Sligo-Leitrim — week of Mon, 22 Nov

What your Sligo-Leitrim TDs did this week

Mon, 22 Nov – 28 Nov 2021 · 4 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 27 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme

2021-11-24 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 57–73

Voted for 3 Marc MacSharry · Marian Harkin · Martin Kenny

Voted against 1 Frankie Feighan

Did not vote 1 Eamon Scanlon

Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021

2021-11-24 · 1 vote · Social Democrats PMB

A bill to amend the Education Act 1998 and to provide for related matters

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 82–46

Voted for 2 Frankie Feighan · Marc MacSharry

Voted against 2 Marian Harkin · Martin Kenny

Did not vote 1 Eamon Scanlon

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2021-11-23 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 25–18

Voted against 2 Marian Harkin · Martin Kenny

Did not vote 2 Eamon Scanlon · Frankie Feighan

Eamon Scanlon — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Frankie Feighan — Fine Gael 2 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Marian Harkin — Independent 3 votes · 10 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 10 total

Environment 2 questions
- 2021-11-23 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 39 and 49 of 4 November 2021, the timeline for a decision on the granting of prospecting licences in north County Leitrim following the closing date for submissions on 7 November 2021. [57114/21]
- 2021-11-23 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the clean export guarantee payment for exported renewable electricity will be in place in January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57176/21]
Social 2 questions
- 2021-11-25 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection the position with regard to staff currently employed in job clubs; and if they will be treated fairly and be eligible to redundancy payments when the new local employment services are established. [50098/21]
- 2021-11-25 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine the criteria for entry to the Tús and rural social schemes in terms of restrictions on time limits, for example, a person who has completed a Tús scheme for one year cannot apply for another three years. [50099/21]
Housing 1 question
- 2021-11-23 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a house affected by pyrite owned by an Irish family that are now living outside of Ireland can be included in the defective concrete blocks scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57104/21]
Health 1 question
- 2021-11-23 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health if funding will be made available as a matter of urgency for a family (details supplied). [57485/21]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2021-11-23 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the provisions of regulation Statutory Instrument S.I. 538/2001 are active and applicable to all current proposed afforestation applications. [57416/21]
Foreign 1 question
- 2021-11-24 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of a passport application of a person (details supplied) [57692/21]
Education 1 question
- 2021-11-24 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Education if she will consider, in view of the severe shortage of substitute teachers available, putting forward members of the inspectorate as well as teachers currently in seconded positions for the next three months as members of the substitute panel; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57881/21]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2021-11-25 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has met with an organisation (details supplied) since the postponement of the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021; if not, if a commitment will be given to hold such a meeting as part of the consultation process; if a timeline will be provided for this meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58193/21]

Martin Kenny — Sinn Féin 3 votes · 7 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 7 total

Justice 5 questions
- 2021-11-24 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Justice the breakdown of the funding her Department has provided to rape crisis support centres across the country since 2016, in tabular form; if there are plans to provide ring-fenced funding to these organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57955/21]
- 2021-11-24 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Justice the financial supports her Department offers to an association (details supplied). [57956/21]
- 2021-11-24 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Justice the number of persons in the State who have been arrested under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 since 2016. [57957/21]
- 2021-11-25 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Justice if she has plans to establish a transport police service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58141/21]
- 2021-11-25 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Justice the supports or assistance she or her Department gave to the holding of a conference (details supplied). [57838/21]
Housing 1 question
- 2021-11-23 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide information on his Department's review of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes and on the review of exemptions for educational and community buildings as part of the current development of interim planning regulations; if he will provide details of the stated need to consider environmental assessment reporting before finalisation; when the interim planning regulations will be submitted to the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56825/21]
Transport 1 question
- 2021-11-24 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Transport the expenditure by his Department on providing private security for public transport by year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57954/21]