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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Defective Building Materials (23 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 176. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that two letters addressed to him on 18 and 19 October 2021 from the chairperson of Donegal Education and Training Board on supports for children affected by the MICA defective block crisis did not receive a response from him. [10139/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: International Agreements (22 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the State will ratify the 2012 Cape Town Agreement for Fishing Vessel Safety. [9649/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There are two. The other one is not for the Opposition only. It is for Government and Opposition.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: For the second week in a row, the Government has refused to agree to any statements whatsoever requested by the Opposition. This week, the Government has about 12 hours of time available and none of it has been allocated to statements from the Opposition. This is not sustainable, and it cannot continue. This has been the Taoiseach's position week after week. I seek a commitment from him...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 368. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to increase the maximum grant allowed for housing aid for older persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8094/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (15 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 977. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the next industry briefing from the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8253/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (15 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 978. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that the recently agreed European Union Control Plan for fish landings in piers and harbours across the State is published in full; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8254/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (15 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 979. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider opening a public consultation on the distribution and allocation of the mackerel and herring quota in this State. [8255/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Communities (15 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 980. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the consultation that he has undertaken with inshore and island fishermen around the coast on the sustainability of the crab species; and if this includes a ban on the use of crab meat for whelk bait. [8256/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is no response to the mica issue.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rockall Island Ownership (10 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 103. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the Government continues to tolerate the actions of the British Government in blocking access for Irish fishermen to their traditional fishing grounds around Rockall; and the estimated financial costs of this action to Irish fishermen in 2021. [6887/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rockall Island Ownership (10 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will be acutely aware of the impact of the outrageous blocking of access for Irish fishermen to the fisheries around Rockall by the British Government. As I understand it, this cost our fishermen more than €7 million last year. What are he and the Minister for Foreign Affairs doing about this absolute outrage?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rockall Island Ownership (10 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The problem is that we are one year on and what is happening is absolutely outrageous. I do not believe, for example, that the French President, Emmanuel Macron, would tolerate his fishermen being treated like this. We saw his response to the British Government when it pushed the boat in that scenario. It is astonishing that, one year on, I am getting exactly the same response from the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rockall Island Ownership (10 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We are one year on. I warned the Minister last year when he passed legislation that formally accepted Britain's claim over the Rockall area, which is exactly what it did, that he was strengthening the British case to block our fishermen. I watched him and the Minister for Foreign Affairs shaking their heads. Here we are, all this time later, and we still have an outrageous scenario whereby...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rockall Island Ownership (10 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is incorrect.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rockall Island Ownership (10 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: For God's sake.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (10 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 156. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that Ireland has not secured any of the substantial increases in Atlantic bluefin tuna quota allocated to the European Union fishing fleets over recent years; and if he will publish all correspondence from his Department to the relevant European Union authorities over recent years aimed at securing such quota for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (10 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 181. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will implement the recommendations of the Sea Food Sector Taskforce report as it pertains to investment in piers and harbours across the State and supplement the Brexit Adjustment Reserve investment with central Exchequer funding; and if he will remove the recently announced limit of expenditure on individual piers and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (9 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 181. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the huge increase in the running cost for fishermen in relation to the cost of their fishing vessels over the past year; and the financial supports or interventions he plans to make to address this. [7102/22]

Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (8 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine.