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- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Thomas Pringle: Surely it would have been the Department's view to target the opening of the scheme rather than having a general opening and people-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Thomas Pringle: That was the only scoring they would have got.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Thomas Pringle: That was the only scoring that would have meant they would have qualified for it.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)
Thomas Pringle: 46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take to progress the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No.1) Bill 2016 seeking to place the right to water in the Constitution; the reason for the delay to date in moving forward with the legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51222/19]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)
Thomas Pringle: This question relates to the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 1) Bill 2016, which passed through the House several years ago. It is languishing on Committee Stage, waiting for the Minister to come back and look at how it will actually work. I would like the Minister to tease the problems out and say how we can move it forward.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)
Thomas Pringle: I would like to thank the Minister for the response, but it basically confirms that what is actually happening here is delay, delay and delay. He mentioned that he contacted the committee last July, some six months ago. This Bill was passed by this House several years ago. I may be wrong, but it looks from the outside that the Minister is putting this on the long finger in the hope that...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)
Thomas Pringle: I would like to think it is. Deputy Collins has tried to meet the Department officials and has been unsuccessful. What is the problem? Let us have a meeting with them to discuss this.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)
Thomas Pringle: When was the last one?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)
Thomas Pringle: Deputy Ó Broin outlined the situation and the difficulty that is there. It is two and a half years. If the Minister was serious about this, he could bring them forward and let the committee decide on them. That would bring it to a head. I do not believe that the Department is serious about it, and that is a problem.
- Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (11 Dec 2019)
Thomas Pringle: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on the Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018. I congratulate the Senators on the passage of the Bill through the Seanad and on moving it on to this House. The Bill is to be welcomed. Perjury has been around for a long time, but this is the first time it will be properly defined in Irish law and treated as a specific criminal offence....
- Domestic Violence: Statements (11 Dec 2019)
Thomas Pringle: I am sharing time with Deputy Connolly. First, I acknowledge the time of year, Christmas time, which for many is a happy and joyful time of year, but for some women experiencing domestic violence and their children, can be the most violent time. Alarmingly, the Stop Domestic Violence In Ireland organisation has stated it is already on course to record its busiest ever December after...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation (11 Dec 2019)
Thomas Pringle: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the implementation of the mica redress scheme for affected homeowners in County Donegal; the progress made to date with regard to the implementation arrangements with Donegal County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51221/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)
Thomas Pringle: I thank the witnesses for the information they have given us. Some of my questions have been asked already. I would like to ask the witnesses from Coillte about the planting of forestry on peaty soils. This matter has been discussed already. The reply to a parliamentary question that was tabled last week clarified that we do not have a current estimate of the net carbon losses as a result...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)
Thomas Pringle: Does Coillte not have that at the moment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)
Thomas Pringle: Coillte must have some expertise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Dec 2019)
Thomas Pringle: I thank everybody for their evidence and we have had an interesting discussion. The Pringle Report mentioned was published 42 years ago in 1977. If a review of the report was conducted over the next year or so would we point towards its recommendations that have been implemented? Has the report stood the test of time? If we implemented its recommendations now would it meet our current...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Dec 2019)
Thomas Pringle: We are here almost 50 years later.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Dec 2019)
Thomas Pringle: That is telling in itself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Dec 2019)
Thomas Pringle: Unfortunately, probably 35 years from now those issues will arise too.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Dec 2019)
Thomas Pringle: Ms Wall has a lot more faith in it than I do. It depends on the result of the next general election, more so.