Donegal — week of Mon, 23 May

What your Donegal TDs did this week

Mon, 23 May – 29 May 2022 · 5 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 36 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages

2022-05-25 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 60–71

Voted for 3 Pearse Doherty · Pádraig Mac Lochlainn · Thomas Pringle

Voted against 2 Charlie McConalogue · Joe McHugh

Did not vote 2 Charles Ward · Pat the Cope Gallagher

Strike Action by the Medical Laboratory Scientists Association

2022-05-25 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 72–59

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

Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages

2022-05-25 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 58–70

Voted for 3 Pearse Doherty · Pádraig Mac Lochlainn · Thomas Pringle

Voted against 1 Joe McHugh

Did not vote 3 Charles Ward · Charlie McConalogue · 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 2 votes · 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 3 votes · 19 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 19 total

Foreign 15 questions
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if an online passport renewal application will issue on time for a person (details supplied) who is travelling on 21 May 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25760/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if child passport applications (details supplied) will issue on time for travel on 2 June; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25761/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if an adult passport (details supplied) will issue on time for travel on 2 June; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25762/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Passport Office will provide assistance to resolve a passport application issue for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25763/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a renewal passport for a child (details supplied) will issue on time for travel on 23 May; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26158/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport for a child (details supplied) will issue on time for travel on 29 May 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26446/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport application will be processed in time for a person (details supplied) who is travelling on 24 May 2022 to the United States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26447/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs when a passport will issue for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26448/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport will issue in time for a person (details supplied) who is travelling on 4 June; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26449/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the current status of a passport application for a person (details supplied) living in Australia; when the passport is expected to be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26783/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport application for a child (details supplied) will issue on time for the travel date of 1 June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26784/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if supporting documents for a passport application for a child (details supplied) were received by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27011/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport application for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal that was submitted in March 2022 will be processed before the travel date of 15 June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27012/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport will issue in time for the travel date of 24 June 2022 for a child (details supplied) travelling abroad to play football for Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27053/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if passport applications will be processed on time for siblings (details supplied) travelling on 14 June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27153/22]
Health 2 questions
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for knee surgery in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27008/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be transferred to Galway University Hospital from Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27047/22]
Justice 1 question
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice the status of reforms to the duty of care through amendments to the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1995; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26130/22]
Social 1 question
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection when an electronic notification relating to a returned pandemic unemployment payment will be sent to the Revenue Commissioners in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25792/22]

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn — Sinn Féin 3 votes · 13 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 13 total

Health 4 questions
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the reason that there is no pay parity between clinical scientists and medical laboratory scientists given that both professions perform the same duties often working side by side in the same laboratory. [25950/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the reason that a medical laboratory scientist graduate, after studying an intensive course for four years and registering with their professional body (details supplied), has a starting salary of less than a medical laboratory aide who requires a minimum of a leaving certificate. [25951/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if he will urgently review the categorisation of Letterkenny University Hospital in order that it reflects the number of inpatients at the hospital each year; and if he will increase the level of investment in the sixth-largest hospital in the State. [25411/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if he will restore the full range of cardiac services to Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will work with his counterparts in the North of Ireland to offer an extended cardiac service at Letterkenny University Hospital to patients on both sides of the Border as is the case with the north west cancer centre in Altnagelvin, Derry. [25410/22]
Agriculture 3 questions
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has engaged with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and his Department officials to ensure that a reasonable proportion of the community benefit funds paid by offshore wind energy companies to meet their responsibilities under the renewable electricity support scheme is ring-fenced for the benefit of fishing communities and fishing organisations nearest to those wind energy sites. [26231/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to secure a share of the European Union’s quota of Atlantic bluefin tuna for the Irish fishing fleet to reflect the abundance of the species in Irish territorial waters and the Irish EEZ; and his views on whether such a quota could be of particular benefit to the inshore fishing fleet. [26031/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of central Exchequer funding that he proposes to invest in piers and harbours across the State over the next number of years in addition to that invested from the BAR fund. [26032/22]
Foreign 2 questions
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will facilitate representations to his office from MLAs and MPs, on behalf of their constituents in the North of Ireland on Irish passport applications on a similar basis to TDs and Senators in this State, to reflect the reality that they represent Irish citizens also and the high volume of passport applications from Irish citizens in the North of Ireland. [26503/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport for a child (details supplied) will issue in time for their intended travel date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26870/22]
Environment 1 question
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will seek clarification from the relevant Department that the costs of judicial review by a State agency, that is a statutory consultee in the aquaculture licensing process will be funded by public expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26424/22]
Social 1 question
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason that an application for working family payment was disallowed for a person in County Donegal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26398/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport the pass rate of all driving test centres in County Donegal in tabular form; and the way this compares to all other centres throughout the State. [26853/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education when a decision will be made on a ASA application for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26723/22]