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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Data (17 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications for SNA access made for County Donegal to the NCSE during the 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52575/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Data (17 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications for SNA access made since the May 2019 allocation of SNA posts for County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52576/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation (17 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps taken to implement the national positive ageing strategy in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53071/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (17 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 390. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve the diagnosis, management and treatment of endometriosis here (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52877/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Regulation (17 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 661. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the draft childminding action plan public consultation was advertised; the reason the public consultation process only ran for six weeks; if her attention has been drawn to a large number of parents who were unaware of the public consultation and have concerns regarding the drafting of regulations including the crèche-based model...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 748. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual rent which will be paid in the first year for a development (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52894/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 749. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the current market rental rate for a development (details supplied); the rate he views as acceptable; the way in which the figures were arrived at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52895/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 750. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the process by which a development (details supplied) was leased under the enhanced long-term social housing leasing scheme; and the role played by a company. [52896/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 751. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the financial modelling used in relation to the leasing of a development (details supplied); the projected range of overall costs that will be borne by his Department over the course of the 25 year lease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52897/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 752. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the research carried out into the relative cost of leasing a development (details supplied) under the enhanced long-term social housing scheme as compared to the cost of building public housing on public land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52898/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Irish Greyhound Industry: Irish Coursing Club (17 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: We had the IGB here a couple of weeks ago. Figures were provided at that meeting on the number of dogs that died at IGB events. Does Mr. Histon have figures on the number of dogs dying at coursing events? Does that happen? I note there is some correspondence between the ICC and the Department on hares that died through the coursing events. Are there any figures on deaths of dogs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Irish Greyhound Industry: Irish Coursing Club (17 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: The number is low.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Irish Greyhound Industry: Irish Coursing Club (17 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Reference was made to the fact that illegal hunting activities are ongoing throughout the country and that it is very easily identifiable from a layman's perspective. As a layman, I do not know anything about coursing. How is it easily identifiable? If it is a coursing club event, then people from the ICC are present, but if I came across illegal hunting taking place, I would not want to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Irish Greyhound Industry: Irish Coursing Club (17 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Is there a website that has the legal events listed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Irish Greyhound Industry: Irish Coursing Club (17 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Are all legal events advertised on the website?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Annual Report 2018: Discussion (17 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I want to ask about climate action and related fields that are part of Teagasc's priorities for next year. Should that not be a bigger part of what the organisation does, given the emissions that agriculture produces in Ireland? It is something we must tackle. The targets that Teagasc has proposed in the past are not insurmountable and farmers can still make a good living from their land...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Annual Report 2018: Discussion (17 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I would like Dr. O'Mara's advice on climate change mitigation measures and how that feeds into national policy. The next CAP is where farmers are going to get paid for doing these things that are going to make a difference. How does Teagasc's advice feed through the Department and into the CAP? I am referring to urea, slurry, clover etc. This comes down to the fact that if farmers are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Annual Report 2018: Discussion (17 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: On the CAP, what effect-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (18 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy new year. I give a special thank you to all the staff of the Oireachtas, the ushers and other staff, in the work they do to help all of us see our way through this House and its various machinations. I look forward to coming back in the new year. I hope that the election will happen sooner rather than later in order that we will have the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I will move on to a topic that the Taoiseach does have some control over, since he seems to have no control over childcare facilities. In one of the last Leaders' Questions put to the Taoiseach in 2019 before the Christmas holidays, it is apt to mention the deplorable state of the health service. In particular, I refer to Letterkenny University Hospital and the legacy of this Government to...