Donegal — week of Mon, 28 Mar

What your Donegal TDs did this week

Mon, 28 Mar – 3 Apr 2022 · 5 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 69 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-03-29 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 61–46

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 · 0 new lobbying returns

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 · 23 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 23 total

Finance 9 questions
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of reducing excise duty on home heating oil to €0 per 1,000 litres to the end of August 2022 and the end of December 2022 respectively. [15953/22]
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the minimum levels of excise duty that may apply to petrol, diesel and home heating oil respectively in accordance with the EU Energy Directive; the current rates that apply to each; and the estimated cost of reducing each to the minimum allowable levels to end of August 2022 and the end of December 2022 respectively. [15954/22]
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of communications he or his Department have had with the European Commission with respect to the rate of VAT applied to fuels and household energy bills since 1 November 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15956/22]
- 2022-03-31 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of tax relief on pension contributions in 2019, disaggregated by salary band in intervals of €10,000 and provided in tabular form. [17186/22]
- 2022-03-31 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of persons availing of tax relief on pension contributions in 2019, disaggregated by salary band in intervals of €10,000, in tabular form. [17187/22]
- 2022-03-31 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the level of inflation in each of the years from 2016 to 2021. [17190/22]
- 2022-03-31 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the impact that inflation in 2021 and 2022 will have on the real value of the public debt; the impact that it will have in reducing the debt to GDP ratio; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17191/22]
- 2022-03-31 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the yield and interest rate on the Irish ten-year bond from 2019 to the latest date possible, disaggregated by month, if possible. [17192/22]
- 2022-03-31 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to provide the change in household disposable income by income decile in percentage terms (details supplied), adjusted for rates of inflation of 2.2% and 6.7%, in tabular form. [17193/22]
Foreign 7 questions
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Armagh before the travel date of 19 April 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15852/22]
- 2022-03-30 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason for the delay in processing a passport application for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal; if additional documents are required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16839/22]
- 2022-03-30 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if passports will issue for persons (details supplied) in County Donegal to allow for travel to a family wedding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16937/22]
- 2022-03-30 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport (details supplied) will issue in time for booked travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16938/22]
- 2022-03-30 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport will be issued for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal in time for booked travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16939/22]
- 2022-03-31 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport will issue in time for travel for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17251/22]
- 2022-03-31 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport application applied for in January for a child (details supplied) will issue in time for travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17307/22]
Social 5 questions
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal decision will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15849/22]
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the funding provided with respect to the employment wage subsidy scheme for 2022; the level of funding that has been drawn down to date; if her Department has revised the level of funding that will be required under the scheme in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15955/22]
- 2022-03-31 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection further to deficit projections for the Social Insurance Fund provided in the report of the Pensions Commission, if she will further disaggregate the forecast deficit by year, in each of the years to 2030. [17202/22]
- 2022-03-31 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection further to the revenue projections provided in the report of the Commission on Pensions, the revenue raised by each percentage point increase in each of the years 2023 to 2040 in class S PRSI and class A employers' PRSI at both the lower and higher rates. [17203/22]
- 2022-03-31 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the economic growth rates upon which the deficit projections for the social insurance fund provided in the report of the Pensions Commission are predicated, disaggregated by year from 2023 to 2040. [17204/22]
Health 1 question
- 2022-03-30 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when a home support package will be processed and in place for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16910/22]
Public 1 question
- 2022-03-31 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the level of funding remaining and unallocated in the Covid-19 contingency reserve for 2022; and the amount that has been allocated disaggregated by policy measure and Department. [17188/22]

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 28 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 28 total

Agriculture 17 questions
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the recent intervention by the French Government of support equivalent to €0.35 per litre between now and the end of July 2022 to allow the French fishing fleet to continue fishing given the unprecedented fuel crisis; if he plans to re-examine supports that can be offered to the Irish fishing sector; the supports that may be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16274/22]
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quota allocated to the Irish fishing fleet in the French EEZ under the Common Fisheries Policy, by species, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16275/22]
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quota allocated to the Irish fishing fleet in the Spanish EEZ under the Common Fisheries Policy, by species, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16276/22]
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quota allocated to the Irish fishing fleet in the Dutch EEZ under the Common Fisheries Policy, by species, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16277/22]
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quota allocated to the Irish fishing fleet in the German EEZ under the Common Fisheries Policy, by species, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16278/22]
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quota allocated to the Irish fishing fleet in the Danish EEZ under the Common Fisheries Policy, by species, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16279/22]
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quota allocated to the Irish fishing fleet in the Polish EEZ under the Common Fisheries Policy, by species, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16280/22]
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quota allocated to the Irish fishing fleet in the Belgian EEZ under the Common Fisheries Policy, by species, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16281/22]
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quota allocated to the Irish fishing fleet in the Estonian EEZ under the Common Fisheries Policy, by species, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16282/22]
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quota allocated to the Irish fishing fleet in the Latvian EEZ under the Common Fisheries Policy, by species, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16283/22]
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quota allocated to the Irish fishing fleet in the Lithuanian EEZ under the Common Fisheries Policy, by species, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16284/22]
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of quota allocated to the Irish fishing fleet in the Norwegian EEZ under the Common Fisheries Policy, by species, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16286/22]
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an extension to the already introduced tie-up scheme for fishing vessels will be considered as a supporting measure for vessels that are experiencing hardship at present due to the continually rising fuel costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16287/22]
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any allocations made from the Brexit Adjustment Reserve fund to capital improvement works at State-owned and local authority-owned piers and harbours nationwide will be separate to already committed or to be committed funding from his Department for improvement works at those same piers and harbours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16288/22]
- 2022-03-31 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the serious crisis in the fishing industry due to the huge increase in fuel costs; if he will report on the engagements he has held with the European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries on this matter; and if he will make an urgent intervention for fishermen in Ireland similar to the approach of the French Government. [16814/22]
- 2022-03-31 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will argue the case for an economic link to fish quotas under the Common Fisheries Policy as opposed to the current proliferation of fish quota from a wide range of European Union member states into the control of a small number of corporations to the detriment of coastal communities across the European Union. [16791/22]
- 2022-03-31 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quota allocated to the Irish fishing fleet in each of the EEZs of other European Union member states under the Common Fisheries Policy. [16790/22]
Health 4 questions
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) from County Donegal will receive treatment in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15772/22]
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the way that public sector workers who were seconded from their contracted roles to front-facing roles in vaccination centres will be treated for the purpose of receiving the Covid-19 bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16273/22]
- 2022-03-31 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of nurses per patient in every ward at Letterkenny University Hospital in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and the way that these numbers compare to considered safe ratios of nurses to patients. [17168/22]
- 2022-03-31 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of positions in the community intervention teams for County Donegal that are currently not filled; the titles of those posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17169/22]
Foreign 3 questions
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs when a passport will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15783/22]
- 2022-03-29 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal before the travel date of 26 March 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16387/22]
- 2022-03-31 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport will be processed on time for date of travel for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17124/22]
Housing 3 questions
- 2022-03-30 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will ensure that the relevant officials in his Department will view the recording of the recent European Parliament webinar on the impact on family homes of defective concrete products organised by two affected homeowners from County Donegal and academics (details supplied); and if those officials will act on the international expert findings from that webinar when overseeing the current review of IS 465 of 2018. [17097/22]
- 2022-03-30 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will identify the experts who are currently reviewing IS 465 of 2018 in conjunction with the National Standards Authority of Ireland; if this review will seek the input of the Irish and international experts who presented at the recent European Parliament webinar, the impact on family homes of defective concrete products organised by two affected homeowners from County Donegal and academics (details supplied). [17098/22]
- 2022-03-30 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will ensure that the current review of IS 465 of 2018 by the National Standards Authority of Ireland will widen the scope of the standard and protocol to detect all deleterious minerals including pyrrhotite in the concrete blocks and foundations of affected homes in line with best international practice. [17099/22]
Children 1 question
- 2022-03-31 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the very positive impact of a project (details supplied); and if he will ensure that this project can be centrally funded by his Department or the HSE after their current funding runs out in the next six months. [17170/22]