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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (8 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 192. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the Government will allocate an emergency support fund for the fishing industry to assist it with the cost of fuel crisis, similar to the supports brought in by other EU member states. [60559/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (8 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 214. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of interest that has been paid on the €64 billion Irish State banking bailout of September 2008 in each of the years 2008 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61472/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (8 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 215. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of capital that has been repaid on the €64 billion Irish State banking bailout of September 2008 in each of the years 2008 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61473/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 335. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that have been taken to fill a position for a senior occupational therapist in Buncrana, County Donegal; when the position is expected to be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61540/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (8 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 369. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that the Government has failed to secure any quota of Atlantic bluefin tuna for the Irish fishing fleet, despite the documented recovery of the species within the Irish exclusive economic zone, EEZ, in recent years. [60540/22]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (7 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will address the theme that is my responsibility as Sinn Féin's spokesperson on fisheries and the marine, that being, the allocation of quota to the Irish fishing industry from our exclusive economic zone, EEZ, under the Common Fisheries Policy, CFP. There is an ongoing crisis in the fishing industry around our coasts. Since it is almost a perennial crisis, it can sometimes be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is a pity we could not have this meeting the other way round, that is, the fish producer organisations presenting first in order that the Minister could observe and respond. It is a pity the Minister's schedule did not permit that. It would have been a much more productive way of doing things. However, we have the submissions from the producer organisations and they make for sober...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I ask the Minister to take a look at the submission from the Irish Fish Producers Organisation. It is devastating. That is the only way to describe it. That is the context of our industry before we get to Brexit. Brexit is dealt with in this report and in the submission by Sean O'Donoghue from the Killybegs Fishermen's Organisation. Ireland took 40% of the EU's loss in fisheries...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: These statistics I quoted from are from the EUROSTAT data bank so the submission has been made on it. Can I clarify whether the Minister is saying that this information is wrong? Did the full value of fish processing indicators for Ireland not reduce from 627 to 325 in five years? The total value has halved in five years, according to these statistics. Is he disputing that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I might be in the Minister's shoes some day and then we will see how that goes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I had given way earlier because I had thought there would be more time. On fuel, all the submissions from the producer organisations made a particular point. It must be remembered that if you were an inshore fisher you could not avail of a tie-up scheme so they got no support at all. The tie-up scheme is funded from the Brexit adjustment reserve fund. There has been no contribution from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have talked about the profound concerns around the issue of mackerel within the waters of Norway, the Faroe Islands and Iceland. We have no relationship with ICES. This issue has dragged on. The Minister knows the concerns of our industry in that regard and in the context of blue whiting. I acknowledge that he has been engaging with the industry, but I am not exaggerating when I state...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Quotas and Decommissioning: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Mr. Doherty's testimony was very damning. I have specific questions for each organisation. The first is for Mr. O'Donoghue and Mr. Doherty from the Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation. On page 3 of their submission, they state, and rightly so: "The proposals disregard those other objectives of the CFP dealing with economic, social and employment benefits, and contributing to the...

Building Defects: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Minister knows, I live in the epicentre of the defective block crisis in County Donegal. I live in Buncrana on the Inishowen Peninsula. People's lives have been utterly destroyed. Hardly anybody my age who has built or bought a home or was living in a council home has not been devastated by the crisis. No matter where people live in Ireland, whether in Dublin and north Leinster in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (6 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 644. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to build a new community hospital at Lifford, County Donegal; and the services to be provided there. [60707/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (6 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 723. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding schemes that he plans to introduce in 2023 to support the Irish fishing fleet and the wider seafood sector and that have been developed in line with the recommendations of the “Report of the Seafood Task Force - Navigating Change”; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60709/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There are two excerpts from the witnesses' submissions I want to draw attention to. They set the scene for the committee. Ms Larkin's submission includes the sentence "The cause of these problems are deleterious materials which are naturally occurring minerals found in rock deposits in Ireland". That is the core issue, pardon the pun, that has brought us to this. Only the banking scandal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is for the NBCMSO.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: At a recent conference in Donegal, a range of international experts presented their findings. One was Dr. Andreas Leemann. I am sure the witnesses will accept that Dr. Leemann is an international expert in this area. He carried out tests on a number of blocks and found the amount of sulphates was seven to ten times the amount allowable under EN 12/620. I am certain the panel will agree...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What were the specific findings on the quarry I am referring to? I will not name it but I think the officials know which one it is.