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Seanad: Commencement Matters: Job Creation (29 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Jobs grew every year during it. The recession has nothing to do with it.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is Senator Conway-Walsh.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No, she is my leader.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I ask the Leader to raise my first issue with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade. Ms Danielle McLaughlin was a young women from my home town of Buncrana in County Donegal. I know her family very well. Just over a year ago, she was murdered in the most appalling circumstances in Goa, India. Liaising with her mother, Andrea, and her family was a real education for me. I learned...

Seanad: An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What about Deputy Martin Ferris?

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Like myself, the Leader will have looked at the Taoiseach and the Ministers in the United States over the past week raising the issue of the undocumented Irish.It is a just and important cause. I do not think anybody in the Chamber does not have family who fit that category. However, one has to compare our approach to the undocumented Irish to our approach to those who come to this country...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Hear. Hear.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I strongly support the Bill because of my direct experience. I had hoped Senator O'Donnell might be able to stay for a few minutes.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Perhaps the Senator can read the transcript later to see what I have to say. A number of years ago the Donegal Youth Council was established. If the Minister of State speaks to his colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy McHugh, he will discover that he was one of the people who advocated the council back in the day. It has been a tremendous success. Students elected their...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I do not know what it is to be a young person, to grow up in the social media age, to be bombarded with imagery of what one should be, what one should speak like or how one should dance or any of those things, just like the middle-aged people in my time did not know what it was like when I was a teenager. The Minister of State is a thoughtful guy. I have always thought so in all my times...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I said "in the future".

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I said, just to calm-----

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To calm Senators down, I said "in the future". There are many things for which we have aspirations for the future, but today we are debating the local and European elections and the ability of young people to participate in them. Senator Murnane O'Connor, if you ring your colleagues on Donegal County Council this evening and ask them what they think of the Donegal Youth Council, what they...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Of course. I was interrupted.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Acting Chairman will appreciate why I responded. I will just say that this is an opportunity for us in this Chamber to stop patronising young people, to involve them in a real way in the political process and, perhaps, God forbid, to capture the imagination of young people across the State and, in a tangible way, empower them to be involved in who represents them at local and European...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: A startling set of statistics that was presented to the committee and which is available in the public domain in recent times tells its own story. According to the statistics, 42% of farms in the west of Ireland have closed in the past 20 years, the vast majority of which were small family farms. At European Union level, the European Court of Auditors found that 1,000 farms are lost every...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank my party for allowing me to raise a local issue on the first part of the Order of Business today. Over a decade ago, a generous decision was taken by parents and teachers in the Inishowen area that they would agree to look for one site for a three-school campus. The three schools are Crana College secondary school, based in Buncrana but serving the Inishowen Peninsula, Gaelscoil...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I want to raise it on the floor of the Seanad. I will see the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Bruton, at 3 p.m. today. I will be raising this in person with him. However, I want to raise it on the floor here because the Minister is finally meeting with the board of the Donegal Education and Training Board tomorrow evening in Letterkenny. Before he has that meeting, I want to put...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Flooding: Statements (21 Feb 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is another opportunity to discuss the plans of the Minister of State for flood prevention and defences throughout the State. The Minister of State will appreciate if I focus my comments on Donegal and the aftermath of the flooding there. I wish to acknowledge that the Minister of State came up straight away when the flooding occurred in August in Inishowen and east Donegal. The...