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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Local Action Groups: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (27 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: The figures are wrong?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Local Action Groups: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (27 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I will check that with the Commission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Local Action Groups: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (27 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I think so. It is possible that the explanation given by Mr. Keatinge is actually what the Commission is looking at - the question of comparing like with like. I am sure the Commission would be interested to know whether it was doing it right. What are Mr. Keatinge's comments on community-led local development guidance and the budget for FLAGs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Local Action Groups: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (27 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: Has the EMFF funded that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Local Action Groups: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (27 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: How much funding will be available for retraining people who have been forced out of fishing in recent years due to quota difficulties and rationalisation within the industry? How much funding for retraining and upskilling will be available for them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Local Action Groups: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (27 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: Can they do that reskilling and upskilling?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Local Action Groups: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (27 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: That is all very well for active fishermen within the fishing sector, but I am talking about people living in fishing communities whose income has been taken away due to developments. I am not talking about upskilling existing fishermen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Local Action Groups: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (27 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I imagine that is what the action groups are for.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Local Action Groups: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (27 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I do not mean to delay the meeting, but I have another question. The Marine Survey Office has said that one cannot have dual-purpose vessels. Suppose an island community decided to purchase an angling vessel that fishermen could use during the tourist season. Would that be funded by the FLAGs?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Data (26 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 145. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of minors, both accompanied and unaccompanied, that have been issued with deportation orders since April 2014; if she will provide a breakdown of their nationalities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20223/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Northern Ireland Issues (26 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 152. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she acknowledges that the incident of an incursion by at least one armed member of the Police Service of Northern Ireland into County Donegal during March 2013 was part of a surveillance operation; further to Parliamentary Question No. 224 of 28 April 2015, the reason it was decided it was inadvertent as indicated in her reply; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Payments (26 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 178. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have transitioned from jobseeker's benefit to jobseeker's allowance in County Donegal, in tabular form, for the years 2013, 2014 and 2015 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19938/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit (26 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 179. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the annual cost to the State of extending jobseeker's benefit from nine months to 12 months; of increasing payments to those with less than 260 pay-related social insurance contributions from six months to nine months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19939/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Data (26 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 476. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportation orders that have been enforced since April 2014; if she will provide a breakdown of the countries to which persons were returned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19934/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Data (26 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 477. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportation orders of minors that have been enforced since April 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19935/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Data (26 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 478. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Dublin returns that were issued to Italy, Spain and Malta since December 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19936/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Data (26 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 479. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the top five countries of return under the recast Dublin Regulation, since the beginning of 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19937/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Numbers (26 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 493. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the way the Government will respond to a quota system, in response to the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, where the United Nations has calculated that 60,000 persons have tried to cross already this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19327/15]

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha]: - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: We change the culture.

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha]: - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 May 2015)

Thomas Pringle: It changes society. We need the Bunreacht to rely on Fine Gael.