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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Aid (3 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 313. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 654 of 3 November 2020, the amount of aid allocated to each of the NGOs mentioned in tabular form; the amount drawn down by these active organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5011/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (3 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 610. To ask the Minister for Health when the review of the fair deal scheme will be complete; if there will be a change to the way in which land value is considered; if other changes are planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4995/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (3 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 661. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider bringing forward legislation to make period products such as sanitary pads and tampons available for free to persons that need them similar to that signed into law recently by the Scottish Parliament; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5201/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (3 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 662. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the passage of opposition legislation similar to that signed into law recently by the Scottish Parliament to make period products such as sanitary pads and tampons available for free to persons that need them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5202/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 671. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider reviewing the prioritisation of the 1,100 persons with cystic fibrosis under the National Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Implementation Plan sequencing table, page 9, due to their high risk of susceptibility to respiratory infection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5249/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 807. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which those with medical conditions which put them at high risk of severe disease will be selected and contacted to receive the Covid-19 vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5651/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 859. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the pandemic intersectoral and international policy unit in his Department; when this unit was established; the number of staff in the unit; the aims and actions of the unit; the cost of the unit; if minutes are available to Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5865/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (3 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 936. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the nature of plans to have the Naval Service board any of the factory vessels currently fishing for mackerel off the west coast to check them for compliance with the Common Fisheries Policy, recognising that all vessels landing mackerel at ports here are inspected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5316/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (3 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 965. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the task force on fisheries will be established further to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture and the Marine meeting of 22 January 2021; the timeframe for the task force to be operational; when an announcement will be made for participants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5934/21]

Covid-19 (Social Protection): Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I have just a few questions, to which I hope answers can be given within the three and a half minutes I have. I have asked the Department for its views on areas of social deprivation and how the prevalence of Covid-19 is impacting these areas around the country. A recent study by the Donegal Women’s Network reinforces some of the issues I raised with the Minister about deprivation...

Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (27 Jan 2021)

Thomas Pringle: That is fine. It is interesting to sit here in a debate to transpose EU legislation onto our Statute Book only to listen to a debate about the theft of dogs. When I heard this debate was coming up and it was being discussed earlier, I was thinking that it was not appropriate for this Bill. However, I then thought that the Government is going to have to show to Europe that we have...

Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (Covid Restrictions Support Scheme) (Percentage Adjustment) Order 2021: Motion (27 Jan 2021)

Thomas Pringle: In the overall scheme of things, I welcome that the Minister is recognising the strain on businesses and making a Christmas bonus-type payment to CRSS recipients. However, as always, I believe he is doing the bare minimum. He is continuing to choose to ignore the knock-on effect of the restrictions on others, because it would cost him money. The RTÉ Home School Hub could explain...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2021)

Thomas Pringle: A married couple with two children, earning more than €28,000 a year, cannot get on the Donegal County Council housing list. The thresholds across the country are supposed to be reviewed by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage as it is its responsibility. Will the Taoiseach ensure that this review takes place? There is no way that a married couple which earns...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2021)

Thomas Pringle: On 22 October last, I submitted my first freedom of information, FOI, request to the Department of the Taoiseach on Covid-19 and a zero Covid-19 strategy. I wrote to the Taoiseach's Department, the HSE and the Department of Foreign Affairs seeking all records of correspondence between them and their relevant counterparts in Northern Ireland, Britain or both in respect of: the co-ordination...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I would love to thank the Taoiseach for his answer but I am afraid I cannot. People always ask me what I think of the responses I receive on Leader's Questions and I say I never listen to them because they mean nothing. The Taoiseach's response shows that to be true. I would advise him to listen back to this debate because he has not responded in respect of what I asked him about. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2021)

Thomas Pringle: Show us the correspondence.

An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir), 2018: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jan 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I thank everyone who contributed on Second Stage of my Private Members' Bill, the Thirty-Seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2018. As mentioned, this is my third attempt to have this Bill passed by various Dáileanna. I thank all the parties and groups that put forward speakers to debate the Bill and I thank them for their support in this...

An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir), 2018: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jan 2021)

Thomas Pringle: Tairgim: "Go léifear an Bille don Dara hUair anois." I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am hoping it will be third time lucky for my Thirty-seventh amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill. We debated it first in the Thirty-first Dáil in May 2015, then in the Thirty-second Dáil in March 2017 and now in the Thirty-third...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (27 Jan 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the inspection reports of the Dublin Region Homeless Executive will be made public given that public funding is used to fund this form of accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4108/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (27 Jan 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if providers of emergency accommodation are paid whether beds are empty or not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4106/21]