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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Administration (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to make the new DEIS assessment process more transparent and more reflective of schools' needs and the needs of their pupils in the further rolling out of the new scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16503/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 234. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the publication of updated setback guidelines for wind farms; the reasons for a delay in publishing the guidelines; the setback distance to be included; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13946/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Cross-Border Co-operation (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 249. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there has been progress in negotiating with the Crown Estates about Lough Swilly to provide for the regulation of aquaculture in the lough; if he will expedite a conclusion to the negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16883/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licences (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 297. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he will take to prevent unregulated aquaculture on Lough Foyle, County Donegal, while awaiting the jurisdictional issues to be resolved with the Crown estates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16884/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Recycling Policy (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 309. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider introducing the paying of a deposit for plastic bottles to encourage recycling and deal with the amount of bottles being discarded around the countryside; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16882/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mackerel Quota Allocation: Iasc Mara Teoranta (4 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I have a certain sympathy with their position in respect of the availability of fish and it is something that small processors in County Donegal have difficulty with as well, although that would seem to be lost in some of the cases that are made, which is that basically Killybegs is hoovering up everything. I have a question on whether the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mackerel Quota Allocation: Iasc Mara Teoranta (4 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: So it is based on price.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mackerel Quota Allocation: Iasc Mara Teoranta (4 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: If there was a proposal whereby a pot was made available on a market price that was bigger, would this meet some of the company's needs around being able to compete? Obviously Iasc Mara Teoranta is going to have to compete on price. For a long time in Killlybegs we had a problem whereby fish being landed in Scotland and Norway was being processed there. We were constantly told by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mackerel Quota Allocation: Iasc Mara Teoranta (4 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: My colleagues have hit the nail on the head. The problem is that factories own the boats and that has created this situation. It is the same in Killybegs as well. For many years, factories owned boats that landed the fish in Norway and Scotland. The factories still made money although the workers got no work, and that was part of the problem. If there was a system where 24,000 tonnes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mackerel Quota Allocation: Iasc Mara Teoranta (4 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: On the system the witnesses are proposing, if the factory had 2,000 tonnes, what would stop them giving 1,000 tonnes to one of the other eight and not processing the 2,000 tonnes themselves?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mackerel Quota Allocation: Iasc Mara Teoranta (4 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: Were the boats in Killybegs all polyvalent as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: Are we on head 6?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: Does it also concern the make-up of the board?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: May I just ask a question? The pre-legislative scrutiny of the Horse Racing Ireland legislation took up a lot of time, including in respect of the make-up of the board. How open is the Department to change? Representatives from the various bodies will be looking for additional members, for example.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: Regarding head 3A, which refers to a member being adjudicated bankrupt, is that the same kind of provision that was in place for Members of the Oireachtas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: The Supreme Court ruled that it was not appropriate for Members of the Oireachtas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: My question is related to Deputy Cahill's. It says the board may make regulations. Is the word "may" strong enough? That implies that it does not have to. Should it have to make regulations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: This may be a stupid question but if it was discovered that somebody was supplying prohibitive substances or something like that, that would be a criminal rather than an administrative offence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: Are there authorised officers under the Animal Remedies Act as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: Could they be the same person?