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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: Perhaps we should have a question about the role of the Attorney General in the operation of the Department. It seems that everything has been done according to his say in this matter, and that is worrying. The legal view takes a very narrow view of how things can actually be done and how people can be dealt with. These people need a more humane view rather than a legal view. That would...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: Buildings in Donegal will today be lighting up for the Purple Lights 20 campaign for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Mr. Gary Kearney wrote to me in October and asked for my assistance in bringing about the campaign. My friend and well-known outstanding disability rights activist, Mr. Frank Larkin, had been due to help Gary with the campaign for Donegal, but sadly Frank...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: Another take on our slowness in ratifying the UN convention would be that we just wanted to drag our heels. Other countries ratified the convention straight away and it may have set a benchmark for them to make sure they could achieve it. I would love to think we will ratify the optional protocol. What is the timeframe for that? I would like to know because I do not believe the Government...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: Businesses across the country are coming out of the Covid lockdown. In Donegal, they have been asking me whether the supports they and their staff received while in lockdown would continue if they chose not to open at this time. I have emailed the Tánaiste's office about this matter, but I have not been able to get a response. That is why I am raising it now. Will he respond, please?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Reduction (3 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which she will address inequalities relating to poverty during 2021; the specific improvements she will make in 2021 for persons with disabilities experiencing poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39850/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 101. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the preparations his Department is making to enable provision of personal data to survivors of mother and baby homes in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39848/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 118. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the sixth interim report of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes will be made public; when the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes will be made public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39847/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (3 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 216. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his Department’s assessment of a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40852/20]

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The rainy day fund of €1.5 billion was already drawn down for budget 2021. The initial plan to set aside €1 billion per year has already been reduced down to €500 million per year due to the exceptional circumstances of Brexit. Now we have the further exceptional circumstances of a global pandemic. We had to have...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Brexit Issues (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 144. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being taken to ensure that hauliers who obtained their qualifications in Northern Ireland pre-Brexit will not be penalised from January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41339/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 211. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a review of the status of a person (details supplied) in 1989 has been considered; if his attention has been drawn to the full status of their employment with the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41682/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the proliferation of non-curricular publications from Irish and international private interests (details supplied) seeking to target primary school children; the action she plans to take to protect the integrity of the education system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41702/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 381. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a PPSN application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41310/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 382. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a PPSN application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41350/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 394. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a surviving person who was jointly assessed with their deceased partner by her Department for all other entitlements is excluded from the widowed or surviving civil partner grant; if she will consider amending the legislation governing the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41714/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 444. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will report on the friends of the centre aspect of the new proposed direct provision centre in Letterkenny, County Donegal; the other centres and counties that have friends of the centre structures; the organisations involved in such structures; the decision-making process; the person or body to which the groups are accountable;...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 445. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the feedback and complaints mechanisms that will be available to the new residents of the proposed direct provision centre in Letterkenny, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41239/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 446. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there will be staff trained specifically in dealing with trauma, integration and other well-being areas in the new proposed direct provision centre in Letterkenny, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41240/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 447. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the timeframe for move-ins he is expecting for the new proposed direct provision centre in Letterkenny, County Donegal; the consultation he is taking with Government colleagues on ensuring that all necessary infrastructural issues are resolved in Letterkenny in the coming month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41241/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 453. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the ECCE school provision can be broadened to support families who have children with additional needs who at present cannot avail of such. [41454/20]