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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Industry (Resumed): ICOS and Positive Farmers (3 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I do not think that many of the producers in Ireland would be on the right-hand side of that graph.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Industry (Resumed): ICOS and Positive Farmers (3 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I understand that Ireland is grass rich. Is that not the case? The far right-hand side of the graph is based on cattle that are housed all year round and fed grain. How much more can we squeeze out of it without consolidation and rationalisation within farms, reducing the number of farmers and making farms bigger?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Industry (Resumed): ICOS and Positive Farmers (3 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: They could take it politically as well. There is a subtle difference.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Payments (3 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 196. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person in receipt of carer's benefit and working 15 hours per week, is entitled to be paid for public holidays under the Organisation of Working Time Act, for example, if that person can receive payment for a public holiday that is not a normally scheduled working day for that person; if that person will exceed the threshold of fifteen hours...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (27 Jan 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 231. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons that have had their pension entitlements over calculated by PeoplePoint; the options open to pensioners who because of a miscalculation of their pension entitlement have received a demand for repayment of part of their lump sum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3756/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (27 Jan 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 251. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a rural environment protection scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3393/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Foreign Policy (22 Jan 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 7. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the impact that moves within the EU to a common security and foreign policy have had on the independence of Ireland's foreign policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2653/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Foreign Policy (22 Jan 2015)

Thomas Pringle: My question relates to the development of the common security and foreign policy in the EU and the implications it has had for our independent foreign policy and the future.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Foreign Policy (22 Jan 2015)

Thomas Pringle: Could the Minister point to examples of how our traditional policy of independence in foreign affairs has had a positive influence on the development of the EU's common security and foreign policy? I do not see it. The one example we had of the development of the policy was our abstention from the UN vote over the summer on the conflict in Gaza, which sent a very negative message to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (22 Jan 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I have to go back to the independent assessment of the rationale for the care and supervision unit. It seems to me that neither the Northern Ireland Office nor the Northern Ireland Prison Service will carry out that assessment. They are both kicking it over and back between each other. This was recommended as part of the independent assessment of the 2010 agreement. If they have accepted...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (22 Jan 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 3. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the recent stocktake report on the August 2010 prison agreement in Maghaberry Prison, if he has any contact with the Northern Ireland Office in regard to the independent assessment of the rationale for the ongoing isolation of certain prisoners held in the care and supervision unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (22 Jan 2015)

Thomas Pringle: This question relates to the stocktake report, which was published before Christmas, on the August 2010 prison agreement in Maghaberry prison and the ongoing isolation of prisoners in the care and supervision unit, the CSU. Some prisoners have been there for years at the behest of the Northern Ireland Office. The stocktake report recommended an independent assessment of the rationale for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (22 Jan 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister for his response. It is very important that the independent assessment of the rationale for isolating prisoners in the CSU is carried out. In correspondence I have had with the Northern Ireland Office and the Prison Service of Northern Ireland, it seems they are both playing off each other with one saying it is the others responsibility but with nobody taking...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (22 Jan 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 14. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make contact with the Saudi Arabian Government to express our concern in relation to the public flogging of Raif Badawi whose only crime was writing a blog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2655/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (22 Jan 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 21. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action he will take to follow up on the recent unanimous decision by both Houses of the Oireachtas to recognise the state of Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2652/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (22 Jan 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 24. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on sending observers to the sentencing court on 8 February 2015 following the conviction of Abdallah Abu Rahme, a Palestinian peace activist who has been convicted for holding peaceful protest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2654/15]

Northern Ireland and the Stormont House Agreement: Statements (20 Jan 2015)

Thomas Pringle: The Stormont House Agreement is the latest in a series of agreements put in place since the Good Friday Agreement to deal with issues arising from the peace process. It is interesting that the first two pages of the agreement deal with the implementation of austerity in the North. In his contribution the Taoiseach said the agreement was unique in including so-called sound economic...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (20 Jan 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 205. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of medical officers within her Department assessing applications for disability allowance/carer's allowance and domiciliary care allowance that have qualifications in child and adolescent psychology; the weighting that is given to learning disabilities in the assessment of applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (15 Jan 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 198. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way an Irish national who is imprisoned in the UK can apply for and acquire a first passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1887/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (15 Jan 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown of all departmental funding provided to a school (details supplied) in County Donegal, both capital and revenue, for each of the past five years including the amount and the purpose of the funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1889/15]