireland in the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42618/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (10 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 463. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual breakdown of all SFPA operations on an annual basis for the past five years in which it boarded fishing vessels by vessel name, country of origin, purpose of boarding, if an infringement was detected and if so, the infringement in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42617/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (10 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 465. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to seek access to quotas for Irish fishers for fish types such as bluefin tuna, anchovies and others in new EU quota negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42622/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (10 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 466. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to make capital investments in fishing ports during this term of Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42623/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Seaweed Harvesting (10 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to promote and support community-led and owned sustainable seaweed harvesting operations. [42625/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (10 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 472. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of times CASA aircraft were deployed to monitor the fishing activities of supertrawlers; the names of the vessels the aircraft were deployed to monitor in each of the past ten years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42650/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Island Communities (10 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 493. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to create a national islands plan and to give legislative protection to Ireland’s island communities to ensure their economic and heritage sustainability into the future during her term of office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42621/20]

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Sinn Féin and the Minister's party, including its Government partners, have different views on the type of country we want and this is okay. It is, in fact, healthy for a democracy that voters have a clear choice when they go to the polls. Sinn Féin will always prioritise State investment in public services and providing income supports, housing, education and jobs where needed....

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (8 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas is the body that sets the international quota. Since 2016, the European Union share of that international quota has increased by 73% - some 8,000 tonnes - from 11,200 tonnes to 19,360 tonnes. Ireland, however, has not got one of those tonnes. Irish fishermen, right around the coast, are reporting to me as Sinn Féin's...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (8 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: One of these bluefin tuna can be worth $10,000. In the Japanese sushi and sashimi markets, it is an incredibly lucrative fish. More than 8,000 additional tonnes in the past four years were secured by the European Union for this fish but we get nothing. As the Minister knows from wearing his agriculture hat, we are looking at the Common Agricultural Policy, the single farm payment, the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (8 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 38. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Ireland has not received a single tonne of the hundreds of tonnes in additional international quota total allowable catch for the lucrative bluefin tuna species that has been secured by the European Union since 2016; his views on the scientific information he has to hand on the abundance of this species in Irish waters or...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (8 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What is the reason that Ireland has not received a single tonne of the hundreds of tonnes of additional international quota that was allocated to the European Union since 2016 for one of the most lucrative fish in the world?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Common Fisheries Policy (8 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will be aware on 12 November last, it was reported that two Dutch-registered monster vessels were fishing off the Donegal coast. One was a super-trawler and the other was a factory ship. One was 470 ft long and the other was 414 ft long. They hoovered up fish. There are widespread concerns about sustainability. How can the Minister talk about sustainability of fisheries when...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Common Fisheries Policy (8 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Let us deal with the 12-mile issue first. The exclusive economic zone of our country comprises 200 miles, not 12 miles. There are immense resources of fisheries outside the 12-mile limit and we have given up 80% of those. In regard to the size of the ships, Australia has banned vessels of more than 120 m in length. I do not think there is any vessel of that size in the Irish fleet,...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Common Fisheries Policy (8 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 34. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advocate with his European Union counterparts for the EU to follow the lead of Australia in banning super-trawlers from national waters under the jurisdiction of the Common Fisheries Policy in response to the outrage in Irish coastal communities at the ongoing access to the exclusive economic zone being granted to...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Common Fisheries Policy (8 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Will the Minister, with his European Union counterparts, advocate to follow the lead of Australia in banning super-trawlers from our national waters under the jurisdiction of the Common Fisheries Policy, CFP, in response to the growing outrage in Irish coastal communities at the spectacle of these huge ships hoovering up fish while inshore fishing communities are struggling so much?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Issues (8 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 48. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make it clear to his European Union counterparts that any change in quota allocations or access to fishing waters that emerge from the current Brexit negotiations will require an urgent renegotiation of the Common Fisheries Policy to protect the fisheries within Ireland’s exclusive economic zone and to defend...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: IDA Ireland (8 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 95. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the number of IDA site visits organised in County Donegal in each of the years 2010 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [41584/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: IDA Ireland (8 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 96. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the number of new companies that have located in County Donegal with IDA assistance in each of the years 2010 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [41585/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (8 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 210. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some public sector workers who retired in 2008 have not received any increase in their State pension since then; and the reason pension payments are not index linked to public sector pay increases. [41580/20]