Parliamentary questions

Legislative Process

Thomas Pringle

553. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Justice if it is envisaged that the Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Bill 2021 will have passed all stages before the summer recess of Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8253/23]

Legislative Process

Thomas Pringle

554. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Justice if it is his intention to commence in its entirety the Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Bill 2021 upon being signed into law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8254/23]

Legislative Process

Thomas Pringle

555. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Justice the additional resources that will be made available to the Irish Prison Service, the Probation Service and other relevant agencies to ensure that the transfer of sentenced persons scheme will work effectively and without delays, upon commencement of the Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Bill 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8255/23]

International Protection

Thomas Pringle

557. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Justice if his Department has conducted any recent review into the IPO's treatment of SOGI (sexual orientation or gender identity) asylum claims to establish whether LGBT asylum seekers have faced discrimination in the IP process; the reason his Department does not collect or publish statistics on the number of SOGI claims made or the rate of rejection for these claims; the guidance that has been issued to the IPO in relation to SOGI claims; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8279/23]

Health Services

Thomas Pringle

609. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the number of people who attended pigmented skin lesion clinics on a quarterly basis between 2013 and 2022, and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8222/23]

Health Services

Thomas Pringle

610. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the number and proportion of people who attended pigmented skin lesion clinics within the recommended timeframe on a quarterly basis between 2013 and 2022, and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8223/23]

Health Services

Thomas Pringle

611. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the number and proportion of people who attended pigmented skin lesion clinics to be diagnosed with melanoma skin cancer and non-melanoma skin cancer through these clinics on a quarterly basis between 2013 and 2022, and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8224/23]

Tobacco Control Measures

Thomas Pringle

612. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the projected annual cost to provide free nicotine replacement therapy to all those enrolled in HSE smoking cessation programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8225/23]

Tobacco Control Measures

Thomas Pringle

613. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the amount spent by the HSE to tackle tobacco use in 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8226/23]

Tobacco Control Measures

Thomas Pringle

614. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health his plans for population-wide education and health awareness on the use of e-cigarettes and or similar products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8227/23]

Vaccination Programme

Thomas Pringle

615. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the estimated amount to the State to extend the HPV vaccination catch-up programme to males up to the age of 25 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8228/23]

Abortion Services

Thomas Pringle

617. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health when he will publish the review of the operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8251/23]

Technological Universities

Thomas Pringle

56. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the way he envisages the Killybegs Tourism College developing as a campus of the Atlantic Technological University, if he has any discussions with the Atlantic Technological University around same, if he has received funding applications in relation to the further development of the campus and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7272/23]

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Thomas Pringle

121. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if Ireland is on course to stay within the legally binding carbon budget 2021-25; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6820/23]

Schools Building Projects

Thomas Pringle

331. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education the status of the development of a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6695/23]

Good Friday Agreement

Thomas Pringle

483. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Justice if prison officers who were on duty in Portlaoise Prison during the Troubles and were in receipt of the environmental allowance, known by prison officers as "danger money”, are classified under the Good Friday Agreement as people affected by the Troubles. [6303/23]

Prison Service

Thomas Pringle

503. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Justice his plans to eliminate the practice of slopping out across the Irish prison estate by developing the sanitation facilities in Portlaoise Prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6821/23]

Medicinal Products

Thomas Pringle

669. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the process in writing by which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting can obtain cariban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6813/23]

Medicinal Products

Thomas Pringle

670. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health if a general practitioner will be able to make a determination and recommend the prescription of cariban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6814/23]

Medicinal Products

Thomas Pringle

671. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the reason cariban is not being made available under the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6815/23]

Medicinal Products

Thomas Pringle

672. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the number of cariban prescriptions that have been processed since 1 January 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6816/23]

Climate Action Plan

Thomas Pringle

899. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine having ruled out a beef reduction scheme for farmers looking to exit the sector and discounting the resultant emissions reduction, the additional substitute measures he is proposing for the Climate Action Plan to ensure that agriculture stays within its sectoral emissions ceiling in the first carbon budget period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6817/23]

Departmental Funding

Thomas Pringle

900. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of funding provided to Teagasc each year since 2010, in tabular form; the structure and oversight his Department has to protect taxpayers’ interests; if the taxpayer receives good value for this funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6818/23]

Teagasc Activities

Thomas Pringle

901. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the commercial interests that are represented on the Teagasc authority; if this appropriately reflects the central scientific challenge for Irish agriculture, namely, to produce highly nutritional food with radically lower absolute amounts of greenhouse gas emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6819/23]

Oireachtas Members' Expenses

Thomas Pringle

126. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if the fund for extra security measures for politicians will be paid out every year or once per Oireachtas term for Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas; the annual cost of the grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6320/23]

Oireachtas Members' Expenses

Thomas Pringle

127. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if the new funding scheme that will be provided to Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas for safety measures at their homes will be extended to the elected members of local authorities across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6321/23]

Housing Provision

Thomas Pringle

139. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a list of the number of social houses that have been built on islands around the Irish coast in the past 20 years, in tabular form; the islands on which they have been built; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6325/23]

Gaeltacht Policy

Thomas Pringle

140. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his long-term plan to protect the islands and their Gaeltacht communities by building social houses; if he will instruct the local authorities to give extra points to native Irish speakers and people from the island community who have applied for homes on the islands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6326/23]

Gaeltacht Policy

Thomas Pringle

141. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his long-term plan to protect the Gaeltacht communities; if he will instruct the local authorities to give extra points to native Irish speakers who have applied for homes in Gaeltacht areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6327/23]

Housing Schemes

Thomas Pringle

168. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the caravan purchase loan scheme will be operational; what the maximum funding will be; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6165/23]

Aquaculture Industry

Thomas Pringle

485. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the process that has been undertaken since 2020 to December 2022 by the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board to obtain technical advice in relation to oyster licences (details supplied), which are subject of appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5736/23]

Aquaculture Industry

Thomas Pringle

486. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of appeals of licences to cultivate Pacific oysters currently before the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board for decision, disaggregated by the year that the appeal was lodged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5737/23]

Aquaculture Industry

Thomas Pringle

487. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of appeals of licences to cultivate Pacific oysters that the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board has determined in each year from 2010 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5738/23]

Human Rights

Thomas Pringle

254. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5345/23]

Child and Family Agency

Thomas Pringle

350. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are any circumstances where Tusla can apply for citizenship for children in foster care; if it is included in upcoming legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5344/23]

Third Level Fees

Thomas Pringle

177. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if a student (details supplied) who has been living in Ireland for longer than five years will be considered eligible for EU fees rather that fees for an international student; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4960/23]

Departmental Data

Thomas Pringle

488. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications processed by her Department for carers allowance for the period 2015 to 2022, in tabular form, disaggregated by year of application, county of residence of claimant; the number of applications where further inquiries were made by way of correspondence with the claimant; the number of applications where further inquiries were made by way of a social welfare inspector’s report; the number of applications refused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4261/23]

Coillte Teoranta

Thomas Pringle

774. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that any land used for planting of any forestry stays in the hands of Coillte or the individual farmers and stop international investors from buying up large areas of land for plantation; and if he will ensure that the majority of trees planted are native tree species and that a full and independent, environmental assessment would be carried out before any non-native species are planted. [4337/23]

Electricity Supply Board

Thomas Pringle

193. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if homeowners should contact the ESB Networks emergency number to report cases in which there is significant ingress of water into the meter cabinet in homes affected by defective blocks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3180/23]

Tax Credits

Thomas Pringle

243. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the rent tax credit will not be available to parents of students in cases in which the tenancy is of a type which is exempt from RTB registration, such as a rent-a-room or digs type arrangement; if he will consider providing a mechanism to include such persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3177/23]

Tax Credits

Thomas Pringle

244. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that parents who pay rent for their children who are studying abroad in approved courses cannot claim the rent tax relief on the rent they pay; and if he will consider providing a mechanism to include such persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3178/23]

Tax Code

Thomas Pringle

249. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance if charitable donations from outside the State are taxed on arrival in the State; if not, if any other State charge is placed on a charitable donation when it arrives in the State for a charitable purpose within the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3219/23]

Banking Sector

Thomas Pringle

250. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance the discussions his Department has had with the banking sector in relation the treatment of homeowners affected by mica by the banks and the way they will be dealt with in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3220/23]

Defective Building Materials

Thomas Pringle

313. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the discussions his Department has had with the banking sector in relation the treatment of homeowners affected by mica by the banks, and the way they will be dealt with in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3221/23]

Third Level Education

Thomas Pringle

447. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the assessment procedures to be used in relation to the submissions from colleges to establish the proposed new school of veterinary medicine in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3172/23]

Third Level Education

Thomas Pringle

448. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to outline the assessment criteria upon which the decision to establish the proposed new school of veterinary medicine in Ireland is based; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3173/23]

Third Level Education

Thomas Pringle

449. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if it is envisaged that the proposed new school of veterinary medicine in Ireland will be capable of achieving accreditation by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in the UK, American Veterinary Medical Association, the Australasian Veterinary Boards Council and the European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education; the way that he will ensure this is achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3174/23]

Schools Building Projects

Thomas Pringle

257. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education the commencement date for the new school building project for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; the date that her Department has given the building company by which it must start the construction phase of the school building; the envisaged completion date for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2506/23]

Legislative Measures

Thomas Pringle

1. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Taoiseach if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections that are outstanding; the number of Acts that have review periods; if the reviews have taken place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63389/22]

Legislative Measures

Thomas Pringle

15. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections outstanding; the number of Acts that have review periods; if the reviews have taken place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63379/22]