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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (24 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 1749. To ask the Minister for Health when the day services at a facility will be reopened for all attendees that have disabilities such as a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15304/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 1910. To ask the Minister for Health when mandatory hotel quarantine for passengers arriving to Ireland from high-risk countries will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15866/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: The Tánaiste mentioned earlier that the detailed vaccination plan will be announced in the coming weeks, which is welcome. Will An Post postal delivery workers be included or prioritised for vaccination as part of that plan, like other front-line workers?

Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: This Bill is the perfect example of Government spin. It is being hailed as the protection for renters during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, extending protections to 12 July 2021. However, what the Minister is not telling us is that it is an opportunity for the Government to strip rights from many renters in arrears but not affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. It is a short but dangerous...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 180. To ask the Minister for Health if seafarers will be exempt from the mandatory hotel quarantine for passengers arriving here from high-risk countries which is due to be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16080/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (25 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 185. To ask the Minister for Health if seafarers are exempt from having to provide evidence of a negative or not detected result from a Covid-19 reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction test before arriving here from another country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16085/21]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (30 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Chairman for allowing me to contribute. I thank the Minister for her breakdown of the Vote. In her opening statement, she referred to provision in the ICT budget for equipment in vehicles. I had the experience - I do not know whether I would call it the pleasure - of being stopped by the PSNI in the North. The officers were able to check my car on their computer and tell me it...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (30 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: My question relates to A7, compensation. There is a 14.5% increase on what was budgeted. From the Minister's response to the last question, I take it that this can be budgeted but whether that will all be used depends on the outturn at different stages. This means that the 2020 Estimate on this item is €9.5 million. Does this mean that basically this is not an outturn figure either...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (30 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: This is a bit confusing for me because €1.265 million is a 9.6% reduction. The Minister says that will not have an impact because the allocation was increased in the previous year. These Estimates do not mean anything so if that is the case. I cannot get my head around that. Are we saying the Minister does not expect that the €1.4 million will be spent so therefore the...

Caring for Carers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I fully support both this motion and the amendment put forward by me and Deputies Harkin, McNamara, Fitzmaurice and Collins. Carers are overworked and undervalued and the State is completely over-reliant on the unpaid caring work done by family members around the country. The fear that the Covid-19 pandemic has brought to carers has been palpable in our communities. People caring for...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: There are two issues I wish to raise. The first is the changes in the Covid-19 arrangements which were announced last night on television by the Taoiseach and which should be debated in the Dáil here as well, particularly the changes in the vaccination programme. Time should be made available for that. The debate on the "Prime Time" programme last week is vitally important. I note...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: As I understand it, on Monday the Ceann Comhairle received requests from a number of Members for a Standing Order 42 debate on the Adjournment on this issue. Subsequently, the Government proposed changing the agenda for tomorrow. The Business Committee had agreed the agenda for tomorrow last Thursday. I would like clarity on how this has happened. We requested the Ceann Comhairle to...

Children (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: The recent decision on the application of section 252 of the Children Act 2001 has been causing a lot of heartbreak for the families of children who were murdered. At the end of October, in the Court of Appeal, Mr. Justice Birmingham held that reporting restrictions relating to offences against children would also apply even if a child had turned 18 years or was deceased. He also found that...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (31 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 239. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address the halting of the retrofitting programme in Finglas, Dublin 11; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17346/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (31 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 505. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if his Department will take the necessary steps to have a full and comprehensive reply issued to the person; if he will consider carrying out an audit of correspondence to and from the Office of the Consul General in New York to ensure the office complies with the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (31 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 531. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed the investigation into the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17410/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (31 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 803. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of sexual assault and rape cases tried in each of the years 2016 to 2018; the number of convictions achieved; the number of convictions appealed on the grounds of leniency by the Director of Public Prosecutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16708/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Meetings (31 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 830. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will meet with persons (details supplied) to discuss the case of a person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17409/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reviews (31 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 831. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the independent specialist in-depth research study on familicide and domestic homicide reviews will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17414/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (31 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 845. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated annual cost of providing discretionary medical cards to all cancer patients at the time of their diagnosis until their treatment has finished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17393/21]