Sligo-Leitrim — week of Mon, 30 Jan — Watch Them Work

What your Sligo-Leitrim TDs did this week

Mon, 30 Jan – 5 Feb 2023 · 4 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 13 questions · 5 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 2 Marian Harkin · Martin Kenny

Voted against 1 Frankie Feighan

Did not vote 1 Eamon Scanlon

Amendment again put: · motion failed 64–74

Voted for 2 Marian Harkin · Martin Kenny

Voted against 1 Frankie Feighan

Did not vote 1 Eamon Scanlon

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 74–66

Voted for 1 Frankie Feighan

Voted against 3 Marc MacSharry · Marian Harkin · Martin Kenny

Did not vote 1 Eamon Scanlon

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 1 Frankie Feighan

Voted against 3 Marc MacSharry · Marian Harkin · Martin Kenny

Did not vote 1 Eamon Scanlon

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2023-01-31 · 1 vote

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

Voted for 1 Frankie Feighan

Voted against 1 Martin Kenny

Did not vote 2 Eamon Scanlon · Marian Harkin

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 5 votes · 6 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 6 total

Education 3 questions
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Education the status of the approval process for the building of two additional module classrooms sanctioned by her Department in August 2022 for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5193/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Education the status of a former school building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5192/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Education if she or her Department will consider the case for a new primary school for Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, given the huge deficit of space and the ever-increasing demand for school places in a town that has grown significantly in recent years. [4037/23]
Transport 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Transport when he expects to publish the strategic rail review. [4348/23]
Health 1 question
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health if the case of an application by a person (details supplied) will be examined; the reason the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland is insisting on a peace commissioner licence number being provided in by a peace commissioner in order to advance a registration application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4316/23]
Environment 1 question
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 19 of 28 September 2022, the progress that has been made to date on developing new wind energy guidelines; when the publication of these new guidelines can be expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4844/23]

Marian Harkin — Independent 4 votes · 5 questions · 2 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 5 total

Transport 2 questions
- 2023-02-01 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Transport if consideration will be given to an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4931/23]
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Transport if he will outline the timeframe of the publication of the all-island strategic rail review report (details supplied). [5346/23]
Education 1 question
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 257 of 26 January 2023, if there are any plans to include counties Leitrim and or Sligo in the pilot voluntary redeployment scheme in the next possible slot, given that the scheme has not been deployed in either of counties Leitrim or Sligo since 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5335/23]
Health 1 question
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1087 of 8 November 2022, the rationale behind not listing Covid-19 as an occupational injury (details supplied). [5342/23]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2023-02-02 Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 206 of 26 October 2022, and the subsequent reply from Coillte, if he will clarify an issue (details supplied). [5334/23]

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.

Martin Kenny — Sinn Féin 5 votes · 2 questions · 2 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 2 total

Transport 2 questions
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the costs involved for those commuting daily from County Leitrim on the Bus Éireann service from Carrick-on-Shannon to Dublin; if he has plans to introduce a fare reduction to incentivise more passengers on board the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4546/23]
- 2023-01-31 Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Transport if he has plans to increase the regularity of the bus service in Ballintogher, County Sligo, from a twice-daily service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4547/23]

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.