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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: It is not even a matter of other innovations but saying what Mr. O'Leary has said just now in a suitable format. I do not know if he needs to say it to the Department of Justice and Equality or who the right people are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: That has to be said very loudly in public so that everybody knows. We have a role in making sure that the board is capable of doing that. We in this committee have to hold Government to account.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I am sorry to cut across Mr. Ó hUallacháin but I am not coming down on the Legal Aid Board simply because it is the Legal Aid Board. I am highlighting the fact that there is a lack of information made available by people who have a responsibility to make it available. It is not a personal attack on anybody.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: They did not say what year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: That is what I am trying to get at. I am trying to tease out is whose responsibility this is. Ms Barry stated the Oireachtas has a role, and I take that on board. We have a role, as does the Department of Justice and Equality. The Legal Aid Board also has a role, although, unfortunately, it is not resourced to do it and is dependent on the Department for that. This is vital. We have no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: It was to everybody.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I thank everybody for their responses. I have one final question on class actions. As a lay person, one sees how people have to go to such lengths to get their rights dealt with in the court system and through court procedure, and it only deals with that particular case. Somebody else coming along has to go through the same procedure. It is a very cumbersome and a wrong system for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: We just have the wrong Government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: That it is.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (28 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 193. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he plans to implement to reward farmers for farming carbon on blanket bogs or peaty soils under grassland in private ownership in the near future in order that Ireland can avail of land, land-use change, and forestry flexibilities from 2021 in view of the annual carbon losses from peatlands which in total amount to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy Review (28 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 202. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the scope and terms of reference of the proposed energy security review; the way in which this will be carried out; the person or body which will carry out the review; the timeline for same; if the review will consider questions of intergenerational and global climate justice; the way in which he will ensure that no...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (28 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the €25million funding allocated for the upgrading of the energy efficiency of local authority homes in 2019 can be used for window and door upgrades taking into account windows lose approximately 25% of heat; if his plan is in line with proposals in the climate action plan 2019 and the obligations of Ireland under...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (3 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 561. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the assurances that can be given to those jobseekers' assigned to a UK company (details supplied) which stores private data in its head office in Hoxley, UK, that their personal data is fully protected; the way in which persons can be assured that this will be the case post-Brexit in view of the fact this private data will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (3 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 608. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will implement the recommendation of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action to revise the planning regulations to remove planning restrictions on solar PV panels in order to enable increased microgeneration capacity at household, farm and small enterprise levels. [49808/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Administration (4 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there was no corresponding reduction made in the pupil-teacher ratio in DEIS band one schools in view of the fact that staffing schedules in schools were reduced in budgets 2016 and 2018 and again for small schools in budget 2020; if he has responded to DEIS teachers in County Donegal calling for a reduction in the pupil-teacher...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (5 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 406. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue on a carer's allowance application by person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51007/19]

OECD Report on SME and Entrepreneurship Policy in Ireland: Statements (10 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on the OECD report. It is interesting that in Ireland, the idea of an SME among members of the public is not an enterprise with up to 250 people employed. In the Donegal context, that would be looked on as a very large employer. When we talk about this, we should talk about small enterprises because that is the reality in rural Ireland....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services Funding (10 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 72. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will meet an organisation (details supplied) in County Donegal; her views on whether Ireland is compliant with the Istanbul convention, which was ratified in March 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51149/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Support Services (10 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 86. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she will take to fill the gap in provision of family services left by the recently announced closure of a service (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51150/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (10 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 242. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which he plans to address undocumented children here; his plans to introduce pathways to residency for children and young persons growing up undocumented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51192/19]