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Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Jun 2017)

Thomas Pringle: I know Donegal County Council made a submission because the CEO told us. However, that was as part of the public consultation rather than as a consultee on the actual review itself. It is remiss of the Department not to ask local authorities to formally make submissions. Much is made by Government about the fact that local authorities are not spending money and are not delivering on...

Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Jun 2017)

Thomas Pringle: As 12 local authorities made submissions, what will be the status of the consideration given to those submissions? Will they be treated the same as the submission made by "Joe Public"? Obviously, the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government will decide on how money is allocated. What will be the consideration and status given to the submissions made?

Topical Issue Debate: Respite Care Services Provision (1 Jun 2017)

Thomas Pringle: I am glad to see the Minister of State, Deputy Corcoran Kennedy, is back dealing with this issue on Seaview respite home. Unfortunately, the situation has deteriorated since 18 January when I last was lucky enough to raise a Topical Issue on the staffing situation at the Seaview respite home and we last discussed it. I am disappointed to have to put this Topical Issue forward. The...

Topical Issue Debate: Respite Care Services Provision (1 Jun 2017)

Thomas Pringle: It is a sad indictment of the HSE locally that I had to raise it here to find out that respite services have supposedly recommended from 29 May. As for the posts being filled, obviously, if this is correct, one can see there will not be full-time restoration of respite care. How can we have any faith in the HSE providing a truthful answer as to what is happening here? I do not know...

Resignation of Taoiseach (13 Jun 2017)

Thomas Pringle: I take this opportunity to personally wish the Taoiseach well on his retirement and to wish him and his family well for the future. There is no doubt that Fine Gael will make much of the fact that he is the Taoiseach who led Ireland out of the bailout and into the recovery. We on this side of the House, however, believe that the State could have had a very different recovery that would have...

Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Pringle: I totally oppose the motion. While Brexit presents difficulties for us and will have a huge impact on us, the solution to these is not to rush to embrace CETA or TTIP or for us as a Parliament to tout those as a solution to the difficulties that Brexit poses. Thankfully, TTIP is probably dead but the EU has agreed to provisionally ratify CETA. A motion needs to be passed by the House for...

Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Pringle: It is all downhill.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commencement of Legislation (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 1920. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the Children First Act 2015 will be fully commenced; the planning which has been carried out to date in 2017 to ensure its provisions are fully implemented and resourced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27295/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 2125. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to an article (details supplied), if the right to full social welfare payments while residing in direct provision will also be granted to other nationalities with status; if not, if her attention has been drawn to the fact that this could be classified as discrimination within the asylum process; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Reports (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 2163. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the report on MICA will be published before the summer recess; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26867/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Reports (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 2254. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to establish a redress scheme for homeowners affected by mica in the north west in view of the recent publication of the expert panel report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28860/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Fish Quotas: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the witnesses for their submissions today. The two issues we are discussing here would probably both justify a meeting to discuss each equally. There are many implications in them. On the voisinage agreement, I think the situation that has arisen through the Supreme Court case - in that the Department has never regulated properly for inshore fisheries at any stage over the past 50...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Fish Quotas: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Pringle: Some of the presentations referred to the whitefish quota and how it is allocated. The general view in the monthly meetings in the Department is that it works quite well. There is an EU research paper for the Agriculture and Fisheries Committee in the EU which states that after Brexit, relative stability will be up for renegotiation. What are the representatives' views on that? Does it...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)

Thomas Pringle: The national climate change mitigation plan was supposed to be published 18 months from the passing of the legislation to implement it. That date has now passed. Has the national mitigation plan come to the Cabinet? Will the Taoiseach bring it to the Dáil to allow it to be debated? Will he allow for amendments to be put forward, because all indications are that the plan will have...

Building Standards, Regulations and Homeowner Protection: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2017)

Thomas Pringle: No, we are sharing seven and a half minutes.

Building Standards, Regulations and Homeowner Protection: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2017)

Thomas Pringle: What?

Building Standards, Regulations and Homeowner Protection: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2017)

Thomas Pringle: We were not aware of this.

Building Standards, Regulations and Homeowner Protection: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2017)

Thomas Pringle: I ask the Acting Chairman to check it now because I will lose time.

Building Standards, Regulations and Homeowner Protection: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2017)

Thomas Pringle: With respect, we are not wasting the time of other speakers. We are trying to ensure that we get the time that has been allocated to our group under Standing Orders.

Building Standards, Regulations and Homeowner Protection: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2017)

Thomas Pringle: How can you clarify it as I am speaking? If I take a third of five and a half minutes I will have to sit down and I will not be able to come back in again.