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Thu, 3 Nov 2016
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Interdepartmental Working Groups
Thomas Pringle
38. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times the working group in respect of the roadmap on the implementation of the UNCRPD have met; the progress made to date in relation to the implementation process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33082/16]
Wed, 2 Nov 2016
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Immigration Controls
Thomas Pringle
64. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of persons refused leave to land at approved ports of entry to the State in 2015 and to date in 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32520/16]
Wed, 2 Nov 2016
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Immigration Controls
Thomas Pringle
65. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons refused leave to land at approved ports of entry to the State from Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Iran and Eritrea from 2015 and to date in 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32521/16]
Wed, 2 Nov 2016
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Immigration Controls
Thomas Pringle
66. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons denied entry at Dublin, Rosslare and Dún Laoghaire ports and Cork, Shannon and Dublin airports from 2015 onwards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32522/16]
Wed, 2 Nov 2016
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Immigration Controls
Thomas Pringle
67. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons refused leave to land here who were subsequently allowed to enter as asylum seekers in 2015 and to date in 2016; if she will provide a breakdown by nationality; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32523/16]
Wed, 2 Nov 2016
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Motor Tax
Thomas Pringle
170. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason a person who is taxing a van first registered in 2009 as a private vehicle is required to tax it based on its engine capacity rather than its CO2 emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32526/16]
Wed, 2 Nov 2016
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Social Welfare Benefits Data
Thomas Pringle
190. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of social protection payments made per month to the post office in Dunlewey, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32536/16]
Thu, 27 Oct 2016
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Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Funding
Thomas Pringle
8. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the provision of loans to farmers at an interest rate of 2.95% represents good value for farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32191/16]
Thu, 27 Oct 2016
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Fisheries Offences
Thomas Pringle
20. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he will put in place to ensure fishing gear belonging to crab and lobster fishermen is not towed away by foreign factory trawlers off the west coast, as happened in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32190/16]
Thu, 27 Oct 2016
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Fish Quotas
Thomas Pringle
28. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts that have been made in formalising the allocation of herring for the north west; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32189/16]
Thu, 27 Oct 2016
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Fish Quotas
Thomas Pringle
30. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has made an application to the Commission for bluefin tuna quota to enable the development of a catch and release angling business in the north west; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32188/16]
Thu, 27 Oct 2016
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Brexit Issues
Thomas Pringle
32. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he will take to assist farmers with price support in relation to the decline in the sterling exchange rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32192/16]
Thu, 27 Oct 2016
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Local Authority Finances
Thomas Pringle
87. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the additional funding of €1 million which his Department has sanctioned to support Sligo County Council, which he referred to in Dáil Éireann on 19 October 2016, is only being made available to Sligo; if his Department will consider providing similar additional funding to Donegal County Council, which, like Sligo, has submitted a financial plan to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32353/16]
Thu, 27 Oct 2016
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Local Authority Finances
Thomas Pringle
88. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 244 of 4 October 2016 and his statement in Dáil Éireann of 19 October 2016 (details supplied), if he will clarify matters and confirm his Department will be providing additional funding to Sligo County Council to pay for the additional six library staff; if he will consider providing similar additional funding to Donegal County Council for staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32354/16]
Thu, 27 Oct 2016
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Agriculture Scheme Payments
Thomas Pringle
152. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding agriculture payments for a person (details supplied); when payment will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32407/16]
Thu, 27 Oct 2016
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Agriculture Scheme Payments
Thomas Pringle
153. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding agriculture payments for a person (details supplied); when payment will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32408/16]
Thu, 27 Oct 2016
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Agriculture Scheme Payments
Thomas Pringle
154. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding agriculture payments for a person (details supplied); when payment will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32409/16]
Wed, 26 Oct 2016
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National Broadband Plan Implementation
Thomas Pringle
16. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will expand on the measures announced in budget 2017 in relation to broadband, including an update on the technological solutions emerging through the tender process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32058/16]
Wed, 26 Oct 2016
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Renewable Energy Incentives
Thomas Pringle
45. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will expand on the measure announced in budget 2017 in relation to biomass, including the €50 million of capital spending to assist in the development of the renewable heat incentive; his plans to extend the renewable heat incentive to domestic energy users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32057/16]
Wed, 26 Oct 2016
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Disability Allowance Applications
Thomas Pringle
83. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection to outline the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the disability allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32218/16]