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Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: The Minister has said that he discussed what had happened with the Taoiseach.

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: No, he said he discussed it before when he got the call from the Chief Medical Officer.

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: He said he contacted the Taoiseach afterwards. The only two people in Government who knew about this were the Minister and the Taoiseach and some of the officials.

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: Therefore the leaks seem to have come from within Government. That is what I was trying to get to the bottom of. The Minister said the Government would like to see more detailed options for the end of the four week period at level 5. I believe that we should have gone to level 5 and things look like we will go to level 5 in the next week or so anyway, with schools closing early for...

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: The Minister said that two people knew about it.

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: No other European country is an island.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (8 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 262. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the results of the recent HIQA Your Experience survey on experiences of maternity care in Ireland (details supplied); his further views on the fact Letterkenny University Hospital had the second highest rate of service user dissatisfaction in Ireland with care related to pregnancy labour and birth with the joint highest number of respondents...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: Budget 2021 has been developed and delivered under the threat of a no-deal Brexit as well as the added risk of Covid-19 and its impacts on our health, livelihoods and economy, not to mention the climate emergency we are facing. None of us could have predicted that we would be in the midst of a global pandemic and that we would have a Government in which the Tánaiste still thinks he is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (13 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 309. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to recognise fibromyalgia as a condition under which sufferers are entitled to the disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29915/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (13 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) cannot continue their course in further education online; the plans to introduce online classes for education and training board-run courses in a college and other further education facilities in the short term due to the level-3 regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30181/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 437. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact that members of the Covid-19 Expert Panel on Nursing Homes may have worked in institutions that have been involved in cases of mismanagement of incidences of Covid-19 outbreaks; if this will impact its work in advising his Department about the way in which nursing homes are managed through the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: My initial disappointment in budget 2021 has not lifted. Instead, it has deepened as I have reviewed the relevant documentation and commentaries about the Groundhog Day feel to some of the Government's announcements. It is disingenuous for Ministers to stand up in front of us, the media and the public and make statements about investment, improvements and measures that have been previously...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: I agree with previous speakers. It is clear that not enough time has been allocated to the debate on the Bill. The legislation has been described as an emergency but the report was imminent when the Minister briefed Opposition Deputies a couple of months ago. We are now approaching the final days. The Minister is introducing an amendment to change the date to January 2021. A simple Bill...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: For the information of the Taoiseach, the Minister put forward an amendment to the Bill that will delay the need to do this until January of next year. All we need is a one-line Bill to delay everything until January and allow us to have a proper debate.

Ministerial Power (Repeal) (Ban Co-Living and Build to Rent) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: We are.

Ministerial Power (Repeal) (Ban Co-Living and Build to Rent) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: That is right. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill and commend Deputy Ó Broin for bringing it forward. In July 2019, then Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, tried to tell the Irish public that co-living was like living in a "very trendy kind of boutique hotel-type place". The Irish Examinerof Saturday, 20 July 2019, reported that one...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Assistance Fund (20 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the student assistance fund will be available to students from Northern Ireland that are studying here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31699/20]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Assistance Fund (20 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: The budget 2021 announcement of an additional €50 million fund for college students was one of the few welcome announcements on what was an underwhelming budget day last week. In his official press release, the Minister stated that detailed work would be undertaken on how this once-off fund will operate for a submission to Government prior to its commencement. It has been reported...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Assistance Fund (20 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister for that important clarification. According to the figures from the HEA for 2017 and 2018, only 130 students from the Six Counties are studying in the South, which seems to be an appallingly low figure. Is that something the Minister would examine? Perhaps he can check whether that is an accurate figure. To my mind, it seems very low. We should encourage more...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Assistance Fund (20 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: That is something that would be worthwhile. On the Connacht-Ulster alliance, there is a campus in Killybegs in the tourism college which also needs to be protected into the future. Strangely, Letterkenny, has been the biggest threat to it. We need to look at why it is cheaper for many students in Donegal to go to college in Belfast, because rents are so much lower there. Even with the...