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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can we get this question answered?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: My question was not answered.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: One third of a million euro.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Sprat Fishing: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Will Dr. Kelly clarify this point? Sprat is not a quota species. If there is a quota, it appears there is definitive guidance from ICES that instructs the December Fisheries Council meeting and so on. Is that a factor here? Is it the case that because sprat is not a quota species, we do not have the level of data co-operation that would be expected?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Sprat Fishing: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No, that is fair enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Sprat Fishing: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yes, for sprat.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Sprat Fishing: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: How does it become known?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Sprat Fishing: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On the timeframes, let us assume all the witnesses collectively, the Department and the Marine Institute, would have the will to have an accurate scientific assessment of the stock moving forward. What is the best case scenario with regard to timeframes to get to the point where we have a similar model?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Sprat Fishing: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I said earlier that huge political failure at European level puts immense pressure on the entire Irish fishing fleet and leads to some of the tensions articulated here today. We should note that. Iceland and Norway, which are two sovereign countries, and the Faroe Islands, which are pretty much sovereign although they are part of Denmark, have utterly ignored scientific advice and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Sprat Fishing: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is for the Marine Institute to deal with. Do we need more resources and are there other international comparisons we lean on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Sprat Fishing: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To put the discussion we are having into context, we have had reckless overfishing for a number of years by Norway, the Faroe Islands and Iceland, which is having a devastating impact on mackerel stocks. It is in complete disregard of ICES advice and with no repercussions, it appears to me. What happens then is that the pelagic stocks in the industry are squeezed, as is the ability to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Sprat Fishing: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Why has it not been done?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 869. To ask the Minister for Health when capital approval will be granted to transition a medical facility (details supplied) in County Donegal from a residential model to a recovery-focused crisis intervention and set-down facility, supported with 24-hour staff cover, as requested by the HSE's Donegal mental health management team. [51464/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (25 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government , further to Parliamentary Question No. 276 of 1 October 2024, if he has engaged with the Housing Agency to ensure that it is actually adhering to this guideline (details supplied); if he is aware that 86 affected homeowners in Donegal, who have had their Government-approved engineer’s recommendation for remediation,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (25 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he and his Department will sign off on a defective concrete block scheme to remediate council owned homes; and the reason this has taken so long, considering the impact on large numbers of families. [51090/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (25 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will ask a professional body (details supplied) to provide an updated report on the real building costs for families affected by defective concrete blocks, and to inform the review that he is conducting into the defective concrete blocks grant scheme. [51091/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 196. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the delivery of the long delayed, joint centre of excellence for diabetes care at Sligo University Hospital and Letterkenny University Hospital. [50840/25]

Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Where did it all go wrong? We built up a publicly owned electricity service that was the pride of our people. We built up electrification when we were a poor country and we had some of the cheapest electricity in Europe. Thanks to the policies of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, that all now lies in ruins. Those parties embraced the privatisation agenda from Europe with glee. They sold...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Pyrrhotite.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not agreed.