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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (9 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 50. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the National Development Plan 2021-2030 review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29479/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (9 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 55. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a list and description of all OPW land holdings in County Donegal, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29480/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Court Accommodation (9 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 61. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what plans the OPW has to refurbish or upgrade the courthouse in Donegal town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29481/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Supply (9 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 435. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the funding will be announced for the Multi Annual Water Programme 2024-2026; when funding will be announced for projects (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29705/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (9 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 671. To ask the Minister for Health the reason trainee student occupational therapists who are attending ATU Letterkenny and have to do an eight-week placement have been told that they cannot do the placement with the HSE (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29158/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. Is the Minister of State, Deputy Smyth, taking this Topical Issue as well? Is he taking them all?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: No offence to the Minister of State, Deputy Smyth, but I understood that Topical Issues were supposed to be taken by the relevant Minister. As far as I understand it, he is a Minister of State at the Department of public expenditure, and this is the responsibility of the Department of Rural and Community Development. It is disappointing but I know that is the way Topical Issues have...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: It did not do that.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: It has never happened.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I have prepared for this to be taken today. Had I been aware, I would have deferred, as I wanted the Minister to be here. Basically, we are talking to the ether anyway.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: How are we supposed to know when there was no communication? I assumed the Minister was going to be here to take the Topical Issue. We cannot be charged with going around-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Not yet, no. I will wait until I go over that side, and then we will do it. As the Minister of State knows, FASD - and he might not know of it but I will talk to it anyway - is foetal alcohol spectrum disorder. It is an underrecognised condition in Ireland. Compared to other jurisdictions like Canada and New Zealand, we are way behind in dealing with it and providing funding and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister of State. The Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, has outlined in her response that funding has been allocated, that the FASD Hub Ireland was established in March 2023, and it operates from Monday to Friday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. for anyone who lives with FASD. That is welcome but there is no funding provided for that. The funding has not actually reached FASD...

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (4 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the debate. I support this legislation and its intention to raise the minimum legal age of sale of tobacco products to 21 in an attempt to accelerate the decline in adult smoking prevalence. Smoking cigarettes has been proven to cause death, ill health and disability. Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in Ireland, and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Once again, the Government has stumbled blindly into yet another defective blocks fiasco of its own making. I know this will probably annoy and set off the Tánaiste, since he is convinced that the whole thing is sorted, but I am here to remind him again this week that it is not. Three weeks ago today, the Minister, Deputy Ryan, announced that SEAI grants would be available in a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: The grant scheme has been reduced for people with defective blocks.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Eamon Ryan is the Minister. The SEAI-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vehicle Registration Tax (4 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made by his Department on the implementation of a new VRT system for disabled drivers, to enable them to purchase and modify vehicles for themselves; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28918/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vehicle Registration Tax (4 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: This question concerns the VRT scheme for disabled drivers. As the Minister will know, this has been on hold now since 2012 or 2013 and we have been waiting for a new scheme to come into place that will meet the needs of disabled drivers. What is the updated position in this regard?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vehicle Registration Tax (4 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: At least the Department has changed the wording around a wee bit in this answer. Everybody who has asked a question about what is happening as regards changes to this scheme in recent years has received the same answer. At least a bit of initiative was shown to make it sound a bit different. In reality, however, basically nothing is happening. What is going to be done now is that another...