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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Employment Service (4 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: This question relates to how the Department is proposing to terminate the community-based employment services under the local employment schemes and job clubs in the country by the end of this year. The Department is initiating a competitive procurement process for future services. It is clear from my previous interactions with the Minister that a payment-by-results arrangement as used in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Employment Service (4 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: We have ongoing interactions.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Employment Service (4 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I take it from what the Minister has said that the tendering process is going to be found that will allow community based programmes to tender. I take it the process will not be totally on a privatised basis. Is that what I can take from the response of the Minister? If that is the case, then it is most welcome but that does not seem to be the way the Department has been going. I call on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (4 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 8. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeline for the procurement process for future employment services; if a payments-by-results model for employment services will be sought despite the unsuitability of this model having been demonstrated in other jurisdictions including here; if the new model will acknowledge distance travelled by which the focus is on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (4 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 42. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to incidences in which JobPath providers insist on seeking a commission for persons that sought work on their own accord after having attended an initial meeting with JobPath employment services despite the new employer verifying this to be the case; and if she will make a statement on the...

Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: As is the case with everything when it come to Brexit, the issue of agriculture is up in the air and nobody knows where it will land. As other Members stated, Brexit leaves the Government in a difficult position because it does not know in what way it should prepare for change. It could go down the road of preparing for a no-deal Brexit only to find that a deal is struck and all its...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Data (3 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stages of building of each of the schools due funding from the 2016-2021 capital plan; if each of the projects are on schedule; the schools and the status of each, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15520/19]

Autism Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I welcome the motion. I reiterate the crux of the motion, which states that many of the barriers people with autism face are a result of how society responds to those with the condition. We would do well to remind ourselves that our duty as public representatives is to break down those barriers and provide the necessary supports so that anyone, regardless of disability, can participate in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Expenditure (2 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: 38. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rationale for rescheduling funding from the upgrade project of the A5 motorway; if funding will be provided for same in the future; the revised timeline indicated for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9752/19]

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister for his contribution so far. I do not have the same intimate knowledge as other members, as I am not from a farming community. Looking at the documents the Minister has supplied to the committee, there is no 2018 output. There is a list of targets but no outputs. We have no way of gauging how the Department has performed on any of the parameters. It is regrettable...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: It is on the second page with regard to programme A for 2017. We have a target for 2018 but no output so we have nothing with which to compare it. The target in 2017 was 9,400 and the outturn was 3,600, which is well short. How do we know that 2018 was in any way on target? We do not have the figures. Perhaps the Minister has them. With regard to programme B10, forestry and bioenergy...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I am discussing outputs under programme B and the number of hectares of new forestry planting.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: There is also the number of herds participating in the animal welfare scheme for sheep. The target was 33,000 and the output was 19,000. The target for 2018 was 23,000 but we do not know anything about what the output was. In programme D, with regard to fisheries, which is the largest expenditure group in the 2019 Estimate, the figure is €42.488 million.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Yes, with regard to fisheries. I would like a breakdown of what that €42 million for 2019 accounts for. With regard to the outputs for the number of aquaculture development licences under programme D, in 2017 the target was 235 determinations and the outturn was 109, which is approximately 50%. How do we know how many were done in 2018? We have a target figure but we have no...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: With respect, it is a bit rich to have these figures and not have the outturns. We should not have to ask for them.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Yes, but how can we know what the Estimate is? The 2017 outturn and targets are there.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: There is €42.488 million for the 2019 Estimate for current and capital expenditure under subhead D3.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: The weather was just as bad in 2017.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: I asked about the animal welfare scheme for sheep.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: Subhead B10 relates to forestry and bioenergy. How is that broken down?