Galway West — week of Mon, 24 May

Catherine Connolly — Independent 0 votes · 11 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 11 total

Foreign 3 questions
- 2021-05-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he plans to consult with EU partners concerning the implementation of the differentiation principle between Israel within its internationally recognised pre-1967 borders and the illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories; if he is satisfied that Ireland and the EU are completely fulfilling their legal obligations based on non-recognition of Israeli sovereignty over these territories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28965/21]
- 2021-05-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will support the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in efforts to ensure that the UN database of all business enterprises involved in activities relating to Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory is regularly maintained and updated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28966/21]
- 2021-05-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 857 of 21 April 2021, if the pre-2015 data can now be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29021/21]
Rural 2 questions
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the new policy for the islands; when she expects it to be finalised; the number of occasions the interdepartmental committee for the development of the islands has met to date in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27957/21]
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the development of Caladh Mór pier on Inis Meáin; the status of the preparation of a simulation model of the harbour by the National Maritime College of Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27958/21]
Further and Higher Education 2 questions
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the status of the review of the SUSI scheme; the timeline for the completion of the review; the timeline for the implementation of recommendations of the review; if changes to the SUSI scheme on foot of the review will take place in advance of the 2021-2022 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28627/21]
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans to reverse the Budget 2011 decision to increase the SUSI non-adjacent distance criterion from 24km to 45km; the analysis his Department has carried out or commissioned into the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28628/21]
Children 2 questions
- 2021-05-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the report by the Collaborative Forum of Former Residents of Mother and Baby Homes and Related Institutions will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28724/21]
- 2021-05-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1208 of 21 April 2021, the status of the review by Tusla of emergency accommodation nationwide; when the review will be completed and published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28723/21]
Transport 1 question
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport , further to Parliamentary Question No. 399 of 21 April, the reason the Road Safety Authority has not responded to this question; the action he proposes to take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28528/21]
Justice 1 question
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice the number of applications for transfer from overseas into Ireland received to date in 2021; the number of applications for inward transfer under consideration; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27938/21]

Hildegarde Naughton — Fine Gael 1 vote · 0 questions · 2 new lobbying returns

New lobbying 2 returns

Tico Mail Works Ltd Communications
- Postal Market in Ireland
Galway Simon Community Finance
- Criteria review for Covid-19 Stability Funding

John Connolly — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Mairéad Farrell — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 32 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 32 total

Transport 4 questions
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Transport if he plans to review the recent decision by Bus Éireann to reduce services on the 51/51x route between Galway and Cork; if this decision took into account that demand for bus services will likely increase as more sectors open up; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28148/21]
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Transport if a vaccination shuttle service is being considered for County Galway as there is only one vaccination centre in the county and many persons in rural areas are finding it difficult to get the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28149/21]
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Transport the reason driving theory testing centres are still closed despite the Road Safety Authority stating it is confident it can run the service safely; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28150/21]
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Transport the amount spent by his Department on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28311/21]
Public 3 questions
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount spent on external legal services by the HSE in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [27503/21]
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide Votes 1-45 of the revised estimates for budget 2021, including all budget headings, subheadings and their respective allocations including current, capita and total voted expenditure in tabular form. [28103/21]
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount spent by his Department on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28485/21]
Agriculture 3 questions
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount spent by his Department on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28297/21]
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the appropriate authority to report untagged livestock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28552/21]
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the appropriate action a farmer should take in the event of a livestock being grazed on their land without permission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28553/21]
Enterprise 2 questions
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount spent by his Department on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28300/21]
- 2021-05-27 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the request for tender for the consultancy has been issued with regard to the decision by the IDA to appoint a business development consultant in Israel; if the IDA implements an ongoing process of human rights due diligence as outlined in the guidance for businesses enterprises recently published by the Minister for Foreign Affairs with regard to the decision by the IDA to appoint a business development consultant in Israel; if companies being targeted with potential for investing in Ireland will be analysed using the tools provided in this guidance in particular in the area of human rights; his views on whether the IDA has a duty to ensure that possible business partners being sourced are not in violation of international law on human rights or have connections or partnerships with third-party entities that are or maybe in any way in violation of international law or benefiting from resources in illegally occupied territories by means of extraction, processing, commercialisation, distribution and or investment to carry out their activities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28967/21]
Environment 2 questions
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount spent by his Department on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28301/21]
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide the green procurement reporting template that Departments must submit to the EPA as per Circular 20/2019. [28400/21]
Finance 2 questions
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Finance the amount spent by his Department on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28302/21]
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide the data on general Government net worth in each of the years 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2020, in tabular form. [28401/21]
Foreign 2 questions
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount spent by his Department on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28303/21]
- 2021-05-27 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the precise mechanisms that are in place in his Department to ensure that all bilateral agreements with Israel apply only to Israel proper and do not benefit those territories illegally occupied by Israel in 1967; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28968/21]
Education 2 questions
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Education if the plans will be released for July programme 2021; and if a commitment will be given that children attending special schools and classes for whom the programme was originally devised will receive compulsory in-school provision that is not dependent on the buy in of staff. [27575/21]
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Education the amount spent by her Department on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28299/21]
Social 2 questions
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the situation in which those that live in close proximity to wind farms and receive compensatory payments from the private operators then have these payments deducted from their pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27675/21]
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount spent by her Department on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28309/21]
Further and Higher Education 2 questions
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the amount spent by his Department on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28304/21]
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the cost of widening access to student assistance fund supports for non-EU international students. [28563/21]
Justice 2 questions
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Justice the amount spent on external legal services by An Garda Síochána in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [27503/21]
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Justice the amount spent by her Department on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28306/21]
Tourism 1 question
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the amount spent by her Department on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28310/21]
Housing 1 question
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount spent by his Department on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28305/21]
Defence 1 question
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Defence the amount spent by his Department on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28298/21]
Rural 1 question
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount spent by her Department on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28308/21]
Taoiseach 1 question
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Taoiseach the spend by his Department on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28497/21]
Children 1 question
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the spend by his Department on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28498/21]

Noel Grealish — Independent 0 votes · 2 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 2 total

Transport 1 question
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Noel Grealish asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to cuts to Bus Éireann routes 51 and 51x services in Galway and the impact this will have on staff and students at GMIT; if it will be ensured that these services are retained at the current level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27476/21]
Rural 1 question
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Noel Grealish asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding will be allocated for local improvement schemes to city councils for rural roads within city boundaries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27475/21]

Seán Kyne — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

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