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- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This has taken two years.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not a single thing has been done for two years and not a single fisherman was spoken to in two years.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not at all. There has been two years of nothing.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On a point of order to correct something-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can the Leader clarify if the Minister met the fishing representative organisations?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Let me finish.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Chair has given me the floor.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can the Leader clarify-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Leader interrupts me because he knows what I am going to ask him. Will he clarify whether the Minister met the fishing organisations in the past two years over their concerns about this legislation?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: About this legislation?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Leader is talking nonsense.
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister is aware that on a cross-party basis in this House, we have agreed on a compromise that we will only take Committee Stage today. We are telling the Minister and his officials that, before he comes back here on Report Stage, he needs to demonstrate that he has engaged in meaningful consultation with the representatives of fishermen across the coast. I suggest he meets the groups...
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am dealing with the logic-----
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I know, and I am also speaking to my own amendments. This is all being taken together. I refer the Leas-Chathaoirleach to-----
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I appreciate that. We have, on a cross-party basis, agreed a compromise today and hope the Minister will meet us halfway and in good faith. We hope he will now engage constructively with the full complement of fishing organisations, every single one of which has opposed the Minister's legislation as presented but has supported the principle of all Irish fishermen accessing Irish waters....
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Amendment No. 1 is withdrawn.
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: A Leas-Chathaoirligh, I really have to raise a point of order. We have sat through 70 hours of debate on the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill. I think it is out of order to be asking Members to shorten their commentary when we have sat through 72 hours on other legislation. People have gone on and on.
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Let us have some consistency here.
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Come on now. The Leas-Chathaoirleach should let people speak for as long as they need to.