Cavan-Monaghan — week of Mon, 7 Feb — Watch Them Work

What your Cavan-Monaghan TDs did this week

Mon, 7 Feb – 13 Feb 2022 · 5 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 67 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces

2022-02-09 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 74–55

Voted for 3 Brendan Smith · Heather Humphreys · Niamh Smyth

Voted against 2 Matt Carthy · Pauline Tully

Did not vote 2 Cathy Bennett · David Maxwell

The motion · motion passed 74–55

Voted for 3 Brendan Smith · Heather Humphreys · Niamh Smyth

Voted against 2 Matt Carthy · Pauline Tully

Did not vote 2 Cathy Bennett · David Maxwell

Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2021

2022-02-09 · 1 vote · Sinn Féin PMB

A bill to amend the Freedom of Information Act 2014 and to provide for related matters

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 73–55

Voted for 3 Brendan Smith · Heather Humphreys · Niamh Smyth

Voted against 2 Matt Carthy · Pauline Tully

Did not vote 2 Cathy Bennett · David Maxwell

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-02-08 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 71–52

Voted for 3 Brendan Smith · Heather Humphreys · Niamh Smyth

Voted against 2 Matt Carthy · Pauline Tully

Did not vote 2 Cathy Bennett · David Maxwell

Brendan Smith — Fianna Fáil 4 votes · 17 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 17 total

Finance 4 questions
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Finance if he will increase the level of rebate on products (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6023/22]
- 2022-02-10 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Finance the progress to date in implementing commitments in the Programme for Government in relation to financial services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7359/22]
- 2022-02-10 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Finance if further consideration has been given to issues raised by a national organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7360/22]
- 2022-02-10 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Finance if he will reduce the level of excise on fuel products due to the severe pressures on many households due to the rising costs of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7363/22]
Further and Higher Education 3 questions
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the projects that will be progressed in 2022 in the upgrading of existing accommodation and the provision of new accommodation in the further education sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6437/22]
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the measures that will be implemented to intensify cross-Border co-operation in the provision of further education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6436/22]
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if the provision of additional accommodation for a college (details supplied) can be progressed at an early date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6433/22]
Enterprise 3 questions
- 2022-02-10 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the level of funding provided for his Department and for the agencies under the remit of his Department for the development of enterprise centres in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7063/22]
- 2022-02-10 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the financial supports available from his Department and through the agencies under the remit of his Department for the development of enterprise centres through community and or local authority development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7062/22]
- 2022-02-10 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will increase the minimum wage in view of the severe pressures on low-income workers at present due to rising costs of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7362/22]
Education 2 questions
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education if it will be ensured that there are no further delays in finalising the pay and conditions for school secretaries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5864/22]
- 2022-02-10 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education if the State will meet the costs of mock exams instead of parents having to pay such costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7421/22]
Justice 1 question
- 2022-02-09 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Justice the present status of the Immigration Investment Programme; if she will ensure that there will be no reduction in potential investment funding for public good projects including the disability, sports and arts sectors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6982/22]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2022-02-10 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when it is proposed to revise costings for farm improvement works to be grant-aided under TAMS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6998/22]
Environment 1 question
- 2022-02-10 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when he will announce details of a new home retrofit programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7373/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-02-10 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Transport if tolls on national roads will be reduced in view of the considerable costs incurred by motorists who have to commute to work on a daily basis and on other road users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7365/22]
Children 1 question
- 2022-02-10 Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a refuge centre for victims of domestic abuse will be established in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7297/22]

Cathy Bennett — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

David Maxwell — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Matt Carthy — Sinn Féin 4 votes · 21 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 21 total

Agriculture 18 questions
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 835 of 1 February 2022, if he or his colleagues in have had engagements with Bord na Móna with regard to provision of access to extraction equipment or mixing plant to the commercial peat extraction for horticultural use sector in the State; the timeline for implementing same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6657/22]
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 833 of 1 February 2022, the terms of reference of the Irish Horse Racing Regulatory Board commissioned audit of anti-doping procedures in Irish racing further to the report of the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine on Horse Racing in Ireland; the intended timeline to completion and publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6658/22]
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 841 of 1 February 2022, the circumstances under which potato seed may be imported into the State without the State from which it was imported being specified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6659/22]
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the updated forestry licensing target by licence type for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6720/22]
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the allocation in 2022 for a new system facilitating a pre-application engagement between the forester and his Department; the number of individual licences the pilot applies to; the types of licences the pilot applies to; when the pilot is due to conclude; if successful, when it is intended to roll-out the scheme more broadly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6721/22]
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when it is planned to provide a financial contribution to afforestation applicants towards the cost of environmental reports; the intended allocation for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6722/22]
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding allocated to the pilot soil sampling scheme; the number of places within the scheme this was intended to facilitate; the number of successful and unsuccessful candidates by county; the basis on which applicants were selected or refused; the number of successful applicants affected by reported delays by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6724/22]
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to delays within the pilot soil sampling scheme; the consequences for farmers spreading lime, fertiliser or slurry prior to sampling taking place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6725/22]
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to publish the CAP Strategic Plan given the 16 other European Union member states have done so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6726/22]
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position of his Department, the expected impact and mitigation measures his Department intends to introduce with regard to privately owned farmland being within the remit of the zoned residential land tax from 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6727/22]
- 2022-02-09 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the AIM system was partially or completely unavailable at Ballybay mart at any time in 2021 or impact by any technical difficulties his Department is aware of; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6923/22]
- 2022-02-09 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if animals brought to a mart, unsold and returned to a farm incur a movement under the four-movement rule; if so, the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6924/22]
- 2022-02-10 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to alleviate the crisis facing family farmers arising from rapidly rising costs in fertiliser, feed, energy and other inputs. [6885/22]
- 2022-02-10 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to increase the availability and participation of farmers in organic farming education, to increase the domestic and export market for organic produce, and to ensure the organic farming scheme is open to as many farmers as possible; and the Government targets for organic conversion in 2025, 2027, and 2030. [6886/22]
- 2022-02-10 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made in ascertaining the level of horticultural peat stock available to growers; and if his Department has commissioned experts to provide free advice to those wishing to achieve regulatory compliance for extraction of horticultural peat on sub-30 ha bogs for supply to the domestic horticulture industry. [6892/22]
- 2022-02-10 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to increase the use of low-emission slurry spreading technology as per the climate action plan should the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, TAMS, grant aid no longer be permissible arising from the draft nitrates action plan. [6890/22]
- 2022-02-10 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the allocation within the budget of his Department that is earmarked to facilitate growth within the domestic seed potato industry; the estimated tonnage of seed potato that is expected to be produced domestically in each of the years 2022 to 2025; the estimated tonnage it is expected that will be imported from the European Union; and the guarantees provided to the domestic sector to protect investments it has made to increase production in the aftermath of Brexit. [6888/22]
- 2022-02-10 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in implementing the pilot soil sampling scheme; when the scheme will be completed; the impact the delay will have had on farmers who have spread lime, slurry or fertilizer; and the impact this will have on the scheme in 2022. [6891/22]
Environment 1 question
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he sought a derogation with regard to the burning of agricultural waste in 2022; if so, the result of such a request; when the result of the request was communicated to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6660/22]
Finance 1 question
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Finance the supports he can provide for vulnerable current account customers who may not be in a position to switch accounts prior to the closure of said accounts by a bank (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5883/22]
Housing 1 question
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 122 of 25 January 2022, the date that the review income eligibility for social housing was completed; if he plans to publish the review; if so, the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6723/22]

Niamh Smyth — Fianna Fáil 4 votes · 25 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 25 total

Health 9 questions
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health if he will review vaccine details in the case of a person (details supplied); the reason the person never received an EU Digital COVID Certificate; if he will expedite the issuing of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6127/22]
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; if an update will be provided on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6139/22]
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6425/22]
- 2022-02-09 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health if correspondence (details supplied) will be reviewed and the points therein addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6788/22]
- 2022-02-09 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health the reason that a service (details supplied) will not see children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6865/22]
- 2022-02-09 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health if the funding allocated to a hospice (details supplied) will cover the full planning and development costs; the length of time it will take to complete this phase; the next steps in this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6903/22]
- 2022-02-09 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health the number of vacancies unfilled or filled on a temporary basis in Cavan General Hospital; and the details of each by categories (details supplied). [6906/22]
- 2022-02-09 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health the long-term plan regarding the testing centres in counties Cavan and Monaghan (details supplied); if it is envisaged to have one centre between two counties going forward; if they will be closed; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6912/22]
- 2022-02-09 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health his plans to review the criteria for the long-term illness scheme to include Crohn’s disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6922/22]
Social 4 questions
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Social Protection the current waiting time to process applications for and award a carer’s allowance by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5895/22]
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Social Protection the current waiting time to process applications for and award a carer’s benefit by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5896/22]
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Social Protection the current waiting time to process applications for and award a disability allowance by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5897/22]
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications, grants and refusals for the carer’s allowance, carer’s benefit and disability allowance in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5898/22]
Agriculture 3 questions
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an appeal by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5817/22]
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farm appeals that have been lodged and are awaiting decision; the average waiting time for such appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5818/22]
- 2022-02-10 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of his work to establish of a beef forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7035/22]
Further and Higher Education 2 questions
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the progress made regarding a new campus for Cavan Institute at Cathedral Road, Drumalee, Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6369/22]
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the status of the new capital build for Cavan Institute including the site location and timeline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6368/22]
Environment 2 questions
- 2022-02-09 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of homes in counties Cavan, Monaghan and Meath connected under the National Broadband Plan; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the current roll-out is leaving some neighbours connected and others not due to variances on the mapping system, that is, blue zone and orange zone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6909/22]
- 2022-02-09 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the options available to a person who finds themselves within the orange area on the National Broadband Plan roll-out but within 100 metres from the port box with free ports available which connected their neighbours to fibre but they cannot get connected and are being told that this will be the position for four years. [6911/22]
Enterprise 2 questions
- 2022-02-10 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the remote working strategy; his views on the main obstacles to remote working; the way that the strategy addresses these; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6849/22]
- 2022-02-10 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the efforts by the IDA to attract inward investment to counties Cavan, Monaghan and Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6850/22]
Rural 1 question
- 2022-02-08 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the stringent rules involved in allocating panic alarms locally (details supplied) will be urgently reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5822/22]
Finance 1 question
- 2022-02-09 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Finance the number of primary medical certificate appeals waiting to be assessed by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6921/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-02-09 Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Education the status of an application by a school (details supplied); if this application will be examined under the additional accommodation scheme; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the project is linked to another major project already approved and is delaying works; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6772/22]