Sligo-Leitrim — week of Mon, 7 Nov — Watch Them Work

What your Sligo-Leitrim TDs did this week

Mon, 7 Nov – 13 Nov 2022 · 4 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 29 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages

2022-11-09 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 58–74

Voted for 2 Marc MacSharry · Marian Harkin

Voted against 1 Frankie Feighan

Did not vote 2 Eamon Scanlon · Martin Kenny

Mental Health (Capacity to Consent to Treatment) Bill 2021

2022-11-09 · 1 vote · Sinn Féin PMB

A bill to amend the Mental Health Act 2001 and for that purpose to provide for the right of minors over the age of 16 to consent to mental health treatment and to provide for re…

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A bill to amend the Mental Health Act 2001 and for that purpose to provide for the right of minors over the age of 16 to consent to mental health treatment and to provide for related matters.

Whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) · motion failed 60–75

Voted for 1 Marian Harkin

Voted against 2 Frankie Feighan · Marc MacSharry

Did not vote 2 Eamon Scanlon · Martin Kenny

Home Care

2022-11-09 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 77–58

Voted for 1 Frankie Feighan

Voted against 2 Marc MacSharry · Marian Harkin

Did not vote 2 Eamon Scanlon · Martin Kenny

Eamon Scanlon — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Frankie Feighan — Fine Gael 3 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Marian Harkin — Independent 3 votes · 25 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 25 total

Health 7 questions
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health the number of staff who have been recruited in Sligo University Hospital and Letterkenny University Hospital as of 24 October 2022 to implement the winter plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54344/22]
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health when named day centres (details supplied) will reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54410/22]
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health the actions that his Department will take to supply information requested under a freedom of information request to a named person (details supplied). [54416/22]
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health the number of house-bound persons still awaiting a second Covid-19 vaccine; the plans in place to administer the second and third booster vaccinations to this cohort (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54573/22]
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a second booster vaccine; the reason that this has not happened to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54607/22]
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health if an emergency medical card will be extended for a person (details supplied). [54661/22]
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health following an agreement of the EU Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work on the need to recognise Covid-19 as an occupational disease, if he plans to make Covid-19 an occupational injury in Ireland; the plans that are in place to support those suffering long term effects of Covid which was contracted in the course of their work during the height of the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54861/22]
Education 5 questions
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Education the measures that will be taken to alleviate the issue of overcrowding on school buses from Kinlough and Bundoran to Ballyshannon, given that there is insufficient space due to an intake of new students from Ukraine, with insufficient space on existing transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54145/22]
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Education if a new school bus route can be established between Grange and Ballyshannon to cater for the demand for school transport in that area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54146/22]
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Education the progress on the repair of the wheelchair lift at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54147/22]
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Education the supports that are available for a school (details supplied) to install solar panels on the roof of its building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54148/22]
- 2022-11-09 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Education , further to Parliamentary Question No. 461 of 15 February 2022, if she will include the CHO 1 area in the extension of the pilot of the school inclusion model; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55681/22]
Social 3 questions
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider extending illness benefit to those workers who are also in receipt of another social welfare payment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54659/22]
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection when funding will be put in place to continue the abhaile scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54868/22]
- 2022-11-09 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection the date for the publication of the Child Maintenance Review Group Report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55754/22]
Children 3 questions
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to develop a new National Child Poverty Plan to address high levels of poverty in households headed by one parent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55755/22]
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated timeline for publication of the codes of practice under the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. [54865/22]
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated timeline for the publication of the court rules under the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. [54866/22]
Further and Higher Education 3 questions
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will consider adding graduate-entry medicine students to the SUSI grant scheme to help alleviate the costs of that programme for low-income students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54150/22]
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason for the omission of graduate-entry medicine students from lowered contribution fees for higher education students announced in budget 2023, during a time of a shortage of doctors and medical staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54151/22]
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the supports available to students to alleviate the high cost of the graduate-entry medicine programme at University College Dublin (details supplied); the plans in place to bring the fees down in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54152/22]
Finance 2 questions
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider increasing the VAT turnover threshold from the current €37,500 to at least €50,000, given the increase in the cost of services and the increased cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54640/22]
- 2022-11-10 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Finance if he will increase the percentage payment for the temporary business energy support scheme, TBESS, to SMEs that are highly energy-dependent and where their energy bills are a significant portion of their outgoings. [53732/22]
Transport 1 question
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Transport when the preferred option will be selected for approval on the section of road on the N17 between Castleoye and Temple House Crossroads, County Sligo; when the junctions on this section of road will be improved and made safer for local residents as was promised in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54834/22]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will request that the forestry appeals committee provides him with an explanation as to the reason the committee will not receive appeals against forestry licences through electronic means, given the very narrow window for making an appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54553/22]

Martin Kenny — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 3 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 3 total

Justice 2 questions
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Justice when SI 250 (suspension of rules related to prison visits) will be revoked; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54563/22]
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Justice if files from the Garda complaints board were retained after its dissolution; the locations in which retained files can be accessed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54564/22]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2022-11-08 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the regulations that govern whether a person will receive reimbursement for a TB test; if tests must be completed in a given timeframe of notification; the primary or secondary legislation that underpins such; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54286/22]