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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (29 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is a difficulty with Monday, because Deputies are down on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays so asking them to be here Monday or Friday is not going to work. That is the reality of it.

EU-UK Negotiations on Brexit: Statements (24 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will be very familiar with the issue of jurisdiction over Lough Foyle. In November 2016, the then British Secretary of State, Mr. James Brokenshire, declared that the whole of Lough Foyle was within the UK. That has always historically been rejected, not just by the Irish Government, but by the Irish people. The facts are that the British Government and the Crown Estate claim...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (24 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will move to a compulsory purchase order of land in Buncrana, County Donegal to secure the long delayed sites for new schools and campuses for schools (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the emergency this long delay has created for the teachers, children and students; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the plans for a new building for a school (details supplied). [26203/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the plans for a new building for a school (details supplied). [26204/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the plans for a new building for a school (details supplied). [26205/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance (24 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 172. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26064/20]

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (23 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I wish to raise directly with the Minister the serious problems that have emerged with school transport in Donegal but also across the rest of the State. The Minister, in conjunction with the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Foley, overlooked the school transport challenge under the umbrella of the back-to-school plan in a very clear way. Every year at this time, families are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (23 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will engage with his counterpart in the British Government to cooperate on new legislation that would regulate the proliferation of oyster trestles on the western shore of Lough Foyle. [25735/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Foreshore Issues (23 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will engage with his counterpart in the Northern Executive to ensure that all aquaculture activity on the shores of Carlingford Lough is licensed and regulated by the Lough’s Agency. [25736/20]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Nothing was agreed in the past two weeks.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is what we are here for.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not agreed. I heard the Taoiseach on the radio yesterday calling on influencers, whoever they are, to help build public confidence in the public health measures. Last week, he had a go at various Opposition spokespersons regarding their co-operation with Government, yet he denied the Opposition the ability to scrutinise these public health regulations. He did not agree to a debate on them....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To be clear, I am raising again the fact that the Government failed to agree to debate the draft regulations last week. This was raised at the Business Committee and here. The Government voted down the proposition. I am, therefore, asking the Taoiseach if he will make space this week to debate the issue of the Government's testing and tracing plan, or absence thereof.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Defective Building Materials (22 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if her attention has been drawn to the widespread concerns regarding the affordability of the defective concrete blocks grant scheme; if he will amend the scheme to make it a 100% State-funded grant as was the case with the pyrite resolution scheme; and the reason the affected families in counties Donegal and Mayo have not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (22 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 813. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to calls by persons living with amyloidosis to take actions (details supplied) with reference to the HSE amyloidosis working group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25384/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inshore Fisheries (22 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 890. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of the lobster industry here in terms of landings by weight and value to ports and lobster export value in view of the recent announcement on the removal of tariffs on lobster imported from the United States of America; the number of vessels engaged in the fishery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25332/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inshore Fisheries (22 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 891. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to harmonise brown crab export health certificate requirements across Europe for the export of crab to China to ensure a level playing field for fishers here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25333/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Service (17 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 60. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the management structure of the Irish Coast Guard; and the status of employment or secondment of each senior official in each of the years 2010 to 2019 and to date in 2020. [24516/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance if the financial assessment of tourism businesses availing of the employment wage subsidy scheme will consider the entirety of income for 2020 rather than recent months; and if a distorted picture of their financial income year to date will be provided. [24509/20]