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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Staff (14 Dec 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the Government's commitment to an additional 65 psychologists in the National Education Psychological Service (NEPS); the reason there has been no sanction for the increase in numbers to NEPS to date in view of the fact that 267 psychologists are needed to achieve the 2021 target of 1 per every 3,500 students in the country; and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (14 Dec 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 131. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to the Christmas bonus in view of the fact their long-term social protection payment was recently changed to a temporary payment due to unforeseen ill health issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40263/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (14 Dec 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 149. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the particular circumstances in the case of persons (details supplied) and the urgent need for them to access appropriate care in the UK which is not available here; the action that can be taken in this particular situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40209/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pesticide Use (14 Dec 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 233. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the links made between the herbicide farmers use to spray their crops containing glyphosate, a non-selective broad spectrum herbicide and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma disease; the reason it has not been banned, despite it being banned in 11 other countries, including France and the Netherlands; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pesticide Use (14 Dec 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 234. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether current legislation is working effectively to prevent illness as a result of application and exposure to farm chemicals, including herbicides containing glyphosate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40321/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (14 Dec 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 246. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which the money from cuts to funding of the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland in 2015 has been reallocated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40294/16]

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Thomas Pringle: Yes. I am already on the list.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Thomas Pringle: I had not intended to come in on amendment No. 3a, but since I have been called, I will.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Thomas Pringle: I am only going to speak to amendment No. 3a. I have been waiting to speak on the other matter but I will deal with that when we go back on Report Stage. The Minister referred to an unintended consequence and a drafting error. Are we seriously to believe that no one in the Department actually did the calculation before the amendment was proposed? Is that the case? If so, that is the only...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Thomas Pringle: It is good to get back to Report Stage after all that time and to get back to discussing the amendments after dealing with the raft of formulas that came through in amendments to amendments to amendments and so forth. The series of amendments we are discussing deal with so-called rent certainty. However, the only certainty is that rents will go up. The only unintended consequence of...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Thomas Pringle: That still does not make it right.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (16 Dec 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 17. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in delivering on the implementation of UNCRPD here; the efforts being taken to speed up the process taking into account a ten-year delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40300/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (16 Dec 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 59. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the latest six month ENAR Ireland report representing a higher level of reporting than the previous six-month period of racist incidences and racist crime; her plans to progress with hate crime legislation in view of this report and of the increase in hate crime rhetoric surrounding recent elections across the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Thomas Pringle: I have a number of questions and hope we will get through them within the required timeframe. I refer back to the question asked by Deputy Jim Daly. I gather from the responses that neither Irish Water nor the Commission for Energy Regulation can state whether a single utility is providing the service at a lower cost than the 34 local authorities. All they can actually state is that Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Thomas Pringle: Yet Irish Water cannot state what the figure was in 2014.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Thomas Pringle: They were also asked for the figure for 2013.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Thomas Pringle: The presentation by Irish Water showed that nine water treatment plants had been delivered, that 18 had been upgraded, that 32 wastewater treatment plants had been upgraded and that 27 new plants had been built. How many of these projects were initiated by Irish Water since 2014, brought through design and planning stages to construction and delivered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Thomas Pringle: Therefore, Irish Water benefited from the design work that had been done by the 34 inefficient local authorities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Thomas Pringle: It picked up on and benefited from it. It is not really fair to quote the figures for what Irish Water has delivered because the work was done by somebody else.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Thomas Pringle: The difference is that the Government gave Irish Water the ability to raise the money to do it whereas it did not give local authorities that ability.