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Pádraig Mac Lochlainn – Sinn Féin Chief Whip and Spokesperson on Fisheries and the Marine

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn is a Sinn Féin TD for Donegal. He previously served as a TD for Donegal North East from 2011 to 2016 and as a Senator from 2016 to 2020.

He is the Sinn Féin Chief Whip and Spokesperson on Fisheries and the Marine. He previously served as Sinn Féin's Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Justice, Equality and Defence.

He served as the Chairperson of the Oireachtas Public Services Oversight and Petitions Committee from 2013 to 2016.

Prior to being elected to the Dáil in Febuary 2011, he had served for many years on Donegal County Council and Buncrana Town Council.

In the 2004 and 2009 local elections, he was elected to represent the people of Inishowen on Donegal County Council and in those elections; he was also elected to Buncrana Town Council. Pádraig had been co-opted on to Buncrana Town Council in January 2002.

He has twice served as Mayor of Buncrana in 2005/2006 and 2010/2011 and has served once as Deputy Mayor of Donegal 2010/2011.

Prior to serving as a public representative, he was a community activist and campaigner, locally and nationally.

He acted as the Donegal spokesperson for the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed (INOU) from 1997 to 2001. He also served on the INOU National Executive from 1997 until 2000 as well as representing the organisation on the National Rural Development Forum.

At local level, he was a community director on the Inishowen Partnership Board for 5 years from 1996 to 2001.

He was appointed to the board of InterTradeIreland, the Trade and Business Development Body in December 2007 and served on the board up until March 2011. 

Contact Details

Email: [email protected]

Constituency Office

Sands/Fullerton House, High Road, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal

Ph: 07496 01730

Leinster House

Kildare Street, Dublin 1

Ph: 01 618 4061

Statements (51)

Irish fishing communities to take their case to Europe for a fair share of the fish in Irish waters - MacManus and MacLochlainn29 May, 2022

Irish fishing fleet require urgent fuel supports - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn TD22 March, 2022

Supertrawlers should be banned from Irish and EU Waters - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn TD14 February, 2022

Fishermen must not be treated as second class citizens any longer - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn TD7 February, 2022

Irish government must demand full truth of British state collusion in mass murder across island of Ireland - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn TD14 January, 2022

Government needs to go back to the table on Mica scheme - Pearse Doherty TD and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn TD30 November, 2021

British government must listen to the international community and end the sabre-rattling and game-playing in Ireland - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn TD14 November, 2021

Letterkenny Hospital has the worst beds crisis in the State yet again - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn TD1 November, 2021

Decommissioning and tie-ups will not restore the Irish fishing industry – Pádraig Mac Lochlainn TD12 October, 2021

Government practice of rushing through legislation must cease - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn TD30 July, 2021

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