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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (16 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the plans that are in place to ensure persons with more than one property will not receive multiple payments under the electricity costs emergency benefit scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8568/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (16 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the defective block scheme will include the replacement of foundations if needed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8535/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Foreshore Issues (16 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department can legislate for any activity on the seabed that belongs to the Crown Estate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8518/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Foreshore Issues (16 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 243. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Crown Estate legislates for any activity on the seabed of which the Government of Ireland or any Department thereof claims ownership over; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8519/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 86. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will initiate an independent public inquiry into the activities and methods used by the so-called "Heavy Gang" of An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8936/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: This question concerns the activities of the so-called "Heavy Gang" throughout the 1970s and 1980s. This matter was highlighted recently in the RTÉ series "Crimes & Confessions". I refer to the impact this is having. There is a need for a public inquiry to ensure that what happened can be brought to light and changes implemented to ensure that it never happens again.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister for her reply. She has outlined a raft of information there and, on paper, everything looks good. While the activities of the Garda in the 1980s may be historical, the impacts have fed through to the modern day. We have cases particularly relating to Donegal in this regard. There must be an examination of how these activities have influenced the Garda all the way...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I must disagree with the Minister there, because I think it would serve a useful purpose. The Minister in her response said that the activities were not agreed with at the time. That is not actually true. They were agreed with and a blind eye was turned to them. The crux of the problem here is that not only the Garda but the State, the Government and everybody else turned a blind eye to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (15 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 848. To ask the Minister for Health if Covid-19 vaccines donated to developing countries either directly or through the COVAX Initiative are mRNA vaccines; if measures have been put in place to ensure that donated vaccines are not out of date by the time they reach vaccinators in such countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8204/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Foreshore Issues (15 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 948. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can legislate for any activity on the seabed that belongs to a body (details supplied) particularly in Lough Foyle and Carlingford Lough; if the body can regulate activity that is within Irish territorial waters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7755/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Defective Building Materials (15 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 992. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way her Department ensures that the buildings her Department has responsibility for are built using blocks that are free from MICA and deleterious materials in construction projects in County Donegal; if her Department has checked existing buildings for the presence of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7654/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: Yesterday, I met with postmasters from across County Donegal. These dedicated people, and, indeed, postmasters around the country, are waiting anxiously for the publication of the report by the interdepartmental group, IDG, for the delivery of offline services. It has not been announced on a few occasions. It was supposed to be announced before Christmas and then in January, which have...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (17 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 28. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total allocation of funding provided, the total number of projects submitted to her Department and the total number of projects completed under the local improvement scheme in 2021, by local authority area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8658/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Reports (17 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 48. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the actions that her Department has taken to implement recommendation number 4 contained in the 2020 report entitled Focused Policy Assessment: Local Improvement Scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8659/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (22 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 655. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason an applicant (details supplied) for a stamp 5 was charged €300 when the application was signed at the immigration section at Ballyshannon Garda station; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9984/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (22 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 863. To ask the Minister for Health when he will bring forward the replacement of the mobility allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9713/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Harbours and Piers (23 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: This Topical Issue matter relates to damage caused by the recent storms at Polawaddy slipway. I am glad to see the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, is present to respond to it. As a fellow Donegal Deputy, he knows the slipway I am talking about at Polawaddy on Árainn Mhór. He knows too the extent of the damage it suffered from the pictures that were sent to us by members of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Harbours and Piers (23 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister for the overview in regard to the piers and harbours. There are two aspects to this, that is, the ongoing maintenance in terms of the Brexit reserve fund, which was mentioned by the Minister, and normal Government funding for piers and harbours. Donegal may have received the largest allocation, but as it has the highest number of piers, that makes sense. It is a pity...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: Tomorrow, school secretaries and caretakers represented by the Fórsa trade union will return to talks at the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, regarding pay and pension arrangements for grant-funded positions. These protracted talks continue despite the Tánaiste stating in this Chamber in the first months of the Government that it was the objective of the Government to...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and Reports of Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I would like to take this opportunity to discuss the recent publication of the Police Ombudsman's report on the North. The report was an investigation into the police handling of certain paramilitary murders and attempted murders from 1989 to 1993. This report found incriminating evidence of collusive behaviours between the police force at the time, the RUC, its special branch and loyalist...