Longford-Westmeath — week of Mon, 11 Oct

What your Longford-Westmeath TDs did this week

Mon, 11 Oct – 17 Oct 2021 · 5 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 18 questions · 1 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax

2021-10-12 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 47–87

Voted for 1 Sorca Clarke

Voted against 3 Joe Flaherty · Peter Burke · Robert Troy

Did not vote 2 Kevin Boxer Moran · Micheál Carrigy

The motion · motion passed 87–47

Voted for 3 Joe Flaherty · Peter Burke · Robert Troy

Voted against 1 Sorca Clarke

Did not vote 2 Kevin Boxer Moran · Micheál Carrigy

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 2 votes · 1 question · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 1 total

Rural 1 question
- 2021-10-13 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the insurance indemnity schemes that are applicable to signed and looped walkways here (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49983/21]

Robert Troy — Fianna Fáil 2 votes · 10 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 10 total

Health 3 questions
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if the supply of test results for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [49094/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [49095/21]
- 2021-10-13 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for a cataract appointment. [49948/21]
Social 2 questions
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she plans to raise the income limits for the fuel allowance given the increasing cost of fuel. [49676/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Social Protection the means test criteria for a disability allowance with respect to a self-employed farmer. [49703/21]
Finance 1 question
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Finance if a review of the qualification criteria for the disabled drivers tax concessions scheme is currently being carried out in view of a recent Supreme Court ruling. [49579/21]
Foreign 1 question
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the approval of passports for the children of a family (details supplied) who have been approved on the foreign births register will be expedited. [49459/21]
Justice 1 question
- 2021-10-13 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Justice if a person born in the UK has the right to claim Irish citizenship as a result of marrying an Irish-born citizen. [49966/21]
Education 1 question
- 2021-10-14 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 113 of 23 September 2021, if all restrictions on school transport numbers will be lifted after 22 October 2021 in line with the lifting of all other restrictions; and if those students who have been unable to secure a seat on school transport up to this point will have their cases re-examined following the lifting of capacity restrictions. [50213/21]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2021-10-14 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the findings of the working group established by his Department to look into the peat supply issue to the horticultural sector in the wake of the peat harvesting cessation on Bord na Móna bogs; and the way in which he plans to deal with this issue in the short-term to protect those involved in the horticultural trade. [50230/21]

New lobbying 1 return

TikTok Economic Development and Industry
- Discussions of the Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act and energy security.

Sorca Clarke — Sinn Féin 2 votes · 4 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 4 total

Defence 3 questions
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Defence the organisations operating out of Columb Barracks that have a lease. [49924/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Defence the engagement between his Department, the Land Development Agency and a group (details supplied) regarding the future of Columb Barracks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49925/21]
- 2021-10-12 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Defence the prescribing figures for malarone, doxycycline and lariam for overseas service in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [49926/21]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2021-10-13 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his attention has been drawn to the lack of student accommodation in Athlone, County Westmeath for students attending the Technological University Shannon Midlands Midwest; and the steps he will take to engage with the technological university to address the matter. [49855/21]