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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Illness Benefit Payments (19 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: It is welcome that the Minister says compensation is now available to the people concerned because it is very important. It is interesting that if the Department makes a mistake and overpays someone, it is that person's responsibility and fault straightaway and he or she must repay the Department, yet it has been slow to accept that it has caused financial difficulty for people who have been...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Illness Benefit Payments (19 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: That is useful to hear, but when I raised this question probably four or five weeks ago, that was not the response I received. The Minister will see many people avail of this system. I hope it will accommodate them and ensure they are paid in a timely manner and that they will not have to fight for it, as has been the case.

European Defence Agency Project: Motion (19 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: This motion is timely. While the motion may not in isolation appear to provide for ongoing militarisation, we must consider everything that is happening across Europe. The motion is timely given the fact that the 55th Munich security conference was held on Friday, 15 February last. More than 600 politicians, including three Heads of State and Government and more than 80 Ministers attended...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Local Employment Service (19 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a report (details supplied) commissioned by her Department which found value for money in local employment services despite reduced funding in recent years; her plans to reconfigure public employment services in 2020; if the value of community not-for-profit employment services will be preserved over private...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (19 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the criterion of being ordinarily resident and not habitually resident applies to applicants to third level education in order to be entitled to EU fees; if he will consider revising this requirement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8123/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (19 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average stay of residents living in direct provision up to 31 December 2018, in tabular form; the number of persons staying by time range (details supplied); the percentage of the population in direct provision which these figures represent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8138/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (19 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 410. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will remain available for the upgrade of the Sheil Community Hospital in Ballyshannon, County Donegal in view of savings required due to the overrun of costs for the national children's hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8198/19]

Presentation and Circulation of Further Revised Estimates 2019: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Fine Gael is very creative when it comes to finding money and especially justifying the removal of €100 million from other capital projects by using words such as "rescheduling", "re-profiling" and "adjustments". Let us call them what they are: cuts. If one reschedules funds for a project, essentially one is delaying the provision of funding for that project for at least another...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: From the Seanad (20 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Fianna Fáil does not have those concerns any more.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (20 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 84. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8551/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (20 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the inconsistent use of the PASS system by different local authorities nationally when registering a person as homeless; his plans to regulate the managing of the PASS system to ensure the accurate recording of homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8582/19]

Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Motion (21 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I welcome the report of the Joint Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport, which sets out a number of recommendations to improve accessibility to all public transport services for people with disabilities. The recommendations will go some way to improving access but they may not go far enough in improving the situation for people with disabilities living in rural Ireland. The number one...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Strategy Implementation (21 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 119. To ask the Minister for Health if implementation of the new national maternity strategy will be delayed or modified due to the rescheduling of funding for certain projects to offset the cost overrun at the new national children’s hospital; the degree of implementation of the national maternity strategy in County Donegal to date; the way in which implementation in County Donegal...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Investment Bank Loans (26 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 112. To ask the Minister for Finance if Ireland, through its appointed director to the European Investment Bank, will support the cessation of lending to fossil fuel projects through the new energy lending policy of the bank in 2019 in view of commitments (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9151/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification Applications (26 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 257. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the next date for persons to apply for reunification for families under the international humanitarian assistance programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9510/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (26 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 258. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of visa applications from citizens of Yemen who are family members of residents here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9511/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (26 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 312. To ask the Minister for Health when the Spinraza treatment will be rolled out to SMA sufferers here; the reason for ongoing delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9123/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (26 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 405. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the National Ambulance Service has embarked on a process of converting ambulances with excessive mileage that have been withdrawn from front-line service to emergency equipment carriers; the cost involved for the conversion; his views on whether it would be more appropriate to purchase more modern vehicles which would have a longer lifespan...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (26 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 406. To ask the Minister for Health the purpose for which the emergency equipment carriers are to be used in the National Ambulance Service; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that no other European country converts ambulances to equipment carriers which have been retired from active front-line services; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that specialised vehicles...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Air Ambulance Service (26 Feb 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 407. To ask the Minister for Health if four of the five helicopters in use for inter-helicopter transfers are not capable of landing on the rooftop planned for the new national children’s hospital; if the aviation providers were consulted in the process of the design of the new national children’s hospital; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that at night-time the...