Results 2,981-3,000 of 9,145 for speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (26 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is one issue the Minister did not address. One issue the legislation does not permit is the allocation. It allows access but it does not increase quotas or give access to the Irish stocks for quota.
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (26 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will set out what I am going to do. I am willing to withdraw the amendment on the basis that the Minister will engage in further discussions in the coming days. The Minister is aware of where the amendment comes from and what the concern is. I call on the Minister to reflect on this at least. There will be conversations with other political parties in the coming days. This call will...
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (26 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What about the others?
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (26 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister is absolutely ruling out any further conversation. Is that correct?
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (26 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Will the Minister reflect on it?
- Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (26 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: If the Minister could even say he is reflecting on this, that would leave us open to more conversation tomorrow.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I second the proposal to amend the Order of Business to take only Committee Stage of the Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017. We could have tabled a proposal that the Bill not be discussed at all today but this is a compromise amendment we are putting to the Government. We debated the Bill two years ago. I have with me detailed submissions made by pretty much all the fishing representative...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Everything is in chaos across the water. The Government has not consulted in any meaningful way with these organisations during the past two years.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Nothing was done for two years until last night. No efforts were made to address the fishing organisations' concerns. We will debate the amendments on Committee Stage, but before the Government deals with Report Stage, it must demonstrate it has engaged in meaningful consultation with the fishing organisations who presented to the Oireachtas committee, and whose contributions are all on the...
- 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?