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Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Thomas Pringle: I wish to share time with Deputy Joan Collins and Deputy Harkin.

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Labour Party for putting forward this motion. I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on it. The Government's decision to halt the 58 school building projects is not only disgraceful but nonsensical. The fact that the Minister for Education is refusing to provide a list of the affected projects and their costs is completely unacceptable. There is no excuse for this secrecy...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Thomas Pringle: I have absolutely no confidence in this Government. In truth, I have never had confidence in Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil or even the Green Party, who have shamefully turned their back on their voters since being elected three years ago. However, lifting the ban on no-fault evictions during such a severe, and frankly terrifying, housing crisis is a new low, even for this uncaring Government....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (28 Mar 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 684. To ask the Minister for Health when the Budget 2023 announcement that GP visit cards will be extended to children aged six and seven years will be met in view that the announced target of having it in place the end of 2022 has been missed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14954/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (28 Mar 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 721. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child (details supplied) cannot have a procedure carried out by the HSE school dentist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15276/23]

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Thomas Pringle: I will pick up from where I finished the last day. There is no clarity in this legislation as to how oversight and accountability are to be achieved in practice, despite the fact that one of its aims is to simplify accountability structures. Among some of these new bodies, the Bill provides for the establishment of a board. I believe this is a backward step, and not only for the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Mar 2023)

Thomas Pringle: It is three weeks since the Government's latest mismanagement of the State’s finances resulted in the halting of 58 schools building projects. Yesterday I received a pathetic reply to a simple question to the Minister for Education that asked her to list the projects and the costs. She could not or would not do it. Why the secrecy? Why not tell the people what the Government has...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Mar 2023)

Thomas Pringle: When?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (23 Mar 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of the new purchasing scheme (details supplied); when these details will be made available to public representatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14494/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (22 Mar 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of all the schools on the school building programme which have recently been put on hold for all counties, including the stage at which the building project is currently at, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14129/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Mar 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reconsider putting a school (details supplied) on hold in the school building programme and start the building immediately; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14128/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Opt-In Regulation (EU) 2021/2303: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Thomas Pringle: My apologies for being late. I was at another meeting. I am just reading the proposals. Will the organisation link in or work with Frontex? The Minister talks about how good the European policies are. Surely he would agree that Frontex has not covered itself in glory in how it treats immigrants in Greece and places like that where there have been documented cases of people being put back...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Opt-In Regulation (EU) 2021/2303: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Thomas Pringle: Is Frontex one of the agencies that the Minister would look to for best practice or expect best practice from?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Development Plan (21 Mar 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 319. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider releasing funds from the national reserve fund to alleviate the capital funding pressures which are now delaying NDP delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12956/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (21 Mar 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 361. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason projects have been put on hold due to capital funding pressures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12954/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (21 Mar 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 362. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of projects and the projected cost that have been put on hold due to capital funding pressures, disaggregated by Government department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12955/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (21 Mar 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 438. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 306 of 7 March 2023, in which it was stated that the registration date of 2013 helped to ensure that an estimated 95% of systems were registered before that date; if he will provide further information on the septic tank grant; if he will provide the details of the way this estimation...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 585. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if and how military emissions are being recorded in relation to legally binding targets at national and European level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13851/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (21 Mar 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 919. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reassurance he proposes to give persons with autism and their families who were diagnosed by a person (details supplied); if their diagnosis will continue to be accepted by State authorities; if he plans to provide reassessment for those young people who were assessed by the person at their parents'...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (21 Mar 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 927. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it has been brought to his attention that survivors are reporting a high-level of inconsistency in the provision of records from institutions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12960/23]