Donegal — week of Mon, 1 Feb

What your Donegal TDs did this week

Mon, 1 Feb – 7 Feb 2021 · 5 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 62 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2021-02-03 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 25–19

Voted for 1 Joe McHugh

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 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

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 0 votes · 25 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 25 total

Finance 10 questions
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance when a VRT reimbursement will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6008/21]
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if employees' resident in Northern Ireland are eligible employees under the employment wage subsidy scheme in cases in which their employers are resident here. [5275/21]
- 2021-02-04 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of complaints submitted to the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman which are yet to be allocated to a complaint handler; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6229/21]
- 2021-02-04 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of complaints submitted to the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman which are yet to be allocated to a complaint handler disaggregated by the number of weeks since they were first submitted with intervals of one week. [6230/21]
- 2021-02-04 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of complaints submitted to the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman which remain unresolved disaggregated by the number of months since they were first submitted with intervals of one month. [6231/21]
- 2021-02-04 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the average cost of resolving each complaint submitted to the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman. [6232/21]
- 2021-02-04 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of complaints submitted to the Financial and Services Pension Ombudsman since 1 March 2020. [6233/21]
- 2021-02-04 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of complaints submitted to the Financial and Services Pension Ombudsman between 1 March 2019 and 1 March 2020. [6234/21]
- 2021-02-04 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of complaints made against banks submitted to the Financial and Services Pension Ombudsman since 1 March 2020. [6235/21]
- 2021-02-04 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of complaints made against insurance companies submitted to the Financial and Services Pension Ombudsman since 1 March 2020. [6236/21]
Enterprise 5 questions
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the value of approvals made under the future growth loan scheme to date. [5645/21]
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the value of lending permitted under the future growth loan scheme by each lender accepting loan applications for the scheme. [5646/21]
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the basis on which permitted total lending per lender was decided or allocated under the future growth loan scheme. [5647/21]
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the remaining capacity for lending under the future growth loan scheme disaggregated by each participating lender. [5648/21]
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider reallocating the remaining capacity under the future growth loan scheme in order that fully subscribed lenders are in a position to lend under the scheme to business customers who wish to avail of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5649/21]
Health 5 questions
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the reason no funding was allocated to the national eating disorder treatment plan in 2020; the reason none of the €1.6 million allocated in 2019 was spent in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5914/21]
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will have an ASD assessment before they reach 18 years of age in the coming months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6013/21]
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for St. Vincent’s Hospital; if they are on the routine or urgent waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6014/21]
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was released from Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6015/21]
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect an appointment in Sligo University Hospital neurology department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6016/21]
Social 2 questions
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection if a PPSN application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6009/21]
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans to extend the duration of community employment schemes due to Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6010/21]
Agriculture 2 questions
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of approved FLAG applications for 2020; when such applications will receive offers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6011/21]
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the FLAG programme will open to new applications in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6012/21]
Transport 1 question
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport when a learner permit will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6007/21]

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 23 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 23 total

Agriculture 16 questions
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts he has made to secure a share of the bluefin tuna for Irish fishers for 2021 through engagements with the EU Commission and International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna, ICCAT; and the details of the outcome of engagements on the matter. [4999/21]
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 662 of 27 May 2020, the outcome of the report drafted by the marine engineering division on the construction of road approximately 400 m in length along the foreshore of Lough Foyle at Clar, Redcastle, County Donegal. [5000/21]
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all sectors of the fishing industry including the producer organisations, fishing co-ops, inshore fishing organisations and islands fishing organisations will be represented on the task force that he has announced for the industry. [5001/21]
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the review of the decision to not proceed with the sea survival centre at the fisheries school at Greencastle, County Donegal. [5002/21]
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the review of the request from Donegal County Council to centrally fund the completion of the breakwater at Greencastle Harbour, County Donegal and the development of the harbour to increase the potential for fisheries and tourism. [5003/21]
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of recorded landings by UK-registered vessels at each harbour nationwide in each of the years 2016 to 2020, in tabular form. [5053/21]
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider extending the landing times for UK-registered vessels at some designated ports nationwide from Monday to Friday to seven days a week with regard to the safety of fishers and the limitations of the weather that impacts on their livelihoods. [5054/21]
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will release a full contact directory of roles and responsibilities within his Department for the marine sector, including persons responsible for various roles to Opposition spokespersons as other Ministers and Departments have done. [5302/21]
- 2021-02-04 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagements he has had with his European counterparts to secure support for the amendment 269 worded operations located in the remote Irish Islands, Greek Islands and in the Croatian islands of Dugi Otok, Vis, Mljet and Lastovo in the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and repealing Regulation (EU) No 508/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council (COM(2018)0390 – C8-0270/2018 – 2018/0210(COD)); if this amendment will be supported which will give special recognition to Irish islands in the new EMFF; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6114/21]
- 2021-02-04 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he and his Department will re-engage with a person (details supplied) to examine possibilities to compensate as a result of stability issues which were discovered on a vessel that they purchased from another European state rendering the vessel unfit for sea and unsafe and which left them in serious financial hardship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6115/21]
- 2021-02-04 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the arrangements that have been agreed with the UK Government to allow Irish fishers to fish inside the 12 nautical mile limit in Northern Ireland; if any Irish vessels have been registered to date; the number that have sought to be registered; when these arrangements will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6116/21]
- 2021-02-04 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to seek increased quotas to fish stocks during upcoming European negotiations following the Brexit trade deal which will have a significant impact on Ireland’s TAC’s in future years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6117/21]
- 2021-02-04 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will seek increased share of fish quotas for species haddock, monk fish, hake, nephrops and mackerel based on the amount of fish caught by Irish vessels averaged over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6118/21]
- 2021-02-04 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when fishers will be informed of their allocated quota for horse mackerel in 2021; the reason there has been a delay in releasing this quota to Irish fishers when fishers from other European member states have received their allocation and have been fishing since the beginning of January 2021; when the allocation will be finalised and released to fishers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6119/21]
- 2021-02-04 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered the feasibility of issuing non-transferable transition Irish fishing licences to the fishers based in this State and who hold a UK fishing licence as suggested by some campaigners. [6130/21]
- 2021-02-04 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quota allocation or financial benefit accruing to the Irish fishing industry from the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the EU and Greenland and a new protocol that will strengthen fisheries co-operation for the next four years with the possibility of a two-year extension. [6134/21]
Foreign 5 questions
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the way in which Ireland’s seat at the UN Security Council can advance the formation of a Palestinian state in line with the votes of Dáil and Seanad Éireann. [5006/21]
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the way in which Ireland’s seat at the UN Security Council can assist with the humanitarian crisis in the Tigray region of Ethiopia and towards a peaceful resolution of the conflict there. [5007/21]
- 2021-02-03 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of negotiations with the UK Government in respect of asserting the rights of Irish fishers to fish within the 12-mile limit around Rockall. [5464/21]
- 2021-02-04 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he supports the growing international calls for the release of a person (details supplied) from prison in India on bail on humanitarian grounds. [6043/21]
- 2021-02-04 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the consular and counselling support from his officials and other Departments provided to the family of a person (details supplied); and if he will establish with his Indian counterpart if the ongoing trial of the man accused of the murder can be included in the fast-track special courts for expeditious disposal of rape and POSCO act scheme to avoid the ongoing distress and anguish to the family caused by the long delays in this trial. [6053/21]
Finance 1 question
- 2021-02-04 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Finance if all share fishermen in the State are being treated in the same manner by the Revenue Commissioners in accordance with the High Court judgements of October 2001 and subsequent tax and duty manual published following same; if section 2.5 is being applied, that is, capital allowances shared between boat owners and crew on the same basis in different locations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6113/21]
Health 1 question
- 2021-02-04 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the date on which the National Ambulance Service plans to replace the interim additional ambulance cover measures for the Inishowen peninsula, County Donegal with permanent rostered staff in a permanent base in Buncrana, County Donegal; the way in which the National Ambulance Service plans utilising the six staff sanctioned; and the level of cover the service plans to provide to Inishowen. [6112/21]