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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (25 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 277. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pandemic unemployment payment was open to applicants in circumstances in which the applicant was in receipt of the back to work enterprise allowance scheme and could not work due to the Covid-19 pandemic between 13 March 2020 and 7 July 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58115/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Correspondence (25 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 304. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will reply to correspondence from this Deputy dated 13 October and 4 November 2021. [58076/21]

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I can understand why this amendment was tabled and although section 15 may not be the appropriate section for it, the Department and the Minister could have found a place for it in the Bill. Section 15 simply lays out the Long Title to the Bill. All legislation should have some review procedure within it and some method of reporting on its operation over time. That is vitally important and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I had planned to come in here and cautiously welcome the revisions made in the so-called enhanced mica redress scheme. However, having watched the press conference given by the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, I am shocked at what is emerging, as I was by the Taoiseach's response to an earlier question. It appeared on some levels that the Government had finally listened to the victims of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: The Government caused the problem.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: No regulation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: There is no doubt that the scheme is an advance, but the problem is that it does not go far enough. Families are in the same situation now as they were before.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: Yes, they are. If they could not afford the previous scheme, they cannot afford this scheme.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: That is the reality of the situation. People with 2,300 sq. ft houses have to come up with €45,000. Such houses have to be rebuilt, and under the scheme people are not allowed to change the house to qualify. People will have those costs regardless of the situation. That is the problem these families have. They are paying mortgages. As these houses are repaired, they will have to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: That is what the Taoiseach said.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: He did. He said the people have to take responsibility for-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: That is what he said.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: Okay, if that is what the Taoiseach did not say, I take it back.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I take it back. I said it already. The reality is that lack of regulation or light-touch regulation caused this problem.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: Fair enough. The reality is that light-touch regulations caused this problem and that has to be dealt with as well. Is the Taoiseach saying that people will not have to pay €45,000 for an average house?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I refer to the Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill, which is proposed to go through all stages on Thursday, and the Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill, which is scheduled for Friday. Neither of these Bills has been published yet so we do not even know what is in them, and amendments were to have been submitted last week. What is the situation with them? The debates...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: It has been sitting there for five years.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: Today, outside the gates of Leinster House, the People's Vaccine Alliance Ireland held a protest calling on the Government to support the TRIPS waiver - to be helpful, I will give him a chance to answer the question again - and get Europe to actually do something to help end the global vaccine inequity that is hampering our fight against Covid-19. Over 100 nations support this position, yet...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: Ninety-eight per cent of the funding for the AstraZeneca vaccine was public funding.

Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (30 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: Given that yesterday was the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, it is important that we speak out against the occupation and colonisation of Palestine and the constant campaigns of dehumanisation that Palestinians face every day. The situation in the occupied Palestinian territory is incredibly concerning as we hear of increased levels of disposition, violence and...