Sligo-Leitrim — week of Mon, 2 Nov — Watch Them Work

What your Sligo-Leitrim TDs did this week

Mon, 2 Nov – 8 Nov 2020 · 4 TDs · 5 bills voted on · 22 questions · 4 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Act 2020

2020-11-04 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 63–82

Voted for 2 Marian Harkin · Martin Kenny

Voted against 2 Frankie Feighan · Marc MacSharry

Did not vote 1 Eamon Scanlon

The motion · motion passed 95–50

Voted for 3 Frankie Feighan · Marc MacSharry · Marian Harkin

Voted against 1 Martin Kenny

Did not vote 1 Eamon Scanlon

Forestry (Planning Permission) (Amendment) Bill 2018

2020-11-04 · 1 vote · Sinn Féin PMB

A bill to amend the provisions of the Forestry Act 2014 to provide for planning permission for all forestry developments over 5 hectares

full description

A bill to amend the provisions of the Forestry Act 2014 to provide for planning permission for all forestry developments over 5 hectares; to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000; and to provide for related matters.

Whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) · motion failed 55–88

Voted for 2 Marian Harkin · Martin Kenny

Voted against 2 Frankie Feighan · Marc MacSharry

Did not vote 1 Eamon Scanlon

River Shannon Management Agency Bill 2020

2020-11-04 · 1 vote · Sinn Féin PMB

A bill to create a single competent authority to co-ordinate flood risk and management along the River Shannon and to provide for matters connected therewith

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 88–57

Voted for 3 Frankie Feighan · Marc MacSharry · Marian Harkin

Voted against 1 Martin Kenny

Did not vote 1 Eamon Scanlon

Flood Prevention Policies

2020-11-04 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 85–59

Voted for 2 Frankie Feighan · Marc MacSharry

Voted against 2 Marian Harkin · Martin Kenny

Did not vote 1 Eamon Scanlon

The motion · motion passed 82–57

Voted for 2 Frankie Feighan · Marc MacSharry

Voted against 2 Marian Harkin · Martin Kenny

Did not vote 1 Eamon Scanlon

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2020-11-03 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 26–18

Voted against 1 Martin Kenny

Did not vote 3 Eamon Scanlon · Frankie Feighan · Marian Harkin

Eamon Scanlon — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Frankie Feighan — Fine Gael 6 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Marian Harkin — Independent 6 votes · 10 questions · 2 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 10 total

Health 4 questions
- 2020-11-03 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health if the means test for medical cards for persons with disabilities will be removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33055/20]
- 2020-11-03 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health his plans to put in place a remuneration package for student nurses who are effectively working 35 hours per week in hospitals and healthcare facilities as healthcare assistants for no remuneration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33410/20]
- 2020-11-04 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health the number of amplification cycles being used for PCR testing; if this is a static number used for every test; and if the number has remained constant from March to October 2020. [34126/20]
- 2020-11-04 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health the standard the PCR tests are being compared against; the person or body that set the standard; and the way in which it was decided that the chosen genetic sequence was definitively from SARS-CoV-2 and could not be confused with another coronavirus. [34127/20]
Further and Higher Education 2 questions
- 2020-11-03 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if, following the announcement in budget 2021 of an extra €250 payment for third level students who have either paid their college fee or are in receipt of a SUSI grant, to assist with transfer to online learning, full-time post leaving certificate students who do not qualify for a SUSI grant but have paid their course fees will be eligible for this payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32385/20]
- 2020-11-05 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason the pandemic unemployment payment is not classed as a qualifying payment for SUSI grant applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34436/20]
Transport 2 questions
- 2020-11-04 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Transport the total spend on local and national roads by county in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form; and the budget allocation for 2021. [34125/20]
- 2020-11-05 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Transport if compensation is payable to those that the driver theory test is cancelled with less than five days’ notice and if so, the process to access same. [34437/20]
Tourism 1 question
- 2020-11-03 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the funding available to musicians as announced in budget 2021; the process to access the funding and closing dates for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32618/20]
Social 1 question
- 2020-11-04 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider bringing forward the date parents can access the extra three weeks parents leave which is due to commence in April 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34124/20]

New lobbying 2 returns

Habitat for Humanity Ireland Housing
- Focus on the sustainable development goals, and how these need to be incorporated into the programme for government.
Growing Media Ireland Company Limited by Guarantee Environment
- Request for urgent legislation to save the horticultural peat industry

Martin Kenny — Sinn Féin 7 votes · 6 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 6 total

Justice 6 questions
- 2020-11-04 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Justice if an end date can be provided to persons (details supplied). [33954/20]
- 2020-11-04 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Justice if an enquiry into the death of a person (details supplied) is continuing during lockdown [33955/20]
- 2020-11-04 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Justice the number of extensions of the end date made to an inquiry (details supplied); the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33956/20]
- 2020-11-04 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Justice if she will meet a family in relation to the death of a person (details supplied); and the inquiry into their death; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33957/20]
- 2020-11-04 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Justice if it has been established the personal information in relation to the Hickson Commission was on a USB key as reported in the media recently;and if her Department has notified the survivors or their legal team of its loss and contents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34138/20]
- 2020-11-04 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Justice the reason personal information relating to the investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by a person (details supplied) known as the Hickson Commission was stored on a USB key; the circumstances of the reported loss of this USB key; if the use of USB keys for the retention of sensitive data is common practice in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34139/20]

New lobbying 1 return

Habitat for Humanity Ireland Housing
- Focus on the sustainable development goals, and how these need to be incorporated into the programme for government.