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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Impact of Brexit: Discussion (18 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Chair for allowing me to contribute today. If there is any doubt about the serious threat that Brexit is for the business sector, one should hear the account from the mushroom industry, on which a debate is taking place in the Dáil as we gather here. The mushroom industry representatives made a presentation to the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine of which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Impact of Brexit: Discussion (18 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Two problems face the mushroom sector. Western Polish mushroom companies are going into Britain whereas they would have been in Russia. There has been a swing in their investment plans, and a perfect storm is happening because of the currency exchange. Their presentation was deeply worrying. It is no surprise to me that Deputies are raising it in the Dáil as a matter of urgency. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Impact of Brexit: Discussion (18 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am based in Donegal where there is serious worry across a range of sectors but I know from speaking to colleagues it is the same around the Border. There was a 50:50 policy of regional development with the Industrial Development Authority Ireland, IDA Ireland, which was scrapped and there is now a focus on Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick. I would like to get a sense of IDA Ireland and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Impact of Brexit: Discussion (18 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is an analysis of site visits, county by county across the State, but as regards my county the analysis is of companies that have been there for ten or 12 years. I am talking about new investments and new jobs. Can Ms Buckley give information on new jobs and investment on a county-by-county basis over the past five years? Can she reflect on the presentation she has given and on how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Impact of Brexit: Discussion (18 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am not talking about existing companies but new investment and new jobs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Impact of Brexit: Discussion (18 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I would like information on new jobs and new investment over the past five years, county by county.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. In Mr. Keeling's opening statement, he refers to his own business and I congratulate him on many years of job creation and so on. However, he is not running his own business in Horse Racing Ireland. I appreciate that in his business life, he would have sought to hire the best people, keep them on and achieve the best outcome. This is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I asked the question on this. I asked if the board "proposed". I did not ask if it happened. In the board's submission, was it proposing that the existing contract which permits bonuses be allowed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I asked how many of the recommendations in the Indecon report had been implemented.

Seanad: UK Referendum on EU Membership: Statements (13 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The title of this debate is statements on the decision by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union. I want to reflect on it. The most serious consequences of Brexit will be for the Six Counties. It cannot be said it was the decision of the people of the North of Ireland or Scotland to leave the European Union; it was not. The opposite is true. Last Saturday in Bridgend, County...

Seanad: UK Referendum on EU Membership: Statements (13 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Hear, hear.

Seanad: UK Referendum on EU Membership: Statements (13 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will briefly respond to Senator Gallagher, who is also a Donegal man. As party leader, Deputy Micheál Martin made it clear that we were not fit for Government-----

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We never received the phone call so the negotiations were never available to us.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Unfortunately, that is what he said and he repeated it again and again so I do not need to remind Members of that. The substantive point I want to raise today concerns the north west - Derry, Donegal and Tyrone. I am proud to say that in a number of weeks' time, a radiotherapy unit will open in Derry that will service 500,000 people in the region. It is an example of cross-Border...

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There are people all over the city and in other parts of the State this evening getting ready to join queues outside properties in an attempt to try to put a roof over their heads. There are also dozens seeking a spot in a doorway or in an alley, where the open, starry sky will provide their roof for the night. The rental market in Dublin and other cities in Ireland is in absolute chaos....

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I should be clear. Rent certainty is not rent control. Rent certainty provides protection for both tenants and landlords. The only way to deal with rapidly rising rents is through legislative change. If we attempt an economic solution to an economic problem, there will be only one outcome. That is the outcome we have witnessed in the past few years because we have refused to act. The...

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The speech of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, mentioned that the centre must hold. Fine Gael is not at the centre. It is not centrist to abandon hundreds of thousands of our people to the private sector and the whims of landlords. Everybody here represents people.

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is no ownership of decency here.All Members know the stories from their areas. They know the stories of landlords who say, "I cannot take you on board if you are on the social" or "I can't take you on board if you are going on the housing list". Members know what is happening out there. There is serious abuse going on and if we abandon our people to that, it will be a massive...

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is nothing to show.