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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Process: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Feb 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Chairman for his patience. I appreciate it.

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (1 Feb 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Well said.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Let her finish.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Let the Senator finish her comments. I am sure she will accept the decision.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have raised the issue of one of the major community and tourism amenities in the Inishowen Peninsula, Swan Park, which was destroyed six months ago in last August's floods. I cannot imagine where else in the State a major amenity such as a riverside park would be permitted to remain closed for six months without a sign of Government funding. What adds to my anger is that a meeting was...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will clarify again. It is the Minister, Deputy Ring, the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, because Donegal County Council owns Swan Park, as well as the Minister of State, Deputy Joe McHugh. We want them to meet a cross-party delegation of councillors from the area. Yesterday there was welcome news, which was long overdue, that the Government would ratify the United Nations Convention on...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is the point.

Seanad: Emergency Department Waiting Times: Statements (31 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will be familiar with the situation in Letterkenny University Hospital. I can tell him that last year almost 5,000 patients in Donegal found themselves on trolleys at Letterkenny hospital. That is double the number of 2016. It is the highest number since INMO records began. There is a real crisis at the hospital. There are so many stories every day but one story that sticks...

Seanad: Emergency Department Waiting Times: Statements (31 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Another five minutes for the Minister.

Seanad: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Well said.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: One of the most important community and tourism amenities in the Inishowen Peninsula, Swan Park, was destroyed by the floods last August. The riverside park has been closed for six months. I have raised the issue time and again in this Chamber. I have written and spoken to Ministers, but as of today, there is no sign of Government funding. I do not accept that the closure of a park which...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I apologise for having missed the presentation earlier. I have seen a copy of it. Deputy McConalogue touched on the issue of Leader funding. We were very proud of the previous model we had in Ireland in that it was rooted in communities, which is a big issue, as the witnesses know, in that it is desirable that European programmes be bottom-up rather than top-down and that the community...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: If Mr. Cardiff does not mind my asking, why not? This is the rural development programme. That is one of the core programmes in rural Ireland. Is it because it was lost in the wider European research the ECA was doing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I ask that someone in the European Commission look at what the Leader programme in Ireland was and what has happened to it. Mr. Cardiff has a long history of public service in this State so he will be familiar with the previous Leader programme. I ask that someone in the European Commission in some way examine what was in place in Ireland and what is there now. It was held up as the poster boy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is fair enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is a fair point.

Seanad: Agricultural Issues: Statements (24 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is interesting that Senator Mulherin is lecturing Sinn Féin on patriotism. We could talk about Fine Gael MEPs and their support for the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and Mercosur, which was going to flood European markets with beef and competing products without any of the standards that are demanded of the...

Seanad: Agricultural Issues: Statements (24 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Earlier today there was a joint meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development. A presentation was made by the European Court of Auditors. The revelations were stark in terms of what has happened to family farms in Ireland and throughout Europe. Some 1,000 farms are closing every day throughout the European...

Seanad: Agricultural Issues: Statements (24 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We need a fair price for farmers. We need to confront the big business market interests that are destroying family farms. We need honesty on these issues and to make sure the CAP will look to reverse the horrendous trend of driving young and small farmers from the land and moving towards corporations. We have talked about the issue for years. We action and delivery.