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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (9 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 987. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to advise how much of the 1,874 tonne quota of spurdog that he announced in December 2022 was caught, landed and processed; to confirm what markets were identified for selling this species into; to confirm what processing facilities are available for spurdog landings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14539/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (20 Mar 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 988. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the landings of fish, by species at each pier and harbour across the State in each of the years, 2007 to 2024, inclusive, in tabular form. [12083/24]

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...home, they were pushed into the private rental sector. This has driven up rents and created a housing crisis in Donegal. Recently, it was revealed by the Society of Chartered Surveyors in Ireland, SCSI, that for a family, couple or person in Donegal to be able to afford a new three-bedroom, semi-detached house - just a basic family home - they would have to earn a combined figure of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 516. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will designate Magheroarty Pier in County Donegal as a landing point for UK registered vessels, similar to other piers and harbours across Donegal. [10205/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (8 Feb 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...decision making process that has led to the closure of the pollock fishery for bycatch only in ICES areas and 7 is as accurate as possible, given a new assessment approach was used as opposed to landings data which had been used in previous years; if other measures for catch have been considered like minimum size or a seasonal fishery had been considered rather than an outright ban; and if...

United Kingdom Import Controls: Statements (25 Jan 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...not be surprised that I am going to concentrate today on the impact of Brexit on the Irish fishing, seafood and aquaculture industries and indeed the import and export of seafood into and out of Ireland. It was well flagged in advance that the Irish fishing and seafood industry was going to be the big casualty of Great Britain’s decision to leave the EU - the big casualty or as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Crisis in Ireland's Inshore Fishing Industry: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...made to the decision to close off pollock fishery, which was open to gillnet or hook-and-line fishing. My understanding is that the science behind that is questionable, in that it was based on landings rather than surveys. Do our guests have any understanding as to why it was closed?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (16 Nov 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...Food and the Marine if he and his Department are aware of the current livelihood-threatening market disturbance to the brown crab (cancer pagurus) fishery, whereby processors are now not taking any landed produce due to there being no buyers for export live or otherwise; what measures can be taken to identify new markets; what immediate supporting interventions can be made to support the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...question is on Eurostat, which is the European statistics website for accessing statistics on catch. Looking at that, from 2018 right through to today, one cannot see on that website figures for catch landed by Irish vessels. It is marked "C" and when one checks what "C" stands for, it stands for "confidential". Will the Minister check to see if there is a reasonable explanation as to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (12 Jul 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...from his Department and the Office of Public Works to re-engage with a person (details supplied) to discuss a safe and fair management system for the water courses that run through his farm land from all the hills in the surrounding townlands into the sea at the adjoining public beach. [34417/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (27 Jun 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of cruise liner ships that have visited and berthed in the ports around Ireland in each of the past ten years; if his Department places restrictions on the number that can visit each port; the number that are permitted to land and berth in each port on an annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31319/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (1 Jun 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 291. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the strategic investments his Government has made during this Government's term to attract increased landings into Ireland of sustainably caught fish in Irish waters and promote the development of the seafood processing sector in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26881/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (1 Jun 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 294. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will publish the value and volume of fish by species landed in Ireland; if he will provide a breakdown, separately, of the value and volume of that same fish processed in Ireland for each of the years 2015 to 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26884/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (3 May 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...or regulations that limit the reconstruction of homes with defective blocks to the same footprint as the original house, in order that some homeowners have the option of building on their adjacent land holding and remaining in the existing home while their new home is being constructed; and if he appreciates that families with a person with a disability will struggle to find suitable...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...second time that the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, will come in to make a statement on a matter of serious public concern. This is about our planning legislation regarding the sale of lands by local authorities applying to all citizens equally. It could not be more serious. There cannot be a situation where he comes in, like he did the last time, at the close of business when...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Issues (2 Feb 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or his Department officials are aware of ongoing issues in relation to the State regarding boundary disputes arising from the digitisation of land maps; and if he plans to implement the recommendations of the 2014 Report Of The Inter-Professional Task Force On Property Boundaries. [5462/23]

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...Gael in government to tackle the housing crisis. For ten years, from 2011 to 2021, we have had a lost decade in my home county of Donegal. There has been almost zero public housing built on public lands. Instead, the Government forces thousands of families into private rental accommodation and, of course, that takes us to a very significant increase in the cost of rent in Donegal which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...almost halved in five years. That is the context of these negotiations. In the lead-up to Brexit, we saw the halving of the value of our processing industry. That is devastating. We then get into the landing of Irish vessels. As I am my party's spokesperson on fisheries and the marine, I have seen a lot of data but this submission is utterly devastating. The landing of Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Nov 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision by her Department not to secure additional adjacent land in Buncrana, County Donegal, for adequate outdoor green field sports amenities for the 1,000 students that are projected to attend the new three school campuses for the town; and if any new school builds over the past five years have included adjacent...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (27 Oct 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...or regulations that limit the reconstruction of homes with defective blocks to the same footprint as the original house, in order that some homeowners have the option of building on their adjacent land holding and remaining in the existing home while their new home is being constructed; and if he appreciates that families with a person with a disability will struggle to find suitable...