Donegal — week of Mon, 13 Sept

What your Donegal TDs did this week

Mon, 13 Sept – 19 Sept 2021 · 5 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 20 questions · 42 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence

2021-09-15 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 92–59

Voted for 2 Charlie McConalogue · Joe McHugh

Voted against 3 Pearse Doherty · Pádraig Mac Lochlainn · Thomas Pringle

Did not vote 2 Charles Ward · Pat the Cope Gallagher

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 1 vote · 0 questions · 24 new lobbying returns

New lobbying 24 returns

IS&WFPO CLG Marine
- CFP, Penalty Points, TCA, Seafood Task Force, Rockhall, ATypical Scheme, Brexit
Bassline Strategy Ltd Health
- Correspondence and/or briefing on sublingual immunotherapy
Irish Wildbird Conservancy Environment
- The implementation of the Common Fisheries Policy and the conservation of marine biodiversity
Galway Film Resource Centre Limited Arts
- Section 481 Regional Film Development Uplift
National Union of Journalists Communications
- Iconic Media need to recognise the union amongst their members
Vintners' Federation of Ireland Taxation
- Minimum Unit Pricing
Horse Racing Ireland Agriculture
- Pre budget submission on behalf of Horse Racing Ireland
Gibney Communications Agriculture
- To highlight the imminent crisis facing the horticultural sector as a result of restrictions placed on the harvesting of Irish horticultural peat.
Devenish Agriculture
- On 2nd July, Owen Brennan, Executive Chair, and Richard Kennedy, CEO, hosted a visit to our research farm in County Meath of RoI and NI Ministers for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue and Edwin Poots in the company of IFA President Tom Cullinan and UFU President Victor Chestnutt
Trócaire Foreign Affairs
- Sustainable Food Systems
The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA · 13 returns Agriculture · Marine · Budgetary matters · Food · EU Affairs · Environment
- Collapse of the Wool Market
- Seafood Taskforce
- Agri-Food Strategy 2030
- IFA Budget 2022 Submission - Expenditure to Support Farm Enterprises.
- National Food Systems Summit Dialogue
- Ireland's CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027 Public Consultation
- CAP Strategic Plan - Draft Suckler Scheme
- Department of Agriculture Townhall Meetings
- Social Dialogue on Agriculture Pillar
- Sheep Welfare Scheme
- New Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) Agreement 2023-2027
- EU Veterinary Medicines Regulation
- Committee Stage – Seanad Eireann – Climate Action & Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021
Technological Universities Association Education and Training
- Submission on Budget 2022

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 · 6 questions · 7 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 6 total

Transport 2 questions
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport if a driving test can be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44073/21]
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport if a driving test can be expedited for a person (details suppled) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44074/21]
Finance 2 questions
- 2021-09-16 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the projected cost in 2022 of extending tax relief applicable to farmers under section 664A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 with respect to the carbon tax to agricultural contractors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44336/21]
- 2021-09-16 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 9 September 2021, the way the cash flow impact was estimated; and if it was calculated on the basis of the excess amount paid fully as a cash payment instalment not earlier than the relevant tax pay and file date for the company’s accounting period in which the qualifying expenditure was made. [44391/21]
Public 1 question
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures and projects to which funding under the National Recovery and Resilience Facility and Plan are being allocated in 2022 disaggregated by measure and project, funding allocation and Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43470/21]
Education 1 question
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education if additional information is being considered for an SNA appeal for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; when a decision will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44075/21]

New lobbying 7 returns

Áiseanna Tacaíochta CLG Justice and Equality
- Refusal by Irish Insurance Sector to offer cover to disabled employers
Galway Film Resource Centre Limited Arts
- Section 481 Regional Film Development Uplift
National Union of Journalists Communications
- Iconic Media need to recognise the union amongst their members
ActionAid Ireland Finance
- We asked Pearse Doherty TD to ask the Minister for Finance a parliamentary question in relation to Ireland's tax breaks for multinational companies.
Transparency International Ireland Public Expenditure and Reform
- TI Ireland made a presentation and submission to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach on the transposition of the EU 'Whistleblowing' Directive and the resulting amendment to the Protected Disclosures Act 2014.
Alliance for Insurance Reform Banking and Financial Institutions
- Seeking policy decisions that will reduce the cost of insurance for our members and Irish society as a whole to affordable levels and keep it that way.
Technological Universities Association Education and Training
- Submission on Budget 2022

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 5 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 5 total

Health 5 questions
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health his plans to reinstate ophthalmic services at Letterkenny University Hospital to complement the community ophthalmic services in County Donegal. [43480/21]
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of doctors on duty at Letterkenny University Hospital from 10pm to 7am, seven days a week in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021. [43481/21]
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of women currently awaiting a cervical screening test or smear test in County Donegal. [43482/21]
- 2021-09-15 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a recommendation by a person (details supplied); if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that in the Critical Care Strategic Plan 2020 and HSE National Service Plan 2021 there was no mention of development in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will ask for a review of these plans given the plan increases critical care beds from 255 to 446 an increase of 191 beds in Dublin, Limerick and Cork and not one for the northwest. [43483/21]
- 2021-09-16 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health his plans to issue Irish citizens who are resident in Northern Ireland and who have been fully vaccinated for Covid-19 by the NHS with an EU Digital COVID Certificate. [44361/21]

New lobbying 1 return

The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA Environment
- Committee Stage – Seanad Eireann – Climate Action & Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021