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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.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 231. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of fisheries protection officers employed by Inland Fisheries Ireland, on permanent and temporary contracts, for the years 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [25598/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 736. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide the numbers of fishery officers employed by the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (permanent and temporary contracts) for each of the years 2012 to 2025, in tabular form. [25595/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 761. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if funding will be provided in this year's Budget to fully staff the community neurorehabilitation team for the north-west in line with the Programme for Government commitment to complete the roll out of community neurorehabilitation teams across the country (details supplied). [25627/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 868. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for a procedure in St. Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25872/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Scoil Mhuire Milford, County Donegal, is a school that was built in the 1950s. It sits right on the corner of a very busy road junction but the facilities are completely inappropriate. You would have to see it to believe how bad it is. Somehow, the school delivers an incredible education to its children. It has secured a new site at no cost to the State. It is within the control points...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (15 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: When we go into private session, we will look at the work plan we will have over the next few years. This committee deals with the maritime section. There was a presentation from the Minister of State, Deputy Dooley, and his team yesterday on marine planning, marine regulation and the whole area of fisheries. We have great opportunities in terms of the waters around us. We have never got...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (15 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the victims of the pyrite in concrete products scandal in the east of Ireland received 100% redress under the pyrite remediation scheme while the victims of the pyrite and pyrrhotite (internal sulphate attack) in concrete products scandal have been denied genuine 100% redress in the west of Ireland. [24440/25]

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Like me, the Minister of State represents a rural constituency. As a result, he understands what a massive problem it is if a person is obliged to wait seven months - that is the current waiting time in County Donegal - for his or her driving test. In my home area of Buncrana on the Inishowen Peninsula, the waiting time has doubled in a year. We are getting representations from young...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not just about them. It is about working families. The Taoiseach is an intelligent man.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am really concerned with this response written by the Department officials. The people who wrote this were present in Donegal in recent days. They know the urgency of this. Now they are talking about adding other issues to the amendments. This could go on forever. This is straightforward. It is a simple amendment to the legislation to make sure that the increase in the cap is...