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Thirty-Fourth Report of the Standing Committee of Selection: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move: That Dáil Éireann, pursuant to Standing Order 34, and with effect from 23rd October, 2024— (1) approves the Thirty-Fourth Report of the Standing Committee of Selection, copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 18th October, 2024, and discharges a member from a Committee and appoints a member to a Committee accordingly, and (2) appoints Deputy...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Government Chief Whip will know, we dissented from the schedule last week. What I want to raise right now is the poll in The Irish News today that reveals that for the first time there is no longer a majority in favour of remaining in the union. In 2015, the figure was 59.1%. Now it is 48.6%. Will the Government hold statements on this matter and to commit to it? We need to talk...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (22 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 585. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when approval from the European Commission and/or his Department will be obtained for the hundreds of applications for funding under the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund provided by the seven voluntary FLAG boards around the coast. [42381/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 717. To ask the Minister for Health when a person in County Donegal (details supplied) can expect to receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42677/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (22 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 721. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the current shortage of ambulance service managers in the north west, including the specific number of vacancies at assistant chief ambulance officer, operations resource manager, and paramedic supervisor levels; and the reasons behind these vacancies, as well as the plans and timelines for filling each of these positions. [42684/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Services (22 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 833. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the working practices of first responders in Donegal have changed in relation to first responder vehicles now having to be based at ambulance stations and not at the home of first responders, as was the normal practice. [43244/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will probably be aware of the press statement that was issued by the Irish Fish Producers Organisation, IFPO, yesterday. I am sure the group thought long and hard before issuing it but I do not see how it had any choice. The key demand is to ban Norway and other non-EU states from fishing in Irish waters unless there is a reciprocal exchange in fish quotas for us. When he was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister would agree that any reasonable member state would recognise that Ireland took the biggest hit from Brexit. The burden sharing never happened. We heard that burden sharing might happen but it did not. It is not good enough to say we received Brexit adjustment reserve funding. We have to sustain our industry. We are telling people that they must respect the science. We all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is the Minister's assessment that about 100 jobs will be lost due to this loss of quota. The industry would say the impact will be a loss of approximately €10 million. The Minister knows about the crisis in fish production across the State. Would he be willing to make a case for the Hague preferences to be deployed to reduce the impact Ireland will face as a result of the changes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The next thing I want to talk about is pollock. The Minister will know about Muireann Kavanagh, a teenage girl from Arranmore Island, County Donegal who fishes pollock from a hook and line, which would be the most low intensity form of fishing there is other than using a rod in the river. She would fish for pollock, and it is not just in Arranmore but in different parts of the coast. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I think so. It was discussed that we try to use the Hague preferences to challenge Norway and, indeed, its access to our blue whiting fishery when the DG requests it. I think the Minister has covered it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: And the herring and why it is only 7,000 tonnes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On the herring, why do we just get 7,000 tonnes on that fish?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I might ask just one final supplementary question. The ring-fenced boats did not apparently catch their allocation. Can some of that then be allocated to inshore fishers, to balance it out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Ms O'Sullivan.

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 (Section 11) Order 2024: Motion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Not agreed. I raised my concerns at the Business Committee and will do so again now. The proposed increase of 10% is welcome, and the Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, knows from his own county that people have been waiting on this, but he also knows that there are homeowners who are going through or have completed the scheme. The original scheme transitioned to the new scheme and the...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 (Section 11) Order 2024: Motion (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On the basis of that commitment, it is agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 46. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if members of the Defence Forces have to pay for their air fares if they wish to return home for their three weeks leave while serving overseas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42089/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (16 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 263. To ask the Minister for Health when a home care package will be put in place for a person (details supplied) in Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41991/24]

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I want to take the Minister and Minister of State through the serious crisis in services for children with disabilities in Donegal. I think they are fully aware of them. More than a year ago, Special Needs Parents Network Donegal, which represents more than 900 parents of children with disabilities, published a survey about the real impact of the longest waiting lists in the entire State...