Longford-Westmeath — week of Mon, 30 Jan — Watch Them Work

What your Longford-Westmeath TDs did this week

Mon, 30 Jan – 5 Feb 2023 · 5 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 29 questions · 9 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages

2023-02-01 · 3 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 66–74

Voted for 1 Sorca Clarke

Voted against 3 Joe Flaherty · Peter Burke · Robert Troy

Did not vote 2 Kevin Boxer Moran · Micheál Carrigy

Amendment again put: · motion failed 64–74

Voted for 1 Sorca Clarke

Voted against 2 Joe Flaherty · Robert Troy

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

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 74–66

Voted for 3 Joe Flaherty · Peter Burke · Robert Troy

Voted against 1 Sorca Clarke

Did not vote 2 Kevin Boxer Moran · Micheál Carrigy

Parental Bereavement Leave (Amendment) Bill 2021

2023-02-01 · 1 vote · Sinn Féin PMB

A bill to amend the Parental Leave Acts 1998 and 2006 to make provision for an entitlement to bereavement leave to an employee who is a bereaved parent of a child who has died a…

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A bill to amend the Parental Leave Acts 1998 and 2006 to make provision for an entitlement to bereavement leave to an employee who is a bereaved parent of a child who has died and to provide for related matters.

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 73–64

Voted for 2 Joe Flaherty · Robert Troy

Voted against 1 Sorca Clarke

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

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2023-01-31 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 73–56

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 · 2 new lobbying returns

New lobbying 2 returns

Irish Self Catering Federation · 2 returns Tourism
- Invitation - Buswell Hotel Meeting in Dublin, providing them with a fact sheet on Self-Catering in Ireland and an ISCF position paper
- PowerPoint presentations, press Release & Factsheet on self-catering in Ireland send to all after the meeting.

Peter Burke — Fine Gael 3 votes · 2 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 2 total

Children 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will acknowledge and respond to a pledge of accommodation (details supplied) made to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4744/23]
Health 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Health if he will consider an increase of the mobility allowance payment for a person (details supplied). [4263/23]

New lobbying 1 return

Irish Self Catering Federation Tourism
- Invitation - Buswell Hotel Meeting in Dublin, providing them with a fact sheet on Self-Catering in Ireland and an ISCF position paper

Robert Troy — Fianna Fáil 5 votes · 18 questions · 2 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 18 total

Health 6 questions
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if he will facilitate community mental health community services to assist a person (details supplied). [4353/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health the reason that under-16s cannot currently be referred for a free MRI through the HSE; and if he plans to rectify this anomaly with immediate action. [4562/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if a patient (details supplied), who is under 16 years of age, can be referred for a free MRI through the HSE. [4563/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite a surgery date for a person (details supplied). [4707/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if he will address an anomaly in relation to private health insurance whereby policy-holders automatically have to take out maternity cover; and his views that such cover should be an optional add-on to insurance policies. [5413/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for an appointment. [5511/23]
Education 3 questions
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education the actions that her Department is taking to deal with cases in which a child has been allocated a seat through the free bus ticket scheme but the child in question is not availing of the seat and there are other students waiting to take up a seat on the same route; and her views on whether in cases in which a ticket is not being used, her Department should have the right to cancel the ticket and allocate a seat to an alternative student. [4742/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on the minor works grant; when she expects the grant to be paid in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4938/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on the Longford Westmeath Education and Training Board’s application for a new headquarters; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4936/23]
Foreign 2 questions
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the role his Department plays in advancing Ireland’s trading interests; how it utilises the diaspora in relation to this aim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4395/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of passport applications from County Westmeath that are currently outstanding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4394/23]
Defence 2 questions
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if there will be a new army headquarters in Athlone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4785/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the measures he will take to boost retention rates in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4786/23]
Finance 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Finance the measures that are in place to ensure that materials from United Kingdom passing through Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland are captured for customs and excise to ensure a level playing field; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4027/23]
Housing 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if housing aid for older persons to repair damaged external plastering will be considered by local authorities (details supplied). [4158/23]
Children 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Amendment Act 2015 will be commenced; and the reason for the delay in commencing same. [4548/23]
Justice 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Justice the number of asylum seekers seeking international protection who arrived in Ireland in 2022 having come from another European country; and the number who were returned under the Dublin Convention. [4549/23]
Social 1 question
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for partial capacity for a person (details supplied). [5411/23]

New lobbying 2 returns

Irish Self Catering Federation Tourism
- Invitation - Buswell Hotel Meeting in Dublin, providing them with a fact sheet on Self-Catering in Ireland and an ISCF position paper
Oxfam Ireland Health
- TRIPS waiver

Sorca Clarke — Sinn Féin 5 votes · 8 questions · 2 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 8 total

Defence 4 questions
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the amount of time he envisages the LE Róisín and LE Niamh will remain in operational reserve due to staffing shortages; and if the staff shortages in the naval service will affect the deployment of the two new ships due to arrive from New Zealand in the coming months. [5048/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will provide an update regarding the independent review group into the allegations made by a group (details supplied). [4773/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the arrangements that have been made to ensure that former members of the Defence Forces who were involved in the Covid-19 response, for example, administering vaccines, and met the criteria to be categorised as frontline workers, will receive the €1,000 pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4775/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will provide an update regarding the proposed transfer of lands from his Department to the Land Development Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4774/23]
Children 2 questions
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the meeting of the Kinnegad Steering Group and officials from his Department on 30 September 2022, where, despite repeated requests from the representative group, no follow-up has been provided. [4735/23]
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the meeting of a group (details supplied) and officials from his Department on 30 September 2022 which despite repeated requests from the representative group no follow up has been provided. [5046/23]
Transport 1 question
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Transport the number of appointments booked and paid for more than 28 days in advance of a NCT test per test centre; and the amount of revenue this generated in 2021, 2022 and 2023 to date, in tabular form. [5049/23]
Health 1 question
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the purported 552-week waiting list for children awaiting tonsilitis assessment and surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5047/23]

New lobbying 2 returns

Irish Self Catering Federation Tourism
- Invitation - Buswell Hotel Meeting in Dublin, providing them with a fact sheet on Self-Catering in Ireland and an ISCF position paper
Oxfam Ireland Foreign Affairs
- Foreign affairs policies specifically Climate Justice, Business and Human Rights, Vaccine access, Sustainable Food systems