Mon, 15 Jun – 21 Jun 2020 · 5 TDs · 0 bills voted on · 32 questions · 1 new lobbying filings
Charles Ward — 100% RDR
0 votes ·
0 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.
Charlie McConalogue — Fianna Fáil
0 votes ·
14 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked14 total
Agriculture6 questions
2020-06-16Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there will be a budget allocated to farmers from within the just transition fund with respect to the latest EU Commission revised multi-annual financial framework, MFF, budget and Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, funding proposals. [10508/20]
2020-06-16Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount allocated to the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund and the European Agricultural Fund, respectively, for rural development at EU level for the multi-annual financial framework, MFF, programme 2014 to 2020 excluding funding that was allocated to the UK; the amount proposed by the EU Commission in 2018 to CAP and pillar 1 and 2 funds, respectively; and the latest amount proposed to CAP and pillar 1 and 2 funds, respectively, under the latest EU Commission revised MFF budget and CAP funding proposals, in tabular form. [10509/20]
2020-06-16Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount allocated to Ireland under the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund and the European Agricultural Fund, respectively, for rural development for the multi-annual financial framework, MFF, programme 2014 to 2020; the amount proposed by the EU Commission in 2018 to CAP and pillar 1 and 2 funds, respectively, for Ireland; and the latest amount proposed for CAP funding and pillar 1 and 2 funds, respectively, for Ireland under the latest EU Commission revised MFF budget, in tabular form. [10510/20]
2020-06-16Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the revised MFF allocation over the 2021 to 2027 period for the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund compared to the 2014 to 2020 allocation, excluding funding that was allocated to the UK; the 2018 EU Commission proposal; and the corresponding allocations to Ireland under each scenario in tabular form. [10511/20]
2020-06-16Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the revised EU fisheries control regulation proposal; his views on same; his further views regarding the regulation of super trawlers with respect to the proposed introduction of CCTV and remote electronic monitoring; if further information will be provided regarding the points raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if background information will be provided on the next EU Fisheries Ministerial Council to discuss the draft regulation. [10525/20]
2020-06-16Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the membership of a cross-departmental group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10543/20]
Finance3 questions
2020-06-16Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Finance if he will amend the temporary wage subsidy scheme to facilitate the needs of businesses in the tourism and hospitality sector to increase the number of hours an employee can work to a level in excess of the average level of hours worked by an employee during the scheme qualification reference period and allow the company to continue to qualify for a payment under the scheme for the employee (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10559/20]
2020-06-16Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider the points raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10930/20]
2020-06-16Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Finance if the situation in respect of the temporary wage subsidy scheme as outlined in correspondence (details supplied) will be clarified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11402/20]
Education1 question
2020-06-16Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the action he is taking to secure the purchase of a site for a school (details supplied); the assistance being provided to the school to meet the challenge of Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10991/20]
Health1 question
2020-06-16Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Health when practising reflexologists can commence work (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11378/20]
Communications1 question
2020-06-16Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when broadband will be made available to an area (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10572/20]
Employment1 question
2020-06-16Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an illness benefit application by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10824/20]
Housing1 question
2020-06-16Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the criteria for qualifying as a principal private residence for the purposes of the MICA redress scheme; if the scheme will be amended in order that non-principal private residence houses are also eligible for redress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11166/20]
Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.
Pearse Doherty — Sinn Féin
0 votes ·
3 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked3 total
Agriculture2 questions
2020-06-16Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of oyster farm licences granted to persons for such activity in Redcastle foreshore in Lough Foyle, County Donegal; if further licences have been applied for; the consultation period relating to same; the steps being taken to ensure that such licensing applications are commensurate to the local environs; if decision makers are mindful of the threat such marine-based activities pose to the tourism potential of scenic locations such as along the Wild Atlantic Way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10556/20]
2020-06-16Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a decision on an application for a targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, TAMS, grant for young farmers. [10726/20]
Health1 question
2020-06-16Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal has been referred from Letterkenny University Hospital to Galway University Hospital for heart surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10524/20]
2020-06-16Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm the commitment to fund the TEN-T priority route improvement project (details supplied) in County Donegal; when it will go to construction; and the status of the commitment to co-fund the long delayed, Derry and Donegal to Dublin A5 upgrade dual carriageway project in order that the north-west region can have the same access and economic opportunities as the rest of the country. [11024/20]
2020-06-16Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide the necessary funding to allow local authorities to reinstate the EU co-funded roads projects. [11025/20]
2020-06-16Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person availing of a NCT later in 2020 that has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic crisis will be covered from the new date or the originally scheduled date. [11197/20]
Agriculture2 questions
2020-06-16Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount invested into the breakwater project adjoined to Greencastle Harbour, County Donegal; the reason this incomplete project was stalled; and when the large investment to date will be justified by the completion of the breakwater. [11192/20]
2020-06-16Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts his Department and BIM have made to open the Chinese market to the green crab species carcinus maenus fished here. [11193/20]
Health1 question
2020-06-16Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the efforts he is making with his counterpart in the Northern Ireland Executive to ensure that the reopening of businesses such as driver instructors and hairdressers are synchronised across the island to protect businesses in the Border region from being disadvantaged while adhering to public health protection requirements. [11198/20]
Employment1 question
2020-06-16Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person caring for two persons can claim a higher level of carer’s allowance than a person caring for one person; and if not, the reason. [11196/20]