Results 2,001-2,020 of 9,160 for speaker:Thomas Pringle
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Pelagic landings have more or less finished, however.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: The Commission has approved the control plan to the end of this year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: My question is what will be done to resolve the issue with the fishing industry, such as the processors and boats in Killybegs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: It sounds as though the SFPA has gone as far as it is going to go and has finished with it now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: As it stands, the SFPA is waiting for the industry to revert with a response before it will hold any further meetings on the issue. Is that the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: That does not really matter. What is going to happen over the next period? In respect of the final control plan that has gone to the Commission, if we or the industry decide on something or something workable comes out of this committee talking to the SFPA, it is the Commission or the European structures that will make the decision as to whether it will be acceptable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Forget about the SFPA negotiating. If we decide something is a feasible and workable solution, it is the Commission or the European structures that must decide whether it is acceptable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: That is all I want to know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: The SFPA will only implement what the Commission tells it to do.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Last week, we heard of the terrible murder of well-respected international journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh. This was a deliberate and targeted murder by Israeli occupation forces that violated international law. We did not see the opening of borders or the allocation of accommodation for Palestinian people fleeing conflict. We did not see Israel excluded from the Eurovision Song Contest...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Does it equal the support for the Israelis?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Will we sit for five days next week?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: It sounds like we will have to.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: I did not ask that question. I did not ask about ownership.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: My question was not about ownership.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: It is a private site.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: The problem is that the term "clinically appropriate" is not accepted because nobody really knows what it means. The Taoiseach has had to give lots of convoluted explanations today as to what it means to try to get it over the line. Why is the Government so hung up on it when everybody agrees that if those two words were removed from the lease, it would be acceptable? Indeed, even at the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Did the Taoiseach not watch the committee?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: The Taoiseach obviously was not watching the committee-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: I sat in the Taoiseach's office in 2016 following a general election as he was making his first attempt to ascend to the position he now holds. We talked at some length about privatisation within healthcare. I remember he used the private Bon Secours hospital in Cork as an example of private healthcare's over-reliance on the public system and the public purse to prop up its operations. He...