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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (20 Jun 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 19. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will meet with a group (details supplied) and public representatives to address ongoing flood defence concerns and the lack of information regarding the timeline for the building of flood defences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25647/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (20 Jun 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 37. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the OPW will announce the next list of capital works flood schemes under the ten year programme of investment; if Buncrana, County Donegal will be part of the list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25646/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Exemptions (20 Jun 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 65. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to include property owners affected by mica and registered for the mica redress scheme in the list of properties exempt from the payment of the local property tax as opposed to only accepting acknowledgement of devaluation of properties due to mica; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25927/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (25 Jun 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 133. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase the industry funding levy on the credit union sector; the amount by which the levy will be increased; when changes to the levy will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26098/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Quality and Qualifications Ireland Accreditation (27 Jun 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the disability awareness training course is not accredited by Quality and Qualifications Ireland; the further reason it has proposed the cost of accrediting the course would be in the region of €6,000; if accreditation will be made more accessible in order for greater take-up of the disability training grant by businesses...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Programmes (27 Jun 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 248. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the relatively low uptake in the disability awareness training grant and the issues businesses are having with the application process, which is perceived as burdensome (details supplied); the efforts she will take to increase the uptake in the grant by businesses; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (27 Jun 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 257. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the time limit for participants of community employment schemes who have mental health difficulties and find their participation in community employment schemes beneficial to managing their mental health; if she will amend the requirements for continuing on a scheme beyond the requisite referral from her...

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Instruction to Committee (2 Jul 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I echo some of the comments made by previous speakers regarding the method being to facilitate these amendments. That method makes matters difficult when scrutinising amendments and having a proper debate on them. It also affects the primary legislation and has an impact on getting it passed in a timely fashion and ensuring that it is workable. Some of the amendments relating to the...

Mental Health Services Reports: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Unfortunately Ireland has a dark and disturbing history when it comes to the mass institutionalisation of people with mental health problems. It is only in recent history that the State has begun a broad shift away from this model of care. However, according to the Mental Health Commission, the law in its current form is still outdated and outmoded and is not based on a progressive...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry Development (2 Jul 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 534. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if grants are available for fishermen for the replacement of outboard boat engines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28007/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health Levies (Pigs) Regulations 2019: Motion (2 Jul 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister for his briefing on this proposed measure. Will this fund be used to address animal welfare issues with respect to how animals are being kept, as well as addressing animal diseases that will affect exports?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Trade Union Recognition (3 Jul 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I reflect what Deputy Ó Caoláin said. I am aware that the Minister of State has answered questions on this issue before but this has to keep coming up again and again because it is very important. I fail to see why the Department does not engage on this because it will not cost anything and it is not about money or budgets. It is about the right of workers to be represented by a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Trade Union Recognition (3 Jul 2019)

Thomas Pringle: The Minister of State's reply is not acceptable and it is a vitally important right that workers' own choice of union be recognised. The Minister of State said SIPTU represents the ambulance grades. This is fair enough as it represents quite a large number of them. FÓRSA and Unite, as far as I understand, have very small numbers of ambulance-grade workers within their membership. At...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (3 Jul 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all new apprenticeship programmes developed since 2017 will receive the same allowances for apprentices attending college as apprenticeships developed prior to 2017; the number of new apprenticeships developed since 2017; the number of apprentices enrolled per apprenticeship programme developed since 2017; if equality of allowances for all...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I agree with what has been said.

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Deputy Boyd Barrett has said that this treaty has become known as the cows for cars deal and that seems to be the way it is going. All the focus has been on the fact that the EU will get to export industrial goods while we will get to import agricultural goods, from Brazil in particular, which is apparently of great benefit to us all. Mercosur will support agricultural industry that is...

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Is the Minister seriously trying to convince us that his concerns will trump Germany's concerns about the number of cars it sells to Brazil? Is that what he wants us to believe?

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I apologise for interrupting but I am conscious of the time.

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Thomas Pringle: We will supply wing mirrors for cars and, therefore, it will be all right to do away with the beef trade. That will be okay.

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Thomas Pringle: How will the Government ensure that the trade will reflect all our needs, as the Ministers indicated? How will it enforce it at European level when it comes to the crunch? I imagine that the Government will return to the Chamber in a couple of years with a similar agreement and seek endorsement. Will the Government build alliances with like-minded countries to form a bloc for the qualified...