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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (3 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 580. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the separate financial supports available to the large numbers of families in County Donegal reporting that they cannot afford to avail of the defective concrete blocks grant under the 10% contribution requirement; and the role of the banks and financial institutions in this regard. [32488/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (3 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 581. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if further funding will be available to fund the defective concrete blocks grant should the amounts sought by the affected families exceed that provided for in budget 2021. [32489/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (3 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 913. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a PPSN for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33232/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (3 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 915. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a PPSN for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33248/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (3 Nov 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1534. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Irish fishers are limited to a strict catch and release policy for the bluefin tuna species only for multiple large foreign fishing vessels to catch them in large quantities just outside the Irish EEZ or the 200 nautical mile limit; his plans to address the serious concerns of Irish fishers who have no quota for this...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 7 o’clock This debate has been painful to watch. The victims and their families appealed to the Minister and the Government to listen to their point of view and to act on it by not sealing these records. Under Standing Order 83(3)(b), I propose that the vote be taken by other than electronic means.

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am sorry for interrupting you, a Cheann Comhairle, but an amendment was submitted by Sinn Féin.

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That amendment has been agreed. To be clear, we are not agreeing to that amendment. I thought you were taking our amendment. That is the cause of the confusion. We are not agreeing to that amendment.

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not agreed by us.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (20 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not. This is the motion on Thursday's sitting. Could the Leas-Cheann Comhairle clarify whether we are taking Thursday and Friday together? Are they separate?

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (20 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not.

Post-European Council Meeting on 15 and 16 October: Statements (20 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister of State may recall that in the previous Oireachtas the producer organisations and the inshore fishing representatives presented to the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Their presentations were stark but one of the game-changers was the map I am holding, which clearly defines the exclusive economic zones. Essentially, what is marked in red on the map are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On a point of clarification, all of these votes will pass today and we will not have another chance to debate this. I want clarity. Are we agreeing a Friday sitting? If the Taoiseach is insisting on going ahead with the mother and baby homes legislation on Wednesday and Thursday – I assume he is insisting on going ahead with that – we need Friday cleared now for business. If...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Taoiseach can do that. He can make that call.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is the Taoiseach's schedule there. He gives it to us every week.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No, there is a majority.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I accept that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not agreed, on the basis outlined.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We had serious concerns about the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 being taken this week. Almost everybody in the Opposition opposed the Order of Business at the meeting last Thursday. That is on the record and yet the Bill is going ahead. This is hugely controversial legislation. Appeals have been made...