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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gaeltacht Policy (13 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 317. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide details of projected expenditure from the fund announced of €2.2 million to support eligible Gaeltacht families who normally provide accommodation for summer college students by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37997/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (13 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 488. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his officials have reviewed the motion on personal assistance services for disabled persons which passed unanimously in Dáil Éireann on 19 November 2019; the measures that will be brought forward to progress these rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28223/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Service Executive (8 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister of State for her frank and honest response. It is quite stark that a Minister of State has to come into the House and make a speech like that in response to this issue. This should never have got to this stage and it should have been dealt with long before now. It is a serious problem when the HSE behaves like this towards a Government. We all want this to be dealt...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Service Executive (8 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I hope to deal with this issue in a sensitive way. I wish to discuss the Brandon report. This is something I have been raising with the HSE for some time. I had hoped it could be dealt with sensitively, delicately, privately and professionally. Unfortunately, this has not been the case and I feel I have been left with no choice but to raise this publicly. ...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: On page 89 of the programme for Government, Our Shared Future, the Government acknowledges the "importance of the Irish language as the first language of the State". However, mná tí have been given a paltry €1 per student increase on last year's compensation for losing students and keeping accommodation ready for their return. Why are they being treated so disrespectfully,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: The Minister has outlined that he is waiting for final agreement on the regulations. With whom is he waiting for agreement? As far as I know, nobody has been consulted on a final agreement except, perhaps, the developers. What the Minister has outlined on EirGrid sounds very good and nice but the reality is it is not the developer of the wind farms. The developers of the wind farms are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: Recently in County Donegal, residents in Glenties, Doochary and Lettermacaward were blanketed with a leaflet drop announcing a new wind farm application in Cloghercor. This is in addition to a new application in the geographically adjacent Graffy area, a broadly similar landscape. The proposed Cloghercor project runs from Cleengort and Derkmore Lough in the south through to Shallogans and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Asylum Applications (8 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 88. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps her Department is taking to improve processing times for applications for asylum, leave to remain and associated permissions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37158/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Asylum Applications (8 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: This question relates to the delays that are inherent in the processing of applications from asylum seekers in the State. The situation was outlined perfectly by the Irish Refugee Council when it stated, "Four and half years since the commencement of the International Protection Act 2015 and the introduction of a single application procedure in 2017, the Irish system remains fraught with...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Asylum Applications (8 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: What the Minister of State said sounds very good but, unfortunately, that is all it does. The Department has outlined that it wants to process applications within nine months. What the Minister of State failed to mention in his reply is that the median processing time for all cases processed to completion by the international protection office in quarter 1 2021 was 22.2 months. It took...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Asylum Applications (8 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: Unfortunately, the real world is not in the IPO. The real world is that experienced by the asylum seekers who must live under the system in this State. That is appalling. For people to have to spend as long as they have spent trying to get their cases heard is wrong. It is important that we put the words of the people concerned on the record. One said, "I came to Ireland to seek to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic Violence (7 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 87. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a grant is available to assist a domestic violence service that is helping victims of domestic abuse to purchase CCTV cameras in order that victims can be safe in their own homes (details supplied); if there is funding which could be made available; if an official from her office will make contact with the service; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (7 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has signed-off on the approval of the appointment of a person (details supplied) to positions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36602/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (7 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 119. To ask the Minister for Health the actions taken to date to implement the commitment in the Programme for Government to examine how Government can continue to support drugs and alcohol taskforces in identifying local need in communities and support targeted initiatives addressing drug and alcohol misuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30254/21]

Ban on Rent Increases Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: There is no doubt the rental sector in this country is facing a crisis. I strongly support the long overdue ban on rent increases. However, let us be clear: this crisis has not happened overnight. Under successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael governments, rents have soared exponentially over recent decades and there is no sign of it stopping anytime soon. Fianna Fáil and Fine...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Fostaíocht sa Ghaeltacht (6 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 199. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an mbeadh sí sásta cruinniú a ghairm le coiste (sonraí tugtha) agus chun a fhiafraí dí fosta cén tacaíocht airgid a bheidh ar fáil do na mná tí; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [35814/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (6 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when dredging will commence at Magheroarty Pier, Magheraroarty, Gortahork, County Donegal (details supplied); the reason the application has taken so long to be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36235/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (6 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that is available for a group to set up a summer camp for children with autism (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35903/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (6 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 361. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that an application for carer’s allowance was submitted to her Department in respect of a person (details supplied); and when a decision will be made on the application. [36349/21]

Workplace Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (2 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I am glad to have the opportunity to contribute to the debate on this Bill. Regarding the comments on balance in terms of tribunals, it has been my experience that the balance is very much in favour of employers when one looks at the amount of suits they have going into hearings, while workers very often cannot afford that. It is a very unbalanced situation and we need to do everything we...