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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Agencies (26 Feb 2013)

Thomas Pringle: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide details of the payment of bonuses or other performance related payments and or allowances made to the staff of agencies under the aegis of her Department with a yearly breakdown from 2008 outlining the overall amount paid in each year period and the number of staff that received such payments and or allowances. [10160/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Agencies (26 Feb 2013)

Thomas Pringle: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide details of payments made to the CEO or equivalent of all agencies under the aegis of her Department including details of any bonuses, pension entitlements or any other remuneration paid to him or her in 2012. [10177/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Agencies (26 Feb 2013)

Thomas Pringle: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the payment of bonuses or other performance related payments and or allowances made to the staff of agencies under the aegis of his Department with a yearly breakdown from 2008 outlining the overall amount paid in each year period and the number of staff that received such payments and or allowances [10167/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Agencies (26 Feb 2013)

Thomas Pringle: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of payments made to the CEO or equivalent of all agencies under the aegis of his Department including details of any bonuses, pension entitlements or any other remuneration paid to him or her in 2012 [10184/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Agencies (26 Feb 2013)

Thomas Pringle: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the payment of bonuses or other performance related payments and or allowances made to the staff of agencies under the aegis of his Department with a yearly breakdown from 2008 outlining the overall amount paid in each year period and the number of staff that received such payments and or allowances. [10173/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Agencies (26 Feb 2013)

Thomas Pringle: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of payments made to the CEO or equivalent of all agencies under the aegis of his Department including details of any bonuses, pension entitlements or any other remuneration paid to him or her in 2012. [10190/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) with UFA and IFA (26 Feb 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the IFA for the presentation today. I will be quite brief and note I agree with the two previous speakers in respect of most of their comments. Last week, representatives from the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Department appeared before the joint committee. They mentioned the 4,500 individual commonages, how an individual plan was required for each one and how one...

Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I understand members of the media were briefed by the Secretary General and other staff of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on the contents of the Croke Park extension deal for an hour yesterday. Out of respect for the House, does the Taoiseach have any intention to brief the Opposition on the contents and implications of the deal too? I would have thought that would have...

Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Thomas Pringle: If the Department can brief the media, then it can brief the Opposition too.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Protection Areas (28 Feb 2013)

Thomas Pringle: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason his officials have not met with local landowners in the Falcarragh/Meenlaragh special protection area in relation to the recent designation of the protection area; if they will meet with them before the response deadline of 12 March 2013 recognising that some landowners affected have not received any notification as yet; and...

Health Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I do not support either this motion or the Government amendment. This Fianna Fáil motion is a total contradiction, calling on the Government to reduce both the cost of health provision and of private health insurance premiums. There are many reasons for the increases in the premiums, mainly that 70,000 people have given up their health insurance in the past year due to the effect of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tug Boat Services (5 Mar 2013)

Thomas Pringle: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he will take to ensure that a tug boat service is available in Killybegs Fishery Harbour Centre, County Donegal, to ensure that the port can continue to develop and attract shipping business and also provide for a vital safety tool to be available to all users of the harbour including the emergency services; and if he will...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Retail Sector: Discussion with RGDATA and Retail Ireland (5 Mar 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the RGDATA delegation for its presentation. There is no doubt that Irish people appear to be wedded to local shops. There was a meeting last night in Donegal to address the issue of the threatened closure of a local shop in Creeslough. The meeting was attended by over 500 people to express their concerns about the issue and the 40 or 50 jobs at risk. It is important that we...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Retail Sector: Discussion with RGDATA and Retail Ireland (5 Mar 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I had a question concerning the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Retail Sector: Discussion with RGDATA and Retail Ireland (5 Mar 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I thank our guests for their presentation. I have a couple of questions regarding the Competition Authority and the report it published in 2009. Given that four years have passed, perhaps it is time to publish a new report on competition in the retail sector. It is interesting to note the authority's statement to the effect that it cannot carry out investigations because of a lack of staff...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Retail Sector: Discussion with RGDATA and Retail Ireland (5 Mar 2013)

Thomas Pringle: Will the voluntary code ban such things as listing and slotting fees? Will it provide that payments to suppliers are made on time? As Deputy Ó Cuív said, if the voluntary code is so acceptable, would Retail Ireland be satisfied if it were put on a statutory footing in this country?

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I am sharing my time with Deputy Finian McGrath. As the Minister said when introducing the Bill, it is a building block. It is a transitional Bill that is part of the Government's programme to reform the health service. Apparently the intention is to give the Minister more control over the health services. In the past year, we have seen what more control of the health services means in...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2013: First Stage (13 Mar 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to criminalise the purchase of sexual services and for that purpose to make it an offence to engage or attempt to engage a person for the purposes of obtaining sexual services in return for payment and to make it an offence for a person to obtain sexual services by means of prostitution; to provide for an administrative sanction...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2013: First Stage (13 Mar 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate on the jobs crisis. I want to concentrate on Donegal where the crisis is probably at its bleakest. We have heard much about the success of the Government and the IDA in attracting investment to the country in the past year. We are told they have brought in over 12,500 jobs. Only 28 of those were in the north west and exactly zero in...