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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 461. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who is in receipt of a private occupational pension with no entitlement to a State pension can apply for the winter fuel allowance if they meet the means criteria; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53160/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (25 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 804. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when successful applicants to the community centre investment fund 2022 will be notified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53014/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (26 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the new school building for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; the date which her Department foresees the construction phase of the school building project starting; the date that her Department foresees the project being completed and the children moved into the new building from the cold and damp prefabs...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (26 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 120. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the community welfare service will be reinstated to provide a walk-in community service in the newly refurbished unit in Killybegs, County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53692/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (26 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that posts for community welfare offices nationwide are not being filled (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53693/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I was not expecting to be next. I missed the introductions and opening statements and, therefore, some of my questions might have been dealt with. What I ask could probably be a rehash of what was said but it is important. With regard to accountability to the Oireachtas rather than to the Department of Justice, have any of the witnesses any first-hand examples of why that is important? I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: Anybody at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: Many of my questions have been dealt with. The document the Minister submitted to the committee was interesting because of the lack of detail and specifics, whereas much more useful detail has been revealed during the discussion. On the coastal states aspect, he stated, “We continue to oppose the setting of unacceptably high unilateral quotas for mackerel by a number of third...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: Regarding the 2014 agreement, what effective consequences were imposed by the EU or were there any?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: There were no consequences, basically.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: It went on for three years without any additional effective consequences for the behaviour. We are facing into the same issue again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: The EU is supposedly a confederation of sovereign nations, of which we are supposedly a part, and it supposedly has real and effective consequences it can impose on other sovereign nations for non-compliance or a non-willingness to deal with the issue. In reality, however, it does not do anything. Can Dr. Beamish point to anything the EU has done in respect of other trade agreements with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: Dr. Beamish cannot do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: The EU did not do anything in respect of mackerel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: We are an equal part of a European Union that is negotiating in respect of these matters and we are not getting anywhere. Surely the strength of the European Union is in trade and so on and it can be used as leverage to ensure countries comply with the agreements, but it is clear that is not happening and it is probably not going to happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: Yes. Why not? Surely that is what this is about and that is what we should achieve. I contend that this is not done probably because ours is the only country that is affected by this, and I wonder to what extent we get a hearing on fishing issues at a European level whereby we can raise the importance of them. This is a very important issue for us and for the entire mackerel stock, as was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: Is the Minister referring to EU nations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: We will have to agree to disagree on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: Is that EU member states?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Thomas Pringle: We are also not seeing the willingness of the EU to enforce it with other nations as well.