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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (15 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 978. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that the recently agreed European Union Control Plan for fish landings in piers and harbours across the State is published in full; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8254/22]

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...catch the odd salmon or herring, or whatever it might be here or there, while a super trawler was coming out and legally hoovering up fish with no oversight, CCTV or observers on board. They were landing massive catches. That is the context and the profound injustice involved. We are going after our fishermen while we hand more than 85% of the fish in our waters without a fight. Bluefin...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...of other new school build projects across the State, delivered in recent years that have included sporting grounds and facilities; and if she will request that her Department secure additional land adjacent to this site at Buncrana for this purpose. [4594/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (14 Dec 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 807. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the hours of landing at the designated piers and harbours in the State for fishing vessels registered in Northern Ireland to weekends. [61911/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (14 Dec 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 808. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he has not added Dunmore East to the list of designated piers and harbours in the State that can facilitate the landing of fishing vessels registered in Northern Ireland considering the presence of the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority officials at the harbour. [61912/21]

Seafood Taskforce Final Report: Statements (9 Dec 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...reduce the Irish fishing fleet and, by consequence, the Irish fishing industry. Ireland has approximately 20% of Europe's northern and western fishing waters. A total of 30% of all fish landed in Europe is produced in Irish waters, yet we have some of the smallest fishing quotas for species in all of Europe. Since we joined the European Economic Community, EEC, in 1973, Governments...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (9 Dec 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 52. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the engagement of this State with the European Commission to have Ireland’s control plan for the landing of fish at piers and harbours here reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60425/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment and the AGRIFISH Council Meeting: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Dec 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...for 75%. I am arguing for our fair share. I appreciate that we are within the European Union. I appreciate that there is give and take when one is involved in trade. We export 90% of our beef from Ireland. I therefore appreciate that there has to be access to those waters around us for all of the fleets of the European Union. However, we want our fair share. I ask the Minister if...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...take this opportunity to bring to the Minister's attention a matter I regard as serious and which has been ongoing for a number of years. It is an issue that arose following the digitisation of land boundaries in Ireland by the PRA, formerly known as the Land Registry. It moved to the digitisation of land maps during my first term as a Deputy. Issues with one landowner were brought to...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Oct 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...of the fish in our own waters. The Government has not secured burden-sharing despite repeated assurances it would seek it. The EU Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries was in Ireland recently. When the question was put to him, it was clear we had not put any pressure on him to agree to burden-sharing of the quota loss that would have prevented the need to decommission these...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (19 Oct 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 939. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the additional arrangements that will be introduced at piers and harbours around the coast to allow fish landings to be facilitated if a new control plan for fish landings is not approved by the European Commission soon. [51207/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (19 Oct 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 940. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if in the absence of a new control plan for fish landings not being approved by the European Commission, if a peri plan or interim arrangements will be introduced in order that fish landings can be facilitated under control and to allow for in-factory weighing. [51208/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Fisheries Policy (5 Oct 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the Common Fisheries Control programmes under articles 60 and 61 of EU Council regulations that allow non-Irish registered European vessels to land their fishing catches at Irish ports without any checks being carried out by the SFPA and in which responsibility for checks is laid upon their home countries once they return; and if he will...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Second Stage (15 Sep 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...want to do so sustainably. They asked for officials of the Marine Institute to go out with them and officials of the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority to come out to the pier to examine what they are landing. They said they just want to fish sustainably. That is all our coastal communities want to do. I believe we can do both. These ideas are not in conflict with one another. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Issues (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a number of instances across north County Donegal in which landowners have come into conflict with their neighbouring landowners arising from discrepancies between their original folio Land Registry maps and the maps that have emerged from the digitisation of the mapping system by the...

Fisheries and Coastal Communities: Statements (17 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...culture that is there. Oversight and regulation are important. We need to protect our precious resource and prevent overfishing. I recently visited a fish factory in Killybegs and I saw fish being landed at the harbour onto a trailer with water that took them a short distance to the factory. I saw the fish being weighed on a state-of-the-art and sealed weighing system with which...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (15 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1174. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the impending requirement that all fish species landed here are weighed at the pier or harbour may be in contravention of EU sanitary requirements in relation to cold chain integrity for chilled or frozen foods; if he will consult with the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority and Bord...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flood Risk Management (25 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 565. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is providing financial assistance to farmers who are managing flood prevention infrastructure arising from land reclamation measures under the Irish Land Commission initiatives of the past. [28340/21]

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...can then occur around it. There are concerns over both water and waste water. Councillors in Letterkenny have a vision to extend the town southward. That is their vision. They want to develop lands for waste water and water but Irish Water cannot do it. There is a whole area, as one approaches the town from the direction of Buncrana and Derry, containing businesses and houses that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Middle East (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...respected Palestinian human rights organisations and the concerns of the UN, that Israel is basically operating an apartheid state. This report refers to "'forcible transfer,' 'expropriation of landed property,' 'creation of separate reserves and ghettos,' and denial of the 'the right to leave and to return to their country, [and] the right to a nationality'". It is a damning report....