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

Thomas Pringle: Would a new scheme in line with international best practice take 12 years to design and put in place? I do not think that is in line with any best practice anywhere along the way. If the report the Minister referred to is prepared and ready for the autumn, will this be in time for the budget and for provisions to be made for a new scheme to be in place in January 2025? Is that what the...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I also thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this motion. Women in this country have been failed over and over again by our judicial system, our health system, our education system, the Defence Forces and us as legislators. Each day we fail to address the rise in gender-based violence, misogynistic views and male-supremacy content online, we fail women all over again. Reports of...

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Maybe the reason for that-----

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: -----is that people know there is going to be no discussion.

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I will start and Deputy Connolly will continue after me. I have already expressed my disapproval of this Bill being rushed through during a meeting of the Joint Committee on Justice on this legislation two weeks ago. I would not call it pre-legislative scrutiny because that is not what it was. Members of the committee were given a short note by the Department regarding its contents, after...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: To qualify what I am saying, I have had no involvement at all in conveyance of property at any stage. I am completely agnostic regarding this and know nothing about it other than what I am reading here. I am very concerned about what the witnesses said on that. Basically, the principle that the Law Society is working from is "buyer beware". It is up to the buyer. The whole process is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: How long would a reasonable time to do the checks be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: The witnesses' submission notes issues such as right of way, extensions without planning permission, boundary issues, septic tanks outside the boundary and planning permission issue represent 85%, 80%, 65% and 61% of issues.. They could all be sorted out initially before a property could be put on the market but the Law Society states that if I am buyer, I have to verify that those are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Taoiseach for his response. I also thank the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, because it is vital that this is recognised. This requires a whole-of-government approach. This is a crisis that will only get worse. Community buildings, private buildings, factories and farm buildings across Donegal will all be collapsing over the next few years because of the defective concrete crisis....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I visited the Ardara Community Childcare centre yesterday and I was horrified to see the effect the defective blocks are having on the building. Ardara Community Childcare opened a purpose-built premises in the heart of Ardara town in 2007 after securing funding from the EU's special support programme for peace and reconciliation and with the help of many local funding initiatives in Ardara....

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 139. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence what procedures are in place for the reporting by army personnel of the discharge of a weapon during duty periods; if the military authorities keep track of discharges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28245/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a list of the pass and failure rate for the small public service vehicles test for applicants from County Donegal and in all other counties in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27826/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are any processes in place to ensure that insurance providers of long-term illness cover have a robust policy on fitness to work, assessing in an open and transparent way the extent to which a particular illness impairs or restricts a person’s capacity to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28010/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 185. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider adding persons in circumstances (details supplied) to inheritance group A; if not if he will create an exemption under an inheritance tax band, for family who play the role of carer to family members with no children or family of their own; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28169/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 284. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allowing persons with a diagnosis of fibromyalgia and in receipt of disability allowance on this basis, to work minimal hours similar to carer’s allowance, from the point of improving mental health without fear of suffering a loss of entitlements; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 318. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what role she would have in the dismissal of a serving civil servant/prison officer from their post; what role the Chief Medical Officer would play in a dismissal; whether the dismissal would be by the Minister or by the Prison Service itself; if the criteria used would have changed over time; what system would have prevailed...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Healthcare Policy (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 379. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail what is envisaged at page 38 of the HSE National Service Plan 2024, where it states “a foetal alcohol project will be undertaken using a multi-care health sector approach (primary care, mental health services etc.)"; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28157/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 383. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children adopted into the State through the intercountry adoption process in each of the past 20 years where a condition (details supplied) was noted on the birth record, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28251/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 430. To ask the Minister for Health if a substantive reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27991/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 440. To ask the Minister for Health the current diagnostic pathway for sufferers of suspected fibromyalgia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28008/24]