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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fisheries Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 62. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1260 of 9 September 2024, the status of the public consultation on a review of trawling activity inside the six-nautical-mile zone which closed on 12 April 2024; if the submissions have now been analysed; the timeline for publication of a report of the public consultation; when a decision will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fisheries Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister and I are more than familiar with this issue, so we might not bother with the history of it. My question is very specific. It relates to trawling inside the six-nautical-mile zone by vessels more than 18 m long. We know there is a long history here so my question is specific. I know the communication period for submissions has closed. I know there were an extraordinary...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fisheries Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I do not doubt that at all but, as the Minister said, in two months it will be six years since the decision was made to bring in this very welcome policy because of unsustainable fishing practices in the six-nautical-mile zone, particularly in respect of sprat. I will not rehearse all of that again but it was urgent enough in December 2018 and here we are, almost six years later, and there...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fisheries Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the consultation and the 5,000 submissions but we really need a date for when those submissions will be analysed. I suspect that the vast majority of them are in support of the Government's policy, as were the High Court and the Court of Appeal. Both of them found no difficulties with the policy; it was the consultation. The two gentlemen who brought the first action said it was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister. She can pick it up in her next response.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I am keeping the Minister to the time to get people in. I call Deputy Farrell.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: We are almost out of time. Deputy Donnelly might put his question; he will not get in a second time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug Dealing (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: We are way over time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug Dealing (26 Sep 2024)

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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug Dealing (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: There are a number of contributors - four extra speakers now. These questions are not grouped. I ask everyone to be as quick as possible because there are Members waiting for their tabled questions and we will finish at 10.30 a.m. I call Deputy Alan Farrell first.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug Dealing (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: There are four Members present who have questions. With everyone's co-operation, we will get to those four questions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Before the Minister of State comes back in, there are numerous other Deputies wishing to contribute. I ask them to be brief because there are Members here waiting for their questions to be taken.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Visa Applications (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Visa Applications (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: We are way over time.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Guardian Status (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Quickly.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Air Navigation Orders (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 19. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times her Department was contacted by the Department of Transport and or the Department of Foreign Affairs in relation to determining if any security issues need to be considered in the context of an application for an exemption under the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods)...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 37. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1123 of 09 September 2024, when the independent review of part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 will be published; her plans to publish any interim reports or updates received from the research and evaluation unit within her Department; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 72. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1249 of 09 September 2024, the updated number of salmon that escaped from a cage at a site in Killary Harbour in August 2024; if this represents a final figure; the outcome of efforts to recapture fish; the locations in which escaped fish have been detected; if a disease surveillance inspection...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Programmes (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the scope and objective of the INFOMAR hydrographic survey work being carried out under Marine Notice No. 6 of 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38232/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Generation (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 173. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the marine mammal observer process as it relates to offshore wind development activities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38233/24]