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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Regulation (17 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 526. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps taken to ensure that infrastructure relating to unauthorised aquaculture activities in Ballyness Bay, County Donegal was removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52934/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Regulation (17 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 527. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date his Department was satisfied that all unauthorised aquaculture activities in Ballyness Bay, County Donegal were no longer taking place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52935/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licence Data (17 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 530. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the dates on which each of the aquaculture licenses for Ballyness Bay were granted. [52953/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licence Data (17 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 531. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reference number of each granted aquaculture licence for Ballyness Bay; and the date on which the applications were received, in tabular form. [52954/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Pollution (17 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 574. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered a strategy of financial incentives for the use of smokeless coal in the areas not under the smoky coal ban; and if he has requested the Minister for Finance to assist in this regard. [53355/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (17 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 575. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the financial supports available to improve the electricity capacity of regional towns in order that they can attract industries or grow existing industries. [53356/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Data (17 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 746. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties successfully purchased through the national mortgage-to-rent scheme since its launch in 2012, by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52886/19]

Estimates for Public Services 2019: Motion (12 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Estimates presented before the House today make a complete and utter mockery of the budget process. Today, in less than 45 minutes, the House is deciding to allocate an additional €634 million of expenditure which was not accounted for in the Government's budget. That is the equivalent of the unallocated amount in any of the budgets we have dealt with in the last several years....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: That is absolute gobbledygook.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Government can actually decide not to sell the loans to the companies in the first place.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Government is spending hundreds of thousands of euro of taxpayers' money to block that legislation. These families now-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It does solve it. It stops the problem in the first place

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Many thousands of families across the State are still experiencing mortgage distress. Many of us in this House know some of these families. The Tánaiste will be aware that vulture funds swooped into this country, the banks and the Government having rolled out the red carpet to them. They have bought up tens of thousand of distressed loans from banks. My legislation, the No Consent,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Yesterday, Premier Lotteries Ireland Limited, the private operator of the national lottery confirmed that €180,000 in prize money was left out of three scratch card games over the last number of years. Two of these scratch card games, each called "Congratulations" and sold at €5 per card, were missing three of the top prizes, each worth €50,000. The other game was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: This private operator can recommend to the regulator how much they can be fined for a breach under the legislation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The legislation needs to be changed. I ask the Tánaiste to support my call for the regulator to appoint an investigator-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: -----which she has the power to do under the legislation, to investigate this matter thoroughly so we can have confidence in our system.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: There absolutely must be serious questions asked and answers given. We have written to the Oireachtas committee. It is not a case of whether the representatives should appear. The operator and the regulator must attend before the committee. They have a legal responsibility and a legal obligation to appear when they are requested to do so. This situation seriously dents confidence in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: -----which is to regulate one company. When she appeared before an Oireachtas committee in 2018 the regulator told us that the Regulator of the National Lottery has access to all the systems and all of the real-time data. And still the regulator did not uncover this issue. There is a serious question around the role of the regulator when punters have been scammed to a level such as this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Revoke their licence and take it back into public ownership.