Longford-Westmeath — week of Mon, 15 Feb

What your Longford-Westmeath TDs did this week

Mon, 15 Feb – 21 Feb 2021 · 5 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 26 questions · 3 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2021-02-17 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 24–20

Voted for 1 Joe Flaherty

Voted against 1 Sorca Clarke

Did not vote 4 Kevin Boxer Moran · Micheál Carrigy · Peter Burke · Robert Troy

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 0 votes · 0 questions · 3 new lobbying returns

New lobbying 3 returns

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Chamber of Commerce Local Government
- Town Centre First Strategy
South Dublin Chamber Local Government
- Town Centre First Strategy
Fingal Chamber of Commerce Local Government
- Town Centre Strategy

Robert Troy — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 9 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 9 total

Education 3 questions
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education if an application for a psychological assessment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [8275/21]
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education the amount her Department has spent on legal costs arising from litigation involving children with special educational needs. [8776/21]
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education the estimated cost of fully implementing sections (details supplied) of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004, in tabular form. [8958/21]
Further and Higher Education 2 questions
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans to direct SUSI to change its guidelines regarding course progression (details supplied). [8374/21]
- 2021-02-18 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if an additional 2,500 college course places will be provided in 2021, in addition to the 2,500 places provided in 2020. [9080/21]
Tourism 2 questions
- 2021-02-18 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if sports capital funding will be awarded to a club (details supplied). [9016/21]
- 2021-02-18 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if sports capital funding will be awarded to a club (details supplied). [9048/21]
Defence 1 question
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Defence his plans to increase the compulsory Army retirement age to 60 given the current drive to re-enlist retired servicemen and women. [8324/21]
Foreign 1 question
- 2021-02-18 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps that can be taken in relation to a person who is in Brazil and their flight may be cancelled; and if repatriation flights will be organised for Irish citizens in such circumstances. [9078/21]

Sorca Clarke — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 8 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 8 total

Public 2 questions
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works will open consultation or hold an online briefing with residents affected by the construction of new flood defences on both the east side and the west side of the River Shannon in Athlone, County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8202/21]
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works will provide a timeline for completion of the flood defence projects on the east and west sides of the River Shannon in Athlone, County Westmeath. [8203/21]
Further and Higher Education 2 questions
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if international travel for foreign third level students is deemed essential travel. [8205/21]
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of international students arriving for study that have entered Ireland in each week since the beginning of the year in tabular form. [8206/21]
Health 2 questions
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the reason the business case for a second diabetes clinical nurse specialist, CNSp, post, which was approved locally, was rejected by the Ireland East Hospital Group for Mullingar Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8146/21]
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the urgent steps he is taking to address the vacancy levels as of the 1st of February of over 75 whole-time equivalent staff at Regional Hospital Mullingar; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8148/21]
Environment 1 question
- 2021-02-17 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the level of consultation that has taken place regarding the proposed peatlands climate action scheme with local residents of the affected areas. [8204/21]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2021-02-18 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the imminent sale of a site (details supplied); the communication he has had with Longford County Council on the further use of the stadium; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9248/21]