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Housing (Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2019)

Thomas Pringle: The housing adaptation grant scheme allocates housing aid for older people and for people with disability and mobility aid grants. The grants are available when changes need to be made to a home to make it suitable for a person with a physical, sensory or intellectual disability or a mental health difficulty to live there. The grant can help people make changes and adaptations to their home...

Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Vulture funds have fast become a normal feature in the economy since the Government came to power. Distressed mortgages are now regarded as a new commodity, bundled up in a new financial product to be offered as fresh pickings for vulture funds making their way through the economy at the invitation of the Government. Fine Gael continues to open up the market to include a wider net of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (28 May 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 316. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is on the priority list to access child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, in County Donegal; if other emergency services can be accessed across the Border in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22898/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Policy (28 May 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 334. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he and his officials and all State bodies with functions in relation to agricultural policy and advice accept and endorse the findings of the IPCC fifth Assessment Report, Working Group I in relation to the emissions metric values used to describe the global warming impact of methane, CH4; his views on and if he endorses the use...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment (28 May 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on their application for a working family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22707/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (22 May 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 110. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) has an entitlement to work here or in Northern Ireland while they are awaiting their naturalisation to be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22132/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (22 May 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 115. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of young persons resident in direct provision aged 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 years of age, respectively in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22144/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Applications (22 May 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 199. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a working family payment for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22131/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Autism Support Services (16 May 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 163. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding mechanisms available for organisations such as an organisation (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21191/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: European Commission Strategy on Climate Action: Discussion (16 May 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I thank Mr. Petriccione for his contribution, about which he already has been asked very detailed questions. I have a number of questions on the strategy and about one of his earlier answers. He said the Commission is looking at how the policy will develop to 2030, and that it will be able to react then to see if it needs to change and have a more detailed structure. At what point will the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 May 2019)

Thomas Pringle: It is vital that the Minister meet the ambulance crews. It is true that they do not want to be here and would prefer to be at work. They want to serve the people of the country. Will the Minister correct the record of the House as he indicated in reply to a parliamentary question that he had not received correspondence from a number of Members requesting that he meet members of the NASRA...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services Funding (15 May 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 247. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will seek to preserve a service (details supplied) in County Donegal for women and children seeking refuge from domestic abuse; if a reply will issue to its request for urgent funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20999/19]

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I had written a nice speech about how having such a provision in the Constitution could be treated, considered, addressed and so on. I do not usually sit in the Chamber and listen to the speeches of the Government because they are usually claptrap, although the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton's, contribution on the Bill was even worse. I listened to it and have read a copy of it. I am...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (14 May 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 133. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he has taken to solve the issue of community employment supervisor pension and redundancy claims since the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection met a delegation alongside representative unions recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20695/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (14 May 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 338. To ask the Minister for Health the actions carried out to bring about diagnosis and treatment facilities for those suffering from Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20697/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Grant Applications (14 May 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 502. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average length of time applications for housing and mobility grants are waiting in County Donegal; the number of persons granted housing and mobility grants for each year since 2016; the amount spent by Donegal County Council by year; the number of persons that were turned down applications for each of those years; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Brexit Issues (9 May 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 82. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to concerns by cancer patients in County Donegal travelling to a hospital (details supplied) in the context of a hard Brexit; the steps that have been taken to ensure patients having to travel to Northern Ireland will not have their cancer treatment interrupted by Brexit-related events; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compulsory Purchase Orders (9 May 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 118. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a compulsory purchase order was confirmed by An Bord Pleanála in August 2011 for Lough Foyle; the amount paid for the order; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20164/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps Operations (8 May 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 67. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason requested helicopters and backup had not arrived in a timely manner to combat the gorse fires in the Rosses, County Donegal; if emergency plans and protocols will be put in place to deal with similar future incidences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19550/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Teachers' Remuneration (8 May 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 118. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Revenue Commissioners will amend and deliver the payslip of a person (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to delays in the processing of payslips for substitute teachers; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18685/19]