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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Television Licences Data (26 Apr 2018)

Thomas Pringle: 203. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the statistics on the way in which television licence holders paid for their licence by each of the options available to them in each of the years 2014 to 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18348/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (25 Apr 2018)

Thomas Pringle: 83. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if increased assistance will be provided to humanitarian agencies in Gaza following the high casualty rate of Palestinians shot and injured during the six week great march of return which began on 30 March 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18250/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (24 Apr 2018)

Thomas Pringle: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes that will be carried out to an Scrúdú le haghaidh Cáilíochta sa Ghaeilge for entry into primary school teaching; when these changes will be carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17423/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Improvement Scheme Administration (24 Apr 2018)

Thomas Pringle: 550. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his Department has changed its practice in which it no longer funds private or non-council roads on islands unless the council agrees to take over the future maintenance of those private roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17668/18]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Duel Divestment Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Committee Stage (19 Apr 2018)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the committee for taking Committee Stage of the Bill, which is important. It was introduced with symbolic and substantive intentions and seeks to focus attention on the urgent need to increase climate action and ambition, including the need to accelerate the phasing out of fossil fuels if the temperature limits adopted in the Paris Agreement are to be achievable. It is also a direct...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Duel Divestment Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Committee Stage (19 Apr 2018)

Thomas Pringle: I move amendment No. 1:In page 3, to delete lines 13 to 29 and substitute the following:“(a) by inserting the following new section after section 49:“Investment in Fossil Fuel Businesses49A. (1) In this section--‘fellow subsidiary undertakings’, ‘higher holding undertaking’, ‘holding undertaking’ and ‘undertaking’ have the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Duel Divestment Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Committee Stage (19 Apr 2018)

Thomas Pringle: I wish to address a couple of points that were made in response to the amendment, especially by the Minister of State. The recommendation of 15% is a Government suggestion. We took that on board from the Government's arguments and included it. To increase it much further would reduce the effectiveness of the Bill and would not make any sense. We believe 15% is more than achievable. In...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Duel Divestment Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Committee Stage (19 Apr 2018)

Thomas Pringle: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Duel Divestment Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Committee Stage (19 Apr 2018)

Thomas Pringle: Do I have leave to reintroduce it on Report Stage?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Duel Divestment Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Committee Stage (19 Apr 2018)

Thomas Pringle: I move amendment No. 18:In page 3, line 6, to delete "instructing" and substitute "requiring".

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Duel Divestment Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Committee Stage (19 Apr 2018)

Thomas Pringle: I move amendment No. 19:In page 3, lines 7 and 8, to delete "companies within five years of the commencement of this Act" and substitute "businesses".

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Thatching Grants Applications (19 Apr 2018)

Thomas Pringle: 349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a decision will be made on an application for a thatching grant by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17340/18]

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2018)

Thomas Pringle: Privacy is sacred. It is a person's fundamental right to enjoy privacy. The extent of that enjoyment depends on the level of protection afforded to the individual's personal data to prevent exploitation or their misuse by the State, non-governmental organisations or the private sector. We are at an impasse as the digital revolution unfolds. Privacy is becoming more and more relevant as...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (18 Apr 2018)

Thomas Pringle: I wish the Government would stop citing the fall in unemployment figures, for its own sake. The reason the unemployment figures have fallen is emigration. That is why I am asking this question. It is not because of anything the Government has done to create jobs. Some 8,000 people have left the county and that why there is a decline in unemployment figures. That is what we are getting...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (18 Apr 2018)

Thomas Pringle: We depend on local trade.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (18 Apr 2018)

Thomas Pringle: Some 7,000 people have emigrated.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (18 Apr 2018)

Thomas Pringle: 24. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to address issues facing small businesses in County Donegal including concerns regarding the retreat of rural services and the lack of Government supports for small businesses outside the remit of Enterprise Ireland and the IDA and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16256/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (18 Apr 2018)

Thomas Pringle: What Government supports are available for small businesses in rural Ireland that are outside the remit of IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (18 Apr 2018)

Thomas Pringle: The Minister of State gave an overview of supports. Again, it focuses on export, development and businesses. I am talking about small businesses located in all the rural towns and villages right across Donegal and the whole country. I recently carried out a survey of those businesses to ask them how they felt they were doing. These were small businesses with between one and five...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (18 Apr 2018)

Thomas Pringle: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to appoint an administrative principal to a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16892/18]