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Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates (3 Nov 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 1342. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applicants for the primary medical certificate programme in 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33297/20]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: I agree with Deputy Boyd Barrett on this. The whole tenet of this legislation appears to be just to place the blame on householders and that householders are responsible for everything that is happening with Covid. One would imagine that Covid was lurking somewhere in the utility room or in the kitchen waiting to get out and that the only way to get out was through the householders. We...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: It is now the end of October. We are more than seven months into this pandemic and experiencing the expected second wave. In March, we felt we were all in this together and communities pulled together. Then the great coalition was formed and things started to fall apart. The scandals, the Fianna Fáil-ness of one's behaviour, golf-gate, Mr. Phil Hogan’s whistle-stop tour around...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Second Stage (22 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: On the face of it, I support this Bill as it will ban evictions during the level 5 lockdown. The Bill's title states that Covid-19 “will impede the ability of tenants to find alternative accommodation” and mentions the “consequent impact on the well-being of persons and families”. Since when have the mental health impacts of secure housing been a concern of...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Second Stage (22 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: They will not be published until after this Bill has been passed. That is good.

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Second Stage (22 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: Maybe the Minister can respond when he is summing up because I have been waiting for my time for a while. The RTB reported that it was informed of 374 eviction notices to tenants between March and the end of June this year, when the blanket eviction ban was in place. The RTB also said there was an increase in complaints about illegal evictions during September. Like everything, what good is...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Cathaoirleach for the opportunity to speak again. although I wonder what is the point. It might be worth recording that everyone is wrong except the Department. Maybe we should put on the record that everyone here is wrong, all the survivors are wrong, all the people who have gone through the material and all the academics who have worked on the entire process over recent years...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: I wish to speak in support of the amendment. Before I do so I wish, with the Ceann Comhairle's latitude, to mention an amendment I submitted and which, due to a mix-up between him and the Bills Office, has not been accepted. It would have been in order, and this signifies and shows how the Bill has been rushed through. These processes are there as a way to allow people to have an input...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Deaths (22 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 139. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 607 of 6 October 2020, the number of deaths in custody covered that took place while a prisoner was outside the prison; the definition of narrative verdict; if she could provide an explanation as to the way in which a death in custody could be an open verdict; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 171. To ask the Minister for Health the evidence-based scientific study he and the HSE are currently using to justify denying women their internationally recognised human right to a birth partner of their choice physically present with them throughout pregnancy, labour and birth a blatant violation of their human rights [32109/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 172. To ask the Minister for Health the evidence-based reasoning that he and the HSE are currently using for choosing to go directly against the World Health Organization guidelines that specifically state that Covid-19 should not pose a barrier to a woman having a partner of their choice physically present with them throughout their labour and birth even in which Covid-19 is suspected or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 173. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the way in which he and the HSE plan to provide for the additional perinatal mental health needs of the many women and families left traumatised by the current policy of some Irish hospitals, including Letterkenny University Hospital, County Donegal of not allowing women a partner of their choice to be physically present with them to support...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 174. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for adhering to international best practice guidelines in maternity care, such as but not limited to, the World Health Organization position that all women should continue to have access to a birth partner of their choice during the Covid-19 pandemic is allowed to be optional in Irish hospitals [32112/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: That is fair enough about the launch of the scheme. The Minister outlined that she is providing additional money and so on but the reality is that in rural areas, coach operators operate a number of different varieties of transport, including school transport and so on. They supplement their income by doing different things. I know from contacts I have received that the tours they...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: Over the past week or so, there has been quite a volume of calls to my office from rural bus operators in County Donegal. They are querying what they see as the overly stringent nature of the qualifying criteria for the coach tourism business continuity scheme operated by Fáilte Ireland. Specifically, they feel aggrieved where, as stated in the guidelines, qualifying vehicles under...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 8 o’clock Deputy Joan Collins was unfortunately unable to attend tonight’s debate so I will be taking the five minutes of her time. All of us have received an astounding amount of correspondence on this legislation in recent weeks. I tell the thousands of people who contacted me, and indeed those who are watching closely for the outcome of this debate, that I hear them, I...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (21 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 24. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes which have been connected with fibre broadband since National Broadband Ireland took control of the roll out of the National Broadband Plan by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31804/20]

Ministerial Power (Repeal) (Ban Co-Living and Build to Rent) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: We are.

Ministerial Power (Repeal) (Ban Co-Living and Build to Rent) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: That is right. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill and commend Deputy Ó Broin for bringing it forward. In July 2019, then Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, tried to tell the Irish public that co-living was like living in a "very trendy kind of boutique hotel-type place". The Irish Examinerof Saturday, 20 July 2019, reported that one...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: I agree with previous speakers. It is clear that not enough time has been allocated to the debate on the Bill. The legislation has been described as an emergency but the report was imminent when the Minister briefed Opposition Deputies a couple of months ago. We are now approaching the final days. The Minister is introducing an amendment to change the date to January 2021. A simple Bill...