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Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: -----there are no principles or policies laid down. This amendment provides that the Oireachtas makes a decision. That is the body vested with the power under the Constitution to make laws within the State. There is an assumption that if the Oireachtas decided to add a substance to it, that is consideration under the Act and that is the policy and principle as decided by the Oireachtas, as...

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (10 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 130. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which County Donegal will be promoted as a viable tourist destination, as part of Tourism Ireland's 2015 marketing plan, and as part of the Government's overall tourism objective, for the year 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9975/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (10 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the A5 project; the progress being made; when he envisages construction on the project will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9983/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Work Placement Programmes (10 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 150. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a tabular list by local authority area of the numbers of persons engaged in the Gateway scheme for long-term unemployed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10545/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Work Placement Programmes (10 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 151. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the options that are open to Gateway scheme participants, if they are being asked to carry out duties that are not part of the scheme and are carrying out work that should be done by council employees rather than participants on an activation programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10546/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Protection (10 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 231. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has received an application for funding for coastal erosion works from Donegal County Council for protection works at Maghery Strand in west Donegal, where large volumes sand are being blown inland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10278/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Protection (10 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 232. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has received an application for funding for coastal erosion works from Donegal County Council for protection works at Buncronan, Mountcharles, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10544/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (10 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 252. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency sponsored companies, located in County Donegal, as a result of the six sponsored visits carried out by the Agency, in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10494/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Retention (10 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 445. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the discarding of donated organs by the Health Service Executive after maximum clinical benefit for Irish patients has been reached; the position regarding donor organs in the event there is a match but no surgeon available here to perform the transplant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10495/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector and Annual Report 2013: Teagasc (10 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I thank Professor Boyle for his presentation. My first question is about the education programme in Teagasc and the colleges. It might not be relevant to the annual report but every year I encounter a number of students who have applied for grants to Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, rather than to Teagasc for attending college. They always get caught by SUSI because it does not...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Votáil Uachtaráin) 2014: An Dara Céim [Private Members] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I am pleased to speak in support of this legislation which proposes to extend the franchise in the presidential election to all Irish citizens, regardless of where they live, and to lower the voting age to 16 for all citizens in the presidential election. The Convention on the Constitution has debated extending the franchise to all citizens for the presidential election. The convention...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Projects (12 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 3. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on placing a moratorium on the construction of onshore wind farms until all other possible renewable energy avenues have been explored, including offshore wind farms, in order to respect the concerns of local communities affected by such large-scale development; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Projects (12 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: This question arises from the major concern across the country about the potential proliferation of industrial wind farms throughout the midlands. In our county of Donegal, a proposal for a large wind farm is causing many problems. In light of recent developments, however, it is no longer necessary that wind be the only source of renewable energy. In order to allow alternatives to be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Projects (12 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: The Minister of State says that we have a well-balanced fuel mix in terms of our energy supply. I would disagree with that. Our total renewable energy focus is on onshore wind. At the time the plan was developed, back in 2007 or so, wind was probably the only viable technology, but technology has moved on. Biomass has huge potential for meeting our renewable energy targets as well as for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Projects (12 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: While all these consultations are going on, the fact remains that the plans are there to develop 10,000 wind farms in the midlands, no matter how much the Minister of State does not say it. However much we try to get communities on board and so on, they are still going to be facing that prospect. We are still facing the prospect of having to invest €4.2 billion in electricity...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (12 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 5. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of the roll-out of high speed broadband in rural areas that will be delivered by fibre wrapped cable on the electricity network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10594/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (12 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: My question pertains to the potential for wrapped fibre on the electricity network as a means to deliver high-speed broadband to all parts of the country and not just areas covered by commercial operators.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (12 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I cannot avoid the conclusion that many parts of rural Ireland are going to be left with mobile broadband. One of the few good things the Government did was set out a legislative basis for using the electricity network to provide fibre wrapped broadband throughout the country. In respect of state aid rules, surely the Government could decide to provide a fibre wrapped network to every house...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (12 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I certainly would not choose the Eircom network. I have looked at that company's plans for rolling out fibre to cabinet and I suspect that many people living close to the towns served will not actually receive an adequate service on that basis. The Government can make a strategic decision to roll out fibre to every house in the country, at which point the service can be opened up to the...