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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Apparently, there is a device called real-time closures that can be deployed on the basis of ICES scientific advice. I had to check it out, but I think Denmark deployed it in 2025. I have just landed this on the Minister of State. If he does not have the answer-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: -----maybe some of his officials or the Marine Institute representatives might know something about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To be fair, I had to research it myself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Could the Minister of State come back to me on real-time closure? Is it a device that can be used-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Real-time closure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In Dr. Kelly's opinion, it is a device that can be used.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Apparently, it was deployed by Denmark and can be used, on the basis of ICES advice, to close a fishery on a temporary basis. Would the Marine Institute representatives be able to comment on it?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 112. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on his negotiation with the UK Government to reinstate access for the Irish fishing fleet to their traditional fishing grounds at Rockall. [54995/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 124. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on his negotiation with the European Commission to secure a bluefin tuna quota for the Irish fishing fleet. [54996/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Funding (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 543. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeframe to provide funding to rebuild a facility (details supplied); if he is aware of the serious impact on the community of 40,000 people living in Inishowen, from the closure of this key community amenity for over a decade. [54978/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 606. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will respond to calls from homeowners engaging with the defective concrete blocks grant scheme that engineering and other mandatory professional fees be excluded from the grant cap and covered separately; that storage and temporary accommodation supports be made available to all applicants during remediation,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 736. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are any plans to devise a financial hardship scheme that can assist mussel fishermen who have been without an income since 2022, as no seed mussel settlements have been found large enough to fish in 2023, 2024 and in 2025 to date. [54954/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (9 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the situation in a school (details supplied); and if she will commit to funding such repairs either via the ETB or directly from her Department in line with her predecessor's commitment to fully support the current school campus while plans for a new school build are progressing. [54377/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the time frame for the construction of the new three school campus in a location (details supplied); and if she is satisfied that the intended construction dates will be met. [54378/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that the size of the available land on a site for the new three school campus in a location (details supplied) is likely to be reduced in size in order to facilitate required roads infrastructure; and if adjacent lands, identified by the school, can be purchased in order to provide adequate school space, including playing...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I want to talk about the defective blocks grant scheme that is being made available to home owners in the west of Ireland. The Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, stated that the scheme would be the biggest redress scheme in the history of the State. He said it would be over €3 billion. He told home owners in the west of Ireland that they would get €500,000 each, the biggest...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It did not do that in the budget last year

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 24. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm that he will ensure that defective block homeowners at a location (details supplied) do not have to rebuild their homes on a dangerous flood plain; for an update on his Department's engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the OPW to find a solution and the outcome of this engagement. [53449/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that the new housing plan makes it possible for Donegal County Council to construct affordable housing projects across the county. [53700/25]