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Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 14. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the arts budget was cut by 16% amounting to €30 million in budget 2017 taking into account the huge benefits the arts provide for island, rural and Gaeltacht communities and the impact this will have on tourism development in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31105/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Budgets (20 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 47. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason a €6 million cut was carried out in budget 2017 to islands and Gaeltacht communities, taking into account the threat these communities already face to their survival, particularly in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31035/16]

Services and Supports for People with Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: A strange anomaly is occurring in funding for home help packages. Funding for home care packages for people with dementia fell by €11 million in the four years up to 2015 while nursing home care investment rose by €84 million. Simultaneously, we saw the number of home-help hours being significantly reduced. Furthermore, according to Age Action, in 2013, out of a total budget...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pensions Data (19 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 15. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the savings to the Exchequer if public sector pensions were capped at €50,000 per annum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30928/16]

Other Questions: Public Sector Pensions Data (19 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: This is a question on the potential for savings that could be achieved if there was a cap on public service pensions of €50,000 per year. As the Minister knows, there are approximately 90,000 public servants in receipt of a pension at a cost of about €2.9 billion per annum.

European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: There are a huge number of issues for the upcoming Council of Europe but, in the limited time available, I will not be able to address all of them. It is vitally important to send out a clear message that we are opposed to all bombing taking place in Syria and all such actions of the international community, whether they are Russian, American, Saudi Arabian, Australian, New Zealanders,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Additional Voluntary Contributions (19 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 27. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown, by grade, of the number of civil servants participating in additional voluntary contribution, AVC, schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30927/16]

Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: All the positive developments that have been included in the budget were acknowledged earlier in the debate, but that serves to highlight even more the failings in the budget in terms of dealing with education. While the positives are that the budget has set out to meet the demographic requirements of a growing population of school-going children, it has neglected to deal with any of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (18 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of the €50 million of the €200 million local infrastructure housing activation fund that will be allocated to County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30957/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (18 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 339. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason young persons were not given an increase in their jobseeker's allowance payment in line with other social protection payments in view of the fact that while youth unemployment is down, it still stands at 16%, more than double the 2007 rate; the amount which is saved by not increasing the payment to the full €5 per week in line...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Investments (12 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 3. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will support a recommendation to divest the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund as an outcome of the mid-term review of the ISIF investment strategy this autumn (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29899/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (12 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 92. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will set aside time in Dáil Éireann to discuss CETA before the signing of the provisional application at the next Council of Ministers meeting on 16 October 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29900/16]

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: It has been very interesting in the past week or ten days to look at the fight that has gone on between the three pillars of the Government over the changes in the budget. We have Fianna Fáil fighting hard for the pension increases, which is probably more about positioning and trying to capitalise on the so-called grey vote, whenever it can bring itself to collapse the Government and go...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Local Authority Funding (11 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 332. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if Roinn na Gaeltachta has considered funding the provision of a footbridge on the R257 at Bunbeg, County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29518/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance Funding (11 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 596. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider providing funding for the road to Aranmore Island lighthouse, Tory Island lighthouse and the Aranmore Island ring road in recognition of their importance to the tourism infrastructure on the islands that are on the Wild Atlantic Way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29517/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (11 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 639. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if, in order to facilitate Dáil Éireann being able to make a properly informed decision on whether it should ratify CETA when it comes before the House, she will ensure that Ireland will immediately pursue an Article 218(11) reference to the Court of Justice under the Treaty of the Functioning of...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: We need a debate in the Dáil.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: As the Tánaiste is probably aware, the Seanad voted yesterday on a motion to reject the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA. The agreement is due for provisional ratification at the European Council meeting of 19 October. Will the Government provide for a debate in the Dáil in advance of that in order that we can advise the Government on its views on the provisional...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Payments (6 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 15. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to reverse the decision to means test persons receiving the back to education allowance, BTEA, which was implemented in April 2016 with no notification provided to students; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that local social protection offices are treating part time work on BTEA in the same manner as they would jobseeker's...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (6 Oct 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 58. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) may expect to have an application for naturalisation processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29065/16]