Donegal — week of Mon, 7 Sept — Watch Them Work

What your Donegal TDs did this week

Mon, 7 Sept – 13 Sept 2020 · 5 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 50 questions · 7 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Report of the Committee of Standing Orders and Dáil Reform

2020-09-10 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 87–56

Voted for 2 Charlie McConalogue · Joe McHugh

Voted against 3 Pearse Doherty · Pádraig Mac Lochlainn · Thomas Pringle

Did not vote 2 Charles Ward · Pat the Cope Gallagher

Cancer Screening

2020-09-10 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 79–64

Voted for 2 Charlie McConalogue · Joe McHugh

Voted against 3 Pearse Doherty · Pádraig Mac Lochlainn · Thomas Pringle

Did not vote 2 Charles Ward · Pat the Cope Gallagher

The motion · motion passed 78–65

Voted for 2 Charlie McConalogue · Joe McHugh

Voted against 3 Pearse Doherty · Pádraig Mac Lochlainn · Thomas Pringle

Did not vote 2 Charles Ward · Pat the Cope Gallagher

Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020

2020-09-10 · 1 vote

The motion · motion failed 15–125

Voted against 4 Charlie McConalogue · Joe McHugh · Pearse Doherty · Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Abstained 1 Thomas Pringle

Did not vote 2 Charles Ward · Pat the Cope Gallagher

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2020-09-08 · 2 votes

The motion · motion passed 26–19

Voted against 2 Pádraig Mac Lochlainn · Thomas Pringle

Did not vote 4 Charles Ward · Charlie McConalogue · Pat the Cope Gallagher · Pearse Doherty

The motion · motion passed 28–17

Voted against 2 Pádraig Mac Lochlainn · Thomas Pringle

Did not vote 4 Charles Ward · Charlie McConalogue · Pat the Cope Gallagher · Pearse Doherty

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 4 votes · 0 questions · 2 new lobbying returns

New lobbying 2 returns

GP Wood Agriculture
- The improvement of Forestry policy and programmes
Brown O'Connor Communications Taxation
- Remote working issues for cross-border workers

Pat the Cope Gallagher — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Pearse Doherty — Sinn Féin 4 votes · 11 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 11 total

Finance 5 questions
- 2020-09-08 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of banks that have communicated to the Central Bank an intention to pay dividends in 2020; the actions of the Central Bank in response in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22205/20]
- 2020-09-08 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of insurers that have communicated to the Central Bank an intention to pay dividends in 2020; the actions of the Central Bank in response in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22206/20]
- 2020-09-08 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of banks that have communicated to the Central Bank an intention to pay bonuses in 2020; the actions of the Central Bank in response in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22207/20]
- 2020-09-08 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of insurers that have communicated to the Central Bank an intention to pay bonuses in 2020; the actions of the Central Bank in response in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22208/20]
- 2020-09-08 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of times and the dates on which the working group to monitor cryptocurrency development has met since its establishment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22314/20]
Health 2 questions
- 2020-09-08 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will have a medical procedure expedited in Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21109/20]
- 2020-09-08 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can receive the remainder of their treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21511/20]
Public 1 question
- 2020-09-08 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the catchment and flood risk management, CFRAM, flood risk management plan for Donegal town; the progress on the implementation of same that has been made to date; the funding that has been allocated to the scheme to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22679/20]
Education 1 question
- 2020-09-08 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education if teacher placement as part of teacher training courses will proceed in 2020 in primary and post-primary schools; if health and safety plans are in place for same; if her Department is working with the teacher training colleges on same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22677/20]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2020-09-08 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans to offer a concession in respect of third-level fees in view of the Covid-19 pandemic in which many third-level students will not be physically attending third-level Institutions as much as in previous years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22678/20]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2020-09-08 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the outcome of the ANC review in County Donegal; the townlands excluded; and the reason they were excluded with details for each townland. [21833/20]

New lobbying 1 return

Restaurants Association of Ireland Tourism
- Requested written Submission to the Special Committee on Covid-19 Response on Reopening the Economy.

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn — Sinn Féin 6 votes · 4 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 4 total

Agriculture 3 questions
- 2020-09-08 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will provide the €3 million to BIM that will be required to upgrade ice plants at various harbours nationally. [22216/20]
- 2020-09-08 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the number of harbours that his Department are responsible for to include Greencastle Harbour, County Donegal. [22217/20]
- 2020-09-08 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications for funding from his Department submitted by local authorities for piers and harbours; the locations of the piers and harbours that funding has been sought for; and the amount of funding sought in each case in tabular form. [22218/20]
Social 1 question
- 2020-09-08 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans to amend the legislation that results in the registration of babies that have died at birth being recorded privately rather than publicly; and if her attention has been drawn to the hurt caused to parents that do not have the option to record the birth of their child publicly and for the information of future generations. [21634/20]