Parliamentary questions

Fishing Industry

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

1591. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of financial support or revenue compensating package that the State will provide to the fish processing sector in Ireland to compensate for the serious loss of business and revenue due to Brexit; and the way this financial support compares to other affected EU Member States; and the financial supports provided to their fish processing sectors. [42828/21]

Fishing Industry

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

1592. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the fish swaps carried out by vessels or EU member states that includes fish species and fish quota taken from the Irish EEZ in each of the years 2000 to 2021 inclusive in tabular form. [42829/21]

Fishing Industry

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

1602. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will provide an estimate in cooperation with the relevant fishermen and fishermen’s co-ops as to the estimated financial loss to the Irish fishing fleet to date in 2021 as a result of the ongoing blockage of Irish fishing vessels from the waters around Rockall. [43159/21]

Fishing Industry

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

1603. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current status of the dispute between the EU Member States Commission, Norway and the Faroe Islands over mackerel quotas; and the way that dispute is reflected in reciprocal access to harbours by vessels from the relevant fleets in dispute. [43160/21]

Citizenship Applications

Pádraig MacLochlainn

840. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs when the Foreign Births Registration Office will recommence the assessment of applications such as in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40196/21]

Vaccination Programme

Pádraig MacLochlainn

2182. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the way County Donegal compares to other counties in the speed of the roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines. [28315/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Pádraig MacLochlainn

2610. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the measures that will be put in place by his Department to ensure that cross-Border workers who availed of the Covid-19 vaccine in the Northern Ireland will be included in the roll-out of the EU Digital COVID Certificate in this State. [38363/21]

Primary Medical Certificates

Pádraig MacLochlainn

2827. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the timeframe for a decision to be made on a primary medical certificate in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39311/21]

Land Issues

Pádraig MacLochlainn

135. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to a number of instances across north County Donegal in which landowners have come into conflict with their neighbouring landowners arising from discrepancies between their original folio Land Registry maps and the maps that have emerged from the digitisation of the mapping system by the Property Registration Authority of Ireland; if he will request that an independent review of these discrepancies will be carried out; and the reason that such discrepancies occurred. [38396/21]

Medicinal Products

Pádraig MacLochlainn

431. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if the HSE plans to support the use of the drug zolgensma that replaces the SMN1 gene for children living with spinal muscular atrophy type 1. [31562/21]

Fishing Industry

Pádraig MacLochlainn

194. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his views on the request from some inshore fishermen in Ireland that they would co-operate with the Marine Institute and other relevant authorities in conducting surveys on the abundance of wild salmon around the coast (details supplied). [37638/21]

Defective Building Materials

Pádraig MacLochlainn

324. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if under the European Union (Construction Products) Regulations 2013 (SI No.225 of 2013) each of the building control authorities have been designated by the State as the principal market surveillance authorities for construction products that fall within the scope of the CPR within their administrative areas; and the efforts that have been made by his Department over the past eight years to ensure that all local authorities receiving reports of mica or pyrite defective products were investigating the relevant quarries under their jurisdiction and that they were adequately resourced to meet their investigative and market surveillance responsibilities. [37192/21]

Animal Culls

Pádraig MacLochlainn

357. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there were any circumstances in which the culling of seals has been permitted by his Department in Irish waters and the EEZ over recent years. [37640/21]

Defective Building Materials

Pádraig MacLochlainn

358. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will clarify the process for disposing of the rubble from homes that are demolished due to mica or pyrite in their concrete blocks; and if he will provide an assurance that no quarry that manufactured these blocks will be used for this purpose. [37644/21]

Fishing Industry

Pádraig MacLochlainn

627. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the request from some inshore fishermen in Ireland that they would cooperate with the Marine Institute and other relevant authorities in conducting surveys on the abundance of spurdog or piked dogfish squalus acanthias around the coast (details supplied). [37637/21]

Fishing Industry

Pádraig MacLochlainn

628. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts his Department and the relevant authorities are making to minimise either the illegal catch or bycatch of spurdog or piked dogfish squalus acanthias in Irish waters and the EEZ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37639/21]

Food Safety

Pádraig MacLochlainn

629. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all EU states are subject to the same food safety regime when it comes to exporting brown crab to the Chinese market. [37641/21]

Coast Guard Service

Pádraig MacLochlainn

44. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport the annual budget his Department allocated to organisations that save lives, for example, the Irish Coast Guard and the Naval Service and search and rescue services in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36672/21]

Vaccination Programme

Pádraig MacLochlainn

131. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if clarity will be provided on the roll-out of Covid-19 vaccine for those in cohort 7 such as in the case of a person (details supplied); and the way patients are referred for allocated slots for the vaccine. [30440/21]

Departmental Expenditure

Pádraig MacLochlainn

212. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the projected capital spend for marine projects for 2021; the projects that will be completed in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36665/21]