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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Very well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the witness. I have a final question. I will start with Facebook. Does Facebook value the type of content it removes depending on the amount of followers the associated user has? Is that a factor in the decision? There was a Channel 4 documentary called "Inside Facebook: Secrets of the Social Network" in 2018 which said that pages posted by an English Nazi were left in place...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Is that regardless of who they are?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: There is no incentive except that it gets a lot of views and is seen and circulated a lot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: The identity of the user is an important question. Whether it is someone who has 50,000 friends or 5,000 friends makes a big difference in how far the post goes. Does someone with a large number of followers go through the process more slowly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Can a public figure say more hateful things?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: As such, if I make a racist comment that is different from Joe Bloggs making one, it will be treated differently.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (10 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 89. To ask the Minister for Health if the outstanding number of posts awaiting decision by the national director for Donegal CHO amounting to over 100 posts remaining vacant will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40875/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Recruitment (10 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 91. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a recruitment embargo or freeze within the HSE and specifically for the north west CHO1 area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40874/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (15 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building project (details supplied) which is due to commence in 2019; if this school is being prioritised due to the continued deterioration of the prefabs which make up the school structure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41891/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (15 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school (details supplied) which has been waiting for a new school build since 2006; if the school will be prioritised based on the increasing enrolment rate by 73% since 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41892/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (15 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding for a school (details supplied) will be prioritised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41914/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (15 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department does not audit schools directly; the person or body that checks the accountants being paid by the schools; if major discrepancies in accounts that are continually ignored by schools are examined by his Department; the further reason schools cannot submit directly to the financial support services unit; if extra...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (15 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 642. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of additional funding allocated from budget 2020 to the mica redress scheme; when the funding will be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42167/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (16 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 148. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps she is taking to ensure that all public bodies comply with S.I. No. 234/2019 - Sectoral Employment Order (Construction Sector) 2019 introduced by her Department and previous orders; the steps that can be taken if they have not complied with same; if her Department carries out inspections to see if there is compliance by...

Developments in Spain: Statements (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Two years after democratically elected Catalan ministers, politicians and civil activists held a peaceful referendum on the question of self-determination for Catalonia, severe penalties were handed down by the Spanish Supreme Court to former Catalan leaders. Penalties ranged between nine and 13 years for the leaders, under trumped up charges, including sedition, disobedience and the misuse...

Child Maintenance: Motion (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I always wonder why the Government continues to target lone parents as if they had wronged State in some way. Why are there no support services or State agencies to intervene when child maintenance is not paid, even when it is one of the strongest determinants of child poverty and even when child poverty persists despite is the so-called economic upturn? The only conclusion I can come to is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Administration (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 458. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to amend and update the Agriculture (Research, Training and Advice) Act 1988 to ensure that Teagasc has the necessary expertise and mandate to consider mitigation strategies from the agriculture and food sectors here in view of the recent UN IPCC special report on land and climate change 2019. [43416/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Funding (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 459. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of the research budget of Teagasc that is dedicated to climate mitigation activities; and his views on the adequacy of resources available to his Department towards climate mitigation in view of the recent study by the CSO on environmentally damaging subsidies. [43417/19]