Donegal — week of Mon, 19 Apr

What your Donegal TDs did this week

Mon, 19 Apr – 25 Apr 2021 · 5 TDs · 2 bills voted on · 85 questions · 3 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Order for Second Stage

2021-04-21 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 19–2

Voted for 2 Pearse Doherty · Thomas Pringle

Did not vote 4 Charles Ward · Charlie McConalogue · Pat the Cope Gallagher · Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2021-04-21 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 41–3

Voted for 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 · 2 new lobbying returns

New lobbying 2 returns

Laois Community and Enterprise Development CLG Agriculture
- Request to the Minister to include the Irish Local Development Network on the CAP consultative committee as the representative of the Local Development Companies who are delivering LEADER on the ground and should have the opportunity to share their expertise on how the programme is currently working locally and inform the shape of the new CAP under which the next LEADER programme will be part of.
mary coughlan Consulting LTD Agriculture
- delays in the processing of forestry approvals

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 1 vote · 17 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 17 total

Transport 4 questions
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport the reason a trailer licence category was removed from a driver licence in the case of a person; if it will be reinstated for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20806/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport if a driver test will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20807/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport if it is planned to recommence driving lessons for essential workers who are yet to complete the required driving lessons to allow them to apply for a driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20808/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport when an exchange transport manager CPC IRL-EU certificate will issue for a person (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20809/21]
Health 4 questions
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if St. Joseph's Community Hospital, Stranorlar, County Donegal will continue to be used to provide dental treatment to patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20790/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if residential care will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20791/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health his plans to add i-ports for children to the long-term illness scheme or otherwise reimburse costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20792/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the plans and timelines for the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out in County Donegal for housebound persons by the National Ambulance Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20793/21]
Public 2 questions
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which the expenditure ceilings outlined in the Stability Programme Update 2021 will deliver commitments made in the Programme for Government and under the Climate Action Plan 2019; if he will disaggregate the cost of those commitments under the expenditure ceilings in the Stability Programme Update 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20534/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the findings made by a programme (details supplied) detailing the waste of public money in the Office of Public Works; the action that has been taken since within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20535/21]
Finance 2 questions
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if the proposal with regard to the addition at European Council level of the words, by the use of secondary markets, to Ireland's 2018 country specific recommendations was made by Ireland; if not, the way that Ireland voted on the amendment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20004/21]
- 2021-04-22 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if the prices of properties that have undergone full remediation under the financial assistance scheme for the remediation of damaged dwellings due to defective concrete blocks have recovered to reflect remediation; and if his attention has been drawn to any policy retail banks have towards providing mortgages for properties that have undergone full remediation under the scheme. [21012/21]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason sole traders are excluded from the ready for customs grant; if an alternative grant is available for sole traders for such costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20799/21]
Environment 1 question
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when fibre broadband will be available to a household (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20789/21]
Tourism 1 question
- 2021-04-21 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Pearse Doherty den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán faoi aon phlean ag an Roinn faoi láthair maidir le coláistí samhraidh sa Ghaeltacht in 2021; an bhfuil maoiniú curtha i leataobh do mhná agus fir tí mura bhfuil na cúrsaí sin á reáchtáil mar gheall ar Covid-19; an bhfuil an tAire sásta ráthaíocht a chur ar fáil do mhuintir na Gaeltachta a bhíonn ag brath ar na cúrsaí seo go mbeidh cúiteamh ar fáil dóibh mura dtéann na cúrsaí ar aghaidh; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [20803/21]
Foreign 1 question
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport will issue for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20802/21]
Rural 1 question
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if an application process is planned for interested pub owners in the recently announced proposal for a pilot scheme to turn rural pubs into remote working hubs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20800/21]

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 18 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 18 total

Agriculture 10 questions
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions he has taken since the publication of a report (details supplied) into organisational capability of the Sea Fisheries Protection Agency in late 2020; the actions he plans to take regarding the recommendations and conclusions of the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18675/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of meetings either he or his officials had with the Minister for Foreign Affairs in advance of that Minister’s meeting with the French President and German Chancellor in December 2020 in the critical period running up to the Brexit Agreement of 24 December 2020; the dates of these briefings and copies of any documents shared at the meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18676/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to secure a tuna quota for Ireland in view of the fact that some EU partners are seeking an expansion to their existing tuna quotas; the tonnage of tuna caught within Ireland’s EEZ waters; the countries fishing for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18677/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of French vessels inspected, detained, prosecuted and fined for fishing infringements within Ireland’s territorial waters EEZ from 2010 to date; the amount of fish quota French vessels caught in the same waters during the period in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18678/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the migration research on Atlantic bluefin tuna being conducted by the Marine Institute over recent years can be utilised by his Department to make the case for a reasonable share of the EU quota and TAC of this species to be allocated to the Irish fleet. [20011/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an updated national strategic plan for sustainable aquaculture development will be published. [20057/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce an amendment to section 49 of the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 to ensure that the final report of a complaints officer as part of the complaints procedure of the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority is made available to the complainant and the authority. [20069/21]
- 2021-04-22 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reopen the Covid-19 aquaculture support scheme to allow for the scheme to cover the period from 30 June 2020 onwards; if the eligibility criteria of the scheme will be widened to include aquaculture producers of other species excluded in the previous scheme, that is, abalone, trout and bottom mussels; and if the eligibility criteria is based on gatherers dockets and sales dockets which clearly state volume produced in a given year, rather than returns to BIM of the Annual Aquaculture Production and Employment Survey. [20955/21]
- 2021-04-22 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider additional financial supports for the oyster sector which is facing a second year of its production cycle with difficulties in finding and accessing markets for its produce (details supplied). [20956/21]
- 2021-04-22 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will honour the commitment in the Programme for Government to work to retain factory weighing of pelagic fish in the context of negotiations on the new EU control regulation; the position regarding the current oversight of weighing systems in Irish fish production factories including tamper-proof systems that are observed by direct video link to the SFPA and subject to unannounced inspections by the NSAI at any time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21026/21]
Transport 2 questions
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 40% of the passengers that have used the City of Derry Airport in recent years are based in County Donegal; and when substantial funding to the airport will be restored to reflect such passenger numbers and the commitment to the north west cross Border region under the New Decade, New Approach Agreement. [19336/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport if his Department will re-engage with and arrange a meeting with a person (details supplied) to examine possibilities to compensate them for 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. [20063/21]
Public 2 questions
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of all properties and national monuments under the control of the Office of Public Works in County Donegal in tabular form. [20819/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans the Office of Public Works has to refurbish the historical courthouse at Carndonagh, County Donegal in order that it can be reopened as a district court for the north Inishowen area. [20818/21]
Housing 2 questions
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the plans the Office of Public Works have to secure and repair the old church and surrounding walls at Raymoghy Abbey near Manorcunningham, County Donegal; and his views on whether such important historical sites require ongoing maintenance and care. [20820/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will convene a meeting or correspond with the banks and financial institutions to call on the banks and financial institutions to assist families in County Donegal who have been affected by MICA defective concrete blocks in their homes given the recent comments by Minister of State for Housing and Urban Renewal in relation to the matter. [20574/21]
Health 2 questions
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if he will carry out an urgent review of the Cross-Border Directive that is being administered by the HSE following recurrent problems with the compatibility of DRG codes that have cost applicants thousands of euro. [20041/21]
- 2021-04-21 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for a psychological assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20658/21]