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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (19 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 336. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of outpatient cardiac appointments which have been scheduled in the past 12 months in Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal; the number that have been cancelled by the hospital in the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19469/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Areas of Conservation Management (19 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 547. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department or the National Parks and Wildlife Service has written to landowners in the Slieve League area (details supplied) advising them to discontinue turf cutting in the area of the special area of conservation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19445/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Data (26 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 145. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of minors, both accompanied and unaccompanied, that have been issued with deportation orders since April 2014; if she will provide a breakdown of their nationalities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20223/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Northern Ireland Issues (26 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 152. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she acknowledges that the incident of an incursion by at least one armed member of the Police Service of Northern Ireland into County Donegal during March 2013 was part of a surveillance operation; further to Parliamentary Question No. 224 of 28 April 2015, the reason it was decided it was inadvertent as indicated in her reply; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Payments (26 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 178. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have transitioned from jobseeker's benefit to jobseeker's allowance in County Donegal, in tabular form, for the years 2013, 2014 and 2015 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19938/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit (26 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 179. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the annual cost to the State of extending jobseeker's benefit from nine months to 12 months; of increasing payments to those with less than 260 pay-related social insurance contributions from six months to nine months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19939/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Data (26 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 476. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportation orders that have been enforced since April 2014; if she will provide a breakdown of the countries to which persons were returned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19934/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Data (26 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 477. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportation orders of minors that have been enforced since April 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19935/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Data (26 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 478. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Dublin returns that were issued to Italy, Spain and Malta since December 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19936/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Data (26 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 479. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the top five countries of return under the recast Dublin Regulation, since the beginning of 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19937/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Numbers (26 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 493. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the way the Government will respond to a quota system, in response to the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, where the United Nations has calculated that 60,000 persons have tried to cross already this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19327/15]

Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I take the opportunity to send my condolences to the families who have suffered so much with the loss of their babies' lives. I recognise the commitment of the families in seeking answers and justice on behalf of their children and other families. They have fought tirelessly against a health system that would not listen and which would not act. The treatment they received after their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Local Action Groups: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (27 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I thank BIM for its presentation. I must agree with previous speakers on the value of the FLAGs plan, for which I understand BIM is the implementing authority. I would like to tease out the extent to which it was involved in the application process for funding under Axis 4 of the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, EMFF, to see whether it had any input in how much could have been availed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Local Action Groups: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (27 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I had a couple of questions that were not addressed. Why did it take until 2012 to get the FLAGs up and running? There was an EU recommendation that there be a budget of €3 million per FLAG area. What is Mr. Keatinge's view on the fact that only 20 jobs were created in Ireland over the period of the last EMFF when there were 8,000 created across Europe? I also have a couple of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Local Action Groups: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (27 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: From 2009 to 2013, 8,000 jobs were created across Europe and 20 in Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Local Action Groups: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (27 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: The figures are wrong?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Local Action Groups: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (27 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I will check that with the Commission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Local Action Groups: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (27 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I think so. It is possible that the explanation given by Mr. Keatinge is actually what the Commission is looking at - the question of comparing like with like. I am sure the Commission would be interested to know whether it was doing it right. What are Mr. Keatinge's comments on community-led local development guidance and the budget for FLAGs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Local Action Groups: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (27 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: Has the EMFF funded that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Local Action Groups: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (27 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: How much funding will be available for retraining people who have been forced out of fishing in recent years due to quota difficulties and rationalisation within the industry? How much funding for retraining and upskilling will be available for them?