Results 1-8 of 8 for lottery speaker:Thomas Pringle

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: ...impact on families. It will add to the many unfair burdens put on families, including the fact that families are not guaranteed summer provision in the first place and rely on what seems like some sort of a lottery system. Despite the fact that every disabled person's organisation has emphasised how important summer provision is, the summer months can be a difficult time for children...

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2024)

Thomas Pringle: ...the crisis gets even more out of control. The State is failing children and will continue to fail them even more if it does not get a handle on the crisis soon. The unacceptable postcode lottery of care also continues, with certain counties receiving far lower quality of care than others. This is particularly the case in rural counties. Last year, it was found that CHO 1, which...

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Thomas Pringle: ...in isolated areas with little access to facilities or assistance and are left most vulnerable when home care workers are not available. There is no doubt that, as the motion states, there is a postcode lottery when it comes to home care waiting lists and there is evidence that those in rural areas wait longer due to a lack of mileage and travel costs for carers. I believe we should...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Dec 2022)

Thomas Pringle: ...survey project on alcohol and other drugs are concerning, since Irish respondents aged 15 and 16 reported higher rates of gambling, slot machine use, sports and animal betting, and participation in lotteries than their counterparts in 34 European states. Those are worrying results. The survey results suggest that existing safeguards are insufficient as minors are still finding ways to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)

Thomas Pringle: ...the Electoral Reform Bill 2022, with Report Stage to be guillotined after 90 minutes when the Government has tabled more than 150 amendments. We also have the stroke of allowing political party lotteries to take place. There has to be full scrutiny. We will oppose the Order of Business for that reason.

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Thomas Pringle: ...this country and has never been tackled. Maybe this Bill will go some way towards dealing with it but sometimes I wonder. On 12 March this year, a proposal to adopt Part III of the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956 for the whole of the Inishowen and Letterkenny municipal districts was rushed through. It is interesting that the rush to get that through in Donegal was due to the fact that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Counselling Services Provision (17 Oct 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 290. To ask the Minister for Health if funding of community counselling services as provided for by an organisation (details supplied) will be provided; the reason funding was refused by the lottery funding system; his plans to preserve this service into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43492/17]

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceapacháin Bhreithiúnacha) 2013: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution (Judicial Appointments) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2014)

Thomas Pringle: I understand the Minister could not guarantee that the Government would provide time to debate the Bill. If the Bill had been withdrawn it would have to go back into the lottery and God knows if it would ever have reappeared for debate. The system of judicial appointments must be reviewed. A number of speakers referred to the fact that the Judicial Appointments Review Committee said the...