Mon, 1 Mar – 7 Mar 2021 · 5 TDs · 0 bills voted on · 65 questions · 3 new lobbying filings
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 ·
2 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked2 total
Health2 questions
2021-03-03Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Health if a person on a medical card is covered for steroid injections received from their doctor. [11131/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the current vaccination programme and place carers who look after vulnerable persons in their own home as a priority. [12000/21]
Robert Troy — Fianna Fáil
0 votes ·
29 questions ·
3 new lobbying returns
Questions asked29 total
Health9 questions
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health when BreastCheck clinic services will resume in Mullingar, County Westmeath (details supplied). [11038/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health when the psychologist position will be filled at the Phoenix Centre, County Longford, to allow for diagnostic assessments to be carried out for children. [11089/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health the forecast date based upon current market approved vaccines only as to when the vaccination programme will be completed. [11121/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if cleaning companies engaged in certain locations (details supplied) can work in level 5 restrictions. [11275/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has not granted an increment to staff of a service (details supplied). [11278/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if the vaccination priority list will be updated to include cancer patients who have had their treatment halted due to the risk of contracting Covid-19. [11366/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive treatment. [11854/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health his plans to transport persons to vaccination centres in areas in which no public transport is available (details supplied). [12104/21]
2021-03-04Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if a front-line worker who is unable to take a vaccine (details supplied) as advised by their general practitioner will be prioritised for another vaccine. [12293/21]
Environment8 questions
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the date for the publication of the updated climate action plan. [10973/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the date for the commencement of the first tranche of payments to projects approved to date under the Just Transition Fund. [10974/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the date for the publication of a hydrogen policy statement. [10976/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will publish findings by his Department on the recommended future uses for the peat plant sites at Shannonbridge, County Offaly and Lanesborough, County Longford. [10977/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide details of the level of delays in completion of actions within the existing Climate Action Plan; his plans to address the missed targets in the updated action plan; and the penalties proposed for the missing of targets to be imposed on the relevant State agencies in the updated action plan. [10978/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when a property (details supplied) will be able to avail of efibre broadband. [11914/21]
2021-03-04Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if clarification will be provided on the programme for Government commitment to reduce polluting emissions by an average of 7% a year and by 51% in total by 2030. [12330/21]
2021-03-04Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if clarification will be provided on the actions to be taken following a recommendation by the Joint Committee on Climate Action to ban the importation of fracked gas and specifically to ban LNG terminals to Ireland. [12331/21]
Education5 questions
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education if her Department will adequately engage with a school (details supplied) to advance essential school building works. [11053/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education the status of a request by a school (details supplied) to put Covid-19 adaptions in place at the school. [11054/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education if in-person supplementary support for children could be provided on a 1:1 basis by teachers in schools outside of school hours or at weekends as schools are a safer and more controlled environment (details supplied). [11123/21]
2021-03-04Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education if the practical music exams are going ahead for leaving certificate students; and if so, the format in which the practical music exams will be undertaken. [12188/21]
2021-03-04Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education if details with regard to oral examinations will be clarified (details supplied). [12253/21]
Transport2 questions
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Transport the date for the publication of the policy statement of his Department on the biofuel obligation scheme. [10975/21]
2021-03-04Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Transport when driver tests will restart for non-essential workers; and the number currently on the waiting list in the Mullingar area. [12211/21]
Public2 questions
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when additional sections of the construction industry will reopen in view of the fact that many mortgage approvals will be due to expire in the coming weeks and mortgage providers seem to be unable or unwilling to extend approval periods. [11015/21]
2021-03-04Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if childcare allowances are made for OPW employees who cannot avail of external childcare facilities at present; and if OPW employees who have to care for their children on a number of days per week due to the pandemic have been instructed that they must use holidays for such days. [12321/21]
Finance1 question
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that mortgage providers are currently unwilling to extend mortgage approval for customers whose approval lapses during level 5 restrictions and, as a result, many potential homeowners will have to go through the entire mortgage approval process for a second time as building works cannot commence during current restrictions; and if he will intervene, alongside the Central Bank, to ensure mortgage approval can be extended in such cases. [11016/21]
Further and Higher Education1 question
2021-03-03Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if refunds are available to third-level students for accommodations fees given they have been at home studying remotely for most of the academic year. [11963/21]
Children1 question
2021-03-04Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will urgently address a situation which has arisen in which children who do not return to take up their ECCE place within four weeks of 8 March 2021 will lose their place on the scheme; and if families who choose to care for their children at home during this continued period of risk will not lose their qualification for ECCE. [12326/21]
New lobbying3 returns
Irish Exporters Association · 3 returnsTrade
Invitation to address the Irish Exporters Association National Council to update members on Brexit and Covid-19
Raised concerns about the impact of Brexit on supply chain operators since the end of the transition period.
Raised concerns about the impact of the UK's departure to trade flows into Ireland, particularly delays and disruption at UK ports and lack of knowledge on formalities in the UK.
Sorca Clarke — Sinn Féin
0 votes ·
25 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked25 total
Finance8 questions
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Finance the number of goods containers that entered Dublin Port between 1 and 31 December 2020 from countries outside of the EU, in tabular form. [11260/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Finance the average time that containers arriving from outside Europe or the UK between 1 and 31 December 2020 were held before being released to their owners. [11262/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Finance the number of occasions from 1 December 2020 to date that the customs charges were reduced following a recalculation on containers arriving to Dublin Port. [11263/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Finance the cost of the NAMA boardroom at its new premises. [11772/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Finance the cost of the NTMA boardroom at its new premises. [11773/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Finance the cost of the new NAMA CEO office at its new premises. [11774/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Finance the cost of the new NTMA CEO office at its new premises. [11775/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Finance the cost of the new premises acting as an administrative centre for NAMA and the NTMA. [11776/21]
Transport5 questions
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Transport when a person (details supplied) will take their driver theory test given that it is essential for their continued employment and that previous scheduled tests have been cancelled three times putting their employment in jeopardy. [11237/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Transport the number of cancelled driver theory tests since the introduction of Covid-19 restrictions by centre in tabular form. [11238/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Transport the number of driver theory tests scheduled to take place between 23 February 2021 and the end of level 5 restrictions as currently set by centre in tabular form. [11239/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Transport the measures he plans to take to ensure that all those who have had driver theory tests cancelled as a result of Covid-19 restrictions will take the test in a reasonable timeframe as restrictions begin to be lifted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11240/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Transport the work his Department has undertaken to date or plans to undertake to examine the online taking of driver theory tests given the current and growing backlog that exists. [11252/21]
Defence5 questions
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Defence the status of the planned purchase of a €200 million multirole vessel for the Naval Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11303/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Defence the number of enlisted and non-enlisted personnel on active service in the Naval Service. [11771/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Defence when members of the Defence Forces preparing to leave for Mali will receive the Covid-19 vaccination. [12080/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Defence when members of the Defence Forces preparing to leave for Syria will receive the Covid-19 vaccination. [12081/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Defence when members of the Defence Forces due to leave for Lebanon will receive the Covid-19 vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12082/21]
Health4 questions
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health if he has engaged in dialogue with the religious groups on the possibility of opening up places of worship on a restricted basis. [11769/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the risk assessments with regard to restricted public religious worship that has been conducted; and the risks associated with opening churches and other religious institutions. [11770/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health if the staff of a service (details supplied) will receive backpay or compensation for the stoppage of incremental pay increases since 2012 which they were contractually entitled to. [11777/21]
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health if he will introduce an initiative under which taxi drivers could provide a door-to-door transport service on a flat rate cost per kilometre for those who have no other method of transport given the distances required to travel to vaccination centres in rural areas in counties Longford and Westmeath. [12084/21]
Public1 question
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 191 and 192 of 17 February 2021, if the Office of Public Works will open consultation or hold an online briefing with residents affected by the construction of new flood defences in locations (details supplied) in County Westmeath; if the areas are included in the flood cells outlined in response to the previous questions highlighted; and the timeline for completion of the flood defence projects designed to protect the properties. [11768/21]
Social1 question
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Social Protection the outcome of the domiciliary care allowance and disability survey carried out by her Department in March 2018; the number of participants who engaged; and if she will publish the summary findings. [11781/21]
Agriculture1 question
2021-03-03Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of containers inspected by his Department following arrival at Dublin Port between 1 December and 31 December 2020, in tabular form. [11261/21]