Results 3,221-3,240 of 9,160 for speaker:Thomas Pringle
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mackerel Quota Allocation: Iasc Mara Teoranta (4 Apr 2017)
Thomas Pringle: If there was a proposal whereby a pot was made available on a market price that was bigger, would this meet some of the company's needs around being able to compete? Obviously Iasc Mara Teoranta is going to have to compete on price. For a long time in Killlybegs we had a problem whereby fish being landed in Scotland and Norway was being processed there. We were constantly told by the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mackerel Quota Allocation: Iasc Mara Teoranta (4 Apr 2017)
Thomas Pringle: My colleagues have hit the nail on the head. The problem is that factories own the boats and that has created this situation. It is the same in Killybegs as well. For many years, factories owned boats that landed the fish in Norway and Scotland. The factories still made money although the workers got no work, and that was part of the problem. If there was a system where 24,000 tonnes...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mackerel Quota Allocation: Iasc Mara Teoranta (4 Apr 2017)
Thomas Pringle: On the system the witnesses are proposing, if the factory had 2,000 tonnes, what would stop them giving 1,000 tonnes to one of the other eight and not processing the 2,000 tonnes themselves?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mackerel Quota Allocation: Iasc Mara Teoranta (4 Apr 2017)
Thomas Pringle: Were the boats in Killybegs all polyvalent as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)
Thomas Pringle: Are we on head 6?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)
Thomas Pringle: Does it also concern the make-up of the board?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)
Thomas Pringle: May I just ask a question? The pre-legislative scrutiny of the Horse Racing Ireland legislation took up a lot of time, including in respect of the make-up of the board. How open is the Department to change? Representatives from the various bodies will be looking for additional members, for example.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)
Thomas Pringle: Regarding head 3A, which refers to a member being adjudicated bankrupt, is that the same kind of provision that was in place for Members of the Oireachtas?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)
Thomas Pringle: The Supreme Court ruled that it was not appropriate for Members of the Oireachtas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)
Thomas Pringle: My question is related to Deputy Cahill's. It says the board may make regulations. Is the word "may" strong enough? That implies that it does not have to. Should it have to make regulations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)
Thomas Pringle: This may be a stupid question but if it was discovered that somebody was supplying prohibitive substances or something like that, that would be a criminal rather than an administrative offence.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)
Thomas Pringle: Are there authorised officers under the Animal Remedies Act as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)
Thomas Pringle: Could they be the same person?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)
Thomas Pringle: I ask about a code of conduct for the authorised officers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)
Thomas Pringle: A code of conduct.
- Other Questions: Third Level Funding (5 Apr 2017)
Thomas Pringle: 37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce income contingent student loans as part of the future funding model of the third level education sector despite the concerns raised in relation to the introduction of this type of funding model on access rates and problems associated with debt burden; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16504/17]
- Other Questions: Third Level Funding (5 Apr 2017)
Thomas Pringle: This question is about the Cassells report and trying to see what the Department's view is on the potential for student contingent loans.
- Other Questions: Third Level Funding (5 Apr 2017)
Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister for his response. It seems from his response that the Department is going ahead and doing much work on how student income contingency loans would work in practice alongside the work the Oireachtas committee is doing. The Department has not actually contributed to the work the committee is doing at the moment. It has not given evidence there. Why is the Minister...
- Other Questions: Third Level Funding (5 Apr 2017)
Thomas Pringle: I take it from the Minister's response that options one and two are being pursued but he failed to say whether he was pursuing option three, the income contingent loans. I take it from his response that the Department is pursuing the income contingency loans. That is regrettable and should not be done because it places a huge burden on students and does not contribute anything to...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Administration (5 Apr 2017)
Thomas Pringle: 45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to make the new DEIS assessment process more transparent and more reflective of schools' needs and the needs of their pupils in the further rolling out of the new scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16503/17]