Longford-Westmeath — week of Mon, 23 May

What your Longford-Westmeath TDs did this week

Mon, 23 May – 29 May 2022 · 5 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 25 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

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 1 Sorca Clarke

Voted against 2 Joe Flaherty · Robert Troy

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

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 1 Sorca Clarke

Voted against 2 Joe Flaherty · Robert Troy

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

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 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 · 7 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 7 total

Education 3 questions
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education if a school (details supplied) will be re-considered as the base school for the cluster special education teaching hours applicable as was the situation in the past in order to maintain its permanent teacher positions in the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25788/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education when a special needs unit be available for second-level students in Athlone, County Westmeath; the number of pupils who are on the waiting list who are currently receiving home tuition in lieu of school placement in Athlone; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25789/22]
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education if she will consider an application for additional accommodation for a school (details supplied) with Deis status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26640/22]
Environment 1 question
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his plans to provide grants for conversion to hydrotreated vegetable oil from kerosene to enable the de-carbonisation of old housing stock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25698/22]
Health 1 question
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Health if he will review the extension of kaftrio drug therapy to all children with cystic fibrosis aged 6 to11 years as in the case of a child (details supplied). [26327/22]
Justice 1 question
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Justice the legislative requirements that are required in relation to the Second Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; if she has an estimated timeframe for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26822/22]
Social 1 question
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will raise the income threshold for carers (details supplied). [27044/22]

Robert Troy — Fianna Fáil 3 votes · 6 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 6 total

Health 2 questions
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health the legislation in relation to persons under 18 years of age purchasing vapes and vaping liquids (details supplied). [25813/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will consider this patient for urgent treatment through the national treatment purchase fund. [26561/22]
Tourism 1 question
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media when submissions will be accepted for the next round of capital sports grants. [26505/22]
Housing 1 question
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a person who has recently gone through a legal separation can qualify for a local authority home loan in order to purchase a remaining percentage of the family home from their former spouse. [26901/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education the status of a new school building application (details supplied). [26818/22]
Social 1 question
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Social Protection if consideration has been given to replacing the bus pass with a fuel voucher for elderly people that live rurally and cannot avail of public transport in the locality (details supplied). [26726/22]

Sorca Clarke — Sinn Féin 3 votes · 12 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 12 total

Health 5 questions
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the steps that he and his Department are taking to tackle the continued shortage of hormone replacement treatments across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26470/22]
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of community optometrists contracted to provide services by CHO area in 2020 and 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [26471/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health if he will immediately implement a fast thorough review of the existing National Maternity Hospital given that it will be some time before the new national maternity hospital is built (details supplied). [26034/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the consideration that he and his Department have given to the requests by an organisation (details supplied) for a new contract to replace the existing 23-year-old contract for public eye-care and for the expansion of services accessed in the community. [26033/22]
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health if he will implement a review of Ireland's maternity hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27179/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-05-24 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education if she will review the decision to refuse an application for assistive technology for a pupil (details supplied). [26472/22]
Defence 1 question
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Defence the measures that his Department is taking to reduce this nation’s dependence on the UK to defend our sovereignty particularly now when we are celebrating a centenary of our independence from the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26921/22]
Justice 1 question
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice if the terms of reference have been drafted for the proposed external review of the policies processes and procedures in operation for the calculation of prisoner sentences; and if she has identified a suitable person to conduct this independent review. [26919/22]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2022-05-25 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to allocate funds from the European Crisis Reserve. [26920/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Transport if he will give consideration to abolishing the extra administrative charges applied to motorists who renew their motor tax every three or every six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27178/22]
Social 1 question
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will implement both a widening of the eligibility criteria and an increase in the amount paid under the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance given the enormous rise in the cost of living. [27180/22]
Rural 1 question
- 2022-05-26 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the supports that are available to rural communities for the purchase, maintenance and upgrade of defibrillators. [27177/22]