Results 6,601-6,620 of 9,160 for speaker:Thomas Pringle

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 859. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in the community waiting for home help; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10351/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 855. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in receipt of intensive packages under the home care scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10347/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 856. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in hospital services waiting for packages under the home care scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10348/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 857. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in the community waiting for packages under the home care scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10349/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 1034. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the rules and regulations for importing live lobsters; the controls in place to prevent the release of imported live lobsters such as the American lobster into Irish waters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10088/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry Data (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 1035. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the tonnage of live American lobster imported and subsequently exported to the European Union under the label of Irish lobsters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10089/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Payments (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 1036. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 34 of 5 May 2016, wherein it was indicated his Department has no record of the person (details supplied) submitting an amendment form, his attention has been drawn to correspondence which indicates the amendment form was sent to his Department; and if he will re-examine this case; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 1185. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will restructure indigenous enterprise policy to include all types of firms and all sectors including import and export, rural and urban with a specific focus on developing small business viewing them with the potential of becoming exporters into the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10399/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 1187. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will establish an agency, similar to that of IDA Ireland, for the development of small businesses in Ireland given that small businesses employ nearly 1 million persons or over 70% of the private sector in Ireland with potential to employ many more if expansion was adequately supported; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 1186. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will examine the issues that affect seasonal workers, particularly in the fishing sector; her plans in response to a study on the prevalence of zero hours contracts as carried out by her predecessor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10400/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Payments (5 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 34. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of payments to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9264/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (5 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 51. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to respond to the implementation of the report of the working group on the protection process report this week which found that most recommendations have not been implemented ten months on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9211/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Status Applications (5 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 52. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to increase the resources needed for the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and the Refugee Appeals Tribunal to address the considerable backlog of applications present, before the applications are transferred to the new office of the chief international protection officer as part of the introduction of a single procedure; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (5 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 53. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications made under the European Court of Justice, ECJ, judgment in the Zambrano case by persons who had no current right of residency; the number of persons who have had their status regularised under the ECJ judgment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9221/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (5 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 63. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a hydro-pool project for Dungloe in County Donegal has been on-hold since 2006 despite the Health Service Executive making a political commitment to the local committee in 2007; if he will review this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9213/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Administration (5 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason for the recent delay in administering tenders for the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9203/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting (5 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 151. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department or the National Parks and Wildlife Service has written to landowners in the Slieve League area (details supplied) advising them to discontinue turf cutting in the special area of conservation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9341/16]

Climate Change: Statements (4 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: The Paris agreement on climate change last year was significant in that the world collectively recognised not only the fact that climate change exists but that we all have a part to play in combating it. The conversation has moved on from whether the phenomenon is real or imagined. We are not just talking about which studies are valid and we no longer entertain sceptics. Language around...

Agriculture: Statements (4 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to contribute to this discussion on agriculture. I will focus on two aspects of the general discussion today. The first is GLAS and the difficulty many farmers in my constituency face in qualifying for the scheme. It might be a particular problem for Donegal and privately-owned hill farms and hill farmers. Under the previous two tranches of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (4 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 34. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of social protection payments who cash their cheques at post offices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9056/16]