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Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Thomas Pringle: ...record amount of money is not enough. If the Government and Government Members were to recognise that, we might get somewhere with solving the issue in the first place. In 2000 there were 3.8 million people in the Twenty-six Counties and today there are over 5 million, which is 1.2 million extra people in need of healthcare and everything else. There are fewer beds in the system...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Thomas Pringle: ...within the document. This demonstrates just how troubling the Government's priorities are. There has been a serious decline in the mental health budget in Ireland from 13% of the overall health budget in 1984 to just 5.1% in 2023. This is despite a rise in those experiencing mental health difficulties to around 40% in Ireland and the fact that Ireland’s prevalence rates of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Thomas Pringle: ...Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy McConalogue, announced funding for Killybegs Harbour Centre. On the face of it, this is very welcome funding and is very badly needed. He announced €8.75 million in funding for that centre. However, in July last year, he announced €9.2 million - inflation saved a little there - and the year before that he announced €10.5...

Passport Services: Statements (26 May 2022)

Thomas Pringle: ...prepare for it? A passport lasts for ten years and there is a limited number of Irish people in Ireland so it is probably the one service for which it is possible to plan accurately. If there are 50 million people in the world entitled to a passport, that is 5 million per year and so many per day, so one knows exactly what one has to do. It should be possible to plan properly for this...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Jun 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...payment, one month in advance and one month as deposit. The Bill also sets out provisions around student accommodation and notice periods. Even though evictions were banned during Covid-19 when the 5 km restriction was in place, more still 1,100 households were still served with eviction notices over the past ten months. In an article in theIrish Examiner, by Aoife Moore, it is reported...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Work Supports (28 Apr 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 722. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the allocations to the individual funding lines and schemes (details supplied) arising from the additional €5 million announced for youth work services in Budget 2021; and the current allocation to these funding lines and schemes in 2021. [22162/21]

Caring for Carers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...The priority is to first vaccinate and protect directly the most vulnerable amongst us, that is, those most likely to have a poor outcome if they contract the virus ... hence the focus on the over 65-year-old cohort in long term residential care facilities, and healthcare workers in frontline services often caring for the most vulnerable. The Minister's replies have noted that "Persons...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (30 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: My question relates to A7, compensation. There is a 14.5% increase on what was budgeted. From the Minister's response to the last question, I take it that this can be budgeted but whether that will all be used depends on the outturn at different stages. This means that the 2020 Estimate on this item is €9.5 million. Does this mean that basically this is not an outturn figure either...

Insurance (Restriction on Differential Pricing and Profiling) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...Pricing and Profiling) Bill 2021. In May 2019 we saw the headlines: "European Commission to investigate whether Insurance Ireland is operating a cartel" in thejournal.ieand "Insurers face millions of euro in cartel probe fines" in the Irish Independent. In February 2021 we saw the headlines: "Court rules pubs entitled to insurance over Covid closures" on the RTÉ website and "Irish...

Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...the European Court of Justice, ECJ, where a fine will be imposed." Is it not amazing that the Dáil’s work schedule is being dictated by the threat of fines? The PIF directive was issued on 5 July 2017 and some of its elements were already transposed into Irish legislation by way of the Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Act 2018. The directive’s aim is to...

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The rainy day fund of €1.5 billion was already drawn down for budget 2021. The initial plan to set aside €1 billion per year has already been reduced down to €500 million per year due to the exceptional circumstances of Brexit. Now we have the further exceptional circumstances of a global pandemic. We had to have...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2020)

Thomas Pringle: ...be listening. It would do Ministers good to become patrons of Tortoise Shack and hear the diverse voices that exist outside of their privileged worlds. Mental Health Reform has cautiously welcomed the €50 million increase in funding for mental health, which is broken down into €12 million for maintaining existing services, even though the organisation had asked for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services (9 Sep 2020)

Thomas Pringle: ...key. There is no point in having fantastic mental health services if only 2% of the students who need them can actually access them. USI conducted a survey on access and prior to Covid-19, over 25% of students were waiting more than four to six weeks for mental health supports, which is over half of a term. That was the situation prior to Covid-19 and we are going to see an increase in...

Personal Assistance Service: Motion (19 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: ...provision of ring-fenced funding for personal assistance services to facilitate the continued investment of independent living supports in Ireland; — to introduce a single standard assessment of need across all HSE Community Healthcare Organisation (CHO) areas, which must include the provision and support for independent assessment of need as per the Disability Act 2005, and the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Raised Bog Management Plan (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: ...recommendation regarding paludiculture research in chapter 8 of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action report; his views on the potential for paludiculture in the context of the new €5 million fund for wetlands restoration and rehabilitation as announced by Minister Bruton on 16 October 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43526/19]

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: ...as a living wage. A living wage would build people's resilience against the difficulties that Brexit might contain for them. Establishing a living wage for the public sector would only amount to €55 million. That would send an important message to the rest of the economy that this is how the Government sees us surviving Brexit. In its response, the Government will call this...

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

Thomas Pringle: ...countries feature among the top 20 of the bank’s most powerful member countries. Between them, the 11 countries account for only around 40% of the vote. Ireland’s subscription for membership of the bank will be €65.14 million to be encashed in up to eight annual instalments of approximately €8 million. This would notionally place Ireland 34th of 79 members...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Thomas Pringle: ...paid on borrowings from next year onwards. Amazingly, Fine Gael has enough guff to cut, at the same time, mortgage interest relief to half of its original rate in 2019 and it will fall again to 25% in 2020 before being phased out entirely. The Government believes mortgage interest relief has a distorting effect on house prices. It is unbelievable that it believes that. There is a...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Thomas Pringle: ...already nearing completion. For example, the Donegal Bay sewage scheme servicing Bundoran, Killybegs and Glencolumbkille is approximately 90% complete but will be rolled out in this plan. The N56 from Glenties to Lettermacaward is almost half complete, but it will also be rolled out under this plan. The Ballybofey bypass has been on the cards for years and the announcement today does...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Food Exports to China (9 Mar 2017)

Thomas Pringle: ...the Chinese can accept. It seems to me that there is no action. Maybe we should ask the French for advice on how they overcame the issue. A substantial market is potentially available. In 2015, one supplier sent 225 tonnes to China at a value of €1.8 million. We could potentially have had an export market of more than €5 million this year if this had not been in place....