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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister would agree that any reasonable member state would recognise that Ireland took the biggest hit from Brexit. The burden sharing never happened. We heard that burden sharing might happen but it did not. It is not good enough to say we received Brexit adjustment reserve funding. We have to sustain our industry. We are telling people that they must respect the science. We all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is the Minister's assessment that about 100 jobs will be lost due to this loss of quota. The industry would say the impact will be a loss of approximately €10 million. The Minister knows about the crisis in fish production across the State. Would he be willing to make a case for the Hague preferences to be deployed to reduce the impact Ireland will face as a result of the changes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The next thing I want to talk about is pollock. The Minister will know about Muireann Kavanagh, a teenage girl from Arranmore Island, County Donegal who fishes pollock from a hook and line, which would be the most low intensity form of fishing there is other than using a rod in the river. She would fish for pollock, and it is not just in Arranmore but in different parts of the coast. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I think so. It was discussed that we try to use the Hague preferences to challenge Norway and, indeed, its access to our blue whiting fishery when the DG requests it. I think the Minister has covered it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: And the herring and why it is only 7,000 tonnes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On the herring, why do we just get 7,000 tonnes on that fish?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I might ask just one final supplementary question. The ring-fenced boats did not apparently catch their allocation. Can some of that then be allocated to inshore fishers, to balance it out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Ms O'Sullivan.

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 (Section 11) Order 2024: Motion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not agreed. I raised my concerns at the Business Committee and will do so again now. The proposed increase of 10% is welcome, and the Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, knows from his own county that people have been waiting on this, but he also knows that there are homeowners who are going through or have completed the scheme. The original scheme transitioned to the new scheme and the...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 (Section 11) Order 2024: Motion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On the basis of that commitment, it is agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 46. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if members of the Defence Forces have to pay for their air fares if they wish to return home for their three weeks leave while serving overseas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42089/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 263. To ask the Minister for Health when a home care package will be put in place for a person (details supplied) in Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41991/24]

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I want to take the Minister and Minister of State through the serious crisis in services for children with disabilities in Donegal. I think they are fully aware of them. More than a year ago, Special Needs Parents Network Donegal, which represents more than 900 parents of children with disabilities, published a survey about the real impact of the longest waiting lists in the entire State...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I raise the issue of fair pay and conditions for school transport escorts. They are a really crucial part of disabled children's lives. Parents all across the State have provided testimony about this. Unfortunately they do not get paid during the school holidays and they have to sign on. They are left waiting and waiting. In my constituency I have met large numbers of them. I have also...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Before the election. Will this be before the election?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Taoiseach has the control over that-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not agreed. There is a motion to be decided without debate before the Dáil tomorrow night to increase the cap on the defective concrete blocks scheme by 10%. The difficulty is large numbers are engaged in the scheme - the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, is here for this - who will be short tens of thousands of euro. In some cases, it is more than €100,000. It is crucial that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (15 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 592. To ask the Minister for Health when a home care package will be put in place for a person in County Donegal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41092/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (10 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 202. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that the working group of homeowner representatives and key stakeholders, established to address the challenge with the sale and the ability to obtain a mortgage for properties impacted by defective concrete products, is reconvened with an independent chairperson and agreed terms of reference, as soon as...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding announced (in the context of Budget 2025) for the seafood processing capital investment scheme for 2025; the budget allocation for the seafood processing capital investment scheme for 2025 from the national Exchequer; and theamount of the funding that will be from European Union funding sources. [40671/24]