Results 1-10 of 10 for tenet speaker:Thomas Pringle

National Driver Licence Service: Motion [Private Members] (2 Mar 2022)

Thomas Pringle: ...replacement with for-profit privatisation where buzzwords such as "efficiency" and "streamlining" serve only to mask the reduction of services or the removal of universal service obligation as a core tenet. Any doctor knows full well that treating the symptoms only goes so far and that the disease must be cured. The identification of the disease is not difficult. It is unfettered...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: I agree with Deputy Boyd Barrett on this. The whole tenet of this legislation appears to be just to place the blame on householders and that householders are responsible for everything that is happening with Covid. One would imagine that Covid was lurking somewhere in the utility room or in the kitchen waiting to get out and that the only way to get out was through the householders. We...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2019)

Thomas Pringle: ...the Istanbul Convention, an international instrument to combat domestic violence, yet here we have an example of victims of domestic abuse being further marginalised by the Government. Among the tenets of the Istanbul Convention is that state parties implement comprehensive and co-ordinated policies involving Government agencies, non-governmental organisations as well as national,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2019)

Thomas Pringle: ...the students, as well as policy changes to ensure a reduction in emissions from agriculture. I am hopeful that the committee's report will go some way to addressing these demands but its main tenets can only be addressed where there is political will within the Government. I urge the Minister and the Taoiseach to seriously consider the list of demands in the petition and show they...

African Development (Bank and Fund) Bill 2018: Second Stage (13 Nov 2018)

Thomas Pringle: ...nothing more than a clone of the international financial institutions. Profitability had replaced meeting the basic needs of the population as the main criterion for project selection. The bank has submitted to the neoliberal agenda by subscribing to the tenets of market fundamentalism. The African Development Bank has further served to promote the very liberalisation and privatisation...

An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir), 2018: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-Seventh Amendment Of The Constitution (Economic, Social And Cultural Rights) Bill 2018: First Stage (19 Sep 2018)

Thomas Pringle: ...a low carbon economy. Climate change is a huge impediment to the realisation of economic, social and cultural rights. Therefore, they are interlinked. I also feel the need to engage in a bit of myth busting. A key tenet in the protection of economic, social and cultural rights is the notion of "progressive realisation" as defined in Article 2(1) and reflects the fact that it may not...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2016)

Thomas Pringle: ...an approach would be worthwhile. I also welcome the added provision including the criminal offence for the prostitution of a person who has been trafficked. Upholding human rights is the central tenet in this regard, ensuring that the rights of those trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation are vindicated in legislation. Legislation can effect change, but not as a stand-alone...

International Protection Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I support these amendments. It is hard to figure out why amendments such as these have to be tabled. The tenet of the Bill appears to be that if a marriage breaks down or ceases to exist after family reunification, those who have come here to be reunited with family will lose their rights to residency. This is bizarre. It is supposed to be a humanitarian system which is concerned with...

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Feb 2014)

Thomas Pringle: ...stands and the Bill seeks to make it easier for companies to enter the examinership process and enable a third party to formulate ways of restructuring the business and protecting jobs. That is a tenet of the Bill and the Government should consider it on the basis that it is trying to protect jobs and keeping as many companies as possible operating in the State. It is only through...

Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I agree with the basic tenets of the Bill. I ask the Minister of State to review the provisions of the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill and to have a different system for licence holders who are excluded for previous convictions. Apart from that, I believe the Bill should be acceptable.