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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: That is the mechanism being proposed by the expert group.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: It does not tend to be, but it is not inconceivable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: I have waited to be given time also.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: National Federation of Group Water Schemes (7 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: I would like a bit more time to expand on some of these questions. Is it true to say that prior to the introduction of the rural water programme the management of group water schemes was quite haphazard and varied significantly from scheme to scheme? Some schemes had paid staff to actively manage the consumption of the scheme. Quite a lot of schemes had none. The figures in regard to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: National Federation of Group Water Schemes (7 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: I am not disputing the work or doing anything to denigrate the work that people do in a voluntary capacity in group schemes but the point that I am making is that we are not really comparing like with like. The group water scheme sector has done a huge amount of work in improving the quality and standard of water on their supplies. With regard the information that we have asked for in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (8 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if children who are to move from an Irish-speaking national school to a secondary school taught through Irish are entitled to school transport when their nearest secondary school is an English language school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6234/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Expenditure (8 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 192. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if Roinn na Gaeltachta had any unspent funding in 2015 and 2016; if so, the headings under which that funding came; if the funding was returned to the Exchequer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6235/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Imports (8 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the continued exclusion from supplying live brown crab from Ireland to China which has been ongoing for 14 months; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this length of time is significantly longer than similar bans in France and the UK which were excluded for shorter periods; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Data (8 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 252. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if Inland Fisheries Ireland has any salmon stock information for the Owenae river in County Donegal including catch figures from anglers, smolts leaving the river and salmon returning to the river for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6236/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (8 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the consequences facing many persons in rural parts of County Donegal such as Inishowen if Bus Éireann routes are reduced or taken away completely; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6026/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (8 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of the internal transfer of funds within Bus Éireann from its Expressway service to its public service obligation service for each of the past five years; if he will provide a breakdown of the transfer of funds from Bus Éireann to Irish Rail and from Dublin Bus to Irish Rail for each of the past...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the witnesses for their submissions and for being here today. I have a number of questions. Scottish Water is a public corporation. If a decision was made by the Scottish Assembly to privatise it and make it into a market corporation, what would it require? I presume it would simply require an Act of the Assembly. Is district or household metering the more valuable tool for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: In the real world I worked at detecting leakages as a day job. It is quite easy to identify individual properties in which water is being wasted, by step checking, making sounding checks and so on. The district meters are the most efficient tool to do this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: If single house properties, or households identified as wasting water, do not engage in repairing or fixing the leakage problem, what power does Welsh Water have to deal with them?

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Development Initiatives (9 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 13. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to provide initiatives for the establishment of innovation hubs in rural counties such as County Donegal similar to the successful launches of PorterShed in Galway and The Mill in Drogheda; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6188/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (9 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 180. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatient paediatrics urology appointments for a person (details supplied) at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin for every month in 2016 and January 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6434/17]

Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: My question is for the Tánaiste. The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, has already answered two of the six questions posed by Sergeant McCabe in his questionnaire. If I heard the Tánaiste correctly, she said earlier that the reason she could not answer the four questions that apply directly to the Garda is that she could possibly risk prejudicing the...

Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: The Tánaiste has less than 24 hours to do it.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (14 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 470. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the proposed establishment of an ambulance base in Buncrana; when and the way in which this will be set up; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7141/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Tyre Disposal (14 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 598. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on concerns outlined by the tyre industry regarding the establishment of an organisation (details supplied) and the potential problems for the industry when the scheme is introduced; if he will engage with representatives from the industry to address these concerns directly; and if he will make a statement on...