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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Housing and Retrofitting: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)
Thomas Pringle: Is it timed around the funding option and not around the optimal time to do work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Housing and Retrofitting: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)
Thomas Pringle: That is what I wanted to know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Housing and Retrofitting: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)
Thomas Pringle: Are the difficulties around the funding mechanisms and not the work being carried out?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Housing and Retrofitting: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)
Thomas Pringle: It is all made to fit the funding envelope rather than the actual work that needs to be done.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Housing and Retrofitting: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)
Thomas Pringle: Local authority houses can be rolled on in phases meaning the contractors can be sure of having work. This programme will take time. However, time is one thing we do not have. When is the Department going to stop thinking about it and make things happen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Housing and Retrofitting: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)
Thomas Pringle: With respect, officialdom has known about climate change for 20 years or more. When the Green Party was in power the last time, we knew about climate change. We are only now getting to do this work.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Housing and Retrofitting: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)
Thomas Pringle: Will we see the implementation ramp up astronomically?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Spent Convictions: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)
Thomas Pringle: I thank the speakers for the presentations. I apologise that I could not be here for the presentations but I have read the information. This is my first meeting as a member of the committee so I am only getting used to the work. I would say to Mr. Walsh that my daughter worked in Pathways on a job placement for a summer a few years ago, and she found it very worthwhile. It is an excellent...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)
Thomas Pringle: I am coming to this as a new member of the committee. I take what the Minister of State says, that in his opinion this will be dealt with by later legislation and that that is what he intends to do, but the problem is when that legislation will come before us. Will it ever come? What is the Minister of State's timescale for it? It is vitally important. Regarding the private members'...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)
Thomas Pringle: I am interested in hearing how the Minister arrived at the figures of €10 and €750. Thirty-five years ago in Killybegs I could have gambled £2 when the stake was 2.5 pence. There was no enforcement of the law. How do we know that there will be enforcement of the law now? If the law provides for a stake of €10, I am 100% sure one can gamble €100 in...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)
Thomas Pringle: I take on board what the Minister of State has said about the amendments and that work is ongoing on the other Bill, such that there is no need to proceed with these amendments because there is a duplication of work. I take it from that that this provision will be included in the new Bill. The Minister of State said he is doing that work for the next Bill and does not want to duplicate it...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)
Thomas Pringle: The Minister of State did not respond to my remarks. Although we are not reviewing this matter in legislation, will it be included in the next Bill?
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)
Thomas Pringle: It will not be necessary to table an amendment to make that happen. It will be included in the Bill.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)
Thomas Pringle: Will it be in the Bill?
- Special Educational Needs: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2019)
Thomas Pringle: As we enter the school holiday season, for some children with autism, nothing will have changed. According to the National Council for Special Education's recently published policy advice on autism in 2017, there was and still is a significant body of children with autism within the community who do not go to school at all and will this month see no difference in their usual day-to-day...
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Thomas Pringle: Is the Minister seriously trying to convince us that his concerns will trump Germany's concerns about the number of cars it sells to Brazil? Is that what he wants us to believe?
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Thomas Pringle: I apologise for interrupting but I am conscious of the time.
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Thomas Pringle: We will supply wing mirrors for cars and, therefore, it will be all right to do away with the beef trade. That will be okay.
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Thomas Pringle: How will the Government ensure that the trade will reflect all our needs, as the Ministers indicated? How will it enforce it at European level when it comes to the crunch? I imagine that the Government will return to the Chamber in a couple of years with a similar agreement and seek endorsement. Will the Government build alliances with like-minded countries to form a bloc for the qualified...
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Thomas Pringle: Deputy Boyd Barrett has said that this treaty has become known as the cows for cars deal and that seems to be the way it is going. All the focus has been on the fact that the EU will get to export industrial goods while we will get to import agricultural goods, from Brazil in particular, which is apparently of great benefit to us all. Mercosur will support agricultural industry that is...