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Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: This is about the amendments.

European Union Regulations: Motion (9 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister for the opportunity to speak on the motion on the proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the proposal for a Council regulation on strengthening the security of identity cards of Union citizens and of residence documents issued. This is for EU citizens and their family members exercising their rights to free movement. I do not think anybody can dispute the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (8 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: There is a lot of high-level gobbledegook in that response - SRMTs reporting to chief officers and stuff like that - but the reality is that while the outcome of the Brandon report was supposed to be the decongregation of the facility where Brandon lived, it has not been. I have been dealing with this since about 2016. That it has not been decongregated yet is down to HSE management not...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (8 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I would rather not be continuing with it.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (8 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister of State for taking this Topical Issue. It is refreshing to have the Minister of State responsible take an issue when it arises. She has dealt with this issue all throughout the process and I thank her for that. I first raised the issue of the Brandon report in a Topical Issue in the convention centre in July 2021. At that time, the Ceann Comhairle said on the...

Spending of Public Funds by the Government: Motion [Private Members] (8 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I am glad of the opportunity to speak on the motion on the spending of public funds by the Government. There is no doubt this Government has mishandled the spending of public funds on so many occasions and too many to list. However, that the cost of the national children’s hospital has now risen to in excess of €2 billion is outrageous. I remember Mick Wallace, when he was a...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (8 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: It was 441 approved housing bodies.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (8 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I would like to voice my opposition to how this legislation has been introduced and progressed through the House. We were told just last week we would take Second Stage today and proceed through Committee and Remaining Stages tomorrow. Our legislative process was not designed to be rushed through in this way. All...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Yesterday marked two years since the Creeslough tragedy that shocked and devastated the community of Creeslough, the entire county of Donegal and the nation. I do not think anyone in the country will forget hearing that day of the tragic event that claimed ten lives and affected the lives of so many in Donegal. Its impact is still felt in Creeslough today. Shockingly, two years on the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I fully support the call for a debate on the situation in Lebanon and Gaza. That is vital. Also, we should ask the Government to withdraw the Planning and Development Bill. Six-hundred and twenty seven amendments have come back from the Seanad but it is proposed to have only three hours of debate tomorrow. It is ridiculous to allow such a big Bill to go through in that way. If the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Not agreed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: The Taoiseach outlined the process whereby IS 465 is going to be amended. No doubt it is going to be extremely slow. Already in his response, he outlined that it was to be published in quarter 3 but now it is quarter 4. Who is to say it is not going to be quarter 1 or 2 of next year? Homeowners are going to be suffering on under this existing scheme for a long time and for the foreseeable...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: In recent hours, the online news publication, The Ditch, has revealed further controversy surrounding the Government's failing defective blocks scheme. It has emerged that in more than 20 cases, a Donegal County Council-operated portal had altered the recommendations of the homeowners' engineers. What I find interesting, or perhaps more appropriately described as disturbing, is that in each...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Renewable Energy Generation (8 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 228 of 19 September 2024, the criteria to be used by the European Investment Bank (EIB) in the assessing of the ports identified to them; if a geographical balance has been achieved with the five ports identified, given that his Department has asked the EIB to ‘assess capacity, demand and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (8 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 277. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of the 4,500 employer inspections in 2023 and the 2,300 employer inspections to date in 2024 identified wrongly classified as self-employed employees; if there are sectoral differences between misclassification; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39632/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 409. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of decisions the Forestry Appeals Committee made in 2023 and 2024 respectively, disaggregated by whether the hearing was paper-based or oral; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40043/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 410. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total cost of associated with the work of the Forestry Appeals Committee for each year from 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40044/24]

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: The first page of the budget 2025 expenditure report states: "Sustainable public expenditure requires both the delivery of better public services, infrastructure and living standards for the people of Ireland, and expenditure to be set at levels that can be maintained over the longer term." That is a far cry from what this budget actually contains, a bonanza of one-off measures with very...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Michael Noonan.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (3 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current situation with the proposed extension for an urgently needed learning support room that is required for a school in Donegal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39562/24]