Longford-Westmeath — week of Mon, 26 Sept

What your Longford-Westmeath TDs did this week

Mon, 26 Sept – 2 Oct 2022 · 5 TDs · 2 bills voted on · 28 questions · 3 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax

2022-09-27 · 1 vote

A budget financial resolution · motion passed 85–67

Voted for 3 Joe Flaherty · Peter Burke · Robert Troy

Voted against 1 Sorca Clarke

Did not vote 2 Kevin Boxer Moran · Micheál Carrigy

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019

2022-09-27 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 66–87

Voted for 1 Sorca Clarke

Voted against 3 Joe Flaherty · Peter Burke · Robert Troy

Did not vote 2 Kevin Boxer Moran · Micheál Carrigy

The motion · motion passed 92–62

Voted for 3 Joe Flaherty · Peter Burke · Robert Troy

Voted against 1 Sorca Clarke

Did not vote 2 Kevin Boxer Moran · Micheál Carrigy

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 · 1 new lobbying return

New lobbying 1 return

Local Ireland (representing the Regional Newspapers and Printers Association of Ireland) Taxation
- Campaign for reduction of VAT on newspapers and their digital editions to Zero Per Cent

Peter Burke — Fine Gael 3 votes · 5 questions · 2 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 5 total

Social 2 questions
- 2022-09-27 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans to address the pay-scales and current pay rates of the community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46864/22]
- 2022-09-27 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) qualifies for the benefit payment for 65-year-olds. [47182/22]
Health 2 questions
- 2022-09-27 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on further information for agency roles working in the HSE; and their eligibility for the pandemic bonus payment. [47332/22]
- 2022-09-29 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Health the services available for young adults over 16 and 18 years of age with severe eating disorders; the number of beds available in Ireland to deal with severe eating disorders; his plans, if any, for nursing specialists in this area to be employed nationwide; and his plans, if any, to secure and increase funding for same. [47648/22]
Children 1 question
- 2022-09-28 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider introducing minimum core funding for family resource centres in counties Longford and Westmeath under the national family resource centre programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47382/22]

New lobbying 2 returns

Clancourt Management Economic Development and Industry
- Dooradoyle Urban Quarter and Crescent Shopping Centre
Local Ireland (representing the Regional Newspapers and Printers Association of Ireland) Taxation
- Campaign for reduction of VAT on newspapers and their digital editions to Zero Per Cent

Robert Troy — Fianna Fáil 3 votes · 7 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 7 total

Housing 3 questions
- 2022-09-28 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he anticipates the review into the income limits for social housing to be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46933/22]
- 2022-09-28 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he expects the Attorney General's review of planning legislation to be completed. [44886/22]
- 2022-09-28 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of progress reforming the Planning and Development Act 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46932/22]
Health 2 questions
- 2022-09-28 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the recruitment of a replacement general practitioner for Ballymore Health Centre, County Westmeath. [47428/22]
- 2022-09-29 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure day care transport is recommenced for a person (details supplied). [47806/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-09-28 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Transport if his Department is engaging with contractors to ensure a replacement service is provided on the Tullamore to Athlone route (details supplied). [47429/22]
Education 1 question
- 2022-09-28 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education if she will ensure a school transport ticket is allocated to a pupil (details supplied). [47388/22]

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

Questions asked 12 total

Defence 3 questions
- 2022-09-27 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Defence if he has spoken formally with his United Kingdom counterpart in the past six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46777/22]
- 2022-09-27 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Defence if his Department is considering an increase in the daily budget for catering in the Defence Forces, given the increase in the cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46778/22]
- 2022-09-27 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Defence the number of vacancies per trade per Barracks; and the details of the most recent recruitment drive or competitions for each in tabular form. [47030/22]
Education 2 questions
- 2022-09-27 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education the number of children who have no access to school transport, by county in tabular form. [46575/22]
- 2022-09-27 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education if she will provide a progress update on the Primary School Healthy Eating Education Programme as outlined in the Programme for Government. [47031/22]
Social 2 questions
- 2022-09-27 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will authorise the payment of eligible social welfare payments into an account (details supplied) given the limited banking choices that are available in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47029/22]
- 2022-09-28 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Social Protection the average time for assessing an application for the exceptional needs payment and supplementary welfare allowance; and if she is satisfied with such timeframes. [47595/22]
Health 2 questions
- 2022-09-27 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who are currently awaiting an occupational therapy assessment in each LHO area in CHO8; the number waiting for treatment in each LHO area in CHO8; and the number in each category waiting for more than 12 months. [46779/22]
- 2022-09-27 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who are currently waiting for a bed in a residential unit in each LHO area in CHO8; and the number of persons waiting for more than 12 months in tabular form. [46780/22]
Transport 2 questions
- 2022-09-28 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the withdrawal of the private bus service that transported passengers from the midlands towns of Moate and Clara to the larger towns of Athlone and Tullamore; and if he has considered that as the Bus Éireann route 20 Dublin to Galway service ceased in 2020, the residents of these towns have been left with no access to a bus service, either public or private. [47593/22]
- 2022-09-28 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Transport the progress of the Connecting Ireland rural mobility plan, and, in particular, the improvements that have been made in counties Longford and Westmeath. [47594/22]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2022-09-27 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the efforts by the IDA to attract inward investment to counties Longford and Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46574/22]