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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (17 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance if amendments to the existing legislation, Disabled Drivers Passengers (Tax Concessions) Regulations 1994, will be introduced to widen the eligible criteria as requested by the Office of the Ombudsman in order that more disabled persons can avail of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24478/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (17 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 96. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of financial aid allocated to an association (details supplied) specifically to support community-based boxing clubs with issues arising from the Covid-19 pandemic. [24503/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (17 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the interdepartmental review of the community employment schemes will be published. [24510/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme (17 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 225. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to carry out a review of the anomalies that presented in the ANC eligibility process in County Donegal; and his further plans to financially assist those farmers that have been affected by the decisions. [24498/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (17 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 227. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has decided on the 2020 management arrangements for the Celtic Sea Herring scientific fishery; if so, if he is satisfied that these arrangements will not only meet the sampling requirement to provide data to the Marine Institute but also make the best use of the quota from a socioeconomic perspective; if he is satisfied that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (17 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 228. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that the advice of the Celtic Sea Herring Management Advisory Committee represents the best use of the quota in terms of meeting the sampling requirement to provide data to the Marine Institute but also make the best use of the quota from a socioeconomic perspective; and if he is satisfied that the advice of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That additional time is based on our parliamentary numbers by the way. I state that for the record.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is just to be complete in the explanation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Taoiseach has some brass neck on him.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The rest of the people of Ireland are very excitable when they listen to the Taoiseach these days.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inshore Fisheries (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I ask that the Minister would include in his diary for the upcoming period a meeting with the National Inshore Fishermen’s Association, NIFA. I met them online in recent weeks and they raised a wide range of issues with me. They feel utterly abandoned by the Government with regard to supports during the Covid crisis and the price of produce. I cannot stress enough that they are in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inshore Fisheries (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 114. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the implementation group of the inshore fisheries sector strategy last met; his plans for future meetings to implement the strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23768/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inshore Fisheries (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I referred earlier to the Irish inshore fisheries sector strategy which was launched in January of last year. In dialogue I have had with the inshore fisheries sector, questions are being asked as to when the implementation group last met and the plans to implement the strategy.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inshore Fisheries (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am sure the Minister will agree that it is absolutely stunning that the last time the implementation group met was November 2019. The whole country has gotten used to conducting meetings online. We have all conducted countless meetings online every day. Could this group not have met online? The aforementioned report refers to an industry-led approach, which was really welcome and...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What I am interpreting, based on the Ceann Comhairle's guidance, is that the Government's advice to him left him with no option but to make the call that he made. That is the interpretation I take from that. Then no whip on the opposition side, and there are seven in total, or leader was communicated with directly, apart from Deputy Alan Kelly's conversation with the Taoiseach. There was...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is an incredible shambles. Members had been informed on social media that the Dáil was adjourned until next Tuesday. I work with a team of 37 Deputies, and there are 160 Deputies in total. There was a clear schedule of business, including questions, statements, and a Private Member's motion. It was hours of business. We were trying to relay the information we were given in a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can I respond to that?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Today, we were presented with a paper that rebutted the very proposition we were agreeing last week so I do not see the necessary progress and we will push this to a vote.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We also raised this issue last Thursday. We are asking hundreds of thousands of workers, students, teachers, doctors and nurses to work in conditions that we are not demanding of ourselves in these Houses. The imagery from the Convention Centre is appalling. It is a cavernous space with huge gaps between us. It is not sustainable so our party has put forward proposals for the third time....