Donegal — week of Mon, 12 Sept

What your Donegal TDs did this week

Mon, 12 Sept – 18 Sept 2022 · 5 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 23 questions · 29 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2022-09-14 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 83–58

Voted for 1 Charlie McConalogue

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 · 16 new lobbying returns

New lobbying 16 returns

Royal Dublin Society Development and Zoning
- Support for the RDS Main Arena/Anglesea Stand Redevelopment Project
Diabetes Ireland Health
- To seek sustained investment in supporting people living with diabetes and promote a more strategic approach to addressing longterm improvements making huge government cost savings, increase Oireachtas members awareness about the scale and severity of diabetes and its impact on society and to work together to seek ongoing government commitment to a long-term innovative strategic framework for managing diabetes with committed annual funding.
Inishowen Development Partnership Energy and Natural Resources
- Letters sent to all Donegal TDs and Minister Eamon Ryan re a suggested pilot Programme re: One Stop Shop
mary coughlan Consulting LTD Environment
- presentation of a copy of the cre Report on the Quality of feedstocks processed in Ireland
Keelings Group Agriculture
- Exclusion of soft fruit sector from the Government Support measures announced for the horticultural sector in April 2022.
Galway Film Resource Centre Limited Arts
- Section 481 Regional Film Development Uplift
Horse Racing Ireland Agriculture
- Pre budget submission on behalf of Horse Racing Ireland
Neurological Alliance of Ireland Health
- Support from Oireachtas members for the NAI Patients Deserve Better advocacy campaign: calling for investment to tackle the shortage of 100 nurse specialists across neurology services in Ireland.
The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA · 8 returns Agriculture · Food · Finance
- Agri - Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES)
- Food Labelling - New Authority "National Food Ombudsman"
- Financial Supports for Farms impacted by TB restrictions
- Sheep Sector Requirements
- Beef Exceptional Aid Measure (BEAM)
- Food Supply Chain Bill 2022 - Pre Legislative Scrutiny of the Agricultural & Food Supply Chain Bill
- Research & Innovation for Sustainable Food Systems : Delivering on the Ambition of Food Vision 2030
- IFA Budget 2023 Submission - Residential Zoned Land Tax

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 · 1 question · 6 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 1 total

Finance 1 question
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance his analysis of the causes of the reduction in tax paid by Irish Real Estate Funds; and his views on whether amending the corporation tax applied to the profits made by IREFs could remedy these developments. [44358/22]

New lobbying 6 returns

Diabetes Ireland Health
- To seek sustained investment in supporting people living with diabetes and promote a more strategic approach to addressing longterm improvements making huge government cost savings, increase Oireachtas members awareness about the scale and severity of diabetes and its impact on society and to work together to seek ongoing government commitment to a long-term innovative strategic framework for managing diabetes with committed annual funding.
Cormac McKay Transport
- Grants and incentives for the encouragement of private car ownership over shared mobility
Society of St. Vincent de Paul Social Protection
- Email to inform on establishment of Vincentian MESL Research Centre at SVP
Sage Advocacy Health
- To ask the Minister for Older People if she is aware that some older people in Donegall are still unable to access adult day centres?
Early Childhood Ireland Children and Youth Affairs
- Budget 2023
Neurological Alliance of Ireland Health
- Support from Oireachtas members for the NAI Patients Deserve Better advocacy campaign: calling for investment to tackle the shortage of 100 nurse specialists across neurology services in Ireland.

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 11 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 11 total

Housing 7 questions
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will request an organisation (details supplied) to review the costings for the rebuilding of homes in County Donegal and in the west of Ireland that have to avail of the remediation of dwellings damaged by the use of defective concrete blocks scheme given the rapidly changing cost of construction costs since they were last reported. [44460/22]
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will introduce a rent pressure zone in County Donegal in order to reflect the rapid increases in rent in the county. [44461/22]
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will ensure that the review of IS 465 that is currently being carried out by the National Standards Authority of Ireland and its expert panel will correspond with the opening of the remediation of dwellings damaged by the use of defective concrete blocks scheme. [44462/22]
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will increase the income thresholds for persons or families seeking to join the housing waiting list in County Donegal. [44463/22]
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he and the Minister for Finance have engaged with the banks and financial institutions to ensure that they are entering into reasonable arrangements with families that have to avail of the remediation of dwellings damaged by the use of the defective concrete blocks scheme. [44464/22]
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost to the State of implementing the proposal from the affected homeowners for the penalty-free downsizing of properties that have to be demolished and rebuilt under the remediation of dwellings damaged by the use of defective concrete blocks scheme in order that those homes will cost under the €420,000 cap to rebuild. [44685/22]
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost to the State of implementing the proposal from the affected homeowners for a transfer of eligibility the remediation of dwellings damaged by the use of defective concrete blocks scheme for older persons with no ability to raise additional finance to sell their homes and transfer eligibility to the new homeowners after stage 1 approval. [44686/22]
Agriculture 3 questions
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a subsidy will be provided to fishermen in this State to assist them with the dramatic increases in fuel costs, similar to those introduced by other European Union member states and as called for by the European Parliament. [44456/22]
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the financial supports that he plans to introduce for the struggling fish processing and exporting sector in this State, utilising the Brexit Adjustment Reserve, European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund. [44457/22]
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the changes to the Common Fisheries Policy that are anticipated in the time ahead in order to reflect the deeply unfair allocation of fish quotas to the Irish fishing fleet within the Irish exclusive economic zone. [44458/22]
Social 1 question
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will allocate additional funding to a school (details supplied) for the school meals programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44486/22]