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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Numbers (10 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 327. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the 4,000 refugees agreed with the European Union as part of this State's response to the refugee crisis will arrive here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39311/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Cabinet Committee Meetings (10 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 340. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the next Cabinet sub-committee on social policy and public service reform will take place; its analysis of the report of the working group on the protection process will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39629/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (10 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 445. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will request the Health Service Executive to take the operation of Áras Ghaoth Dobhair community nursing home in County Donegal in charge in order to ensure its long-term viability and to allow it to expand given the ageing demographic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39511/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (10 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 536. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the membership of the social housing clearing house group; the organisations that made submissions and presented their proposals for financing social housing to the group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39312/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Incentives (10 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 566. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he will launch the renewable heat incentive being developed by his Department; and if it will include an incentive for domestic dwellings as well. [39512/15]

Finance Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: This Government’s budgetary strategy continues to prioritise high earners and industry at the expense of vulnerable people, people on low incomes and those on social welfare. Despite a few relatively positive initiatives in the Bill, such as the increase to the home carer tax credit, the fuel grant for disabled drivers and country by country reports on parent companies filing their...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Election Management System (5 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 18. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in respect of unplanned absences on election polling days, if he will consider providing the option of casting a vote, other than a postal vote, in order to accommodate persons who cannot meet the postal vote deadline and / or present themselves at a polling booth on the day, as is the case for many workers in the fishing...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Election Management System (5 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 36. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on concerns raised by teachers and parents regarding the use of schools as polling stations on voting days, as schools are closed for the day, and parents have to seek child-minding arrangements as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38230/15]

Travellers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I welcome the representatives of the Traveller community in the Visitors Gallery. I fully support this motion. It is a shame on us that it must be debated here at all tonight. Traveller ethnicity should have been recognised years ago, without any debate and without the need for it to be raised in the Dáil tonight. The tragic events in Carrickmines brought home to many people the...

Social Welfare Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I wish to take this opportunity to dismantle some of the myths presented within this Bill as endorsed by the Labour Party and Fine Gael. Key aims were presented by the Tánaiste, Deputy Burton, on budget day, which included the strengthening of supports for families with children, increasing the momentum to date in helping jobseekers back to work and providing targeted assistance for...

Other Questions: Employment Rights (4 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 6. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress made on the University of Limerick report into zero-hour contracts; if he will confirm whether seasonal workers were consulted in the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37943/15]

Other Questions: Employment Rights (4 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: This question relates to the work done by the University of Limerick on zero-hour contracts and the Government's proposals to strengthen the rights of those workers, particularly focusing on seasonal workers.

Other Questions: Employment Rights (4 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister of State. I am glad to hear the report has been published and consultation is commencing. I raised the issue of seasonal workers in particular because they are largely unrepresented by any of the trade unions or NGOs and it will be difficult to get their views because of this. Most of the sectors in which they are involved are not organised through trade unions. Is...

Other Questions: Employment Rights (4 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister of State. One of the traits of seasonal work in Donegal, particularly in the fishing industry, is that although workers do not have zero-hour contracts they could be called into work at 9 o'clock in the morning and be sent home again at 10 o'clock and that is it for the day. This means they cannot avail of social welfare protection. This needs to be addressed. If...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Funding (4 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 12. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of start-up companies that have been supported by Enterprise Ireland in County Donegal over the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37944/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Expenditure (4 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will release the list of schools to receive funding from the capital spending plan, 2016 to 2021, as part of the programme to replace existing prefabricated school buildings with permanent classrooms and facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38521/15]

Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: Over the summer months, the news pertaining to the killings of Jock Davison and Kevin McGuigan shook people's confidence as to whether they thought the IRA had gone away, the peace process was moving on and things were developing and moving on. This has shaken the confidence of a great many people nationwide as to what they can foresee for the future and what they envisage about how things...

Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (3 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: The Minister referred to despair. There is certainly despair in the individual who attacks civilians with a knife in the face of armed soldiers and armed police. That is the side where the despair is. Unfortunately, the European Union is building and contributing to that despair by continuously kowtowing to the Israelis and not forcing them back to the table and to the peace process. That...

Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (3 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the concrete and effective pressure that his Department will place on Israel to curb the recent influx of violence in the region and to prevent the possible development of another violent conflict in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36846/15]

Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (3 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: This question relates to the recent upsurge in violence in the West Bank between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the disproportionate use of force by the Israeli authorities in dealing with that trouble.