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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (18 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 66. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there will be a focus on the development of added-value processing in the marine industry in the regional enterprise strategy specifically for County Donegal in the Border region, as part of the Action Plan for Jobs 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7307/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (18 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 119. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012; when it is due to return from Committee Stage; her plans to make amendments, based on recommendations outlined by the Irish Penal Reform Trust, to reform sections of the Bill referring to proportionate rehabilitative periods, number of convictions, maximum threshold, suspended...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Equality Issues (18 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 120. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to amend the Employment Equality Act 1998 to include the additional ground of discrimination on the basis of criminal conviction, as recommended by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7232/15]

Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: On the health information Bill, I note that a meeting is taking place today in Galway of the Saolta hospitals group to discuss the future of cancer services at Letterkenny General Hospital. Will Deputy White ensure that the Minister for Health provides information to the House on the future of those services to ensure that they are maintained?

Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I have been trying to get a debate for the last few days, but it is not happening.

Income and Living Conditions: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this Private Members’ debate this evening. I congratulate Deputy Boyd Barrett on tabling the motion. As the motion outlines, there has been an increase in inequality in society, in particular in terms of income inequality. One can see that in stark measure in terms of how much the gap is widening between those who have and those who have...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates (24 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 584. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a local authority has the power to levy commercial rates on the owner of a commercial premises rather than the tenant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8093/15]

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I have a couple of questions on subhead A13, CEDRA - rural innovation and development fund for which €1 million is provided under current expenditure.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: It is subhead A13, CEDRA, for which €1 million is provided under current expenditure. What is it for and what is it intended to support? Will capital funding be provided in terms of a rural innovation and development fund? In his introduction the Minister mentioned the seafood development programme. Will there be a focus on job creation because the experience of many people in...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: Subhead C7.6 - environmental compliance in the fisheries sector.

Topical Issue Debate: Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity to raise this issue, which is very important to seasonal workers in south west Donegal, particularly those working in the fishing industry. I want to address three matters in the time available. They concern the changes to entitlement for jobseeker's benefit that have taken place, some due to budget 2012. The first matter is the...

Topical Issue Debate: Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister of State for his response which I appreciate. That would probably be a better way of trying to deal with these issues if we could get together. I will contact the Minister of State about organising that meeting. I appreciate his response on the matter.

Topical Issue Debate: Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I did not expect that.

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I agree with everything said by Deputy Lyons. We should look at human flourishing as a way of organising society, as it would be much better. The family unit, as it was once known, has changed significantly and it is still changing. In one generation, and in one family alone, the unit can go through several changes as it adjusts to different circumstances. According to the 2011 CSO...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 122. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to any discarding of donated organs, by the Health Service Executive, due to the lack of resources to carry out operations, despite persons being on long waiting lists, across the country; if he will confirm if this is the current situation; if not, if there have been any issues in relation to the distribution of donated...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the funding options that were explored during the 12 January 2015 round table meeting between members of his Department's team and the European Union Telecommunications Commissioner, Mr Gunther Oettinger, in relation to the rolling out of the high-speed broadband network here; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if a consistent and reliable access to high-speed broadband will be rolled out to remote premises and islands in the north west of the country; if a list of remote premises under consideration for the roll out is available, which indicates the Government's intention to include remote communities in the national...

Other Questions: Middle East Peace Process (26 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 9. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views regarding Israel's recent intensification of plans to construct 450 new settlements in the West Bank; the representations his Department will make denouncing any potential fast-tracking of construction of illegal settlements in the lead-up to Israel's March 2015 elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8303/15]

Other Questions: Middle East Peace Process (26 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: This question relates to the settlement rush taking place in the West Bank at the moment in the run-up to the Israeli elections, in which there is a rapidly expanding programme of illegal settlements. What are the Minister and his Department doing to express our concerns to the Israeli Government?

Other Questions: Middle East Peace Process (26 Feb 2015)

Thomas Pringle: Everybody in this country knows that the settlements are illegal. They have been condemned by the UN, which stated that they were in breach of international law. The International Court of Justice has ruled that they are illegal and in breach of the Geneva Convention. Today, 800,000 Israeli citizens live in illegal settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Maybe it has gone too far for...