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

Thomas Pringle: The Taoiseach gave a great rundown of the HSE's proposals for next year but the HSE will still be €420 million short of addressing what it calls demographic, technological and other pressures. Even with what the Government is doing, we will still be here next year talking about a deficit in the HSE. Why did we not get the service plan before budget 2020 so that we could see what...

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

Thomas Pringle: That is the problem.

Environmental Policy: Motion [Private Members] (18 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Members are being asked to consider a long list of Government failures in environmental policy today. I want to highlight the potential social impacts of measures to ban or restrict the sale of smoky coal and possibly peat and wood as well. The just transition should apply to everyone, everywhere. Social justice should be at the heart of all climate policies. We should use climate...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (18 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: We need two five-minute slots.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (18 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I am sharing with Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (18 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: We will just make it.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (18 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: This is a key moment of political accountability for Ireland's action on climate change in the past year. Despite all the consultations, plans and research papers, it is clear that Ireland is making very limited progress towards meeting its current long-term national policy position. Policy positions and expensive consultant contracts do not bring down emissions, but action does. The...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (18 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 45. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recently published report by an organisation (details supplied) and its statement that the rule of law should respect freedom of expression and peaceful assembly; his further views on the report in the context of Catalan political prisoners and their rights on freedom of expression and peaceful assembly following on from...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Services for People with Disabilities (18 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 450. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the level of accreditation a trainer must offer to participants in disability awareness training in order for the client to avail of the 90% grant available from her Department (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53653/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I thank Mr. Mulvey for his responses. Probably some of my questions will be duplications of others given that so many people have spoken before me. I want to tease out some points. Mr. Mulvey said he will meet the unions in the new year. What is the role of the unions? Will they be as important as Bord na Móna and the ESB in terms of their response and what they can bring forward?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Other speakers mentioned the refurbishment of houses and such to make them more climate-friendly. When Bord na Móna was at the committee previously, it said that would not be part of its remit or anything that it would consider. If that comes out of the discussions that Mr. Mulvey has had, how will that be implemented? Bord na Móna seems to be the corporate body that should have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2019)

Thomas Pringle: There is an issue of whether Bord na Móna or ESB may have an ulterior motive in refusing to do that. We need to look at it independently to see if it is feasible anyway and that is where this has come from. Just transition in the midlands is obviously very important. It is the first of quite a few that may develop in this country in the coming years. One that I would think of is not...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (20 Feb 2020)

Thomas Pringle: I take this opportunity to wish the Ceann Comhairle well on his re-election. The people in Donegal who elected me were very clearly concerned about the issues of housing, health and climate change and the impact they were having on their lives. Housing is an issue right across Ireland - not only in Dublin but in rural Ireland as well - and they very clearly stated that Fianna Fáil...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (5 Mar 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 44. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the three new Irish embassies will be opened in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3502/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Meetings (5 Mar 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to have a bilateral meeting with the managing director of the IMF, Ms Kristalina Georgieva; the issues that are likely to be on the agenda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3498/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Mar 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount it would cost in a full year if the income tax band for a single person increased from €35,300 to €37,000; the estimated cost for a married couple in which the income tax band for one earner increases from €44,300 to €47,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3499/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaeltacht School Recognition Scheme (5 Mar 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in cases in which a school participating in Scéim Aitheantas do Scoileanna Gaeltachta has a majority of the teaching staff who are not competent to deliver their respective subjects through the medium of Irish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3386/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaeltacht School Recognition Scheme (5 Mar 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a teacher in a school who has been teaching through the medium of English prior to the school entering into Scéim Aitheantas do Scoileanna Gaeltachta can be instructed to teach through the medium of Irish, notwithstanding the confirmed lack of competency in the language of the teacher; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Provision (5 Mar 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 413. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding has been made available in 2020 for the purchase of additional Garda public order unit vans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3501/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Missions (5 Mar 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 456. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to have a trade and investment mission to Dubai in the first half of 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3503/20]