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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Raised Bog Management Plan (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 300. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the breakdown of the budget 2020 measures for bog restoration and rehabilitation to be funded under just transition; the role her Department plays in co-financing research and EU LIFE projects in the region; and the way in which she intends to engage with academic research in the activity in order to scale up projects to avoid...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Raised Bog Management Plan (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 304. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the bog restoration and rehabilitation measures that will be funded through the NPWS; the estimated cost of availing of the land use, land-use change and forestry flexibilities as they relate to peatlands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49425/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: The Chairman should have said that earlier. Perhaps he would have held on to more of us. We will never turn down a photo opportunity. Many of my questions have probably been asked, which is good. It is a benefit of coming to the meeting late. One of the main issues is that nothing seems to be analysed in cost terms. It is something I have noticed as a new member of the committee. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Creating demand is what the Legal Aid Board should be about. Mr. McDaid has to manage within the restrictions of the board's budget and I have a fair bit of sympathy for that. Having a good website is a very static, passive thing. I think I have a good website. People will not naturally come to my website to find out what is happening just because it is there. It is clear from what Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Issues and resources is a different matter to how legislation is actually working and whether it is achieving what it wants to achieve or whether people are acting on information. There was the case relating to sexual offences. I think four people in 2004-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: There is no analysis of that from anywhere. The Legal Aid Board is the public body here but nobody from the Department of Justice and Equality or elsewhere is looking at that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: We will tell the Department that it should be looking at it too because it is not. Who is the person who should be looking at this or which body should do this? I do not believe that it should be the Law Society, the Bar Council or the Free Legal Advice Centres because that is not their role. Maybe the Department or the Legal Aid Board should be. Somebody should be looking at it. One...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: It is not even a matter of other innovations but saying what Mr. O'Leary has said just now in a suitable format. I do not know if he needs to say it to the Department of Justice and Equality or who the right people are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: That has to be said very loudly in public so that everybody knows. We have a role in making sure that the board is capable of doing that. We in this committee have to hold Government to account.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I am sorry to cut across Mr. Ó hUallacháin but I am not coming down on the Legal Aid Board simply because it is the Legal Aid Board. I am highlighting the fact that there is a lack of information made available by people who have a responsibility to make it available. It is not a personal attack on anybody.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: They did not say what year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: That is what I am trying to get at. I am trying to tease out is whose responsibility this is. Ms Barry stated the Oireachtas has a role, and I take that on board. We have a role, as does the Department of Justice and Equality. The Legal Aid Board also has a role, although, unfortunately, it is not resourced to do it and is dependent on the Department for that. This is vital. We have no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: It was to everybody.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I thank everybody for their responses. I have one final question on class actions. As a lay person, one sees how people have to go to such lengths to get their rights dealt with in the court system and through court procedure, and it only deals with that particular case. Somebody else coming along has to go through the same procedure. It is a very cumbersome and a wrong system for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: We just have the wrong Government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: That it is.

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Sláinte), 2019: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Health) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I fully support the Bill. It is worthwhile. Rights to health, to education, to life and to live life to the full are what all citizens should be demanding. The State and Government should be ensuring everybody has these rights. I proposed economic, social and cultural rights twice in the Dáil. My Bill was to enshrine rights in the Constitution. Dr. Harty's Bill is along the same...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: No, but the Government has spoken.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: The Government has spoken.