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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: Would those houses be built to that standard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: I agree totally with what Mr. Armstrong is saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: Does the Department check the statistics?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: As I understand it we own enet and have been the major shareholders in enet for a long time. It has rolled out the metropolitan area networks across the country and we are shareholders in that, or maybe I am wrong in that. Enet told me that a number of years ago. The Minister can clarify that. In the Minister's own statement he outlined what was wrong with this process right from the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: I do not know if he has taken up my time.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: He has taken up somebody's time but it is certainly not mine.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: That is definitely not going to happen.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: You can sort that out, Acting Chairman. You can deal with Deputy Stanley.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: I am going to use my time anyway, that is for sure. The Minister outlined the problems with the broadband scheme from the very first day when he allowed Eircom to go off and do its own thing. That is the crux of the problem. Eircom did nothing for years in terms of rolling out broadband for its customers and when it saw there was interest from other parties, it rolled it out to a last few....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: The Minister has a corporate role.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: 5. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the tendering process for the national broadband plan; if he is satisfied with the process to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41465/18]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: As I sat here for the last hour or so listening to my colleagues' analysis of the budget, I was asking myself what value we have in coming in here to criticise the budget. The more I listened to it, the more I was convinced that it is important because I think back to when I was younger, which is a long time ago now, and we would look at these budgets with Fine Gael on one side and Fianna...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Harbours and Piers Funding (9 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: 563. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding granted for an update on Magheroarty Pier, County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41009/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Local Authority Funding (9 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: 564. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount allocated to Donegal County Council to carry out works to the Bunbeg Bridge, Gweedore; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41010/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action (4 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: I support Deputy Eamon Ryan regarding the points he raised. It is clear from the contributions of the witnesses last week that the committee does not figure in how the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment views the work it is doing, which is a very worrying development. That is no fault of our guests. The situation may be entirely different in the Department of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (4 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: A number of the questions I had intended asking have been answered already. The witnesses mentioned interdepartmental meetings that take place at a high level between the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and other Departments. Are the minutes of those meetings available? If so, where can we find them? Can we find out what is discussed at these meetings? To give an example of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (4 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: They are not available anywhere now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (4 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: The reason I am asking is that during last week's meeting the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment told us that all of these reports were available and all these meetings had taken place. As such, there is basically no real need for this committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (4 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: None of this information is widely available to the public. The Department does not make it available. I wanted to ask about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (4 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: One could probably say, therefore, that 20% of the Department's investment generates about 90% of the conversation.