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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure effective mechanisms to facilitate children in opting out of religious instruction in publicly funded schools (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19122/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Cross-Border Educational Provision (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which children from the Republic of Ireland attending schools in Northern Ireland will be affected by the Brexit outcome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19288/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Services Provision (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 491. To ask the Minister for Health the implications for radiotherapy patients from Donegal attending the north west cancer centre in Altnagelvin Hospital in light of the Brexit outcome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19289/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 648. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the date on which the European Commission will present a proposal to the Council of Ministers asking the Council to vote to give the Commission the authority to sign off on the final text of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA, with the Canadian Government that is to adopt a decision concluding the agreement as per...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 649. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will make public the Commission’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA, proposal prior to the Council’s vote on it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19572/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 650. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will make public the Government's position as to provisionally applying the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA, (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19573/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 651. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Article 29.5.2 of the Constitution places a constitutional imperative on the State to have any international agreement involving a charge upon public funds approved by Dáil Éireann and that as such, should the Council of Ministers vote by a qualified majority vote to approve...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 652. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way the Government can claim that CETA and its investor state dispute settlement, ISDS, will not be enforced upon Ireland prior to the CETA being approved by Dáil Éireann (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19575/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 653. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the necessity test (details supplied) being used to inform the Government's thinking on the provisional application of CETA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19576/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 654. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way the Government can explain its position that the ISDS of CETA is compatible with EU law (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19577/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 655. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Government will explain its position that the ISDS of CETA is compatible with EU law; the reason the Government does not invoke Article 218.11 of the TFEU and ask the ECJ to deliver a legal ruling as to whether or not ISDS is compatible with EU law (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19578/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 656. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way on the one hand intra-EU bilateral investment treaties with investor-state dispute settlement, ISDS, promote discrimination based on nationality, but somehow, in a post Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement legal landscape, allowing Canadian businesses or EU-businesses with a Canadian owner, to have privileged access to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 657. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason for the Government's support for the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement and its investor-state dispute settlement (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19580/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 658. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way the Government intends to protect Irish citizens from the European Union Commission’s proposal to provisionally apply the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA, prior to a definitive legal ruling as to the distribution of competences relating to new proposals to subject the EU to an investor-state dispute...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Flood Prevention Measures (6 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 23. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress that has been made in relation to flood prevention measures in the Finn Valley area of County Donegal. [19903/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Flood Prevention Measures (6 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: This question relates to the devastating flooding that took place in County Donegal last December in the wake of storm Desmond. Large parts of east Donegal through Ballybofey, Castlefinn and Lifford were severely flooded. The flooding dissipated very quickly and in the weeks afterward there was very severe flooding in the rest of the country. I want to make sure the incident in Donegal...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Flood Prevention Measures (6 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister of State for his response. The key point is when the money will be made available following the completion of these studies, particularly for areas that are the responsibility of the OPW. I understand very few areas in Donegal the direct responsibility of the OPW. I presume the next stage will be applications for funding. I refer in particular to east Donegal, Finn...

Private Members' Business - Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate, which is timely in light of the Government decision taken yesterday. I agree with other Members that that decision is, unfortunately, the wrong decision. In terms of the history of privatisation in this State, including the disastrous privatisation of Eircom and what it has meant for broadband provision throughout this State, this...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (6 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 40. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will contact the high level forum on the community voluntary sector regarding the provision of a pension scheme for community employment supervisors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19558/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (6 Jul 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 47. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the impact the establishment of the national procurement guidelines has had on job retention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19559/16]