Donegal — week of Mon, 27 Feb — Watch Them Work

What your Donegal TDs did this week

Mon, 27 Feb – 5 Mar 2023 · 5 TDs · 3 bills voted on · 28 questions · 1 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022

2023-03-01 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 51–74

Voted for 3 Pearse Doherty · Pádraig Mac Lochlainn · Thomas Pringle

Voted against 2 Charlie McConalogue · Joe McHugh

Did not vote 2 Charles Ward · Pat the Cope Gallagher

National Ambulance Service

2023-03-01 · 2 votes

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 70–58

Voted for 2 Charlie McConalogue · Joe McHugh

Voted against 3 Pearse Doherty · Pádraig Mac Lochlainn · Thomas Pringle

Did not vote 2 Charles Ward · Pat the Cope Gallagher

The motion · motion passed 71–59

Voted for 2 Charlie McConalogue · Joe McHugh

Voted against 3 Pearse Doherty · Pádraig Mac Lochlainn · Thomas Pringle

Did not vote 2 Charles Ward · Pat the Cope Gallagher

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021

2023-03-01 · 1 vote · Sinn Féin PMB

A bill to provide for prohibiting discrimination on the basis of a person's social and economic disadvantaged background

full description

A bill to provide for prohibiting discrimination on the basis of a person's social and economic disadvantaged background; for those purposes to amend the Employment Equality Act 1998 and the Equal Status Act 2000; and to provide for related matters.

An amendment to the bill · motion passed 69–55

Voted for 1 Joe McHugh

Voted against 3 Pearse Doherty · Pádraig Mac Lochlainn · Thomas Pringle

Did not vote 3 Charles Ward · Charlie McConalogue · Pat the Cope Gallagher

Charles Ward — 100% RDR 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Charlie McConalogue — Fianna Fáil 3 votes · 0 questions · 1 new lobbying return

New lobbying 1 return

Irish Self Catering Federation Tourism
- Registration for Short-term legislation Bill (STTL)

Pat the Cope Gallagher — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Pearse Doherty — Sinn Féin 4 votes · 10 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 10 total

Finance 5 questions
- 2023-02-28 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if there are currently any requirements or regulations in place for payment service providers to undertake confirmation of payee which checks the name of the payee’s account against the name and account details given by the payer; the extent to which this system is adopted by payment service providers domestically; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9546/23]
- 2023-02-28 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the estimated value deferred tax assets yet to be utilised by banks (details supplied) respectively. [9573/23]
- 2023-02-28 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue raised by introducing a 25 percent and 50 percent cap, respectively, on corporation tax loss relief utilised in a single year by NAMA participating banks and all banks, respectively. [9574/23]
- 2023-02-28 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if an economic impact assessment was undertaken with respect to the extension of the 9% VAT rate for the hospitality and tourism sectors; if he will detail its findings, and if he will publish the assessment. [10007/23]
- 2023-02-28 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 110 of 22 February 2023, if the introduction of provisions to require reimbursement from payment service providers to victims of authorised push payment fraud domestically would contravene the revised Payment Service Directive (2015/2366/EU)(PSD2). [10223/23]
Health 2 questions
- 2023-02-28 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when a response will issue to correspondence (details supplied) sent in March 2022 regarding a funding query; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9472/23]
- 2023-02-28 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a date for a hip replacement operation in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9540/23]
Enterprise 1 question
- 2023-02-28 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 21 February 2023, if the Digital Services Act establishes liability obligations such that consumers can seek compensation from online platforms, or online platforms are required to compensate consumers, who have been victims of fraud through adverts on online platforms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10231/23]
Children 1 question
- 2023-02-28 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a date of payment for a person (details supplied), who is currently housing Ukrainian refugees but has not received payment from the State since 2 December 2022; the reason the payment has not yet been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9751/23]
Transport 1 question
- 2023-03-02 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport if he can give assurances that the recent disruption to travel due to an airline (details supplied) cancelling flights to Donegal Airport will not recur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10524/23]

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn — Sinn Féin 4 votes · 11 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 11 total

Finance 2 questions
- 2023-02-28 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Finance if increases in the tax bands introduced in Budget 2023 are also available to retired persons over the age of 65 years when availing of their pension funds. [9630/23]
- 2023-03-01 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Finance if the rental tax credits introduced by the Government apply to parents of a student from this State but now renting and studying in a recognised third level course in the North of Ireland. [10463/23]
Housing 2 questions
- 2023-02-28 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will extend the rent pressure zones to include electoral areas in County Donegal to reflect the recent sharp increases in rent in some areas of the county and the knock-on impact of the defective concrete block crisis. [9623/23]
- 2023-02-28 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on proceeding with the defective concrete block grant scheme and the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022, that are based on IS465, a standard that is currently under review and that emerging scientific evidence demonstrates is deficient. [10195/23]
Health 2 questions
- 2023-02-28 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive orthodontic treatment in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9648/23]
- 2023-02-28 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing problems for patients availing of the cross-Border healthcare directive or the Northern Ireland planned healthcare scheme, in that the codes for the procedures do not match up between the private health care providers in the Northern Ireland and the HSE, with the consequence of those patients then being left with very significant additional costs; and if he will ensure that the private health care providers in the North of Ireland and the HSE urgently align their coding systems to prevent further reoccurrences. [9681/23]
Transport 2 questions
- 2023-03-02 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide an update on his response to the calls from the north west of Ireland for the Government to reinstate financial support to the City of Derry Airport to reflect the fact that 40% of its passengers come from County Donegal. [10009/23]
- 2023-03-02 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport when he will publish the all-Ireland rail review. [10008/23]
Education 1 question
- 2023-02-28 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education when his Department will complete their review of the Tender Assessment Report by Donegal Education and Training Board (DETB) so that the new school building project for a school (details supplied) can move to Stage 4 construction. [9883/23]
Agriculture 1 question
- 2023-02-28 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will correspond with the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and Marine having reviewed the Island Heritage Bill 2017; when it can be expected that Committee Stage of this Bill will be scheduled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9685/23]
Environment 1 question
- 2023-03-02 Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the timeframe for the roll-out of at least 30 mb broadband speeds to a location (details supplied) in County Donegal as part of the national broadband plan; if such areas with poor or no broadband coverage shall be prioritised during the roll-out phase as part of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10603/23]