Results 161-180 of 9,160 for speaker:Thomas Pringle

Written Answers — Common Fisheries Policy: Common Fisheries Policy (13 Oct 2011)

Thomas Pringle: Question 210: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the area of inshore fishery that can be exempted from the Common Fisheries Policy restrictions on fisheries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29276/11]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (13 Oct 2011)

Thomas Pringle: Question 211: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of farmers that have been paid their agri-environmental options scheme payment; when he expects that the payments will be up to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29277/11]

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (18 Oct 2011)

Thomas Pringle: Question 366: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will ensure that the new speed cameras being operated on behalf of the Garda and its own speed camera vans are not located in certain areas only to generate revenue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29499/11]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (19 Oct 2011)

Thomas Pringle: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grants for improvement works and extra classrooms that have been received by a school (details supplied) in County Donegal in the past two years. [30195/11]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 Oct 2011)

Thomas Pringle: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the meetings that have taken place between him, the Health Service Executive and the Diabetes Federation of Ireland to decide on the appropriate model of care for children and adolescents with diabetes; the progress, if any, that has been made on the roll-out of specialist paediatric nurses to manage the care of diabetes on...

Written Answers — Fishing Vessel Licences: Fishing Vessel Licences (19 Oct 2011)

Thomas Pringle: Question 152: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider amending the restrictions on the skipper limited certificate of competency to qualify holders to operate outside the area between 62°N and 48°N, recognising that fishing vessels are obliged to operate outside these areas from time to time during their season in order to make a living; and if he will make...

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Thomas Pringle: I wish to share time with Deputy Joan Collins.

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Thomas Pringle: When the report of the interdepartmental working group on mortgage arrears was published, people across the board greeted it with a sense of huge disappointment. The report clearly finds in favour of the banks and puts forwards solutions which benefit the lending authorities. This is hardly surprising, particularly when one considers the membership of the working group, namely, 16 civil...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (20 Oct 2011)

Thomas Pringle: Question 91: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the rules and regulations for a person in receipt of the household benefit package who is hospitalised for an extended period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30523/11]

Overseas Missions (26 Oct 2011)

Thomas Pringle: No.

Health (Provision of General Practitioner Services) Bill 2011: Second Stage (26 Oct 2011)

Thomas Pringle: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill, which is very timely and welcome. Everybody in the House will probably support the passage of this Bill. I wondered why we needed the IMF to tell us this needed to be done. It should have been done many years ago to ensure people have a quality health service and a choice available to them in regard to access to GP services. Deputy Healy...

Health Services Delivery: Motion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2011)

Thomas Pringle: I wish to share time with Deputy Boyd Barrett and Deputy Higgins.

Health Services Delivery: Motion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2011)

Thomas Pringle: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion and I commend my United Left Alliance colleagues for bringing it forward. It is vitally important to put our health and hospital services at the forefront and to have them discussed in the House. I will speak about a hospital that is consistently the most efficient in the country, Letterkenny General Hospital. Since 2009, Letterkenny General...

Fishing Rights (2 Nov 2011)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister for his positive reply. I tabled this question because fishermen in Inver Bay who use traditional methods which have been in place there for over 100 years have been placed under severe pressure, particularly by the regional fisheries board. This is because - perhaps both fortunately and unfortunately - the bay is partly formed by the estuary of a river in which salmon...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (3 Nov 2011)

Thomas Pringle: Question 56: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding autistic children in a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32563/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (3 Nov 2011)

Thomas Pringle: Question 57: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the minor works scheme grants for primary schools are to be paid this year; when the payments will start; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32564/11]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (3 Nov 2011)

Thomas Pringle: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that the special needs assistant is approved in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Donegal. [32565/11]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (3 Nov 2011)

Thomas Pringle: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants posts that were held back for the start of the new school year that have now been filled; the number of applications on hand and when schools that have applied can expect to hear about their application. [32567/11]

Written Answers — Exploration Licences: Exploration Licences (3 Nov 2011)

Thomas Pringle: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the circumstances in which formal consultation is required in relation to licence applications for exploration or development in Northern Ireland that could have a transfrontier element. [32566/11]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (8 Nov 2011)

Thomas Pringle: Question 312: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal which was approved by Meitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta under the warmer homes scheme but has yet to be allocated to a contractor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33014/11]