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Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ..., more than 60,000 have been injured, and 1.9 million or 85% of the population have been displaced. Half of the buildings, housing more than 2 million human beings, have been either damaged or destroyed over a period of months. People face starvation that is unprecedented in recent human history. How appropriate it was that South Africa took the case to the International Court of...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...Human Rights Watch that Israel is an apartheid state, and the world looks the other way. The Tánaiste spoke about a two-state solution. He knows what Israel has done to the two-state solution. It has destroyed it to the point that the Palestinian people have lost all confidence in it. The world has looked the other way again and again. The challenge for the Tánaiste and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...done to people's lives. I live in Buncrana. I look to my right-hand side outside my house and I see the quarry that was predominantly responsible for all the homes. People's lives have been utterly destroyed. People of my generation were good, honest people who built their own homes. We did what we were supposed to do, which is work hard, pay our taxes and build our homes. Their...

Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 May 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...like Donegal are paying a profound price for that. I live in Buncrana, the epicentre of the defective blocks crisis. Not a day goes by that I do not talk to a family whose lives are utterly destroyed by the fact that their homes are falling apart. It is not just about the cost of fixing it, but the mental health effects and the utter devastation. This is not just about defective blocks...

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...go." Of course, they will not get 100% redress because the Government will not let the Housing Agency run the project. The Government is expecting traumatised homeowners, whose lives have been destroyed, to try to engage building contractors to put a square plug into a round hole, to try to make an amount of money fit that cannot fit, to make them pay tens of thousands of euro. I ask...

Council Development Levies: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...Fáil and Fine Gael Governments over many years. The intention was basically to divide and conquer citizens and to take away the empathy and solidarity for those families whose lives had been destroyed. The same Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael leadership figures have choices to make at every single budget. Yesterday, I and other Deputies, including Deputy Pringle, hosted a very...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...Donegal, Mayo, Clare and the west. The responsibility was on the Minister and his Government to deliver a scheme that gave them justice. These are traumatised families, people whose lives have been destroyed and who are victims of the scandalous system of regulation of the construction industry in this country. They are victims. I will never forget the campaigners in the Public...

Building Defects: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Minister knows, I live in the epicentre of the defective block crisis in County Donegal. I live in Buncrana on the Inishowen Peninsula. People's lives have been utterly destroyed. Hardly anybody my age who has built or bought a home or was living in a council home has not been devastated by the crisis. No matter where people live in Ireland, whether in Dublin and north Leinster in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...that when this is done it would be independently and urgently examined, including getting access to that quarry to do that? That is the least the thousands of people affected deserve. Lives have been destroyed here in one of the biggest scandals in the history of the State. Surely that assurance can be given? If it has not been done already, can Mr. Ó Coigligh give assurance it...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...ask the Minister of State to remember this shocking statistic. Our whitefish fleet will soon be one third of the size it was in 2005. The potential of fishing in our coastal communities is being destroyed and we are not putting up a proper fight. The world is not being told of the injustice that is occurring. If we fought hard, that injustice could not be sustained because it is so...

Defective Concrete Products Levy: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...the Government has made on the concrete levy, I have been asked to plead with the Government to demonstrate by its actions that it will have zero tolerance for the recklessness in question, which has destroyed people's lives, will hold those responsible to account, end the misery delivered to people and afford to the latter 100% redress no matter where they live in this State. This is the...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...not do that but it will also not allow people to downsize their houses penalty-free - the cruelty of it. People have been traumatised by years of this mental anguish and turmoil. Lives have been destroyed. The Government wants them to build on foundations that have not been tested. It wants them to use windows and doors that are old. It will give them a financial penalty if they...

Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Security: Statements (12 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: .... These factories took a stand. The community in Killybegs took a stand. They said they are not going to be criminalised anymore, they are not going to let themselves be misrepresented and they are not going to destroy their industry. Boats will just turn away if this is the way they are going to be treated and if there is a chance that their catch could be devalued in that way. I...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...those who are responsible for that repugnant situation. We cannot even pass that law in this country. We cannot recognise the Palestinian state. The two-state solution has been intentionally destroyed by the Israeli state. There is no Palestinian state left because it has been destroyed, dismantled and disconnected. The Minister knows that because he has been there. He must change...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...devastated again and again. The white flag is being flown. The difficulty for producer organisations which signed up to the task force is that they are dealing with people whose lives have been destroyed. They had a gun to their head and we should call it what it was. They had to do a deal for them. I appreciate that this was unbelievable pressure. I understand why the body from the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...now, in which 181 Palestinians have been killed, with 1,200 injuries and 34,000 people displaced. Forty schools operated by the UN are now being used as shelters, and 18 high-rise towers have been destroyed, along with 350 buildings. When is the Government going to return to the leadership that we showed in the 1980s? When are our people going to have a Government that will do what...

Pre-European Council: Statements (2 Dec 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...defend the national interest and our fishing communities and make it absolutely clear that we are not pawns in this game or pieces to be offered up in negotiations. We must not come out of this by destroying our fishing communities.

Covid-19 (Local Government): Statements (27 May 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...all of them and we need solutions in all cases. In my county of Donegal, thousands of families have been absolutely devastated. I have been in homes where people have been in tears. They are destroyed because their family homes, their wee castles to which they look for security, is literally crumbling around them. People have had to move out of their homes and we are talking about...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Nov 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...in Donegal have been required to provide a 10% contribution. If this involves a complete rebuild, 10% will be a significant amount for families who are paying mortgages on homes that have been destroyed by this blight in our county. The Mica Action Group has done some excellent work. It has engaged with financial institutions and has received a fairly positive response to its call for...

Seanad: Inquiry into the Death of Shane O'Farrell: Statements (20 Nov 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ..., the Minister for Justice and Equality will appreciate that some meetings with families that have been through unspeakable grief are harrowing. My memory of that meeting is that the family had been destroyed by tragedy. Shane's mother, Lucia, had a framed picture of her beloved son and she had so many questions. It has been a long and hard road to get to the process now under way with...