What your Longford-Westmeath TDs did this week

Mon, 22 Feb – 28 Feb 2021 · 5 TDs · 7 bills voted on · 89 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021
2021-02-25 · 3 votes · Govt (Health)
Bill entitled an Act, to make exceptional provision, in the public interest and having regard to the manifest and grave risk to human life and public health posed by the spread …
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Bill entitled an Act, to make exceptional provision, in the public interest and having regard to the manifest and grave risk to human life and public health posed by the spread of the disease known as Covid-19 and variants of that disease and in order to mitigate, where practicable, the effect of the spread of that disease; to amend the Health Act 1947 to make further and better provision for the enforcement of regulations under section 31A of that Act; to provide for the mandatory quarantine of persons coming into the State from certain areas from where there is known to be sustained human transmission of Covid-19 or any variant of concern, or from which there is a high risk of importation of infection or contamination with Covid-19 or any variant of concern by travel from that area; to provide for the designation of such areas by the Minister; to provide for the mandatory quarantine of persons coming into the State who fail to comply with certain requirements relating to testing for the disease; to provide for the designation of facilities for such quarantine; to provide for the conveying of persons to those facilities; to provide for the making of service agreements to facilitate such quarantine; to provide for alternatives to such quarantine for persons coming into the State where such persons indicate an intention to apply for international protection or where such persons are children who are not accompanied by an adult; and to provide for related matters.
The motion · motion passed 131–11
The motion · motion passed 125–5
An amendment to the bill · motion failed 58–86
Voted for 1 Sorca Clarke
Voted against 3 Joe Flaherty · Peter Burke · Robert Troy
Thirty-Seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2018
2021-02-25 · 1 vote
An amendment to the bill · motion passed 86–58
Voted against 1 Sorca Clarke
Household Utility Bills Support
2021-02-25 · 1 vote
The motion · motion passed 83–61
Voted against 1 Sorca Clarke
Covid-19
2021-02-25 · 1 vote
An amendment to the bill · motion passed 90–53
Voted against 1 Sorca Clarke
Insurance (Restriction on Differential Pricing and Profiling) Bill 2021
2021-02-25 · 1 vote · Sinn Féin PMB
A bill to prohibit the discriminatory pricing of certain insurance premiums payable by certain persons to the extent that such pricing is on the basis that any such person is a …
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A bill to prohibit the discriminatory pricing of certain insurance premiums payable by certain persons to the extent that such pricing is on the basis that any such person is a pre-existing customer of an insurance provider, to prohibit the use of profiling techniques in the calculation of such insurance premiums to determine whether or not such customer or class of customers are likely, or the extent to which any such customer is likely, to renew the policy concerned, to restrict the use of such profiling techniques by insurance providers in respect of new or potential customers and to provide for related matters.
An amendment to the bill · motion passed 77–66
Voted against 1 Sorca Clarke
Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (Covid Restrictions Support Scheme) (Percentage Adjustment) Order 2021
2021-02-25 · 1 vote
An amendment to the bill · motion failed 60–84
Voted for 1 Sorca Clarke
Voted against 2 Peter Burke · Robert Troy
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
2021-02-24 · 2 votes
The motion · motion passed 26–19
The motion · motion passed 24–21
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 9 votes · 4 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 4 total

Robert Troy — Fianna Fáil 7 votes · 11 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 11 total

Sorca Clarke — Sinn Féin 8 votes · 73 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 73 total