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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 322. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will commit to providing adequate funding for Pillar 2 schemes to ensure all farmers who apply for the recently announced agri-climate rural environment scheme will get accepted to the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35141/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Feedstuffs (30 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 323. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to support farmers who are not in a position to avail of his recently announced fodder support scheme and have traditionally bought in their animal feed requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35142/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Chairman. I did not realise I was going to be first. This is a very general question for Mr. Lupton. He stated in his second submission: It is quite clear to me that robust laws will act as a disincentive to bad faith actors, and properly enable An Garda Síochána and other State Agencies ... Those robust laws must be compliant with the Constitution and Charter of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I welcome this opportunity. Before I start, I will let the meeting know that we have been informed the closing time for submitting amendments in respect of this proposed legislation is two minutes from now, that Second Stage will be taken next Tuesday and that Committee Stage will be taken on Wednesday. The final version of the Bill has not even been published yet, but we are supposed to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: Neither was I until five minutes ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: The Business Committee meeting is going on at the moment where it is being scheduled. While on paper, it addresses the issue, in fact it does not because this process will not have any influence on the legislation unless the Department can tell us now that it will redraft and include anything that comes out of this meeting today in the legislation that will be published later this evening....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: While I have the floor, I will return to the sunset clause. Deputy Howlin raised it earlier. The reply was that it is a matter for Minister whether one is included. Will a sunset clause be included between now and this afternoon? I doubt it very much.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: So between now, 12 noon, and this afternoon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I think that it would be urgent that there would be a sunset clause on this given that the legislation is being dressed up as a temporary measure while we were waiting for the fuller legislation to come on board. It would be interesting to see how temporary it will be. Is there a risk that this Bill could be an attempt to determine another case already before the courts which saw the Sinn...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I raised this during private session on Monday and I will raise it again today. The Bill refers continuously to the security of the State as being the rationale for much of this stuff happening. There is no definition of what the security of the State entails in terms of the Bill although one might appear between now and 4 p.m. The explanation then was that it goes back to the Offences...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: Therefore it could be left to the Minister for Justice or someone in the Department to define what is the security of the State depending on the circumstances. That is what it seems to be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: Ultimately. If you are lucky to get that far.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I am grateful for the opportunity yet again to contribute to and to oppose this motion. I wish to comment on some of what has been said by previous speakers, particularly the Fianna Fáil Members who outlined the crimes committed and the role of the Special Criminal Court and whether they would be happening. The fact is that the Special Criminal Court has been here for 50 years and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I congratulate the Taoiseach and the Government on their record-breaking performance since it took office two years ago yesterday. To celebrate, this week the Government set the dubious record of ramming five Bills through the House on Second Stage for which the Committee Stage deadline for amendments will have passed prior to the beginning of Second Stage. It displays breathtaking...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I fully support the Members who have spoken. Since the Business Committee meeting last week, we have had four or five changes to the business. It makes a mockery of the fact we supposedly have a say in what actually goes on in the House. For that reason, I oppose what is happening today.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Taoiseach for the response. It raises more questions. I was not going to deal with this today but I think it has to be dealt with. The Garda was informed about Brandon and for ten years it did nothing. The Garda is not the body that is going to be responsible for dealing with this. It is sad to say we cannot rely on the Garda but that is a fact. This is a lot bigger. There...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I am raising an issue that I have raised on numerous occasions with the Taoiseach over the past couple of years. It must be raised as often as possible so it will, at some stage, be dealt with comprehensively. The Health Service Executive, HSE, has to realise that this will not go away. It was bad when we heard about the activities of the so-called Brandon, who was failed himself by the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (28 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when works will commence on upgrading Fintra Bridge, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33962/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (28 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 939. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will finalise and publish the Wool Feasibility Study; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33961/22]

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart Vótála ag Aois 16) 2021: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Vote at 16) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I thank Deputies Joan Collins, Cronin, Nash and Ó Cathasaigh, and the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, for their contributions to the debate. Bizarrely, everybody seems to be in favour of it but the Bill is not progressing, so that is how this House works. I have some measure of understanding of the Minister of State’s wish to delay this to 2023, although I will not say that is...