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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 Nov 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...are big concerns about super-trawlers within the fishing industry and I would like to hear the Minister's thoughts. The Minister talked about trying to attract more of the foreign trawlers to land here to the benefit of our processing industry and to have that added value. Is there anything we can do to oblige those trawlers which access Irish waters to land their catch in Irish ports?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 Nov 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can the Minister comment on the issue of landing and boarding at ports?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: London Fisheries Convention: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What percentage does the Irish fleet have of the overall catch? Is it true that 80% of fish taken from Irish waters is not even landed in Irish ports?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...terrifying to go to that level. The cost and exposure must have been extraordinary, and all to defend an Irish natural resource. The witnesses were vindicated in the highest court in the land. This legislation arises from that. There is no doubt about that - it is explicit. No producer organisation in the entire State, never mind fisherman, was consulted on the legislation. We then...

Seanad: Areas of Natural Constraint: Statements (24 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...These payments were originally in Donegal and Connacht, and they were for the most disadvantaged farmers in the State. They were to be directed to those who most needed assistance to stay on the land. As the years moved on, it was widened out for political reasons and now covers 75% of the land mass of this State. One could not argue that many people in the areas in receipt were...

Seanad: Transport and Tourism: Statements (15 Feb 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...but there is huge gap in that half a million people in counties Donegal, Derry and Tyrone have no motorway access, rail access or air access to the capital city in Dublin. Given the new plan, Ireland 2040, and given that a huge proportion of our population, public service and jobs are based in the capital, people must have the required level of access to it. We need justice in this...

Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (15 Feb 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...to generating 16% of its overall energy requirements from renewable sources by 2020. Our party will introduce measures on an ongoing basis to grow renewable energy production and to reduce Ireland's carbon emissions. This will require involvement from the State and at community level. Our party supported the passage of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 after years of...

Seanad: Derelict and Vacant Sites Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 Feb 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ..., communities and residents' associations. They are exasperated. It is soul destroying when one does all one can to lift up one's community where there are ugly buildings dotted throughout the land and for the people responsible to face no repercussions and have to take no responsibility.

Seanad: Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: .... In terms of the independence of the office, the courts are independent but one can appeal a decision. Just because a body is independent does not mean that it is not subject to accountability. In this land, even if one goes as high as the Supreme Court and one loses one's case, one can consider going to the European Court of Justice. There are courts of appeal. Nobody is beyond...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (8 Nov 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...understand it, there are six harbours under the control of the Department and the lion's share of the funding is going to these. The report references the work going on at Greencastle in terms of landings, tonnage and so on, which means that it is obviously viewed by BIM as significant. However, it is not getting the investment it needs to develop industry there. This is particularly...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Parks and Wildlife Service (19 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...if she is aware of the grievance within some rural communities that responsibility for sporting and leisure activities such as dog trials, shooting and game hunting in bogs and other State owned lands, passed from the Land Commission to the National Parks and Wildlife Service in 2000, without any consultation; and if she will ensure that the concerns of those rural communities are heard...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (13 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 475. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons of Iraqi origin or claiming to be of Iraqi origin who were refused leave to land at various points of entry; the reason in each case, by age, by gender, by country to which they were returned, in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46682/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (13 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 486. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the details of those persons refused leave to land in 2015 from Syria, Eritrea, Iran, and Afghanistan, and as outlined by her in response to previous parliamentary questions raised, how many of the persons were subsequently permitted to enter the State and to claim asylum. [46842/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Numbers (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 311. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons of Syrian origin or claiming to be of Syrian origin refused leave to land at various points of entry, the reason in each case, by age, by gender by country to which they were returned, in 2015 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45235/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Numbers (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 312. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons of Eritrean origin or claiming to be of Eritrean origin refused leave to land at various points of entry, the reason in each case, by age, by gender of the persons refused, by country to which they were returned, in 2015 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45236/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Numbers (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 313. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons of Afghan origin or claiming to be of Afghan origin refused leave to land at various points of entry, the reasons in each case, by age, by gender of the persons refused, by the country to which they were returned, in 2015 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45237/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Numbers (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 314. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons of Iranian origin or claiming to be of Iranian origin refused leave to land at various points of entry, the reason in each case, by age, by gender of the persons refused, by country to which they were returned; in 2015 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45238/15]

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: From the Seanad (9 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ..., go into mediation. The significant majority of family law and civil law matters could be resolved through the efforts of skilled mediators who would be accountable to the Mediators Institute of Ireland or an independent regulator. Proposals drawn up by way of this mediation process would then be presented to a judge. I am sure the Judiciary would be delighted to see such a system...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Wild Atlantic Way Project (6 Oct 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 776. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the Seven Arches at Portsalon in County Donegal, one of County Donegal’s most iconic landmarks on the Wild Atlantic Way, has been excluded from development and promotion, on the basis of limited access; the measures that will be put in place to have this site re-opened to public access, either by land or sea; the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Shannon Airport Landings: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jul 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...and we had a number of issues to deal with in private session. I thank our guests for their patience. The items for today is No. P00072/2012 from Dr. Edward Horgan and others relating to the landings at Shannon Airport and a discussion of Ireland's neutrality and the difference between Irish neutrality and political neutrality. I ask people to be careful with their mobile phones as they...