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Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I move amendment No.19: In page 18, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following subsection: “(5) It will be ensured that there will be adequate staffing in the Education and Training Board that have fluency in Irish and that they will be competent to carry out the duties of their positions in Irish or in English.”. I shall not be pressing the amendment now but reserve the...

Education (Welfare) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Jan 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on the Education (Welfare) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012. Bullying is an issue that has not been far from the headlines in the past year. We have seen a number of tragic incidents related to bullying in schools and cyber bullying. In my day at school, a person who was being bullied could go home and get away from it and did not have to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (22 Jan 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 448. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the national inspection plan for individual waste water treatment systems will be finalised and published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2574/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (22 Jan 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 449. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will comment on any progress that has been made in fulfilling the commitments made to the European Court in the judgement of 19 December 2012, C-374/11, specifically those referred to in paragraphs 34 and 41 of that judgement; the reason for any delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2576/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Procurement Service (23 Jan 2013)

Thomas Pringle: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has assessed the impact of Public Procurement (Framework Agreements) circular 06/12, for the procurement of goods and services on local jobs that has provided for single suppliers on a national level in respect of day to day purchases for public bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3220/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Procurement Service (23 Jan 2013)

Thomas Pringle: While I appreciate the Minister of State's response, it does not address the question. The question was whether, in drawing up the procurement frameworks, the impact or potential impact on local jobs nationwide was assessed as part of that process, and from the Minister of State's reply, it appears as though it was not. While up to now, local companies have been supplying materials to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Procurement Service (23 Jan 2013)

Thomas Pringle: Many companies are now fearful as to whether they will be able to sustain the jobs they have on the basis of losing so much of that type of business which they have built up over the years. This is an issue that should have been considered through the procurement process and it should be addressed as a matter of urgency because if jobs are lost across the country on foot of this development,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Procurement Service (23 Jan 2013)

Thomas Pringle: Savings may be possible in procurement and substantial savings would be made if the Government tackled the cartels operating in the likes of the concrete industry, etc. That would bring about real savings in contracts. The procurement policy will cost jobs in local areas, and this is not down to the fact that people will be making decisions based on whether they know somebody. Local...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (23 Jan 2013)

Thomas Pringle: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason he has failed to fulfil the commitments made to the European Court in the judgement of 19 December 2012, C-374/11, specifically those referred to in paragraphs 34 and 41 of that judgement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3381/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Quotas (23 Jan 2013)

Thomas Pringle: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide for each of the past three years, in tabular form, a list of fishing opportunities, fishing quota and fishing effort that were swapped with other EU member states and third countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3380/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Information and Communications Technology (29 Jan 2013)

Thomas Pringle: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she is taking to ensure the efficient operation of computer systems within her Department in order to allow for the effective management of information and to cross reference data with other State agencies such as the Revenue Commissioners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4440/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Information and Communications Technology (29 Jan 2013)

Thomas Pringle: On a point that is not within the Minister's control, the question listed on the Order Paper is not the question I submitted to the Department and leaves out a substantial part of the question, although the Minister addressed that part in her reply, for which I thank her as I had thought I might have to raise the issue separately. Nonetheless, as the Questions Paper should reflect the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (29 Jan 2013)

Thomas Pringle: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress that has been made or her plans to provide unemployment benefits to the self-employed. [4036/13]

An Garda Síochána: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Jan 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I wish to share time with Deputies Wallace, Murphy, O'Sullivan and Ross.

An Garda Síochána: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Jan 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I would like to offer my condolences to the family of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe, who was tragically and savagely murdered outside Dundalk last Friday evening. I am totally opposed to the Government amendment to this motion as it stands. The issue in this debate is confidence. It concerns the confidence the public can have in the role the Garda plays in our local communities....

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Areas of Conservation (30 Jan 2013)

Thomas Pringle: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to his announcement last December of his intention to designate the area around Rockabill to Dalkey Island as a special area of conservation, if he has discussed the implications of this with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (30 Jan 2013)

Thomas Pringle: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce a system of flexi-schooling for children that are home schooled that would allow them to attend school on a part-time basis that would facilitate a parent who may work part-time but wishes to home school their child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4621/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (31 Jan 2013)

Thomas Pringle: To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to end the practice of junior doctors working excessively long hours in contravention of S.I. No. 494 of 2004 European Communities (Organisation of Working Time) (Activities of Doctors in Training) Regulations 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4944/13]

Other Questions: Commercial Rates Calculations (5 Feb 2013)

Thomas Pringle: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if, in the interests of the economic difficulties that small retail businesses in town centres are experiencing, he will consider bringing forward legislation that will allow for local authorities to implement a differential rates system that would see retailers being billed according to their turnover and their ability to...