Results 41-60 of 9,057 for speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (28 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 348. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the preparatory work, stakeholder engagements, and policy priorities concerning fisheries and the marine being planned by his Department in advance of Ireland’s upcoming Presidency of the Council of the European Union; if he will ensure that the issue of the deeply unfair allocation of fish quotas to the Irish fishing fleet...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (28 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 349. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current list of support schemes and initiatives for fishermen and sea workers; the initiatives-schemes that are in development and-or are planned to be launched; the funding for same, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27932/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (28 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 350. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the publication timeline for a five-year fisheries sector strategy that will include an examination of the processing sector, as committed to in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27933/25]

Apology to Shane O'Farrell and his Family: Statements (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I acknowledge the O'Farrell family, who are in our Distinguished Visitors Gallery. I acknowledge Lucia and Jim, Shane's parents, and Gemma, Pia, Aimee and Hannah, his beloved sisters. I first met Lucia and Jim many years ago here in Leinster House. I was serving as the Sinn Féin justice spokesperson at the time. I will never forget that meeting. Lucia had a framed picture of Shane....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Chief Whip will be aware, every Thursday at the Business Committee in recent weeks, I have raised the issue of the defective concrete blocks scheme. Last October, the Government confirmed it was going to increase the cap by 10%. Families are tens of thousands of euro short of 100% redress. This cap must be available to everybody undertaking this scheme, not just new entrants. ...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (22 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the review currently being carried out by his Department regarding documentation requirements for children born in Northern Ireland to EU parents will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26464/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (22 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 280. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if post-primary teachers will be entitled to pay-related jobseeker's benefit when they become unemployed at the end of this academic year in May 2025 and where they have been unable to secure an employment contract for September 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26479/25]

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: When the Dunnes Stores workers made their stand in the 1980s in Ireland, the Government eventually followed suit. It led the way in confronting the South African apartheid regime internationally with sanctions and eventually that regime and apartheid in South Africa came to an end. The Palestinian people recently commemorated the Nakba, the catastrophe, the ethnic cleansing of them from...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: You are breaking your own law.

Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We have a model of assistance for older people in their homes in Donegal that we are very proud of. It is a publicly delivered system in the main and we have not delegated it out to the private sector. Some tremendous people are working in those services in Donegal but they are being held back by the Government. Its pay and number strategy is basically a recruitment freeze. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I shared with the Minister of State my direct eyewitness account of the incredible level of oversight that the SFPA has of the industry. I witnessed in a fish factory in Killybegs CCTV cameras and access to the building at any time. Even that was not enough. I do not know of any industry where there would be cameras literally in the workplace every day, with images going directly from the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The committee met earlier today. We looked at our work plan. We will be bringing in the fishing representative organisations, the Irish Fishing and Seafood Alliance, the National Inshore Fishermen's Organisation and the Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation, which represents the inshore and islands, in order that they can have their say in how this is being implemented. We will look...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 109. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the need to urgently review the relevant parts of Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 that cover the structure and operation of the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority to ensure a harmonisation of regulation with the rest of the European Union (details supplied). [25830/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This question asks the views of the Minister of State, Deputy Timmy Dooley, on the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006. The Minister of State will know already from his brief the serious concerns of people in the fishing and seafood industry about the approach of the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, in comparison to other regulators across Europe. I want to have an...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I asked a legitimate question about the Order of Business-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: -----as did the Members who raised Standing Order 35(3). They are totally within their rights to do that. Those questions have not been answered. Four different questions were not answered.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We read with interest the comments of the Taoiseach's Government's kingmaker, Michael Lowry, in The Sunday Times, where he boasted about the rota of Ministers who come before his group. He chairs those meetings. Is it not about time the Government published the deal it did with Michael Lowry's group for the programme for Government and took statements and questions and full accountability...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is obviously a division on the question. There should be a vote.