Longford-Westmeath — week of Mon, 4 Apr

What your Longford-Westmeath TDs did this week

Mon, 4 Apr – 10 Apr 2022 · 5 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 37 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-04-05 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 64–57

Voted for 2 Joe Flaherty · Robert Troy

Voted against 1 Sorca Clarke

Did not vote 3 Kevin Boxer Moran · Micheál Carrigy · Peter Burke

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 0 votes · 8 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 8 total

Education 2 questions
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education if additional supports and resources will be made available to assist school principals in the current wave of Covid-19 cases, in which a large number of teachers are absent and self-isolating, which is having a serious impact on school management in keeping the schools open; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18318/22]
- 2022-04-06 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education if students on a course (details supplied) could be given an option to carry out a two-week Gaeltacht immersion session required for their course online or in the Gaeltacht considering the high number of Covid 19 cases at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18593/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Transport when an application for a driver licence transfer will be processed for a person (details supplied). [18078/22]
Justice 1 question
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Justice the total number of fines issued for cars parking illegally on footpaths in Mullingar and Athlone, County Westmeath in each of the past three months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18341/22]
Health 1 question
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Health the regulation requirements of private care contractors contracted by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18342/22]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that raths, fairy forts or ringforts are not being included in CAP 2023. [18113/22]
Finance 1 question
- 2022-04-06 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider a reduction in VAT on heat pumps and solar panels to encourage the investment by homeowners into same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18644/22]
Children 1 question
- 2022-04-06 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when parental leave (details supplied) given the increase in leave in July 2022 needs to be taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18621/22]

Robert Troy — Fianna Fáil 1 vote · 9 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 9 total

Health 3 questions
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if travel expenses incurred by a HSE employee in the course of their duties will be reimbursed without further delay (details supplied). [17477/22]
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for surgery in the Regional Hospital, Tullamore. [17686/22]
- 2022-04-06 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if a surgery appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied). [18731/22]
Transport 2 questions
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide an update on the allocation of community improvement scheme funding for 2022. [17665/22]
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Transport the status of the planned upgrade of the N4 Roosky to Dromod and in particular the bypass of Carrick-on-Shannon. [17820/22]
Public 1 question
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the catchment flood risk assessment and management programme to date; and if all of the pinch points identified have been resolved at this stage. [17663/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education if she will urgently review school transport contracts held by private contractors in view of the unprecedented rise in fuel costs; and if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a large number of contractors are considering leaving routes as it is not cost effective for them to continue a service due to current costs. [18066/22]
Further and Higher Education 1 question
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if a person who is on a stamp 4 and is the dependant of a naturalised Irish citizen can avail of SUSI grant assistance. [18031/22]
Rural 1 question
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the allocation of local improvement scheme funding for 2022. [17665/22]

Sorca Clarke — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 19 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 19 total

Health 8 questions
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of children with Down syndrome in counties Longford and Westmeath that are currently waiting on speech and language therapy; and the length of waiting time by provision centre in tabular form. [18130/22]
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of children with Down syndrome in counties Longford and Westmeath that are currently attending speech and language therapies. [18131/22]
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of children with Down syndrome in counties Longford and Westmeath who's in-person speech and language therapy session was delivered via online or telephone in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022. [18132/22]
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be seen in person for speech and language therapy. [18133/22]
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to develop care pathway for persons diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome; his plans to recruit specialists or specialist multidisciplinary teams to deal with same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18134/22]
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the action that has been taken to ensure that the shortage of neurology nurse specialists in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital is addressed given that this hospital is the main neurology centre for persons in counties Longford and Westmeath; and the engagement he has had with an association (details supplied) in relation to its campaign for 100 extra neurology nurse specialists across Ireland which includes eight extra nurses for the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. [18135/22]
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the criteria for which atropine 0.01% eye drops prescribed for myopia to limit the risk of damage to eyes and potentially detached retinas is not on licence and therefore not covered by the drug payment scheme (details supplied). [18179/22]
- 2022-04-06 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health if the proposed human tissue Bill providing the legal basis for an opt-out system of organ donation will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18426/22]
Housing 4 questions
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on the development of a new national invasive species management plan as outlined in the Programme for Government considering that an invasive species of alpine newt has been found in three counties in Ireland. [18401/22]
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the engagement his Department has had to date with Longford County Council and an approved housing body in relation to an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18136/22]
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of persons from outside of the local authority area that were allocated social housing in Athlone, Mullingar, Moate and Kilbeggan, County Westmeath in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18137/22]
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if an education liaison officer has been appointed in each of the national parks to work with schools across the country (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18400/22]
Tourism 2 questions
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if the membership of the tourism recovery task force has changed; if this task force has made recommendations to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18398/22]
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the funding allocated to the Tourism Ireland Regional Co-operative Marketing Fund, which seeks to encourage new access and maximise the potential of existing air and sea services to those areas outside of Dublin, in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022. [18399/22]
Agriculture 2 questions
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will support a request by an association (details supplied) for a national register of farm and forestry contractors by his Department in association with the Revenue Commissioners; and the engagement he has had with this body on this issue to date. [18315/22]
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he and his Department are taking to ensure food supply in Ireland in winter 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18316/22]
Defence 1 question
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Defence if he will liaise with officials in his Department regarding granting access to a location for a person (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18178/22]
Rural 1 question
- 2022-04-05 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount collected on an annual basis since the Freedom of Information Act 2014 commenced in respect of fees attached to freedom of information requests submitted to her Department in tabular form.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18138/22]
Justice 1 question
- 2022-04-06 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice if, in the context of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022, consideration has been given to the establishment of a judicial college given the prevalence of same in other jurisdictions and the potential role of same given the identified training needs in relation to proposed and existing legislation. [18425/22]