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Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: This Revised Estimate is for a very wide-ranging brief, and one could really spend an awful lot of time discussing all the ins and outs of it. However, I want to focus on the programme expenditure titled "An efficient, responsive and fair immigration, asylum and citizenship system," which - according to the Estimates presented to us in this programme - has an increased projected budget of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits Eligibility (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 47. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality why she has not implemented the right to work for asylum seekers after nine months, as recommended in the McMahon report; if she will do so; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17111/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 54. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will bring unaccompanied children here as part of the Irish refugee protection programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17110/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Applications (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 148. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he is aware of difficulties with information retrieval from the United Kingdom authorities for social protection applications here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17383/16]

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: I have a couple of questions, the first of which is on the seafood development programme. In the 2015 outturn document, it is stated that the programme created 145 jobs through the grant announcements. This is a bugbear of mine because there is no requirement for jobs to be created in order to get a grant under the programme. I fail to see why jobs are continually linked to these...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: In regard to aquaculture licences, some 90 bays were covered by the European Court judgment. Does the Minister have figures for the number of bays that have been the subject of appropriate assessments at this stage? Will he also provide information on the level of overall employment in the agri-sector?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: There have been many in each of the past five years, with the exception of last year.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: Have all the 90 bays been the subject of appropriate assessments, with conservation objectives being set?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: So that is 45 bays?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: About three years ago 30 assessments had been done.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: Is this a case of creative accounting? When we asked questions on this during the past five or six years the answer was always couched in terms of the number of bays involves. I was told that assessments had been carried out in respect of 30 bays.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: I want the number of bays in respect of which the appropriate assessments have been completed and for which the conservation objectives have been set.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: Does the plant health inspection programme relate only to agricultural and commercial plants? What does the programme entail? What measures and sanctions will be put in place under that programme? I note that the programme will be implemented this year for the first time, although it has been planned for a number of years. What will the inspection programme look like? What level of...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: Would that plant health scheme include addressing Japanese knotweed?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: Would the Minister envisage the Department initiating and funding a control programme?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: What does it involve?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: Is it a matter of all plant health across all farm and off-farm settings?

Summer Economic Statement 2016: Statements (Resumed) (23 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: The dominating feature of the summer economic statement is the commitment by the Government to phasing out the universal social charge, USC, over the next five years. I support the organisations and other politicians who call for the retention of the USC, at the very least for the higher paid, in order to reinvest the extra spending in public services as a way to address the consequences...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Home Repossessions (23 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will take on board the Oireachtas Committee on Housing and Homelessness's recommendation to implement a moratorium on the repossession of houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17499/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Postal Services (23 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his engagement with the post office network; if and when he will publish a draft ministerial order pursuant to section 67 of the Post and Telecommunications Services Act 1983 to enable post offices to provide a range of financial services, including a standard bank account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17500/16]