506. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Justice if a travel pass which is issued by the Department of Social Protection can be used as a valid identification when traveling from Carrickfinn Airport, County Donegal to Dublin Airport by plane given that the travel pass is produced as proof of identification for travel on buses, trains and other public transport but a passenger was informed that it was not a valid travel pass on this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11055/23]
505. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Justice if a passport is needed for travel from Carrickfinn Airport, County Donegal to Dublin Airport (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11054/23]
492. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if there is an underrepresentation of specific expertise from both academia and practice in the areas being reviewed by the recently appointed expert advisory panel to review opportunities for new programmes in dentistry, pharmacy, medicine, nursing and veterinary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11437/23]
459. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current position regarding funding for the Cleary Centre capital project in Donegal town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11103/23]
398. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education when an appeal by a school (details supplied) in County Donegal regarding the allocation of an additional mainstream teacher will be determined; if the unique situation of its mid-year enrolment increase will be properly considered in any decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11433/23]
397. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the situation where the school roll numbers have increased by over 22% year-on-year in a school (details supplied) in County Donegal, therefore meeting the appointment figure threshold for an additional mainstream teacher, yet based on the September 2022 returns, they have been turned down; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11432/23]
371. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education the start date for the new school building project for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal which is due to start in Q1 of 2023; the date which the building company have given her Department for which it will start the construction phase of school building; and the date it foresees the project being completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11060/23]
306. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if information on the septic tank grant will be provided to a person (details supplied) who was unaware of the need to register the septic tank in 2013, has registered the tank since but has to wait for the seven-year period to be up before they can access the grant; how much funding was made available in 2022 for the septic tank grant; the average amount in euro awarded to householders in the form of a septic tank grant; how much of the 2022 available funding was unspent at year end; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11332/23]
154. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications whether it is the view of the Government and his Department that the obligations created by section 6A(5) of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021 have been fully discharged (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10760/23]
143. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has assessed the impact on 2023 GHG emissions, and climate measures uptake, of the ongoing delay in publication to date of the Annex of Actions for the Climate Action Plan 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10642/23]
69. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if any investigations into the Meenbog landslide, caused by wind farm construction in County Donegal in November 2020, have been completed; the recommendations; how it is planned to implement the recommendations; if any other reports are due from other agencies that he may be aware of; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10293/23]
346. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education the amount of the additional €62 million in funding for providing HEPA filters to schools under the minor works grants announced in December 2021 was drawn down for that purpose; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9714/23]
285. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the body responsible for notifying the general public if there are any local water outages, local boil water notices or any other issues with public water supply (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9884/23]
182. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Transport if a person (details supplied) who pre-booked a seat on the No. X30 bus from Donegal town to Dublin Airport, but the bus never arrived, can be compensated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9627/23]
181. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Transport if he is aware of the ongoing problem with buses to and from Donegal town not going according to the schedule and that it is unacceptable that Bus Éireann is not providing a full scheduled service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9626/23]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
540. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the timeline for publication of his Department's review of the issue of precarity in academia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8838/23]
529. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science when a substantive reply will issue to correspondence from this Deputy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8151/23]
482. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection the total number of carer’s allowance claims appealed; the number of appeals that were successful in each of the years 2015 to 2022, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8653/23]
461. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection when a substantive reply will issue to correspondence from this Deputy (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8149/23]
309. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when a person (details supplied) who wrote to his Department on 11 January 2023 can expect a substantive report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8483/23]
279. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a septic tank grant will be granted to a person (details supplied) who was unaware of the need to register the septic tank in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8886/23]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]