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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (17 Jan 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1278. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of reported/recorded lost fishing pots; the number of recovered fishing pots that had been reported/recorded lost on the Irish coast and in Ireland's waters overall for 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1723/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Period Poverty (17 Jan 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1501. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the work of the inter-departmental Period Poverty Implementation Group established two and a half years ago and chaired by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56560/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Period Poverty (17 Jan 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1502. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in progressing his commitments following Government support of the Free Provision of Period Products Bill 2021 and implementation of the recommendations of the Discussion Paper on Period Poverty jointly published by him and the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth three years ago; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Period Poverty (17 Jan 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1503. To ask the Minister for Health the dates on which the inter-departmental Period Poverty Implementation Group has met since its inaugural meeting on 8 July 2021 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56562/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Period Poverty (17 Jan 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1504. To ask the Minister for Health the annual budgetary amount allocated to the work of the inter-departmental Period Poverty Implementation Group from 2021 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56563/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (17 Jan 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1570. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a diagnoses from a colonoscopy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56968/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (17 Jan 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1590. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay for pharmacies in County Donegal not receiving ipramol at the same time as other pharmacies in the South of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57082/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (17 Jan 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1793. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent transfer can be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo to the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1864/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Period Poverty (17 Jan 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1817. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual budgetary amount allocated to the provision of a range of free, adequate, safe and suitable period products in all educational publicly-funded settings including schools, colleges and HEIs from 2021 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56558/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Period Poverty (17 Jan 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1818. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of the €0.5 million allocated to each further and higher education institution in Budget 2024 for free period products, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56559/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Period Poverty (17 Jan 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1819. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the nine further education and training colleges that undertook the ‘Worryfree’ pilot delivering free, sustainable period products and dispensers for students in participating ETBs, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56595/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inshore Fisheries (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 15. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the immediate financial support measures he can put in place for the Irish inshore fishing sector to address the deepening crisis in the industry that is threatening the livelihoods of inshore fishermen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55722/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inshore Fisheries (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister knows that the inshore sector has been struggling. There has been a failure to look at giving herring and mackerel a broader fishery. The impact of Brexit has made that more difficult. There has been the failure of the Government to provide a fuel subsidy. We have huge increases in fuel costs. Now the latest is the collapse of the market for brown crab. Deputy McConalogue,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inshore Fisheries (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will know that this is the optimum time of year for the crab fishery. It has been devastating for them to hear that the factories have said they cannot take any more and just do not have a market. I think the European market has collapsed and the Chinese market has been impacted. This is, it appears to me, an unprecedented crisis when everything else is added. I appreciate...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inshore Fisheries (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister is right that it is crab and lobster on the east coast. It is razor clam and whelk, and indeed crab and lobster, right around the coast. The inshore sector is an industry that is struggling. The formation of the producer organisations is welcome. The engagement with the representative organisations is welcome. The Minister and I are both from coastal communities. We are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister referred to the 2013 agreement. The difficulty was that agreement was made in the context of all waters beyond the 12-mile limit being under the jurisdiction of the Common Fisheries Policy. Rockall was under the Common Fisheries Policy. Both Governments had an interest in allowing fair access. It is extraordinary the trade and co-operation agreement allowed the British...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 5. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the projected financial loss to the vessels of the Irish fishing fleet arising from the actions of the UK and Scottish Governments in blocking them from fishing in their traditional fishing grounds around Rockall for the past number of years; and to provide an update on the status of negotiations with the UK and Scottish Governments,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister and I have debated and discussed this issue on numerous occasions. I refer to the continued outrageous blocking by the British and Scottish Governments of our Irish fishermen from fishing in their traditional grounds around Rockall. Rockall is an uninhabited rock. A six- or 12-mile zone cannot be put in place around an uninhabited rock. It could not be more clear in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister may know that a recent report in The Guardian newspaper covered this issue. I actually spoke to the journalist who covered it, namely, Mr. Rory Carroll. He has been advised that this issue may be moving towards a solution and that people in previous positions wanted to resolve it. I am going to say "Who?". Ms Nicola Sturgeon, the former Scottish First Minister, apparently...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Parks (14 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 237. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the monument at An Grianán of Aileach, County Donegal has been closed to visitors for the past three weeks. [55926/23]