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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (25 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 414. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will publish a report by a company (details supplied) on the cost of disability before the end of May 2021; if not, the timeframe for publication given its importance to budget planning; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28013/21]

Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel: Statements (20 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I despair but am probably not surprised at the latest genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli regime against the Palestinian people. I am sick to my core at the cowardly response of the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who seeks to blame Hamas rockets with no reference to the instigators of this violence. We cannot look away while Palestine is decimated. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Institutes of Technology (20 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place for development at Letterkenny Institute of Technology, LYIT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26714/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (20 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many potential students are blocked from accessing affordable third-level education due to their immigration status such as unaccompanied minors, children of immigrants working here and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26713/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (20 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 163. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the proposed directive on artificial intelligence and the Digital Services Act would render Ireland the EU’s super enforcer of these new regulations for technology companies based here; if he is concerned that the current delays in enforcing GDPR decisions by the Data...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Data Protection (20 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 164. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the US Senate is considering a draft Bill that targets jurisdictions with inadequate enforcement of data protection law (details supplied); her views on the situation; and his further views on whether the prospect of EU data export controls is a threat to the digital services sector....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Data Protection (20 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 165. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the US Senate is considering a draft Bill that targets jurisdictions with inadequate enforcement of data protection law (details supplied); his views on the situation; and his further views on whether the prospect of EU data export controls is a threat to the digital services sector....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Unions (20 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 161. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the failure of a company (details supplied) to recognise a union and collectively bargain with it on issues of concern; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27267/21]

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity to contribute on the Bill. I have been asking parliamentary questions for some time about the Bill's progression, as its provisions may impact on a large number of my constituents. Some Donegal farming families have been in contact with me about this amending legislation and were anxious to see what it would contain. The IFA farm family...

Ballymurphy Inquest: Statements (18 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: On Tuesday, 11 May, there was finally some justice for the ten people murdered in the Ballymurphy massacre. Fifty years after the tragedy of August 1971, an inquest, led by the coroner, Mrs. Justice Siobhan Keegan, found that the ten people killed were entirely innocent. The inquest found that nine of the victims had been shot by the British army. However, due to the lack of investigation...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I have a question on the addition of the debate on the cyberattack. The additional item has been welcomed by most Members but it has added more than two hours to the agenda today, meaning that the Dáil is not going to rise until 12.30 a.m. How can this item be added to the agenda when something else Members wish to add cannot be added because of Covid restrictions? I wonder whether...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the changes that will be made to the disability allowance given the fact that the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payments were significantly higher than the rate of the disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25552/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (18 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the progress made by her Department on the European Council recommendation, A Bridge to Jobs, Reinforcing the Youth Guarantee dated 30 October 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25551/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 366. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason his Department is not putting pressure on an association (details supplied) to develop or renovate the ground floor of a building in County Donegal to be used for council tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25525/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 367. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason his Department is not putting pressure on an association (details supplied) to put tenants in a housing development at a location in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25526/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (18 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Donegal County Council has been allocated funding for the energy efficiency retrofit programme phase 2 for window and doors replacement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26088/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans in place for the development of a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26158/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2020: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I thank all of the contributors for their submissions. It is remarkable how similar they all are in respect of the need for a proper system of appointment. Have they any thoughts as to why the system is so vague at present and as to why the opportunity has not been taken to strengthen it? That is probably a rhetorical question and may not require an answer. Dr. O’Brien’s...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2020: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: Perhaps we might start with Dr. O'Brien, as the rest of my questions may be rhetorical in nature.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2020: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: My apologies. If any other witnesses wish to respond to my other questions they may do so although these may not merit a response and perhaps some other members should be given the opportunity to contribute.