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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Records (Exchange of Information) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (20 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: The Minister addressed a question I had regarding the operation of the Bill. If I understand him correctly, the Minister said that An Garda Síochána can request information in cases other than criminal cases. I am very worried because it appears that An Garda Síochána has been requesting and providing information across the board for a number of years without any legal...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Records (Exchange of Information) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (20 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: To further explain what the Minister has said, anything the Garda has been doing has been okay and this Bill just puts it on a statutory footing. Surely one would first have to have a statutory framework to make it okay.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Records (Exchange of Information) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (20 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Is ten years within the timeframe agreed?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Records (Exchange of Information) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (20 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Surely if an agreement had been made and a system operating, it would be a legislative priority to put it on a statutory footing. One would imagine that would be somewhat of a priority within the Department.

Report on Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017: Motion (21 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine entitled ‘Detailed Scrutiny of the Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017’, copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 8th November, 2018. As a member of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, I welcome the...

Report on Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017: Motion (21 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I will take do happily. In 2014 the sub-committee on fisheries examined the challenges in coastal and island fisheries. In its report, Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities, 2014, the sub-committee recommended that the Government examine the feasibility of issuing heritage licences by the Department for rural coastal and island fishing communities. That was...

Report on Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017: Motion (21 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I accept that. It was a typographical error. On completion of its Detailed Scrutiny of the Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017, the committee recommended that the Bill would progress to Third Stage, provided the scope is clarified to ensure that island and rural coastal communities are appropriately balanced. That is what the committee report stated but I wish to add some...

Report on Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017: Motion (21 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: It was not.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Data (21 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current and capital expenditures for land transport broken down into the various sub categories from 2016 to date; the ratio of public transport and active travel measures to private transport in the case of both capital and current expenditures in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48432/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (21 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 253. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the efforts made to date to resolve the impasse regarding community employment supervisor and assistant supervisors pension claims; the extent to which her Department is in cooperation with the WRC on the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48429/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: The south and south west of Donegal have been without respite services for more than a year after Seaview Respite House, Mountcharles, closed last December. The home, outside Donegal town, was owned and operated by the HSE to provide residential respite care for physically and intellectually disabled people across south-west Donegal. The HSE tendered the service initially, indicating that a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Taoiseach for his response. Unfortunately, that is not much consolation for the families in south Donegal who had this service previously but which was withdrawn over the past year. The Taoiseach said 164,000 overnight respite services have been provided in Ireland this year. That may be, but none were provided in south Donegal in the past year. That is because the HSE did not...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: The business this week shall be as set out in the first revised report of the Business Committee, dated 22 November 2019. As for today's business it is proposed that No. 15, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the terms of the comprehensive and enhanced partnership agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their member states...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: No, but the Government has spoken.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: The Government has spoken.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: It should be Deputy Connolly.

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Sláinte), 2019: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Health) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I fully support the Bill. It is worthwhile. Rights to health, to education, to life and to live life to the full are what all citizens should be demanding. The State and Government should be ensuring everybody has these rights. I proposed economic, social and cultural rights twice in the Dáil. My Bill was to enshrine rights in the Constitution. Dr. Harty's Bill is along the same...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Budget Contribution (26 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that on 10 October 2019 the European Parliament voted for a motion for a resolution to wind up the debate on the statements by the Council and the Commission on the MFF 2021-2027, a resolution which reiterated the fact that the next MFF should represent 1.3% of the EU GNI; the amount of a net...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme Eligibility (26 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 369. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) was not accepted onto the organic farming scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48981/19]