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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Investments (26 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 31. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the divestment of public funding in the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund from fossil fuel companies since the enactment of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act 2018; his plans as part of the climate action plan 2019 to encourage the private sector to divest from fossil fuel companies and offer investors fossil free alternatives; and if he will make...

Special Needs Education Places: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: In the time I have, I will be brief. I wish to mention the realities of the Department's transition from a generalised education allocation model for learning supports at primary and post-primary schools to the revised allocation process we have today. The former dealt with the assessed needs of individual children, whereas the new model allocates special education teachers to mainstream...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Fraud (25 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 14. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount it will cost to review over 750,000 social welfare claims in 2019 as part of the new anti-fraud strategy; the estimated savings that will be made from the review; the timeline of the review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38798/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (25 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 37. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for the future of JobPath; if winding down the scheme is being considered in the near future in view of the fact that only 6% of participants have achieved work for over one year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38797/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (25 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 125. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the provision of long-term sustainable funding for community health projects, including a foundation (details supplied) in County Donegal, in order that they are not under threat of closure every few months if funding and donations cannot fill the gap; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39023/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (25 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 133. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be allocated to a centre (details supplied) to allow it open from the current 40 to 52 weeks per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39032/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (25 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding is available for the upgrading of rural roads along the Wild Atlantic Way for the benefit of developing tourism in the area and increasing connections along the coast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38911/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation (25 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address the issue of the delay in implementation of the mica redress scheme in County Donegal; the number of personnel hired to date by Donegal County Council to facilitate the implementation process; the timeline of the implementation of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39025/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Tax: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I was opposed to the increase in carbon tax recommended in the report last March and I voted against it, though I voted in favour of the overall report. Today's discussion has reinforced my objection. I was concerned that it would give too much licence to the Government to increase carbon taxes on vulnerable households, against a backdrop of failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Tax: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Much work is happening. How long will it take? This work was supposed to be completed and presented to the committee so that we could take a view in advance of the budget and feed into the budgetary process. Earlier it was stated that some of the work might be finished early at the start of the new year. That will feed into the process through the year so it could be June or July before...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Tax: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: There is much interdepartmental work and communication related to climate change. Does Mr. Collins not see the committee as part of that process or recognise a responsibility to talk to us? The committee does not figure in that so the Departments are working away. I am not saying that they are not doing work or that it is not useful work. The problem for us as a committee is that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Tax: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: So we are probably asking the officials the wrong questions and taking the wrong view of this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Tax: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: We do not know that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision: Discussion with Ombudsman (25 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I think it is 1,200 or 1,300 people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision: Discussion with Ombudsman (25 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: The first asylum seekers came to Donegal town in 2000. I was involved in the asylum support group in Donegal town at that time. As such, I have been involved through the entire process since asylum seekers have been here. It is interesting that the problems raised at the first meeting in Donegal town before the asylum seekers came were exactly the same as the ones being raised in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision: Discussion with Ombudsman (25 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: All politicians, as I said. I refer to Mr. Tyndall's opening statement, which included a couple of requests for the committee. I would like to put them formally to allow the committee to support them in future. They were touched on earlier by previous speakers. On the examination of complaints about the asylum process, does he believe his remit should be extended to include the process?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision: Discussion with Ombudsman (25 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Would that apply to emergency centres as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision: Discussion with Ombudsman (25 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I do not know whether Mr. Garvey is aware that an emergency centre opened recently in Portsalon, County Donegal, which is a very isolated area. No play facilities are available for the children. The residents are finding it very difficult to organise transport to allow their children to access play facilities. Is the Portsalon centre on the radar of the Office of the Ombudsman?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision: Discussion with Ombudsman (25 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Okay. I think that would be important because there is some difficulty there. When Mr. Garvey and his colleagues visit the centres and try to talk to the staff, do they bring interpreters with them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision: Discussion with Ombudsman (25 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Right.