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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Commission for Energy Regulation and Irish Water (14 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: The organisation has saved 70 million to 80 million litres on the district metering programme and it also saved 70 million litres on the first-fix scheme. It had to expend €460 million to allow the first-fix scheme to be rolled out. The cost benefit of the district metering is way ahead of the metering programme in terms of detecting wastewater.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Commission for Energy Regulation and Irish Water (14 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: I accept that the initial decision-----

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (14 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 470. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the proposed establishment of an ambulance base in Buncrana; when and the way in which this will be set up; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7141/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Tyre Disposal (14 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 598. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on concerns outlined by the tyre industry regarding the establishment of an organisation (details supplied) and the potential problems for the industry when the scheme is introduced; if he will engage with representatives from the industry to address these concerns directly; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Development Initiatives (9 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 13. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to provide initiatives for the establishment of innovation hubs in rural counties such as County Donegal similar to the successful launches of PorterShed in Galway and The Mill in Drogheda; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6188/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (9 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 180. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatient paediatrics urology appointments for a person (details supplied) at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin for every month in 2016 and January 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6434/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the witnesses for their submissions and for being here today. I have a number of questions. Scottish Water is a public corporation. If a decision was made by the Scottish Assembly to privatise it and make it into a market corporation, what would it require? I presume it would simply require an Act of the Assembly. Is district or household metering the more valuable tool for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: In the real world I worked at detecting leakages as a day job. It is quite easy to identify individual properties in which water is being wasted, by step checking, making sounding checks and so on. The district meters are the most efficient tool to do this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: If single house properties, or households identified as wasting water, do not engage in repairing or fixing the leakage problem, what power does Welsh Water have to deal with them?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (8 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if children who are to move from an Irish-speaking national school to a secondary school taught through Irish are entitled to school transport when their nearest secondary school is an English language school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6234/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Expenditure (8 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 192. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if Roinn na Gaeltachta had any unspent funding in 2015 and 2016; if so, the headings under which that funding came; if the funding was returned to the Exchequer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6235/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Imports (8 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the continued exclusion from supplying live brown crab from Ireland to China which has been ongoing for 14 months; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this length of time is significantly longer than similar bans in France and the UK which were excluded for shorter periods; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Data (8 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 252. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if Inland Fisheries Ireland has any salmon stock information for the Owenae river in County Donegal including catch figures from anglers, smolts leaving the river and salmon returning to the river for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6236/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (8 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the consequences facing many persons in rural parts of County Donegal such as Inishowen if Bus Éireann routes are reduced or taken away completely; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6026/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (8 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of the internal transfer of funds within Bus Éireann from its Expressway service to its public service obligation service for each of the past five years; if he will provide a breakdown of the transfer of funds from Bus Éireann to Irish Rail and from Dublin Bus to Irish Rail for each of the past...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing: Discussion (7 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: To add to the conversation about the newspaper circulation in the area, Donegal County Council has been pulled up by the European Commission for using the Donegal Democratfor public notices in the Inishowen area as it is a paper which does not circulate widely in the area. An assessment of newspaper circulation in the area should feed into any review process. It is one thing to say a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing: Discussion (7 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: With regard to licensing, what consideration is given to the number of licences applied for and granted, or in the process of being applied for and granted, in respect of a particular bay when new applications are being examined? Will the licensing continue until the area available for licensing is filled up? When examining an application, what consideration is given to the residential...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing: Discussion (7 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: With regard to spatial planning within the foreshore, is it the view of the Department that legislation will be required to enable that to take place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing: Discussion (7 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: It cannot be done without the legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing: Discussion (7 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: In the context of the backlog in the number of licences being granted for bays because of the appropriate assessments, does that mean in ten years' time all of those licences will be due for renewal at the same time? If that is the case, there will be a big backlog again. Will steps be taken to ensure that the process continues to function?