Longford-Westmeath — week of Mon, 12 Oct

What your Longford-Westmeath TDs did this week

Mon, 12 Oct – 18 Oct 2020 · 5 TDs · 2 bills voted on · 24 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise - Mineral Oil Tax

2020-10-13 · 1 vote

A budget financial resolution · motion passed 91–53

Voted for 3 Joe Flaherty · Peter Burke · Robert Troy

Voted against 1 Sorca Clarke

Did not vote 2 Kevin Boxer Moran · Micheál Carrigy

Trade Union Representation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2018

2020-10-13 · 1 vote · Sinn Féin PMB

A bill to amend the Trade Union Act 1941 and the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2001 to confer on authorised unions the right to have their representative duties to their …

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A bill to amend the Trade Union Act 1941 and the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2001 to confer on authorised unions the right to have their representative duties to their members for collective bargaining and disciplinary matters recognised by employers and to provide for related matters.

Whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) · motion failed 62–84

Voted for 1 Sorca Clarke

Voted against 3 Joe Flaherty · Peter Burke · Robert Troy

Did not vote 2 Kevin Boxer Moran · Micheál Carrigy

Kevin Boxer Moran — Independent 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Micheál Carrigy — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Peter Burke — Fine Gael 2 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Robert Troy — Fianna Fáil 2 votes · 6 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 6 total

Education 1 question
- 2020-10-13 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education if school transport will be provided in the case of persons (details supplied). [29757/20]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2020-10-13 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an application for a forestry licence by persons (details supplied) will be expedited. [29602/20]
Justice 1 question
- 2020-10-14 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Justice if information pertaining to the rights associated with community rights of way will be provided. [30540/20]
Rural 1 question
- 2020-10-14 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the grants available to a business owner who has land in the centre of Mullingar for redeveloping. [30556/20]
Social 1 question
- 2020-10-15 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Social Protection if the criteria for invalidity pension payments will be examined; and if the introduction of a measure that will allow recipients of invalidity pension to work up to ten hours per week while in receipt of the full payment will be examined (details supplied). [30690/20]
Health 1 question
- 2020-10-15 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if surgery will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [30842/20]

Sorca Clarke — Sinn Féin 2 votes · 14 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 14 total

Health 5 questions
- 2020-10-15 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the reason in-person speech and language therapy sessions have not been provided to a person (details supplied) since February 2020; and the reason the person has not been transferred to a primary care centre in which speech and language sessions have been taking place during the same period [30637/20]
- 2020-10-15 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health if clarity will be provided on a statutory instrument (details supplied) as it relates to yoga and pilates studios. [30639/20]
- 2020-10-15 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health his plans to offer screening appointments at the mobile breast screening unit at a care centre (details supplied). [30640/20]
- 2020-10-15 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the reason a business (details supplied) was not closed for deep cleaning following five confirmed cases of Covid-19 there. [30641/20]
- 2020-10-15 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the reason the HSE waited 13 days to inform the manager of a centre (details supplied) following a suspected Covid-19 case that the other members of a class at the centre needed to isolate for 14 days from the day of contact; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30644/20]
Social 2 questions
- 2020-10-15 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) cannot avail of the back to education scheme. [30643/20]
- 2020-10-15 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons employed by the Departments of Foreign Affairs and Defence that are in receipt of the working family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30647/20]
Children 2 questions
- 2020-10-15 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration the reason community employment scheme income is assessed as reckonable income when calculating childcare fees. [30642/20]
- 2020-10-15 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration his plans to honour the Workplace Relations Commission recommendation regarding the pay claim of the county childcare committees' co-ordinators in budget 2021. [30636/20]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2020-10-13 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to meet with striking workers (details supplied) who he has acknowledged have been treated poorly; and the actions he plans to take regarding unfair treatment of workers in Ireland. [23761/20]
Transport 1 question
- 2020-10-15 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Transport the reason a company (details supplied) is using the airfield in Abbeyshrule, County Longford, to train pilots. [30638/20]
Tourism 1 question
- 2020-10-15 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the restrictions that apply to yoga studios, dance classes and stage schools in view of level three Covid-19 restrictions. [30634/20]
Defence 1 question
- 2020-10-15 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Defence the number of persons employed by his Department that are in receipt of the working family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30645/20]
Justice 1 question
- 2020-10-15 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice her plans to reconsider Operation Fanacht and Garda checkpoints in view of the disruption to persons commuting to and from work. [30648/20]