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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Invasive Species Policy (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 492. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a site has extensive growth of an invasive species, and the landowner deliberately and recklessly disrupts and spreads the contaminated soil onto neighbouring properties, public footpath road; other sites, then, what does it take for the National Parks and Wildlife Service to take action to investigate and enforce...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Invasive Species Policy (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 493. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the policies in place that local authorities must comply with and enforce when a site with a planning application has significant non-native invasive species growth, specifically Japanese knotweed; the responsibilities of the planning authority for planning applications for such sites; the person or body responsible for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Invasive Species Policy (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 494. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a site has extensive growth of invasive species, the conditions or stipulations that must be applied to the granting of permission prior to commencement of construction such as, should a knotweed management plan be mandated prior to construction especially when an expert report submission advocates for one. [31812/25]

Fisheries: Statements (12 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister of State and I have had a number of engagements now in the Dáil and at the committee. I wish him well. That is a big understatement, actually. We have waited a long time for a dedicated Minister of State with responsibility for fisheries. It is vital that he does well for all of our fisheries and coastal communities. I am going to refer to a matter on the Dáil...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: After the Minister of State comes in here, there will be a number of delegations from the fishing organisations attending at the committee, as he knows. We have had a chance to read their inputs in advance. Ideally, we would have preferred to have the delegations from the fishing organisations attend at the committee first and to hear their issues, and then put them freshly and directly to...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is fine and I appreciate that. I congratulate the Minister of State on his appointment. It is a vital development that we have two things, namely, a dedicated Minister of State dealing with fisheries and a dedicated committee dealing with fisheries. I know the committee is wider than just fisheries but they have a really strong emphasis. I and my colleague in Sinn Féin, the...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will wrap up. How can the Minister of State say that when vessels are being taken from long distances and vessels that are closer are being disenfranchised? To summarise, what is his plan at European level?

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We will have various sectors represented here today in the next session on islands, inshore and offshore. I would like to get the Minister of State's latest perspective on the issue the six-mile limit. I acknowledge it is being reviewed and that a number of court cases have held back the intent of the previous Government. Ireland has the natural resource of fishing and shellfish around...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I apologise for having to step out for 15 minutes to deal with the Business Committee. I read our witnesses' presentations beforehand. I took the opportunity to put some of the issues directly to the Minister in the previous session. Let us address these issues. The first is that we have third-party countries that do extensive trade with the European Union. I am thinking in particular of...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To put what Mr. Burke has said into perspective, it is my understanding that the population of the Faroe Islands is approximately the same as that of the Inishowen Peninsula, where I am from. That is the equivalent of the population of the Inishowen Peninsula having a mackerel quota three times greater than that of the entire island of Ireland. What Mr. Burke has just said is absolutely...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yes. As everyone will know, my party published the results of its survey yesterday. None of the commentary and findings will shock our guests as they all know the reality on the ground. Sinn Féin conducted a survey of fishermen - these are people who have a business or are workers in the seafood industry - from all around Ireland. Nine out of ten respondents said that the industry...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Taoiseach should stop interrupting-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is a dog's dinner-like.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am just giving commentary.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Taoiseach will know the international activists on board the aid ship Madleen have been kidnapped in international waters and taken to Israel. Some have been deported and others will be deported, but at least they took action. All we hear from the Taoiseach are words. He said in the Dáil the Central Bank is not facilitating the sale of Israeli bonds. Will he correct the record?...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Will the Taoiseach correct the record on the Central Bank's role------

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The question was not answered.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Okay, fair enough. We will have a vote then.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: He is doing his job.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Standards Authority of Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 463. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the names of the members of the technical committees, TC 63 and TC 73 committees within the NSAI and the organisations, Government departments or State bodies who nominated them. [29765/25]