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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (25 Apr 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the co-existence of standards I.S. 20 Concrete Building Blocks and I.S. EN771-3:2011 Specification for Masonry Units were allowed to continue, when the EU standard was first introduced in other EU states; the reason it took time to be implemented here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18988/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (25 Apr 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will an update on any plans of proposed changes to reduce the voting age to 16 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19518/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (25 Apr 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 347. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to allow Irish-born citizens living outside Ireland to vote in Irish elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19519/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Contracts (25 Apr 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number and total value of contracts his Department has had over the past 12 months with KPMG; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20033/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (25 Apr 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 385. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number and total value of contracts her Department has had over the past 12 months with KPMG; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20040/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 435. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the situation in relation to agricultural payments for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18986/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (25 Apr 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 456. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a landowner who is getting his agriculture payments (details supplied) is allowed to deny access to people with turbary rights to cut their own turf for their own use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19561/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Contracts (25 Apr 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 459. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and total value of contracts his Department has had over the past 12 months with KPMG; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20023/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (25 Apr 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 500. To ask the Minister for Health if the medical card levy, which places a financial burden on many older and vulnerable people, will be removed completely in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19506/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (25 Apr 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 533. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that are being taken to ensure that all employees who are entitled to the €1,000 payment are paid out, particularly a person (details supplied); if they are entitled to the payment; when it will be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19069/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Apr 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 553. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1385 of 21 March 2023, when there was a full case conference in relation to the patient; if a patient advocate had been appointed on his behalf; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19160/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (25 Apr 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 653. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and total value of contracts his Department has had over the past 12 months with KPMG; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20031/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 658. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when local authorities will be informed of the outcome of their applications for funding from the community recognition fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19157/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Contracts (25 Apr 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 674. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number and total value of contracts her Department has had over the past 12 months with KPMG; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20039/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Thomas Pringle: We all remember the shocking images from November 2020 of a bog slide at Meenbog in Donegal. The sight of trees slipping down the hill while they were still standing was truly shocking. Now, two and a half years later, there is no word of the investigation into the cause of the slide, as if we did not know what it was. Meenbog is the site of a significant wind farm development, a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Thomas Pringle: It is not individual. There is a whole raft of planning applications. It is not about those. It is about the blanket bog.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Thomas Pringle: Three years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Thomas Pringle: Yes, but it has been three years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Thomas Pringle: I understand exactly what the Tánaiste is saying in relation to individual planning applications. In this case we are looking at applications for very sensitive landscape areas. Still to this day, we have not received any report on what happened in November 2020. Despite the fact that a number of State agencies have been involved in it and that it is a cross-Border issue, we have not...

Transport Support Schemes for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2023)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Regional Group for putting forward the motion and giving me an opportunity to speak on this important issue. I fully support it, not least its calls for the Department to develop a plan, in consultation with people with disabilities, disabled persons’ organisations and disability service providers, that will provide equitable access to transport for those with...