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Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Active Travel
Thomas Pringle
200. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Transport if he will reconsider the decision not to install a walkway as was planned over the Clady river at Bunbeg, County Donegal; to detail the money already spent in surveys and other propriety work on this project; if he will meet with local representatives from the community to discuss the need for the walkway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13103/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Tax Code
Thomas Pringle
229. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider his decision to introduce an increase in fuel excise on 1 April 2024, given the fact that the UK has just announced it will not reintroduce its increase (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12032/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Departmental Regulations
Thomas Pringle
409. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education whether the Covid Amendment Regulation 2023 will be extended in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11902/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Departmental Correspondence
Thomas Pringle
410. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education when the board of management of a school (details supplied) in Donegal can expect a response to its letter of 21 February 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11904/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Departmental Correspondence
Thomas Pringle
411. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education when a substantive reply will issue to email correspondence (details supplied) from this Deputy with his Office of 16 January 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11907/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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School Facilities
Thomas Pringle
535. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education for an update on the prefabricated classroom which was applied for in March 2023 for a school in Donegal town (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13037/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Emergency Accommodation
Thomas Pringle
625. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 411 of 5 March 2024, if the technical working group deemed suitable for progression under the Emergency Refurbishment (Ukraine) Programme any the properties that are currently subject to an open enforcement case by a local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11910/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Thomas Pringle
729. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider backdating child benefit payments for the intervening period from May 2023 to May 2024 for the small cohort of 18 year-olds that lost out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11965/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Departmental Reports
Thomas Pringle
738. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will publish the Pensions Council-commissioned independent evaluation report by (details supplied) into the alternative auto-enrolled pensions proposal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12104/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Departmental Reports
Thomas Pringle
739. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will publish the Pensions Council's own evaluation report into the alternative auto-enrolled pensions proposal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12106/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Departmental Reports
Thomas Pringle
740. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection if the Pensions Council has presented her with both the Pensions Council-commissioned independent evaluation report by a person (details supplied) and its own evaluation report into the alternative auto-enrolled pensions proposal by another person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12108/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Probation and Welfare Service
Thomas Pringle
813. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Justice how many individuals released on licence in the UK have returned to Ireland during their licence period in the past five years; whether these individuals have been provided with any supervision, support or any other form of engagement by the Probation Service; whether any consideration has been given to entering into a formal agreement with the probation services of England and Wales to facilitate the transfer of post release supervision between the two jurisdictions, similar that with Northern Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11797/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Disability Services
Thomas Pringle
1125. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 459 of 7 March 2023, if the Preliminary Design (Stage 1) Report for the new intellectual disability adult day services facility at the Cleary Centre in Donegal town is complete; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11909/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Disability Services
Thomas Pringle
1135. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 459 of 7 March 2023, if the preliminary design Stage 1 report for the new intellectual disability adult day services facility at the Cleary Centre in Donegal town is complete; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12009/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Health Services Staff
Thomas Pringle
1326. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the reason no appeal mechanism is included in the job evaluation scheme conducted by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12031/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Health Services
Thomas Pringle
1367. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health who is responsible for securing funding for a person who has been approved for a place but waiting on funding to be approved for residential care (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12311/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Qualifications Recognition
Thomas Pringle
1437. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the reason a CORU registration (details supplied) in which all documents have been verified will take up to four months to be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12615/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Emergency Accommodation
Thomas Pringle
411. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage where an offer of a building for accommodation has been referred to his Department by the Department for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for assessment under the Emergency Refurbishment (Ukraine) Programme, and the property is subject to an open enforcement case by the local authority, if it is incontrovertibly deemed unsuitable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10340/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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International Protection
Thomas Pringle
570. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth where an offer of a building for accommodation for beneficiaries of temporary protection fleeing the war in Ukraine is received by his Department, and the property is subject to an open enforcement case by the local authority, if it is incontrovertibly deemed unsuitable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10339/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Health Services
Thomas Pringle
640. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the number of people who attended a lung rapid access clinic and the number who were offered an appointment in each of the relevant hospitals managed by South/Southwest Hospital Group within ten working days of the date of receipt of a letter of referral from the cancer office, in each quarter from 2016 to 2023, in tabular form. [10061/24]