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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.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: They are not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We have another report from the Police Ombudsman in the North and it makes for devastating reading. It details how eight RUC special branch agents were involved with 27 murders and attempted murders, and this follows so close on the report on Operation Greenwich, which also dealt with an elected representative from Donegal. The findings there are devastating. There is plenty of time in the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the National Standards Authority of Ireland has been asked to review IS 465 to include testing for pyrrhotite and other deleterious minerals in concrete blocks and foundations, in addition to pyrite and MICA; and if this is the reason his Department is not agreeing to the demolition and rebuilding of homes in County...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the updated MICA and pyrite redress scheme does not have one full-time employee working on the scheme in his Department; and the details of the persons who will serve on the proposed implementation group for the updated scheme. [6732/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of the homeowners affected by MICA and pyrite defective blocks at the lack of detail in the information supplied to homeowners in relation to the scheme; and if he will re-establish a working group of officials who can liaise with families in counties Donegal and Mayo to...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I referred earlier to The Fishing Daily, Marine Timesand The Skipper. It is my job and that of the Minister to read those publications every time they come out to educate ourselves on the issues affecting fishing communities. If he had done that, he would not have made the assertion he made earlier that he has never heard of those publications criticising the Department of Agriculture, Food...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am pressing the amendment.

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister, Deputy McConalogue, invited me to read into the record some parts of a speech that he delivered, so I will read it into the record now. In the annulment motion tabled by his colleague, former Deputy Pat The Cope Gallagher, he stated: We need to take on board the needs of the fishing sector. We need to avoid the possibility of it being struck down in the courts again. The...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Who did I name? The Minister accused me of personalising it. Who did I name?

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Tell me who I named. The Minister said that I personalise the issue. Who did I name? Did I name any official in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine or the SFPA? I did now what the Minister did back then. I believe that the Minister knows in his heart, as Deputy Danny Healy-Rae said, that this is wrong. It is my job as a spokesperson on fisheries and the marine to read The...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will not take accusations from the Minister and I refute what he said. If the Minister goes ahead with this tonight, he will demonstrate that he is not listening to the fishing community and that he is out of touch with them.

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We have had many exchanges with the Minister about this. He knows the history of it. When he was the Fianna Fáil spokesperson on agriculture, food and the marine, his colleague, Pat the Cope Gallagher, the then Fianna Fáil spokesperson on the marine and fisheries, moved an annulment of the statutory instrument from 2018 and for the first time in the history of the State, a...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and New Decade, New Approach: Statements (1 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Operation Greenwich investigation and the report that flows from it, which was made public by the police ombudsman in the North, are absolutely damning. If the Minister has not read through the report, I ask that he do so. I will focus on one individual identified as "Person K". When one reads through the report, it is absolutely astonishing that Person K was never brought to justice...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That comment should be withdrawn.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is shameful.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Taoiseach made a very provocative statement, in fairness. It was an outrageous statement. What does the Ceann Comhairle expect us to do?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the plans for the new three-school campus at Buncrana (details supplied) do not include sporting grounds and facilities, considering the lengthy delays that that this school build project has faced; the number of other new school build projects across the State, delivered in recent years that have included sporting grounds and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Harbours and Piers (1 Feb 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he can take with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to address the large-scale bureaucracy required to be completed by local authorities when they are looking to carry out necessary dredging works at piers and harbours under their control. [4403/22]