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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (26 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: The Minister's officials in response to the Nevin institute report said 70% of net job creation was in the Dublin and mid-east regions. Statistics have been tweaked to make them look good but job creation in these two regions far exceeds every other region. The figure for the Border region is skewed by the fact that County Louth is included in it. The situation is much worse than it...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (26 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: The Minister is saying his Department was wrong in its response to the Nevin institute report by saying there was a 70% net increase in job creation in the Dublin and mid-east regions. We have three sets of figures for regional job creation.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (26 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: When will see the true figures and what they truly reflect? The emigration rate is still high in the north west and job creation is not happening. That regional imbalance has to be addressed. Unfortunately, there is nothing in these figures or in what the Minister said that will address that.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (26 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: From a low base.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (26 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 16. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the way his Department is attempting to increase job creation in County Donegal through the Action Plan for Jobs; the number of jobs forecasted to be created in 2015 in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12081/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (26 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 24. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether the adoption of the transatlantic trade and investment partnership treaty will require a referendum here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12083/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (26 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 27. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the proposals in the transatlantic trade and investment partnership negotiations that have been discussed to liberalise the market for public services and water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12078/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scientific Research (26 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 34. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will respond to the open letter signed by more than 900 scientists calling on the Government to rebalance its funding for scientific research away from a commercial-heavy focus and towards the funding of research across all disciplines; if the successor to the Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation 2006-2013 will...

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I will paraphrase Martin Luther King when he said that if a law is unjust then citizens have a duty to oppose it. That is the case with the imposition of water taxes on the citizens of Ireland. It is not only that the tax is unjust per se, in that it is a double taxation, but it is also the view held by very many of the protesters that the policies pursued by the Government are also unjust....

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: We sent them out last night.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (25 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 144. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time a person (details supplied) in County Donegal must wait before a decision is made on an application for a medical card which has been with a deciding officer since 26 January 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12343/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (25 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) has been refused funding for the urgent replacement of windows under the emergency works scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12344/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Plastic Bag Levy (25 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 192. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount that has been collected in each of the past three years through the plastic bag levy; if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount that each local authority has received from the funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12345/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I thank Mr. Keatinge for his presentation on the 2013 annual report. I have a number of questions and would also like to have an opportunity to follow up on the responses given. The outturn for 2013 showed a deficit of €500,000. To what does this relate? Why was there a significantly reduced turnover in the operation of the ice plant and a significant rise in costs? Ireland...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: Did Mr. Keatinge mean that there would be €12 million over the lifetime of the CFP? Is it €12 million in EMFF funding or expenditure of €12 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: It was cut by 65% this year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: Technical?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: It was because they were not there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: From zero to one is only one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I also asked about Killybegs in July 2011 and 2012.