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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: Amendment No. 79 makes changes with regard to what is relevant to individuals who are adoptees. That is important.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: The Minister has said that he is going to publish guidelines as to what this means. For clarity, when will those guidelines be published? Will it be after the Bill is passed?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I agree with those sentiments. It is vital to expand the list to include those. This goes back to what we were saying on the last grouping of amendments about the need for people to be assured that the legislation will provide for all those bodies to be included. This ties in with GDPR and the information available for people to request. I fully support these amendments.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I fully support what the Deputies have said. It is amazing when you read it because all this information can be accessed from other sources anyway and people have been doing that. To single out adopted people and tell them they must go through this process is completely wrong. I would even have doubts about using a registered letter to them outlining the responsibilities or the fact that...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: The point has been well made regarding the problems with this part of these amendments. With regard to GDPR, was that in place at the time this was going through the Seanad? The GDPR obviously has an impact on this, which supersedes the court case to which the Minister referred. It is a right for people to access their personal information. That must have a bearing on the Supreme Court...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: It makes sure that if the documents are not in their possession, measures should be taken to ensure they are taken control of so that they can be investigated because it is vitally important. There are a number of documents outside the agencies.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I move amendment No. 127: In page 18, to delete line 13. This amendment is calling for the deletion of line 13, that is, section 9(2)(a), requiring that an application "be in such form as the relevant body concerned may specify". I do not think the relevant body should specify the information concerned or how it is conveyed. I am recommending that is removed and that the information...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I move amendment No. 137: In page 19, to delete lines 14 to 19.

Committee Report on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community: Statements (3 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I welcome Senator Flynn to the House. It is great to see her here and I hope it will not be the last time she is here. I thank her and the committee for the important and timely report. It includes 84 recommendations, all of which are important. There are many facts in the report as well, as has been mentioned by many speakers. I will not go back over them but they are important and it...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (3 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons awaiting a driving test in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11041/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (3 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of bus stations in County Donegal that are included in the Public Transport Accessibility Programme; the type of works planned; the date for the completion of the works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11040/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (3 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 209. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has completed his consideration of the report entitled, A Review Into Certain Planning Matters in Respect of Donegal County Council; if not, the reason for same; the date for the completion of his considerations; if he plans to publish the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11043/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (3 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 191. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the actions taken by his Department in relation to the announcement of enhancements to the defective concrete block scheme made on 30 November 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11042/22]

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I am sharing time with Deputy Connolly. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak on the significant Amnesty International report on Israel's apartheid against Palestinians, which Amnesty describes as a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity. Some of us have long known that Israel is an apartheid state, but we can hide from that fact no longer. It...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: Was it 400?

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: Was it 500?

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: Was it 600?

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: Okay. There were 600 Afghan refugees, compared with 20,000 Ukrainian refugees. No matter what the person’s skin tone, every human life should have the right to live a life free from war and oppression. We have turned our backs on Palestine for too long. We have ignored its people's cries and stayed silent in response to the hideous crimes committed against them. The Minister has...

Comóradh Sheachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (2 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: Tá áthas orm cur leis an díospóireacht ar Sheachtain na Gaeilge. Tá mé ag freastail ar ranganna Gaeilge le cúpla bliain anuas mar iarracht mo stórfocal a mhéadú le bheith in ann cur le díospóireachtaí sa Teach. De réir a chéile tá sé ag obair. Is breá liom an teanga ach bhí an iomarca eagla orm...

National Driver Licence Service: Motion [Private Members] (2 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: The issue of a walk-in service for renewal of a driving licence or the contracting out of the NDLS may appear to many in this House to be inconsequential or beneath the usual high-brow issues more becoming of deliberation in the Dáil Chamber. At face value, that may appear to be true but we must realise that these are just two examples of a steady creep of the incessant rolling back of...