Galway East — week of Mon, 12 Sept

What your Galway East TDs did this week

Mon, 12 Sept – 18 Sept 2022 · 4 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 17 questions · 22 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 2 Anne Rabbitte · Ciarán Cannon

Did not vote 4 Albert Dolan · Louis O'Hara · Peter Roche · Seán Canney

Albert Dolan — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 1 new lobbying return

New lobbying 1 return

The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA Agriculture
- Sheep Sector Requirements

Louis O'Hara — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Peter Roche — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 1 new lobbying return

New lobbying 1 return

The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA Agriculture
- Sheep Sector Requirements

Seán Canney — Independent 0 votes · 16 questions · 4 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 16 total

Rural 6 questions
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide additional funding to the public participation networks to allow them to provide additional funds to community groups struggling to pay energy costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44651/22]
- 2022-09-15 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will conduct a review of the way increasing inflation, fuel and energy costs are affecting community groups throughout the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45112/22]
- 2022-09-15 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will increase the amount of funding available for the 2022 allocation under the rural regeneration development fund; if she will provide additional funding to projects that have already received a grant allocation due to the unprecedented increase in construction costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44766/22]
- 2022-09-15 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she intends to provide any additional interim Leader funding for 2023 in order to ensure that there is no gap in the provision of funding for community groups; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44768/22]
- 2022-09-15 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will consider providing more funding to local authorities due to the huge backlog of applications for local improvement schemes for rural roads; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44767/22]
- 2022-09-15 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will advance the necessary additional funding to bridge the gap between existing grants allocated through the Rural Regeneration Fund and the actual cost which is far higher due to the exceptional increase in the cost of construction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29033/22]
Health 5 questions
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health when all health workers, including agency workers who are entitled to the €1,000 recognition payment for their work during the Covid pandemic will be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44386/22]
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that children in County Galway who have eyesight issues and who are entitled to an annual eye examination at Tuam primary care centre are being refused on the basis of lack of capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44424/22]
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health when full day-care services will be recommenced in a nursing unit (details supplied); the interim measures that he intends to put in place until a permanent solution is found; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44648/22]
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the average waiting times for urgent and non-urgent patients at the symptomatic breast cancer clinic at University Hospital Galway; the number of patients on each list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44663/22]
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of a primary care centre for Claregalway, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44664/22]
Education 3 questions
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education the status of the review of the primary school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44393/22]
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education the measures that she intends to put in place to alleviate the problems in the school transport system in rural areas across the country following her Department’s announcement of free transport for eligible students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44649/22]
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education the reason that a person (details supplied) was refused an incremental credit for their time teaching in Australia. [44750/22]
Finance 1 question
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider changing the rules surrounding the repayment of income tax to ensure that persons who have overpaid tax for years can receive their tax back for more than the statutory limitation period of four years and ensure that a level playing field exists for members of the public given that the Revenue Commissioners can pursue underpaid tax going back for years and impose stiff penalties on top of the amounts accrued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44488/22]
Justice 1 question
- 2022-09-14 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Justice the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44417/22]

New lobbying 4 returns

Ability West · 2 returns Public Expenditure and Reform · Finance
- Correspondence to DPOs re Publication of an Action Plan in relation to the Disability Capacity Review
- Correspondence to DPOs re Pay Parity for Section 39 Organisations
Center for Independent Living Justice and Equality
- ILMI concerns in relation to the Assisted Decision Making Capacity Bill
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.