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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is breaking news from Portlaoise. Kilminchy Lodge nursing home has confirmed 31 cases, 21 of whom are patients. This is deeply disturbing. The entire State has gone into level 3. I appreciate that we meet every Thursday to try to agree a Dáil schedule for the week ahead but there are developments happening that require urgent adaptation by this House, and there needs to be...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Policy (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that the City of Derry Airport is included in the forthcoming regional airports programme to reflect that 40% of the passengers, that is, 200,000 per year, are from County Donegal; if he will restore the PSO for the Derry-Dublin air route to reflect the reality that there is no rail or motorway connecting the north...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his vision for the way in which the communities from the south west, the west and on to counties Sligo, Donegal and Derry can be connected by rail and his plans to advance this vision. [28756/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding required to deliver an integrated constructed wetland as a treatment system for the village of Glen, County Donegal as applied for under the rural water programme in 2019. [28776/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 544. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of applications (details supplied) for PPSNs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28775/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 717. To ask the Minister for Health if a vaccine or medical procedure can be administered on a mature minor, that is, over 16 years of age with an intellectual disability without the consent of the parents following the enactment of recent laws. [28666/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 802. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details on any fish and shell fish quota swaps that the State has made with other EU States in each of the years 2010 to 2019 and to date in 2020; if he will provide the basis for these swaps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28761/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 803. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the tonnage and value of the full annual catch of fish that has been registered as taken from Irish waters under the Common Fisheries Policy for each of the years 2000 to 2019, inclusive, and to date in 2020 including the nationality of the boats landing the catch. [28762/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 804. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that none of his predecessors signed off on the equivalent of SI 318 of 2020 this year, before An Taoiseach did so on 26 August 2020. [28763/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (6 Oct 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 805. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the criteria on mileage and usage for vehicles that were used by the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority and then auctioned by Irish Machinery Auctions; the estimated amount that was raised by the sale of the vehicles and where the funds were allocated. [28783/20]

European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 318 of 2020): Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is a sorry saga. I will give the Minister genuine advice across the floor. He urgently needs to get a grip of the people who run the marine section in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. In all of my eighteen and a half years in politics, I have never come across such wall of distrust between those who a Department are supposed to represent and the Department itself....

European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 318 of 2020): Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move: That Dáil Éireann resolves that the European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 318 of 2020) be and are hereby annulled. On behalf of all the fishing organisations Sinn Féin has spoken to, we support a penalty points system being put in place - it is essential - but the system must be fair and just. It is important that I...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We requested time for statements on the winter plan for Thursday and note that has been agreed. The announcement from Bus Éireann that it will close its intercity Expressway services to Galway, Limerick, Cork and Belfast is an extremely disturbing development. I ask that time be made available this week to discuss this issue and try to arrive at a solution that allows those vital...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fishing Licences (29 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 190. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the criteria and process for authorising individual charter boats to fish for blue fin tuna in Irish fishing waters under the Control of Sea Angling methods for certain species of fish bye-law No. 981 of 2020.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26894/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fishing Industry (29 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the definition of the type of gear or equipment identified as being capable of use for trolling surface fishing lines for any species of fish in the opinion of Inland Fisheries Ireland under the Control of Sea Angling methods for certain species of fish bye-law No. 981 of 2020.; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fishing Industry (29 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to open the tuna chart program to vessels and fishers currently not authorised under the program; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26897/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Court Accommodation (29 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 321. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the surveys the Office of Public Works have carried out on Carndonagh courthouse, County Donegal; and the works required to allow the building to be reopened for the Courts Service at the earliest opportunity. [26439/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (29 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 904. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will financially support Milltown House, Carndonagh, County Donegal to reopen its hydrotherapy pool; if his attention has been drawn to the serious impact the loss of the service and therapy has had on disabled persons in the Inishowen area of the county. [26913/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (29 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 905. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the completion of the upgrade works to Carndonagh Community Hospital, County Donegal. [26914/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (29 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 906. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the completion of the upgrade works to Buncrana Community Hospital, County Donegal. [26915/20]