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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: There will be nothing outlining personal reasons the assistance is required.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: So the fact that people are survivors is what entitles them to apply for the assistance and they do not have to justify the application any further.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Okay.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: With regard to section 4, which has been slightly discussed already, residents feel they should be granted the Health (Amendment) Act, HAA, card rather than the enhanced medical card. That request makes sense. Mr. Justice Quirke did recommend the HAA card for Magdalen survivors but they never received them. The enhanced medical card does not provide survivors with a dedicated liaison...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: How long will Sage Advocacy's involvement with the survivors last? Pardon my ignorance, but is that laid down in the Bill? How will that process work?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Section 5 provides for the payment of €3,000 to former residents living abroad. I do not believe that is adequate to meet their needs. A sum of up to €20,000 would be more adequate to meet their needs. Also, people who have received payments under the mother and baby institutions payment scheme should not be excluded from this scheme. That is vital. Will the Minister...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Educational supports should also be made available to family members of people who are impacted. This issue has a generational impact. It is vitally important that family members be included. The Bill should provide for that as well.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Is the Minister saying that €12.7 million is still available, or that it has been used up and that is the end of it?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Right. That is okay.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: On section 21, I believe people should not be precluded from participating in or availing of other schemes if they are available and people might qualify for them. I do not believe that section should be there with regard to disqualifying people from participating in other schemes. Will the Minister comment on that?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (20 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 110. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on a work permit application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26644/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: On behalf of the Independent Group, I support the various calls for debates to take place in the House. As a member of the Business Committee, I will say that the Business Committee basically has no powers. The business it does has to come to the Dáil to be voted on. That is why we have this fiasco every Tuesday. If the Business Committee had real powers, maybe that would be avoided....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: The Irish fishing industry has been decimated under the watch of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael since we joined the EU and particularly over the last two decades. Things only continue to deteriorate. Last week, a new trilateral mackerel deal was agreed between the UK, Norway and the Faroe Islands. These are countries that have a history of overfishing and we have previously seen them...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I will go first. As I have said many times, it is absolutely farcical that we are forced to debate and extend these Acts year after year. It undermines the House and our justice system to keep working off emergency legislation on a permanent basis. This rubber-stamping exercise is just one of the many undemocratic practices that this Government insists on continuously engaging in. I have...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (25 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the locations in Donegal where places for the off-the-job training phase of all newly developed apprenticeships will be accommodated; if a strategy is in place to expand further in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27220/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (25 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: This question relates to off-the-job training for apprentices in the Donegal area. What is the situation and what are the plans and potential for the Atlantic Technological University, ATU, in County Donegal to provide some of those facilities?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (25 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister of State for the outline of developments in Donegal. That is welcome in relation to ongoing apprenticeships. There is a need for apprenticeships to be accessed locally and for all aspects of the training to be carried out locally. Apprentices have had to travel to Cork, Dundalk and Dublin to do the college part of their apprenticeship. It would be useful if they...

Primary School Funding: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach for the opportunity to speak on this motion regarding primary school funding. I thank Deputy Harkin for proposing such an important motion today. I fully support the motion, which calls on the Government to commit to aligning primary educational funding with the OECD average to ensure the ancillary grant is sufficient to cover the cost of running...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (25 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance whether a change to the capital gains tax, group B threshold will be reviewed and increased in Budget 2025, as it has not changed since 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27135/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for the establishment of an ASD unit in a Donegal school (details supplied) has been received; when a decision will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27136/24]