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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Landing Obligation Update and Fishing Fleet Management: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: Will the Minister bring it to the European Commission?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will meet with representatives from a school (details supplied) in County Donegal, given that the school is in urgent need of a new building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25808/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will be pushing for greater supports for lone parents from rural areas to access educational opportunities, including online courses, access to child care, supports for travelling to the place of education and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25807/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commencement of Legislation (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 382. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the provisions on adoption, guardianship and custody will commence under the terms of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26320/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Infectious Diseases Epidemic (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 400. To ask the Minister for Health the actions his Department have taken in response to the increasing global health threat presented by emerging zoonotic diseases such as Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, which emerged in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and which, although it is more limited than the previous SARS-CoV, has a much higher mortality rate; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 459. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is a shortage in supply of tuberculosis (BCG) vaccines; the issues with the supplier; the reason enough vaccines were not acquired ahead of the next supply which is due in July 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26231/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 494. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to organise an event in July 2015 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica in Bosnia Herzegovina, in view of the European Parliament's resolution passed in 2009 which called on European Union states to commemorate the event; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25916/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 661. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is aware of the ongoing problems small businesses are experiencing with slow debit and credit card transactions due to a lack of broadband access in County Donegal, despite being near urban centres such as Letterkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26256/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 662. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will prioritise the roll-out of high speed broadband to the most disadvantaged areas, including rural areas in County Donegal, as County Donegal is considered one of the most disadvantaged counties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26257/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Policy (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 663. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources given that there is approximately 7,400 megawatt capacity of electricity in power stations and that EirGrid has predicted demand will remain more or less the same as levels in 2007, the reason policy is directed towards constructing wind farms to generate 3,000 additional megawatts of energy by 2020; and if he will make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Outstanding Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland: Discussion (25 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and I apologise for being late to the meeting. I had to attend another meeting. I apologise in advance if my question has been addressed already. I am interested to hear the witnesses' views on whether the lack of dealing with ex-prisoners' issues feeds into existing conflict and the potential for escalation in that conflict and how the lack in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Proposed Repeal of UK Human Rights Act: Discussion (25 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I would like to thank members of both commissions for their presentations. It is not clear whether the British Government will deliver on its intention to repeal the Human Rights Act. It might stagnate and not move any further. If the consultation commences on its proposals will both the Irish and British commissions participate in the consultation? Given that the Good Friday Agreement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Proposed Repeal of UK Human Rights Act: Discussion (25 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: Mr. Allamby said it could end up in some international court. Which actors would take it to the international stage? Would it have to be Ireland as a co-guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement? Should we be preparing for that by exploring the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Proposed Repeal of UK Human Rights Act: Discussion (25 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: Based on what we know at present, it is very doubtful that it could meet international obligations.

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: This Bill formally establishes the Low Pay Commission in the legal sense. The commission is tasked with making annual recommendations to the Government which it considers appropriate on the level of the minimum wage and so-called "related matters". The commission has been up and running for the past number of months. I note from the press release when the commission was established...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 23. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost implications in increasing the maximum income limit of subsidiary employment from €12.70 per day to €25 per day; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24788/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (24 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 36. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way a person's jobseeker status is determined when the person signs on for jobseeker's benefit, for example, the way her Department determines and who within the social welfare system determines if a person is a Pay As You Earn unemployed jobseeker, a self-employed but currently unemployed jobseeker, a casual worker, or an unemployed jobseeker...

Credit Unions: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the Private Members' Business tonight and pay tribute to Fianna Fáil for organising a discussion on a very important issue in respect of the future of our credit unions across the country. It was very interesting to listen to the contributions of Members and of the Minister of State regarding the importance of the credit union movement to...

European Council Meeting: Statements (23 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I concur with Deputy Boyd Barrett on the Government's attitude and behaviour towards the people of Greece and the Greek Government in the negotiations with the European Union. There is no need to go back over the statistics he quoted. Last week in The Irish Times the Greek Finance Minister, Mr. Varoufakis, published the same figures. This shows the extent to which the Greeks must go to get...

Other Questions: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (23 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister. That was an outline of the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill that is going through the Houses but it does not answer the questions asked on the voluntary agreement to participate in the code of conduct on mortgage arrears. I can take it that the answer is that it does not make any difference really. How will the Bill apply retrospectively...