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Uisce Éireann: Statements (10 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Our spokesperson, Deputy Ó Broin, has laid out the national picture and the challenges we face. I am going to take this opportunity to speak about the experience on the ground in Donegal and offer some constructive criticism of Uisce Éireann but also address some challenges for the Government. I will start with our major town, Letterkenny. We want to develop Letterkenny into a...

Uisce Éireann: Statements (10 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Did the Deputy get lucky?

Protecting the Irish Economy Against Increasing Trade Tariffs: Motion [Private Members] (9 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Sinn Féin has warned for some time that the policies of successive Governments have left Ireland uniquely vulnerable to a change in the economic climate and to tariffs. This is due to their failure to invest in infrastructure, their excessive reliance on tax incentives, and their failure to build up our indigenous industry. These moves by Donald Trump and his Administration to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (9 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 69. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 207 of 3 April 2025, if officials from the OPW inspected the hedgerow prior to these works being carried out and since the works have been carried out; and if so, the way in which this can be presented as standard practice rather than destruction. [17692/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Marine Institute (9 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how many licence applications are awaiting appropriate assessments at the Marine Institute, and if there is a prioritisation system to deal with these applications in a timely manner. [18028/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 266. To ask the Minister for Health when a person in County Donegal (details supplied) will receive a follow-up appointment in Cappagh Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17800/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can we prioritise the formation of the foreign affairs and trade committee to get on with-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There are massive issues and huge concern around these tariffs. Can we at least prioritise the foreign affairs and trade committee?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can we agree-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: My understanding is that Deputy McDonald wants to move an amendment under the Standing Order.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Whip, I can respond. The Deputy raised the issue under the Standing Order, which she has a right to do

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: An amendment under the Standing Order can be taken at any stage. It is at the discretion of the Ceann Comhairle as to when she decides to take it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I want to make it clear than on 5 February, a Cheann Comhairle, you took independent legal advice and adjudicated on the right of the Regional Independent Group to form a group in opposition.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No, this is my moment. I have 30 seconds, which is all that has been given. That is all the Ceann Comhairle has allowed me and I intend to make my point. At that point the Government could have moved, along with the rest of us, to form Oireachtas committees immediately under the d'Hondt system. We were told repeatedly that the Government was going to change Standing Orders and that is why...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 317. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress that he has made since assuming office in ensuring that Irish Government funding is reinstated for the Derry to Dublin air link, as committed to in the Programme for Government. [17426/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 392. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to a Parliamentary Question of 5 February, (details supplied), when he will meet with and provide an update to local residents to expedite this vital scheme. [17265/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 393. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware that over seven years since the devastating floods at Burnfoot, County Donegal in August 2017 planning permission has still not been secured for flood defences at the village, even though many families remain displaced from their homes at Páirc an Ghrianáin; and if he will meet a delegation of concerned local...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 676. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the half-rate of carer's allowance; the corresponding social welfare payment they are in receipt of further; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17111/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (3 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 207. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reasons for the destruction of the hedgerow on the walkway to the Beltany Stone Circle, Raphoe, County Donegal, a monument under the care of the OPW; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16369/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (3 Apr 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 272. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the current utilisation rate of fish by-products in the state, including progress towards achieving higher utilisation comparable to international best practices. [16345/25]